If anyone else on here teaches Charles Yu’s short story “Standard Loneliness Package,” I’m in the middle of reading/grading an assignment that asks students to imagine a non-exploitative use of the feeling transfer technology, and the adaptations are incredible. I’m floored.

Well shit guess I need to return this work iPad

Three cheers for Ideas on Fire author andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social! 🎉 His new book Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination is out now from Fordham University Press. fordhampress.com/audiofuturis... #IoFAuthors

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

#Southwest flight from Vegas to SBA had engine failure mid flight. Thought we were going to die. These are the fire engines coming to check it out.

Layover flight in Vegas is “too heavy” to depart in 106F weather… yay

One week after terminating the employment of over 100 staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities, the agency posts four open positions...but we who are now unemployed are not "eligible" to apply for them. The absolute cruelty is more apparent than ever. #NEH

Informatics of Domination is out with @dukepress.bsky.social! I co-edited this experimental collection with Zach Blas + @melodyjue.bsky.social across years + countless zoom chats. I remain stunned by the brilliance of our 50 contributors: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

Listen up! The latest episode of @asleecocast.bsky.social podcast is out, and our guest is ocean humanities expert @melodyjue.bsky.social, discussing her new work Coralations. www.asle.org/stay-informe... #envhum

Trump fired over 1,000 National Park staff in February, and most still haven’t been reinstated. The $45 million he’s wasting on a military parade for his birthday could have paid their salaries for over a year.

Four year postdoc in sf studies: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Juliana Spahr, The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962–2025) www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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The new experimental collection "Informatics of Domination," edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social , & Jennifer Rhee, addresses formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the 21st century. Read the intro for free now! https://buff.ly/4jU7Nwk

Just Published: In 'Informatics of Domination,' edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social, and @jsrhee.bsky.social, published by @dukepress.bsky.social, we were all set the task of writing about one entry each from Donna Haraway's famous chart in her 1984 legendary cyborg manifesto.

"Informatics of Domination," edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social , and Jennifer Rhee, is one of the great new titles we have coming out this May! #MediaStudies #TechnologyStudies buff.ly/BWX6cDK