This week Dip wrote an essay analyzing the "architecture of the box," which explores how a space as normal as a waiting room can be deeply connected to many systems of oppression. Read it here!

Continue reading for more, including urgent crowdfund requests, additional resources to dive deeper on this week's topics, and other stories that we missed. That's all for this week!

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• Free Iemad Saifo from ICE Detention
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The Issues with Legibility

The Architecture of the Box, or: Slow Violence *is* Fast Violence

The air in waiting rooms always has that distinctive scent. To mix metaphors, waiting rooms are in the freshly sterile genre: Fabuloso, wax, ozone. I can hear the aches from those creaky plastic chairs, a gaudy mold made for the “average,” which is everyone ever (and no one in particular)

Chaos and Convivialitydip

Marginalia

Resources to dive deeper on the topics of the week.

• This week's piece is basically an experimental off shoot of my 1441 series over at Iansa. You can read it here: https://iansamag.com/tag/1441-series/

Other Stories Worth Knowing

News that we didn't focus on, and worthwhile angles that we missed.

• The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
• Trump’s EPA Is Using This Sneaky Tactic to Let Nasty Industries Foul Our Air
• You Can’t Drink Data: Native Communities Are Resisting the AI Death Cycle
• It’s Not Just Delaney. Immigration Jails Have Had Hundreds of Hunger Strikes.
• DoorDash Pushes to End DC’s Self-Governance Over a 20-Cent Tax
• Alabama Seeks to Lower Gas Utility Profits for the First Time in 40 Years
• Announcing new counter-information website Belly of the Beast
• Collapsing Empire: US Creates New African Psyops Unit
• Brain scans reveal widespread structural and functional changes in patients following COVID-19 infection
• Trump’s Foreign Aid Priority? Investigating Crime Against White South Africans
• The Struggles of Egypt’s Invisibilised Women Farmers
• Argentina: Protesters March Against Privatization of National Territory, Face Police Repression
• Medicaid Work Requirements Leave Unhoused People Out in the Cold