Harvard Divinity School broke precedent
by refusing to publish a video of its commencement speech
after a speaker went off-script to call attention to the perilous conditions in Gaza.
“There are no safe zones left in Gaza after 600 days and 77 years of genocide,” said Zehra Imam,
who graduated from the Harvard Divinity School this spring and participated in the embattled Religion and Public Life program.
Imam, who is Muslim, was speaking with two other students f…
Three new NERDS publications: Collective action, wildfire smoke, and urban mobility
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/06/20/three-new-nerds-publications-collective-action-wildfire-smoke-and-urban-mobility/
The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO) - Program Overview and Summary of First Results & many more papers: #ALMA Reveals Lives of Planet-Forming #Disks: #exoplanets.
#GitHub #Copilot coding agent in public preview
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-…
Silicon Valley was never woke. It just played woke on TV. https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/114721179380101771
ACTION ALERT: Tell Congress "Hands Off Our WiFi"
(Public Knowledge and New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute)
https://www.votervoice.net/PublicKnowledge/Campaigns/128237/Respond
I recently explained fax machines to my 7 y/o and looking back — what an incredibly wild concept:
public printers on the end of a *public* phone number that anyone could send anything to — any everyone just went along with it?
Treasured Public Lands on the Auction Block in Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/public-land-highest-bidder-trump-big-beautiful-bill-1235369151/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p77#a250620p77
TREASURED PUBLIC LANDS ON THE AUCTION BLOCK IN TRUMP’S ‘BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL’
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/public-land-highest-bidder-trump-big-beautiful-bill-1235369151/
Our results confirm persistent gender disparities:
women are more frequently acknowledged than credited as co-authors, especially in roles involving investigation and analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15237