Notices by Tyler Cohen (tylerzonia@zirk.us)

Janelle Monae may have moved on from Dirty Computer, but the times have circled right back.
Scifi fiction, or fact?
Dirty Computer Emotion Picture:
https://youtu.be/jdH2Sy-BlNE?si=hbUUvvwFO7SngD1j

🔥 LETITIA JAMES 🔥
Delivers Epic Anti-Trump Speech 🔥 at the National Action Network
(skip the first 1:30 to get past the guy discovering racism, full speech after. NAN doesn’t seem to have it up yet)
#LetitiaJames
https://youtu.be/w9NVNUo5PAo?si=vqXO2fFhAwyTa-kt

You don’t have to read the article about Neil Gaiman’s monstrous behavior (trigger warning to all survivors). Just know that what he did is horrific and Palmer is complicit. And that monsters in one generation will craft monsters in the next if no true healing work is done.

"They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving."

— Rebecca Solnit, joy is a strategy

I propose #TheWiz watch party in honor of Quincy Jones as an alternative to watching (or thinking about) the polls

“Federal and local law enforcement have arrested 42 members and associates of the SFV Peckerwoods, a San Fernando Valley-based white supremacist street gang, on a 76-count federal grand jury indictment alleging they engaged in a years-long pattern of racketeering activity that included trafficking of drugs – including fentanyl – illegal firearms possession, and COVID-19 benefits and loan fraud, the Justice Department announced today.”

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/68-defendants-charged-indictment-dozens-members-and-associates-san-fernando-valley

@inthehands I respect your self-control

@inthehands I cannot count how many times a graphic design or illustration client has assumed the work can be done in an unreasonably short amount of time, as though all it takes is one press of a magic button

Here's the thing, people, sharing trump's AI-fake of Kamala Harris unintentionally contributes to the spread of the misinformation. Even if you are sharing faked/false content to complain or critique, you are still lifting it into peoples consciousnesses. It adds to the repetition that serves to plant it in peoples minds--even if unconscious or opposed. It's possible to share that there is a faked video and write about its contents without uplifting it.

@inthehands I figured as much, but I’m not keen to put my offspring’s location on SM.

Does anyone know what kind of ID is required for
First-time voter without a driver’s license who is in residence at a college that is in a different state than the residence listed on their passport (US citizen)?
#vote #uspol #PresidentialElection #FirstTimeVoter #genZ

@inthehands I’m trying to choose/find the covers from the time I read the books 🤗

20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20books #20Books20Days
1/20

20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20books #20Books20Days
2/20

@StillIRise1963 yes. And it removes the ability to address actual antisemitism

@MisuseCase @StillIRise1963
This was really good:
“Examining the ADL’s Antisemitism Audit
A line-by-line reassessment of the organization’s data illuminates the flaws in its methodology.”

by Shane Burley (Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse) and Jonah ben Avraham

https://jewishcurrents.org/examining-the-adls-antisemitism-audit

@inthehands but what will you. leverage your bathroom time for? ...?

@inthehands @mekkaokereke I’m not the usual kind of Prof. I take an artist’s perspective. I never compare students’ work to others. Making comics is new to some in the class & not to others. My questions when grading are simple: did the student engaged with the teachings, did they exhibit growth, did they work hard on projects from their individual level of storytelling development? I give a lot of “A”s. My work is to open students’ voices, not shut new voices down.

Picking up the pieces of our grief
“As Israelis and Palestinians retreat inward, it is extremely difficult for those of us who are trying to hold both peoples’ pain. But we must try....”
By Noam Shuster

https://www.972mag.com/picking-up-pieces-grief-israelis-palestinians/

“Ministers from our fascist government who try to visit the Israeli survivors are being yelled at and chased away. People are blaming them for what happened. But it is like we do not have a voice, because there is no challenge to how the government is responding. People are too busy with survival...”

https://www.972mag.com/picking-up-pieces-grief-israelis-palestinians/