”The children’s mother…“ in Flannery O‘Connor‘s AGMIHTF finally has her moment.

Got gossip from a managing editor pal of a journal that a few reviewers used ChatGPT to write their assessments for them, and didn't even conceal it. I'll say it again - it won't be the neoliberal administrators that take down the humanities. It'll be humanities professors who've stopped reading.

GPT stands for General Planetary Treason, right?

Really good book alert 🚨!!!

Operation Midnight Hammer. Are we officially living in a Mel Brooks film.

"Massive Ordnance Penetrators" We are living in a remake of Dr Strangelove.

Adam Curtis: But then something happened that the Ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable, a hobbit.

The terminally online mind cannot comprehend this

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

”I‘d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.“

"I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn."

Here are some tips for ways to “show up” when you aren’t able to show up in person, as well as suggestions for all of us for building more inclusive movements for social justice and human rights.

"I want y’all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us." Read what Doechii said during her #BETAwards2025 speech: rollingstone.com/music/music-...

"The present frenzy surrounding artificial intelligence will not last forever. As the limitations of become clearer+ as the economic returns on massive corporate investments fail to materialize at the expected scale, the speculative bubble will inevitably burst." www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

happy may day, get in formation to get the goods "decentralized, social media-based approaches were effective in harnessing attention+organizing street demonstrations. But they couldn't steer the response of the system because there was no organizational support." time.com/collections/...

W.E.B. Du Bois, May Day Speech, NYC, 1957 “American socialism should be planned for American conditions... It should demand freedom of thought and speech; freedom to study, travel and learn; and above all, freedom to vote for what we want instead of compulsion to vote for one party under two names”

Its not just skipping the humanities, ethics and the arts: they are taught that those ways of seeing the world and understanding it are inferior and useless. Ive seen way too many CS students laugh at these fields. They are taught that their way of seeing the world is not only superior, but complete

It’s release week for Understanding Octavia E. Butler! 🎉 Check out a sneak peek of my book ahead of the official publication day—this Thursday! b2l.bz/Vi5c3O #octaviabutler

When you think your commitment to democratic pluralism requires you engage with bad-faith fascists determined to destroy all democracy in the world & replace it with racist techno-states run by billionaire eugenicists. Allen has lost her mind.

Have you noticed how the internet has just got a whole lot worse? It’s time to do something about it

Sky Daddy by @katefolk.bsky.social is so fucking good. Melville colliding with Ballardian sad girl lit. in the very best of ways.

Sky Daddy by @katefolk.bsky.social is so fucking good. Melville colliding with Ballardian sad girl lit. in the very best of ways.

To TERFs everywhere. Fix your hearts or die. youtu.be/fD1tQjb46N8?...

To TERFs everywhere. Fix your hearts or die. youtu.be/fD1tQjb46N8?...

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is an authoritarian regime.

Mood

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

It's all fun and games until … "Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Twin Peaks: The Log Lady.

What in The Minority Report? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is high art

Eat the rich exhibit #7406

Eat the rich exhibit #7406

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is an authoritarian regime.

"I felt the slow loss of competence over time when I relied on [AI], and I recommend everyone to be cautious with making AI a key part of their workflow.[...]When you are using AI, you are sacrificing knowledge for speed." Why I stopped using AI code editors

they aren't accelerationists they're incelerationists

I wrote about why it is so tempting to give in to doom thinking, and why we shouldn't I drew inspiration from Björk and Blaise Pascal www.theneweuropean.co.uk/emily-herrin...

[Werner Herzog voice] Unburdened by conscience, he is free. And yet the Hamburglar is a prisoner of his own desire

The Matrix released 26 years ago today 🤯 In its honour, here it is, but all the Agents are Mr Blobby.

Roxier Music

Libgen good; Meta bad.

This is ace! Give it a read…

@sentimentbot.bsky.social hello

In my dreams I was leading a seminar in which we were discussing a new edition of The Bible - specifically Revelation - which had been translated by Crazy Frog.

Bluesky: how it started vs how it’s going edition