BRAIN ORGANOIDS | Hybrid (AI/Human) intelligence is here. Sri Sarma explains how machine intelligence is merging with living neural systems www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYyI...

Bravo! The inaugural On The Line w/ Alicia Menendez delivered two smooth hours of essential information. We’re in for nutritious lunches. @onthelinemsnow.bsky.social @aliciamenendez.bsky.social

A Massachusetts Attorney General’s grand jury investigation into child sexual abuse at three Catholic dioceses in the state has never been made public. www.wbur.org/news/2026/06... @wbur.org

A Moscow court sentenced Ksenia Belousova to three years in prison (a gulag) becasue she posted a photo of her hookah with an Easter cake. theins.ru/news/293042

R.I.P. | “VALIE was the one who coined the term ‘actionism’: these are not performances, but actions,” said Nadya Tolokonnikova in a tribute. “Changing the way people speak and perceive reality is the highest achievement of them all.” @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/artist-valie...

One hundred years ago, the first animated feature was screened in Berlin: The Adventures of Prince Achmed www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Da...

PACE declares "Putin's Russia should not be admitted to the La Biennale di Venezia." Nadya Tolokonnikova submits: “If genuine support for Russian artistic expression were the goal, the Biennale would give voice to the hundreds of Russian artists, filmmakers, and writers currently imprisoned.”

The systems that shape our world — financial rules, sanctions regimes, international policing networks — are supposed to prevent abuse, promote accountability and protect the public. ICIJ shows how often they don’t — and who pays the price when they fail. www.icij.org/inside-icij/...

Hannah Dreier and the staff of The New York Times are the winners of the 2026 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their series "Exposed and Expendable." goldsmithawards.org/ceremony/2026/ @shorensteinctr.bsky.social

At Brandeis, Marty Baron said Jeff Bezos’ perspective changed dramatically after Trump was re-elected in 2024. “What he did [this time] is the same as what law firms have done, universities have done… In authoritarian regimes this is how it begins.” www.brandeis.edu/stories/2026...

Dr. Gildert hypothesizes that certain properties of cognition can be modeled using quantum mechanical frameworks - Nirvanic’s goal is to imbue physical AI with an intuition that can handle the unpredictable. nirvanicai.substack.com/p/from-bezos... @suzannegildert.bsky.social @nirvanicai.bsky.social

Alicia Menendez will be in the anchor chair 2 hours every weekday afternoon on MSNOW in the not-too-far-off future. Her questions always go right to the heart of the issue, her knowledge is deep, and her command of the broadcast medium is impressive. We need her! @aliciamenendez.bsky.social @ms.now

Ultimate Double Feature: Vivre Sa Vie & The Passion of Joan of Arc at Brattle Theatre Friday, Feb 27 6:00 pm!! brattlefilm.org/programs/ult... @brattletheatre.bsky.social

A court ordered landowners on St. Helena Island in SC to remove all obstructions to local Gullah Geechee residents’ access to their centuries-old cemetery. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c... @ccrjustice.org

Victory for Black Residents of Cancer Alley as Court Rules Landmark Lawsuit Seeking Moratorium on Toxic Industry Can Proceed on All Counts ccrjustice.org/home/press-c... @ccrjustice.org

Train Dreams was named best feature at the 2026 Film Independent Spirit Awards | @filmindependent.org

Radical Feminism Unmasked: Guerrilla Girls & Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot) | Mar 1, 6pm, Getty Center | A conversation about how artists transform rage into creative resistance and the risks of speaking truth to power. www.getty.edu/calendar/rad... @gettymuseum.bsky.social

FILIPIÑANA || A tee girl is drawn to the president of the country club. However, after piecing together a violent picture of what lies beneath the club’s pristine surface, she realizes that her infatuation is rooted in a sinister shared history. [Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAZv...

Copenhagen Contemporary <JAN 23> Conversation with Nadya Tolokonnikova on activism, art, and resistance in a world shaped by political pressure and cultural struggles. Also! Pussy Riot & Miriam Kongstad in Concert. copenhagencontemporary.org/en/event/cc1...

CultMTL Best films of 2025 include Annapurna Sriram’s FUCKTOY’s | The film opens in a swamp; we get close-ups. Bejewelled hands, garish and beautiful. Heavily saturated colour seems to breathe. It’s uncompromising independent cinema. cultmtl.com/2026/01/the-...

2026 Sundance Film Festival | Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Makoto Nagahisa, the Writer-Director of “BURN” [Fest runs Jan 22 – Feb 1] festival.sundance.org/blogs/give-m... @sundance.org

Today, cinephiles mourn the passing of Béla Tarr. A filmmaker of profound, patient, deep exploration. No one gets “stark” and “endurance” like him.

VIRIDIANA Luis Buñuel (1962) New 4K Restoration || Banned in Franco’s Spain, denounced by the Vatican, and almost destroyed by the authorities, the film nonetheless won the Palme d’Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. [Jan 16 – Jan 19] brattlefilm.org/movies/virid... @brattletheatre.bsky.social

TICKETS NOW ON SALE! Reserve your spot for The Brattle Theatre's annual New Year's Day Marx Brothers Marathon! brattlefilm.org/film-series/... @brattletheatre.bsky.social

The Best Art Shows Around the World in 2025 include Nadya Tolokonnikova’s “Police State” at MOCA Geffen in which she recreated her prison cell. The piece's potency was amplified as ICE protestors and police clashed in the streets outside the museum. hyperallergic.com/the-best-art...

A group of victims of the Iranian government crackdown during the Women, Life, Freedom protests in 2022 have filed the first criminal complaint against 40 named Iranian officials alleging crimes against humanity. [PIC: Mersedeh Shahinkar] www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... @theguardian.com

31 years ago today, the Budapest Memorandum was signed, under which Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for security assurances from Russia, UK, and USA.

Here are your 2026 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees, which include Annapurna Sriram, the writer, director and star of “Fucktoys” in the SOMEONE TO WATCH category. www.filmindependent.org/blog/here-ar... @filmindependent.org