Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

so much death, it's repellent

READ ! A ! GAWDAMN! BOOK!

you can't union your way into ethical capitalism but you can only union your way out of it

so fellas which one of you is going to write a history of LTSpice first?

important message to all bluesky users

I wish academics didn't have to frame actually important topics (technologies of social control) as hype (AI) to distribute the scraps of public funding they already had to claw out of the taxes of the rich and police budgets

"Many colleges now make policies, syllabi...with an eye on what congressional committees may think...I warn you gentlemen, there are some shocking things in Plato and the Bible." -- Prof. Oscar Schaftel (Queens College), 1952, before the McCarran Committee

You can't easily bulk download icloud images so i am begging research colleagues not to use icloud to share hundreds of research pictures

the fact that i can't open Canvas with adblockers enabled should tell you everything you need to know about the state of ed tech

Somehow, for a gay sex program, Heated Rivalry is also infused with Canadian media's penchant for cozy pastoralism

"Heated Rivalry" makes me nervous like "Schitt's Creek." Incredibly bad omen that people are turning to Canadian entertainment for sense of comfort

Seems about as useful a model as the ones I doodle to (hopefully) make random friends and strangers chuckle

do you ever just think about how the two worst companies in the US just got turned into a dozen of the worst companies in the US

From: Cannon Fodder (1995), dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Studio 4°C

I am fucking begging all of you to wear masks. Please don't be one of the hundred thousand people to die a year.

then / now

me: I think it's nice when you know where your ideas came from everyone: please stop citing things what is your point

I played my first show irl since november 2019. Thanks stuart, mardi spaghetti, and casa del popolo

I know a few politicians that are also tectonically inert

You know, the bebop ending still gets me. every Time!

People who can but dont read books... what are you doing smh

Guys, we did it. We invented the Commodore 64

Is this anything

I've thought about this character so much since march 2020

unhappy 5th anniversary of unpunished unprosecuted undigested televised live heinous crime against democracy day to all who celebrate

Really a sad day waking up to news of Béla Tarr’s death

Looks like I found the cover image from my spring Reading AI grad course at UVA. That was from an 1820s series entitled the March of Intellect. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m... “I come, I come!”

Seeing things coming and having 0 leverage for doing anything about it is depressing

it’s been a rough decade for the “people have values and make decisions based on them” crowd

Let's do it lol

from Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (2015) p. 44

Seriously though how funny would it be if Venezuelan commandos kidnapped an oil CEO and sent him back to their country to stand trial.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it" this should flash on the screen every time i try to post

I cleaned out the exhaust pipe on my drier today and boy oh boy do i know why it wasnt drying

God i missed having a nice pair of boots that fit

Technically no book is free to download. There's blood in there

my favorite miyazaki movie is the one where he became buddy buddy with German Wehrmacht tank commander Otto Carius to develop "Tigers Covered With Mud" oh wait that's real life

we need more allies doing stuff like this instead of sharing screenshots of content by white supremacists

I've been hitting a similar wall trying to define what a synthesizer is in the presence of so many competing priorities in the literature. It's made me positively derridaen. is synthesis something people do, or machines? something cyborgs do? Why does this need to have a stable answer?

still cannot process that ronald lauder, the honorary chairman of the museum of modern art is stealth buying up greenlandic companies to facilitate trump's invasion and takeover of greenland.

one thing I never see anyone mention about canada is how good the environmental storytelling is

You cannot value the librarian code of ethics while also being pro-genAI. GenAI is a direct violation of our code of ethics.

Reverse outlining is profoundly tautological. If I knew what a section did I would just have made an outline

Amidst all that is destructive and demoralizing, we're meeting to celebrate civic culture + public knowledge and build solidarities. Open to NYC info workers (librarians, archivists), grad students, artists, designers. Apps are due Wednesday, Jan 7, end-of-day! Confirmed sessions include:...

A (non-academic) friend asked me "why did you write a book" over dinner last week, I made an attempt (conceptually-speaking) at an answer in my newsletter this week:

My wish for 2026 for academia specifically, is to push back against fascist framings, reasoning, and industry capture in our universities. My suggestions are below. But please do anything you can if you're an academic. 🌿 Even if it's tiny. 🐁 Every pebble helps build a damn against fascist forces. 🪨