‘I immersed myself in the fact that women not only participated in but saw real political possibility against patriarchal nationalism in the promise of UN internationalism.’ A wonderful interview with @durba.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social, about her fascinating new book:

Some of you haven't devoted your lives to creating value for the shareholders and it shows.

Releasing the AMYboard today, a US$29 modular synth; standalone or as a base for DIY. It’s powered by our AMY open source synth engine. You can write music in Python or just use it as a synth. We want everyone to have fun making music without paying the modular fashion tax. Get a few: amyboard.com

“Lateral thinking with withered technology”!

Now, France reports 40 deaths since June 19, after people drowned to escape the heatwave www.reuters.com/business/env...

“It just feels very, very frothy.” slop, private credit self-lubrication, slop, private credit self-lubrication, slop slop slop

One of the really difficult lessons of the last 100 years is that convenience - drawing on mass market capabilities to do things faster - is isolating and individualising. We become one in relation to the market rather than one in relation to other people. GenAI is the peak expression of that.

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me and who?????

'For the importance of wet bulb temperature, a fully healthy person lying completely still in the shade with a fan on them would be dead within 6 hours at 35 degrees. People less healthy it goes down to 25/26. For some dogs, heat stroke hits at 21.' x.com/Willibee64/s...

'Another dangerous aspect of the European heatwave that isn’t being talked about enough is the humidity. The humidex, which combines air temperature and dew point to produce a feels-like temperature, peaked at 50°C (122°F) in France today. That is deadly heat and humidity.' x.com/US_Stormwatc...

fight you! bsky.app/profile/anna...

The purpose is to sabotage higher ed. University administrators are indifferent or incapable of defending their institutions, so that means sabotaging careers. Promotion and tenure policies and norms that expect sufficient external funding will now do the 🗡️ work to gut a generation of scholars.

It falls on faculty to prevent administrators from gambling on a rigged game. "For example, it allows NSF to make awards to nontraditional recipients such as a limited partnership or a venture capital firm, some of which might have been created solely for the purpose of receiving the NSF award."

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"students seem to be losing the ability to monotask and to be alone and engaged in independent work." post45.org/2026/06/teac...

let me reassure you that there is zero mention of starmer and the labour party's genocidal war on trans people. and every picture chosen to represent opposition to starmer is far-right pogromist rallies. in fact the only mention of left issues is Starmer "defeating the left" by supplanting Corbyn

the cbc loves to tell on itself www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

Look, if the LRB will commit to this bit indefinitely, I will absolutely seek speaking engagements at some point just to do the dumbest possible thing for a tote bag and a good story.

Very interesting paper finds that when South Korea suspended its “low-skilled” guest worker program, the result was not a rise in wages for native Koreans doing those jobs, it was the opposite; current employees got reassigned to those jobs and took pay cuts and firms went under.

For T, I spoke with artists about 'proposals for a better art world,' including Rick Lowe, Raven Halfmoon, Michelle Grabner, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and many more www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/t...

I grew up with Alan Greenspan being treated as a sage voice of economic reason. Then I discovered he spent his early career as a fully paid-up Ayn Rand cultist (part of the 'collective' who read Atlas Shrugged in manuscript) and I realized that he was just another libertarian loon.

this is so bad

Le bilan écolo des macronistes en 2026 : 👉Le Fonds vert, qui aide les collectivités à faire leur transition, est passé de 2,5 milliards € à 850 millions €. 👉L'aide à la rénovation des logements a été baissé de 600 millions €. 👉Le plan vélo (1,25 milliard € sur 5 ans) a été réduit à 31 millions €.

Beige not rainbow is such fuckin loser shit

Back from a conference with sessions on academic publishing and on how to fund the tokens for LLM-augmented research. Apparently there is no scheme where we give companies what we produce and they sell it back to us with extra noise & different fonts that we will not embrace. Some kind of fetish imo

Most professors are not interested in fighting like hell. Thats not what this job does to you

always leave them wanting more (headed home)

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Shout out to the Scots showing the lovely Americans what alcohol, travel insurance, and socialised health care waiting at home can achieve. "Big historical horsecunt was pure beggin' for a conin'", noted one onlooker.

My 500 year history of disabled people's political activism is out now! Thanks to The Independent for making it their non-fiction book of the month! www.penguin.co.uk/books/455782... #disabilityhistory

As usual, I didn't sleep one second of my red-eye flight from Fairbanks to Portland last night. How can you, when the views out the window are so amazing? Especially in the light of Alaska and the Yukon Territory's midnight sun. Here's Nancy's view out the window, with time stamps. 1/2

The "Friends of P" entrance.

they make you do agile stand up meetings in this Warhammer 40k game this is bullshit this is exactly what Adorno warned us about

I meant to write about this story and I didn't and I'm sorry. Trans kids have been abandoned by so many people. It's hard to find words for seeing the kids who were our promise for a world where people like us didn't have to have the hard lives most of us had being abandoned life by innocent life.

Pac-Man McLean, IL

If dudebros (all genders) are going to wear camera glasses, then we need to do three things: 1. Get jammers (like those Arduino TV turn-offs) 2. Wear shirts that say “I do not consent” 3. Continue to shame their sorry, sad souls

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

People think that preventive imaging is a technology problem. It is not; it is a social coordination problem.

From the campaign: dangerousminds.net/comments/moe...

A.L.G.A.E. : Anticapitalist Little Greta Thunbergs Are Everywhere. It’s the name of our non hierarchical org.

Turner is arguably thw best equipped to describe the Californian Ideology’s successor & he’s very convincing here.

“The global system of connection built out in the 1990s has turned the social world into a resource for the oldest form of capitalism, extraction. For that kind of work Texas makes an ideal home” thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...

some of you not naming names could be said to be interested in music that is an "agitation of the atmospheric air" (Abraham Moles 1966) #cybernetics

MUPPET BLOOD MERIDIAN

Donna haraway can you pick me up i'l getting targeted ads for canadian "natural" gas again