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ALT a diverse crowd of people holding up protest signs. Text on the poster reads "The Labor Movement! The folks that brought you... Overtime pay, living wage laws, parental leave, sick leave, civil rights, domestic partner benefits, social security, paid vacations, child labor laws, pension benefits, OSHA, grievance procedures, workplace power, farm labor rights, equal pay for equal work, the weekend, unemployment insurance, health benefits, workers comp, minimum wage." smaller text near the top reads "Fought for, supported, defends, demands." while text at the bottom holds a Frederick Douglass quote: "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." poster by Ricardo Levins Morales @ricardolevinsmorales (IG).
ALT Excerpt of the linked article: Consent education makes assumptions about people's capacities that position survivors' struggles with consent as a 'problem.' For example, it's assumed in consent education that saying "yes" can or always will be enthusiastic, which may guilt survivors who, understandably, may have a hard time enjoying sex after sexual assault. Further, for survivors, sometimes consent isn't as simple as "Yes" or "No" and they can find themselves in a grey area. Survivors aren't the problem, they just require more care than is currently imaginable in much consent education and society more broadly.
!["For content owners and creators, few tools can prevent their content from being fed into a generative Al model against their will. [...] In an effort to address this power asymmetry, we have designed and implemented Nightshade, a tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for model training. More precisely, Nightshade transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms, e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space. Used responsibly, Nightshade can help deter model trainers who disregard copyrights, opt-out lists, and do-not-scrape/robots.txt directives. It does not rely on the kindness of model trainers, but instead associates a small incremental price on each piece of data scraped and trained without authorization.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HAfc95jaIAAjpVK.jpg?name=orig)
ALT "For content owners and creators, few tools can prevent their content from being fed into a generative Al model against their will. [...] In an effort to address this power asymmetry, we have designed and implemented Nightshade, a tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for model training. More precisely, Nightshade transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms, e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space. Used responsibly, Nightshade can help deter model trainers who disregard copyrights, opt-out lists, and do-not-scrape/robots.txt directives. It does not rely on the kindness of model trainers, but instead associates a small incremental price on each piece of data scraped and trained without authorization.
ALT alt text continued: Nightshade's goal is not to break models, but to increase the cost of training on unlicensed data, such that licensing images from their creators becomes a viable alternative." NOTE: We are not associated or directly affiliated with Nightshade nor are we attempting to take credit for its existence or creation. We are simply highlighting a relevant tool for artists, against Al-scrapping and other intellectual and/or artistic property theft. Dig Deeper: Check out the People's Guide to Al to learn more about Artificial Intelligence. Centered around 2 Primary Questions: What does fairness look like when computers shape decision-making? Who is creating the future, and how can we ensure that these creators reflect diverse communities and complex social dynamics?
ALT Artists are increasingly cautious about the use of generative Al - and they are right to do so. Over the past few years, we've seen an increase in the availability of generative Al to the general public - which has, amongst other things, led to a devastating uptick in the mimicry and/or outright theft of the hard work of many creatives. Notably, Suzzane Collin's 2025 novel Sunrise on the Reaping includes an anti-Al directive as part of its official copyright information. While including explicit instruction (regulation, prevention, etc.) of Al is useful, artists cannot safely or sustainably rely on or expect the kindness of model trainers. One useful tool for artists looking to protect their work from training Al models, especially without consent, is the Nightshade tool from UChicago, developed by Chicago to help artists protect their work from being used to train Al, especially without consent.
ALT "When sexual assault victims speak out, their institutions often betray them" By Jennifer J. Freyd, PhD for The Conversation. Above a link and an article excerpt: "Institutional betrayal is harm an institution does to those who depend upon it. This betrayal can take the form of overt policies or behaviors, such as discriminatory rules or genocide. Harm can also mean failing to do that what is reasonably expected of the institution, such as not providing relief to disaster victims or failing to respond effectively to sexual violence. For instance, some victims of assault are punished or even demoted or fired for reporting the assault to their institution. From ©theconversationdotcom January 11, 2018." #StudentsAgainstRapeCulture shared by @wgssa.utsc on IG for Consent Action Week 2026
ALT Just a reminder: Genocide, mass incarceration, police brutality, policing homelessness and poverty, ICE raids and kidnappings, mass surveillance, brutalizing protesters, anti-drug policing, criminalizing access to healthcare, negligence toward sexual violence victims & survivors, and other violence we see threatened, enacted by, or protected by police are all the result of reform. From abolitionistDoc on threads!
ALT students against rape culture
ALT wisdom from Seema Hari, shared on Instagram — shared with consent: 'A Hindu man lynched in Bangladesh. A Dalit man lynched in India on suspicion of being a Bangladeshi Muslim. Carol singers attacked and Christmas celebrations vandalized in India. Why does the concept of a God deserve our allegiance to the point of sacrificing our own humanity to take a life - a physical, visceral, real human life full of love and dreams? There is no superior God because there is no superior human, no superior star, no superior bird and no superior flower.'
ALT One person is dead after a shooting in Scarborough, Toronto police say. Police say in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that a person was found with a gunshot wound just after 3:30 p.m. at Highland Creek Trail and Old Kingston Road, near the University of Toronto Scarborough campus (UTSC). UTSC issued a safety alert advising anyone in a building to stay inside and anyone outdoors to leave the area. The shelter-in-place was lifted just before 6 p.m. The homicide unit has been notified, police say.
ALT Untitled BY JAMES BALDWIN Lord, when you send the rain think about it, please, a little? Do not get carried away by the sound of falling water, the marvelous light on the falling water. I am beneath that water. It falls with great force and the light Blinds me to the light.
ALT SARC grafitti style logo
ALT Color swatches of the Pantone Color of the Year choices from 2000-2024. In order, they are: 2000 - Cerulean 2001 - Fuchsia Rose 2002 - True Red 2003 - Aqua Sky 2004 - Tigerlily 2005 - Blue Turquoise 2006 - Sand Dollar 2007 - Chili Pepper 2008 - Blue Iris 2009 - Mimosa 2010 - Turquoise 2011 - Honeysuckle 2012 - Tangerine Tango 2013 - Emerald 2014 - Radiant Orchard 2015 - Marsala 2016 - Rose Quartz and Serenity 2017 - Greenery 2018 - Ultra Violet 2019 - LIving Coral 2020 - Classic Blue 2021 - Illuminating and Ultimate Gray 2022 - Very Peri 2023 - Viva Magenta 2024 - Peach Fuzz
ALT Pantone 2025 color of the year: 17-1230 TCX or the shade Mocha Mousse.
ALT Pantone Color of the Year has been chosen by the Pantone Team every year since 2000, with the inagural Cerulean or Pantone 15-4020. And, for 2026, Pantone has chosen their first ever shade of white: Cloud Dancer or what RaeShanda Lias, a digital creator and NAACP Image Award Nominee aptly termed “the color of mediocrity” — echoing what others have said: choosing white in a time of rising white supremacist sentiment and ethno-nationalism..? Not a great choice. Some have even used the term “PantoneDeaf” to reference this disappointing choice. So: why does the Color of the Year matter so much? Amongst other things: design is political. The International Council on Design (ICoD) notes that “Design is a discipline of study and practice focused on the interaction between a person — a ‘user’— and the man-made environment, taking into account aesthetic, functional, contextual, cultural and societal considerations. As a formalized discipline, design is a modern construct.” (What Is Design?)
![“Much of Pantone’s predictive power has been diluted by social media. Instagram, TikTok, and X, in particular, have altered the way we collectively consume and interact with content and news, but they have also fragmented the cultural monopoly companies like Pantone used to have. It’s not that companies like Pantone should make these choices based on what the internet might say. After all, these are predictions based on market research and insight put together by color researchers at the Pantone Color Institute, which also offers trend forecasting and consulting services. It’s true that white has been trending on the runways this year, for example. But the truth is that none of these choices exist in a vacuum. Not in 2025. [...] According to WGSN, 98% of consumers say their purchasing decisions are influenced by color. But doesn’t everyone have some white in their closet already? full article linked in thread.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G7eYrRBbYAAEhii.jpg?name=orig)
ALT “Much of Pantone’s predictive power has been diluted by social media. Instagram, TikTok, and X, in particular, have altered the way we collectively consume and interact with content and news, but they have also fragmented the cultural monopoly companies like Pantone used to have. It’s not that companies like Pantone should make these choices based on what the internet might say. After all, these are predictions based on market research and insight put together by color researchers at the Pantone Color Institute, which also offers trend forecasting and consulting services. It’s true that white has been trending on the runways this year, for example. But the truth is that none of these choices exist in a vacuum. Not in 2025. [...] According to WGSN, 98% of consumers say their purchasing decisions are influenced by color. But doesn’t everyone have some white in their closet already? full article linked in thread.