“Machine intelligence doesn’t transcend human fragility but echoes and amplifies it.” @prometheanwatch.bsky.social reviews Lawrence Lek’s NOX High-Rise at @hammer.ucla.edu, up until 11/16, in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/car...

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

“So you say you're under a curse? So what? So's the whole damn world.“

The idea of interacting with surveillance tech wearing bros who are doing ‘vibe thinking’ is where I found the pitchfork leaping into my hand techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/h...

…I’m also struck that they — in their brilliance, creativity, competence, and ethical commitment — represent what the academy *could be*, but it’s burning them all out, exhausting their goodwill. Their obligations are now to each other, rather than to the industry for which they’ve sacrificed.

Want to fight back? Be less useful. Click less things, lower time on apps, do not give them feedback, regularly delete your data, read every privacy policy. These companies make billions off of idle scrolling - so never scroll idly again. www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/

Hey bro I don't wanna sound like I don't trust you but I can't help but notice that you're acting as a friend and guide to our party yet you aren't in the box art

Obsessed with the Liam Neeson-Pamela Anderson romance and her make-under revolution but can't help but think of Dawn Campbell's turn in I Heart Huckabees. youtu.be/cu64xOaDe7Y?...

Mike Davis, City of Quartz Nora Khan, Seeing. Naming. Knowing Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism Ruha Benjamin’s body of work Thea Riofrancos, Resource Radicals Anne Elizabeth Moore, Cambodian Grrrl and New Girl Law Casey Johnston, “The DIY Dumbphone Method” (for funsies)

People liked it when I shared these last time so here are the reading recs I make for each writing student at semester's end (my classes are capped at 20 & can run with as few as 8 so it's not unwise for me to commit to this). These are for students in True Stories, a narrative nonfiction course:

“Simulating Control” by: Nora Khan

Late to this, but I finally got my copy of Holo 3, “Mirror Stage: Between Computability and its Opposite,” edited and (much of it) written by Nora Khan & Peli Grietzer and it’s brilliant. Many of you will dig it. www.holo.mg/shop/holo-3/

the only “grey lady” I respect is the spirit who sobs in the corner of my bedroom from 2-3am each night

I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them

do you ever randomly think of someone and say “our arc is not yet finished!!l” or are you a normal person and not a writer, asking for myself

creative writing is way harder than coding what the hell

A lot of us have backgrounds like this I’d guess.

Interesting book by this Mexican anthropologist, going against both physicalism and panpsychism to read consciousness as situated between the mind and the world, the neural and the symbolic.

I think ppl should be paid a living wage to do doctoral level research in the humanities purely for its own sake, to produce knowledge and understanding of the human.

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

everyone mocks me for using WordPerfect but I'll have the last laugh in 2029 when it's the only software without a ruinous A.I. assistant

there are more people than i expected to whom everything is apparently just "vibes" and they're sort of just coasting along as a part of a bunch of different moments without ever encountering any principles along the way.

normalize letting me read aloud from that weird old book in the attic of your ancestral house

I wanted to see what Sarah Sharma's been up to, and I discovered that she's soon publishing a book titled Insufferable Tools, which sounds amazing. I love her 🥰

the feminine urge to live out the rest of my days in a spooky coastal town with my cat, drinking coffee, reading books, casting spells. maybe terrorize the local children every now and then.

Media Literacy In 2025

Legit! #writers #booksky #writingcommunity

The average American has three friends

The average American has three friends

My daughter has a real gift for photography. She somehow took this on an ancient iPhone.

incredible plot summary

Whoever is willing to listen is next in line... #booksky #meme

SATURDAY’S RANDOMLY STRANGE PANEL

shoutout to the material conditions

Belatedly getting around to this characteristically fantastic talk by Lisa Gitelman (one of my favorite thinkers!) on formal + logical parallels btw type specimen books and GenAI

Ohhhhh hell the events of my personal life are aligning with historical events of great significance aaaaahhh shit this would make such great prestige televisionnnnnnnn

"When communication is filtered through algorithms, it becomes as if spoken by algorithms" algorithms dont sort content, metrics dont measure it, both precede and *produce* content. and preclude sociality.

Bless

The historic Ennis House, a Mayan-influenced Frank Lloyd Wright gem is perched in the hills of Los Feliz high above Los Angeles This week they joined the resistance: standing up to lawless & fascism in this moment of constitutional crisis

New goal: walk around with the confidence of a lit mag with a 5 month response time and no simultaneous submissions

Glad to see all this discussion of community education. Just a reminder that I’ve made all of my course material — 40 classes, from methods to maps, knowledge infrastructures to local media, digital ethnography to digital urbanism — freely available for 20+ years :)

today’s the day I learned that Gran Fury’s name and logo are lifted from the Plymouth Gran Fury police car

I have a book cover! Cover image is by Wolfgang Suschitzky of a woman jumping a puddle on Charing Cross Rd in 1937. Cover b/w and silver. Details of book now on @uchicagopress.bsky.social at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I love this four-panel comic by Marc Weidenbaum: disquiet.com/2025/04/07/l... He's got a whole series: disquiet.com/tag/frame-by... (h/t Robin Sloan)

Today is the today for our first ever Curator Tour. At 2pm Fran Hollinrake will lead 'Skulls and Dancing Skeletons - the Symbolism of the Cathedral Gravestones'. Meet her in the south transept - no need to book. The tour takes about 1 hour and costs £15 pp.

something that still gives me hope is that our side still has all of the hot people