Zack Furness

google.comWorld Punk Atlas: A Map of DIY Punk Spaces - Google My MapsHey punks! This is a collective DIY project aimed at documenting past and present venues that host(ed) punk and hardcore shows around the world. If you're interested, please contribute as much info as...

12 Nov 2024

I started this DIY World Punk Atlas a while ago & have been happy to see it grow. Please feel free to contribute and share it with other folks who might be interested! Simple instructions for contributors are linked in my first reply below. www.google.com/mymaps/viewe...

22 Sept

Hopping on for a quick second just to share news that my partner @daniellemaggio.bsky.social got a contract with @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social to do a UK version of her fabulous forthcoming book on @feministpress.bsky.social called Game is Her Middle Name: The Life & Music of Betty Davis

nsf.govNSF partners with universities and industry on pilot initiative for four-year Ph.D. programs with real-world research placementsThe U.S. National Science Foundation announced a $47 million investment over ﬁve years, along with additional ﬁnancial commitments from nearly three dozen universities and private industry...

29 July

Getting a PhD in Synagro Technologies™️ Presents Using Human Waste as Fertilizer on Food Crops

23 July

Not online lately see yinz soon

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23 July

My partner @daniellemaggio.bsky.social is on WRCT right now for a 2 hr radio show talking about Betty Davis and playing her music, her influences, and people who were influenced by her. stream.wrct.org/wrct-hi.mp3

appenmedia.comLetter to the Editor: The creepiest ‘sales demo’ of all timeIn a letter to the editor, Dunwoody resident Jason Hunyar writes about a recent incident involving a Flock camera feed in a community center in Dunwoody. He questions the partnership agreement the cit...

21 July

Any journalists still referring to Flock as a ‘license plate reader’ company are doing free PR for one of the truly ascending evil corporations of our time

18 July

I loved this part

18 July

I’m a huge Electic Mizard fan.

16 July

Have any Americans simply tried shooting the smoke?

16 July

My god

15 July

12 July

I am hearing that on his deathbed Lindsey Graham received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah.

forbes.comParasitic Diarrhea-Causing Cyclosporiasis Outbreak Sickens Over 1,400 In Ohio And Michigan With No Known SourceMichigan has logged 1,251 cases of the illness in less than three weeks, immensely more than the average of about 50 infections recorded there annually.

10 July

The free hand of the market once again working its magic (diarrhea)

Forbes@forbes.com

Michigan has logged 1,251 cases of the illness in less than three weeks, immensely more than the average of about 50 infections recorded there annually.

9 July

Roses are red Bagels love lox Come flirt with me at the

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov

Never hold, wear or attach fireworks to your body or clothing.

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Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

usatoday.comDave Portnoy says he'd run against Mamdani for NYC mayorThe Barstool Sports founder, a vocal critic of Mamdani, says he's done "a lot of good" in the city. Here's what to know.

what we need is more dumb motherfuckers

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃

@lefttheprairie.bsky.social

We took Title IX away from little girls today and nearly took birthright citizenship too, and our leaders are calling it a victory. I wish the US Senate could show up with even 1/100 the energy of the average public school mom in Minnesota.

If Dems made this their party line a lot more people would be excited about voting for them.

Dems will say “but look at the optics of it!” when this how they’ll be painted by the GOP regardless

econ.stStudents are doing worse than you thinkSome at college or university are testing no better than ten-year-olds

I’ve been teaching college courses since Fall 1999 — at a community college, an art school, and two research universities in three different states — and I’ve never once heard this expressed by anyone, anywhere, at any level in higher ed. This is bullshit of the highest order.

The Economist@economist.com

It is growing common to hear academics shrug that perhaps students no longer need strong basic skills. That is not pragmatism—it is surrender

The fantasies that the commentariat weaves about higher ed bear little resemblance to anything that the average professor, staff member, grad student, or undergraduate experiences in the real world.

Last thing I needed after being up all night trying to finish some writing that I’ve been wrestling with for months is to see that post lol. Logging off. Have a good one ✌🏼

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dan sinker

@dansinker.com

news you can use

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@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social

Anti-IDF image from the Israeli anarchist zine, It’s All Lies #3 (1992). The Hebrew part says “We don’t!”

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amanda moore 🐢

Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.

lareviewofbooks.orgA Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of BooksDid the Weather Underground have a point?

An incredible piece of writing

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

My dear lord. lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...

techcrunch.comXprize founder says 'humans behave better when they’re being watched' | TechCrunchPeter Diamandis is the latest tech executive to argue that global surveillance will make the world a better place, following Larry Ellison's comments in 2024.

Privacy Watcher@privacyrebel.bsky.social

Xprize founder says 'humans behave better when they’re being watched' | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/x...

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W.E.D.em Boyz

@leftistwonk.bsky.social

The fascist turn in this country has not impacted press coverage one bit, except to make it even more accommodating to the right.

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blep

Good Trailcams@goodtrailcams.bsky.social

getting word that this could, in fact, be a derp. we can’t be certain.

theatlantic.com'Rush Project at Request of POTUS': Trump Is Draining the National Parks to Pay for His ProjectsMoney once used for crucial national-park repairs is now financing Trump’s redecorating projects.

I was told this is how leadership would behave in failed communist states

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

White House enhancements that Trump said he would pay for, like replacing a walkway and repairing masonry, have in fact cost taxpayers $689,232. The admin has slashed spending on many national parks and redirected money instead to D.C.-area improvements — "a quiet crisis unfolding."

timesofisrael.comExtradited US-Israeli indicted in Florida for 2016-2017 threats to Jewish institutionsMichael Kadar, 27, faces hate crime and bomb threat charges in Florida, Georgia and Washington, DC for calls to Jewish institutions; has previously served 7 years in Israel

I feel like ‘Jewish Israeli who made thousands of bomb threats to US Jewish institutions (and had CSAM on his computer)’ should be a bigger story in the US.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

@theradr.bsky.social

cnn.comIsrael passes controversial ‘nation-state’ bill into law | CNNMaking no mention of the values of equality and democracy, Israel has passed into law a highly controversial bill that serves to define the nature of the state of Israel, with critics slamming it as t...

And whatever theoretical (though hardly on the ground) concept of democracy / equality there may ever have been, this 2018 law basically enshrined Jewish supremacy on a whole new level. So Yidden, you cannot, cannot take issue with his statement.

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I don’t understand how any of this is possible

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)

Guy who’s never built a basic website from scratch: “AI can reshape our business for the future”

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@iwriteok.bsky.social

@drnaomiscott.bsky.social

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

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Dr Naomi Scott

@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

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Scott Horton

14 June

Who funded every business venture Elon Musk has launched? US taxpayers, involuntarily. What have they gotten from the investment? Nothing whatsoever.

I wish Congress was still alive to hear about this

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@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

“Eroding trust” is a weakest possible framing for an article about an organization that is undermining Congress, stealing all our personal information, manipulating our voting & passport systems, and efficiently operating outside of any laws or govt regulation. This is a national emergency.

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Tom Cox