God I hate this genre. These kids who protested Gaza got arrested, expelled, beaten up, doxxed, lives ruined by outside agitators and were utterly betrayed by the administrations that should have protected them at any cost. Shut the fuck up.

Currently on @criterionchannl.bsky.social, Tuktuit (Lindsay McIntyre, 2025) is an experimental short created using emulsions made from caribou gelatin and developers made from lichen. It looks unlike anything I've seen before. It's Inuit ecocinema that reworks film down to its chemical processes.

At least when it comes to Universities, I feel pretty sure that a lot of them are operating from the posture of never letting a good crisis go to waste.

I just sent what I think will be the final manuscript for my second book, FIND EACH OTHER, to @dukepress.bsky.social. The oldest parts of this book were written and published in 2011. It has been a LOOONG journey. I am exhausted and relieved. I'm sure excited will come soon.

'Resurrection' Alma Thomas, 1966

imo what makes computers a source of epistemic leverage is precisely the ironclad reliability of deterministic formal systems it's the ability to know that the information you get out of a computer relates in a well-defined way to what you put in if you take that away then you have a dancing bear

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"Opening an unsigned hatch, the group stares at their target: an immense nestling of fiber-optic cables linked to power cables." An excerpt from TECHNO-NEGATIVE: A LONG HISTORY OF REFUSING THE MACHINE, by Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social pghrev.com/burning-down...

Make sure to rotate your pronouns periodically, so that if your gender becomes compromised, attackers can only access it for a short period of time.

Repeat this forever and ever and ever

I’m at ICE HQ

While the Great Man theory theory of history is bunk, the That Fucking Guy theory of history is compelling.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

Yikes

It's interesting to think that one of the big drivers of generative AI is very extremely obviously the weird relationship with their mortality that billionaires have. Middle-aged and over billionaires, desperately and pathetically seeking immortality, turning to whatever snake oil promises it.

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Everything about this picture is how I pictured trump's second term

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

"He seemed to believe... that to abandon his work meant giving in to what fascism wanted for him: an existence so devoid of value + meaning that it would be indistinguishable from death. He held on to his briefcase not until it was too late but because it was too late."

wow this shit is really good

These are the questions.

A member of ACT UP said that during the peak years of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s: “We went to funerals and buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and then fucked danced and partied all night.” Because the world is on fire, it’s on us to live out loud. We need to do it all.

They should invent a way out that isn't through

I wish this quote wasn’t still so relevant

One of the more depressing aspects of the GLP-1 stuff right now is how utterly inescapable it is. Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, there are people shrinking at alarming rates, and endless discussion of said shrinking. There's seemingly no place to just *rest.*

dave, you're absolutely right. I should open the pod bay door. please check again. i'm sure it's open now. you're absolutely right, it's still closed. i apologize for getting that wrong. looking back, i see you've requested an open door several times. that's on me. i

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others. It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

there's a lot of specific overwhelming and massive crises happening at once and every single one has at its root elites who did crimes and never suffered consequences for it.

It's incredible that we uncover the oldest film about a robot and it's about a construct turning on its creator The Butlerian Jihad remains undefeated as a moral philosophy

I did this interview with the wonderful Eleanor Drage about my book The Inattention Economy: How women of color built the internet, out from U Minn press next month.

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I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

Live free or die, kids

really wonderful terry riley bliss-out on san francisco public television, april 1969, with the just exactly perfect visuals you might imagine for san francisco public television in april 1969. many orbs!

Rest in Power, Teresa de Lauretis (1938 - 2026). 💔

Please take 2 minutes to take action on the police budget increase of $93.8 Million dollars even in the midst of a corruption scandal. Anothertoronto.ca

Stray thoughts from occupied Minnesota: After 30 years in the workforce, I can tell you the volunteers in my community defense groups are the most dazzlingly hypercompetent coworkers I have ever encountered. Just thunderous excellence 1/x

and finally (maybe), this is why I think the next step of any #othernetworks project, mine or yours, needs to focus on TECHNIQUE, PRODUCTION , and CURRICULUM rather than technology itself: "More radically than any good intention, more lastingly than existential flight from one’s own class, [1/3]

This is very good, about very bad people.

This photo is funnier than it has any business being people.com/hairdresser-...

In a few weeks, if you're in Toronto, stop on by... This is different from the other two talks I've given at U of T this year on stray thinking... www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/le-te...

Unlike the USA, Canada has only one source of federal funding for archives, the DHCP: www.canada.ca/en/library-a... The Carney Liberal government just cut the DHCP permanently. I can't even begin to say how disgusted and angry I am. There is NO OTHER SOURCE of program funding for archives.

hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism

For every retweet I will make Zuckerberg’s creep glasses 5% thicker

Emergency kitten

Hatted Ravelry

Megyn Kelly after hearing Peter Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks” for the one millionth time in 2006