It starts w/ a petition from a mother who asked for the pardon of her son, exiled from Shkoder to Diyarbekir, and then follows unrealized plans to distance "these kinds of people" to "distant lands" like Yemen and Trablusgarb -- inspired, in part, by Russian exile to Siberia.

Excited to share my open access article on Ottoman exile in @csshjournal.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

> I am suing them because [...] they have robbed me of my “successful academic career and livelihood because of a joint project of Northwestern and elements of the federal government to manufacture consent for their participation in the Zionist colonial project in Palestine.”

You can say "criticise, protest, yell at, flip off", idk, many other things. Drop this word. Bullying is a form of abuse. Don't dilute it.

"I’ve struggled to write something that would persuade my colleagues and friends to ditch AI and affirm their avowed beliefs about climate change, the trustworthiness of megacorporations, and our right to live and work with dignity." Hating AI in 2026

The last paragraph in view here bothers me so much. Fuck you. It's not about "romantic thrill". We know CSS is turing complete. So we know this is doable. The impressive thing was actually doing it, not that it could be done. You robbed the world of the joy of someone actually doing it. Bastard.

feckin hot ban summers

> The right to be unreachable will also be clearly stated in the new collective labour agreement. Pechler: “We want to limit work pressure and foster a culture in which rest outside working hours is respected.”

[Sorry the below image is AI slop] Love how seemingly when someone prompts the slop shitter something like "draw me like one of your french painters" it gives you someone with a painted up apron, and the prompt fondler has either run out of slop scrip or they're too dense to notice the irony.

Damn this would lead to some *incredible* A&E stories tho...

Deletes that ink question, all I've received here is a bunch of know-it-alls telling me where I could find reviews or reviews' links. Anyways if you wanna learn how to answer questions, or interested in Diamine Forever inks, I also asked on fedi wnd got *actual answers* sunny.garden/@librarysqui...

yes! we talked about it here with @altibel.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @melhogan.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/oliv...

I think in a way "AI" is a symptom of how much we've made uni & research about "deliverables" and not the process. As is plagiarism. And it's showing in the borked automation that we're trying to throw at the problem as that kind of band-aid that falls of when there's rain in the next town over.

#OtD 9 Jul 1953 Annie Kenney, cotton mill worker and suffragette, who became the only working class leader of the Women's Social and Political Union, died aged 73 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1090...

Anybody who's flogging "AI" shite rn is either a swindler or they're a fictional character in a clueless diatribe about "the one good use of LLMs". Protect your skills, protect your brain.

Sophie Gusenko will talk about her book "Asexual Slut" on Friday, 10 July, at 3pm (UK). Link on our website, where you can also find the full talk schedule: www.aroaceresearch.com/events

Every global "Tech4Good" event, every meeting about digital "souvereignity", every summit about innovation has EA folks there poisoning the conversation with their eugenicist, corporatist, colonialist drivel. And politics is eating it up.

This week's reading, now I'm fixing to get back at it. Idk if I'll be able to understand @olivia.science 's articles seeing as even as an ex-coder I never understood NN/DL/ML stuff much, we'll see

Read more: mu.social/profile/oliv...

> “Hallucination,” then, is not a bug awaiting a patch but a symptomatic expression of this structural condition. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

I've bought a new fountain pen. It's a reckless purchase and I may come to my senses and return it but I may not too. It's a Lamy CP1, it mildly resembles my second serious fountain pen, whose brand or make I have no idea about.

A bunch of new people have followed me after my word processor/text editor/LaTeX thread and (1) welcome!, and (2) damn, ofc my claim to fifteen minutes of fame is text editor nerdery...

HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. Preorder it now! In the book, I dig into how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and the incredible efforts of people pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech. Get your copy: hyperscalebook.com

reminder...

This is a good episode, just listened, but it also skips some important stuff: computers and esp PCs are in Everything. Factories and retail stores for example operate on dozens of specialised PCs, so does the healthcare system. Servers are all PCs ofc. Most appliances include SBCs(*). We're shafted

Is there like a Mac app for handling .zip etc archives that's not like... STUPID?

#OtD 5 Jul 1777 the word 'scab', meaning 'strikebreaker', was used in print for the first time. One of the most important words in the working class vocabulary! stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1052...

Okay, my ACTUAL take on all this transsexual Discourse™ is that we never should’ve stopped calling ourselves “sex changelings.”

This reminds me given how unbelievably bad the problem is here for the environment and fire safety... They finally banned fireworks! When people say we cannot ban artificial intelligence — nah, we can ban anything human-made we want. Even things as old tech as fireworks can be regulated. Ban AI.

My summer syllabus project has been interrupted by regrettable amounts of KCD2 gameing and I must report this is such a shit game I hate it, it's a disgrace to the first game. I like the medieval fantasy aspect but that's all. The plot, cutscenes, combat, all abortive creations. Spoilers ahead.

This is great, thanks! My plug is for ShareLaTeX. Decent online editor for LaTeX. Did a couple of collaborative projects in it and it worked pretty well.

this thread is epic & worth reading. I don't mind Markdown + Pandoc for a lot of things, and I also actually like the Word ribbon. I use Typst when I can for programmatic typesetting, much easier and more pleasant than LaTeX (I would not attempt to make my own LaTeX style, have done multiple Typst).

Some additional mentions: LyX meets you kind of halfway to LaTeX & I find it easier but it has its own weird and sometimes infuriating issues (for me it was always tables and making citation errors).

This thread is a delight & captures how zany it is to *try to find something that works* and instead finding six things that kind of work but each one doesn't work in a specific way that's a pain sometimes.

obviously everybody has their preferences, but these are some good things for people to try to move away from MajorSlop Turd

I’m so glad someone else also thinks this about Google Docs.

Ubitmenu. Gives a tab with the Office 2003 menus. I still use it 😇

Let me do a little thread on writing software. I'm no expert, just a curious nerd who's tried many.

America likes killing. It's their national sport, murder.

Whatever idiot decided phones' arses need to be made of slippery glass deserves a flogging and then to be hang drawn and quartered.

This annoys me so much it makes me think up incriminating thoughts. I never wanna be subject to reply slop, ask your chatbot how to shut up and get in the sea. Don't send people unsolicited slop.

“. . . it’s not just that most academic writing doesn’t earn you anything—most of the time, it costs you.”

I've done my first bullet journal based diary-planner thing about 10 years ago now. Problem is it's not really working for me as of late. I find that when I don't skip it, often for consecutive days, I just end up not following the list I make in the morning.

"Sick of it all" Sticker spotted in Seattle

Where should I look to get an estimated female life expectancy in late 18C/early 19C Istanbul? Any suggestions appreciated!

The reason academic papers and books cost an arm and a leg is not because academia is haughty, it's because a cartel of "publishers" in collusion with uni managerial class have grabbed hold of research publication and run it like mafiosos.

Destroying history is a feature not a bug

Oh noes they'll be left behind in... destroying their society

Cute word unique to Cyprus 🦎