“Liberty Village: It’s a Neighbourhood”

Imagine me saying this with the cadence of “office … SUBMARINE”

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

1/2 @zeniakish.bsky.social, Emilia King, Maggie Reid, and I have just launched our CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS for an edited collection on creator labour from platform governance and monetization to working conditions, identity, and inequality, as well as the impact of AI & other emerging technologies.

I’m never going to remember these keyboard shortcuts.

thank you to a student for sharing this bookmark from the campus library, which attributes a point made by Herbert Simon in the 1970s to Mr. Beast

A perfect snapshot of academia today:

This is some total nonsense. The U is taking the position that student groups are extensions of the university, and therefore bound by institutional neutrality. This is not how the First Amendment works.

Meanwhile the ACM Digital Library is creating AI “podcasts” of papers with no author approval that of course contain inaccuracies (including e.g. misgendering authors) I don’t care about copyright. Legal /= ethical & academic institutions are embarrassing themselves www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

The Object//Project Art Book Fair is back again this year! I'll be moderating the opening panel with folks from Pulping, PhotoED Magazine, and Ottawa Design Club on Friday, May 8. Free and open to the public at the Carleton Dominion–Chalmers Centre.

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

“I guess it's just a high pressure environment and they go ahead developing things they don't have time to read.” I hope non-academics reading this article recognize that 👆 as one of the sickest burns possible among our people.

good morning discoursers! middlebrow furrowed chaos yesterday whew but CULTURE IS FOR EVERYBODY hyperallergic.com/how-to-prote... @isanchezprado.bsky.social

“Can AI and zine making coexist? ‘I mean, it has to because AI exists. But I’m not sure it will be harmonious,’ says Gamble.”

The city blocked off part of our neighborhood to tear down a building w asbestos. The teen said "Why did people use asbestos if it causes cancer?!" I told him people thought it was a wonder product and used it EVERYWHERE & told him how the same thing happened w radioactivity... and now AI.

“Rather than acquiescing to technofeudalism, universities can (and should) be the places where students learn how *not* to use AI—where they learn, rather, how to exercise agency by insisting upon their own humanity.”

I hate the people running this province but I care deeply about the people in it. Grateful for the brilliant minds behind this activism. (Somerset and Preston bus stop in Ottawa)

The Object//Project Art Book Fair is back again this year! I'll be moderating the opening panel with folks from Pulping, PhotoED Magazine, and Ottawa Design Club on Friday, May 8. Free and open to the public at the Carleton Dominion–Chalmers Centre.

Did you see the 4k remastered Rothkos

make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

The deadline for this call has been extended to Monday April 27th. Early-career scholars interested in #DH, #NLP #fandom and #fanfiction, take heed!

And as a reminder to our #undergrads, for the 2nd year in a row we are running our Undergraduate Showcase at the 2026 FSNNA #FanStudies Conference! ✍️Due: Abstract, Refences, & Bio ⏰Deadline: May 8, 2026 You can find more info at: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Wait until you hear how much free public roads lost

Tried to have some fun by drawing

Did you publish an article in TWC from 2023-26? We're seeking entries for the Fans of Color Prize, which recognizes peer-reviewed research about fans and/or fandoms of color published in TWC in the preceding 3 years. There's a $500 cash prize! journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

This is the point. Make universities uninhabitable for the people that make universities wonderful. Texas Tech faculty are “close to the brink,” Schiller said. “It’s a nightmare … Tears are commonplace. I have a colleague who told me recently that going to campus felt like attending a wake.”

the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism

Art is for everyone, even turkeys. @gallery.ca

On lit « Paul à la pêche » ce soir.

Here is an easy solution: Food stains are humiliating, as they suggest you're a little baby who can't feed themselves. Oil stains, such as those you'd get from working on your car, suggest you're tough, independent, and skilled. Thus, simply cover your food stains with used motor oil.

samuel beckett was born on this day 120 years ago. astonishing to think that if he had survived, and could run 100m in 9.57 seconds, he would be not only the oldest but also the fastest man in the world - together with his nobel prize for literature, an astonishing trifecta

Marvel™: Screwing over its artists in baroquely humiliating ways since 1939

we're all just doing this now huh | patreon.com/lubchansky

The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

It's kinda interesting to think about how differently Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper have spent their retirement years

Jeers to Viktor Orbán, and cheers to the Tisza Party, whose political ideology I will not be looking into further 👍

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com #manosphere

Liberals adopt policy to restrict kids from social media, but AI for all. Do these ppl hear themselves? 🤡 www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

YOU (a fool engaged in folly): a Notion subscription allows me to backlink my personal knowledge into a second brain and then query it with an LLM! ME (a sage): MASTER'S SCRIBE.

Well well well look who’s come crawling back

why do I find it so wildly offensive and paternalistic when I see folks suggest that LLM use can help 'disadvantaged' people to 'write better' or 'save time'? because it is such a sad underestimation of people's abilities, a surrender to a thoughtless monoglot ideology, a celebration of ignorance

Ah, yes, the two genres

Pronouncing it “lin-kuh-din” from now on.

the coyness of calling Trump’s profanity an "f-bomb" in a message where he’s threatening to LITERALLY bomb civilians and civilian infrastructure is honestly offensive, I think! there’s only one kind of bomb in this conversation, and it’s not the word "Fuckin'". it’s the kind that murders people.

At best, this is selling functional literacy while trying to borrow critical literacy’s halo to placate critics.

Blu-ray artwork for Kung Fu Student from Error 4444!

Putting it out into the universe once again . . . Muppet Jesus Christ Superstar