"Alas, nothing happened." - Simulacra and Simulation

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throwing away leftovers is a victimless crime

tijd voor oliebollen

theres a Tabasco-brand sriracha sauce and it’s pretty good

Algorithms deploy massive amounts of personal data to control your media environment and manipulate your behavior… except in my case, I’m too smart for it to work on me

Maastricht hiring a TT in political philosophy www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3574...

You wake up and find yourself in America… but it’s Massachusetts and there are no Taco Bell’s #MonkeysPawFingerCurls

Back in the US… so the battle is over and everyone just uses their phone constantly while driving now, huh

Sneering hipster post-Keynesian is worse than sneering hipster Marxist because at least the latter doesnt purport to know how to manage the economy

Once again pondering if the right grant could allow me to pivot to impresario of a cult disco re-edit label

What was the best thing that NLR published this year?

Join leadership and experts from @aaup.org AI team and Mijente for an online press conference on the urgent concerns about Palantir Technologies' involvement with the Department of Education. fedscoop.com/palantir-edu... TOMORROW Wednesday, December 17, 4PM ET Register here: bit.ly/4p3iCh7

Happy to finally launch Disjunctions with an article from the editorial team! Stay tuned for our first issue, which we will start publishing in the new year.

don't care

did a podcast back in october on marxism and AI marxisthumanistinitiative.org/episode-145-...

"I feel that writing has become a combination of copywriting work to sell stuff and a form of international espionage." Beautiful piece www.thedial.world/articles/new...

is there a better term than "prosthetic nostalgia" for nostalgia for something not directly experienced, or nostalgia for another's nostalgia? i see this term has only been used a handful of times, but the concept seems... prevalent

this essay is astonishingly brilliant newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...

My department is hiring a lecturer (4-year term) in Critical Data & AI studies. Collegial and well resourced department, great early career position werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

a classic amsterdam evening of a holiday borrel followed by a punk show in a squat... i wore a santa hat for both

Today I am on strike to protest government cuts to higher education 👍

This was what I sent to someone years ago who was finishing up while struggling with depression

the Dutch have a reputation for blunt personalities, but I think the language contributes… the Dutch version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid translates literally to “The Life of a Loser”

You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social

"a course that's eliminated AI will appeal as an alternative pathway to universities concluding that, thanks to AI, they don't really need most lecturers, and students concluding that, for similar reasons, they don't really need universities." danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar...

time to re-blackpill myself... gotta stay sharp cominsitu.wordpress.com/2018/08/17/t...

These strip malls, with their idiosyncratic small businesses, are what makes America great — and, secretly, holds some of the country’s best cuisine

New book edited by my colleagues on the politics of AI. Stellar group of writers, and a free e-book networkcultures.org/blog/publica...

@sanders.senate.gov is extremely confused about AI (thanks in no small part because he seems to be primarily be listening to Geoffrey Hinton out of all people). We should be talking about wage depression, not replacement, about deskilling not HAL.

A beautiful essay www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

the zootopia sequel must be out since my 8-year-old blog post on the racial politics of zootopia has 10xed its weekly hits medium.com/p/e3ce14453209

We need to train cadre who can skillfully dismantle evolutionary psychology and genetic racism for the future culture wars

Had a great time at the Permacomputing meetup in Den Haag last night, very interesting experiments in community-oriented computing as an alternative to Big Tech, and some pointed questions about politics and scale permacomputing.net

This is a fairly novel definition of reification, but I quite like it. From A Political Economy of the Senses by Anita Chari

I wrote a book about the politics of technology. I feared it might seem outdated by the time it was released in 2021, but it's kept me so busy since that I'm behind on my next one... www.versobooks.com/products/688...

Ever since my brief stint there, I felt like Texas was one possible future for America, the evil fascist one (unlike the other evil backward states of the Bible Belt, it "works" in the sense of capital accumulation)... great essay on the theme thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...

They don't want you to know that, if you really really try, you can believe in metanarratives again

One weird thing about raising kids in Amsterdam is sometimes other parents are just straight-up ravers

incredible essay on acid house and the Roland TB-303 gagosian.com/quarterly/20...

Little Red Books, Museum of Swiss National History, Zürich

My train was delayed just enough so I was going to miss my connection, but then my connection was delayed, so I can make it. This is German excellence

Just Published: For the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social issue, Mal Ahern and I co-edited an In Focus dossier on 'Images and (Infra)structures,' which originally emerged from a lively @scmstudies.bsky.social roundtable in 2022. What, we ask, do images and infrastructure have to say to each other?

Taking my 6yo to a book launch at a squat tonight… you can just do things

rotterdam/gabber/blahblahblah, but HOW did BELGIUM punch so far above its weight in electronic music? 80s EBM is influencing Chicago house and Detroit techno, pop-techno tracks like "Pump Up The Jam" are hits in America, even a lot of the best 90s hardcore & underground techno is Belgian

New useful Dutch saying: “eraan wennen”

I always put some jokes in my presentations (sorry) but the biggest laughs from my last one was unintended, it was just showing the part in Abundance where they favorably cite Fully Automated Luxury Communism

simply an incredible week in New York

coming to the crippling realization there is likely no way to fit a dozen everything bagels in my luggage to bring from NYC to Amsterdam... considering abandoning some clothing...