I'm particularly proud of this line

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm... Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

Seems like people now broadly understand that data centers use a ton of energy but pols are happy to trade that for "high tech jobs." But just bc it's big computer doesn't means it's big jobs! It's a big storage facility. The jobs are mostly in construction, with a tiny maintenance crew thereafter.

This btw is why my students sympathized with Beale. Not because of his reactionary stance but because they feel trapped

Hard to overstate what a *huge* win this is for OpenAI in its strategy to spread its malign, brain- and planet-destroying tentacles all through the education sector. Oxford’s global standing will create a permission structure for many other schools to do likewise. “If Oxford’s doing it, then…”

Negative Pep fails to hold a lead.

Martinelli slander paying dividends

Ahahahahaha

Well sometimes when you're a midtable side on the decline you have to play late stage Mourinho ball

One week in, and just about 25 more backers will get World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged to fully funded. That's what, one Battle Royal's worth of ttrpg wrestle-curious fans? No wrestling knowledge necessary, and part of the campaign is more support for non-grapple-heads to play out the matches!

OPINION | Manchester City Are Playing Football the Right Way by Ezra Klein

Also we genuinely need more kneejerk anti-ad sentiment

This is a Havertz game

Taking off an attacker for a CB. More negativity from Pep.

My one biggest shock with teaching the youngs over the past 20ish years is how non-antagonistic they are with big corporations, and esp media corps, outside of some vague fears over privacy.

I wouldn't advocate a return to an Adbusters style 90s politics but a default skepticism of corporations and their products is a good thing

thinking about Leo’s second yellow away at City last year and my eye’s twitching

There is one reason Leandro Trossard hasn't been booked there. It's because he'd have to give Bernadro Silva a second yellow and he doesn't want to do that.

God I hate City

Don't think Arsenal passing five yards back and forth in their own half is going to win the game.

Gabriel is allowed a stinker but woof

Honestly poor defending there. How do you double Reijndeers and give Halland that much space?

I'm pining for chocolate hob-nobs.

Just a few huge companies control *all the ebooks* including the ebooks you borrow from your library There's a way past this: selling ebooks directly to libraries. We're working on this at @flaminghydra.com www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

Reading the piece the thing that jumps out, over and over, the thing that ChatGPT provides above and beyond what you'd get from, say, venting to a friend about your relationship, is the impression of authority and objectivity because it comes labelled and presented as "knowing everything".

This. I told a student group that I declined their debate invitation but that I would love to read something together and have a conversation. The response: crickets. Let's stop debating and try to talk with each other instead.

Not that I'd used it in close to four years and I'd almost entirely forgotten about it, but I deleted today. Fuck em.

Fully embedded in JCVD tok now www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8S5g9LA/

A because it has Greggs

2015 arguments ongoing

Everyone shut up new PVA just dropped youtu.be/ED7XIdOvIcs?...

36, still feeling reasonably with it

As I was saying bsky.app/profile/carl...

And finally, Sam Tobin talks about Warhammer and Heavy Metal - @brocktoon.bsky.social mentioned also, a part of continued work around Oldhammer!

You only put this back together with a robust plan to reconstruct the information environment. That won't happen, ergo... Liberals aren't going to forcefully break up big business. The intelligentsia is trapped in a house of mirrors and too afraid of being Jonathan Haidt or Neil Postman.

Quote with the energy you bring to bluesky

The question I try to keep in front of my students' minds is: how do you think the wealthy and powerful people who've developed these tools feel about students using them instead of thinking for themselves, and why?

everyone speaks of the various social media bubbles, but MSNBC and CNN have 37,000 and 62,000 25-54 viewers respectively during the day. who the fuck cares www.adweek.com/tvnewser/wee...

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I watched one clip from Kickboxer on TikTok and now I'm getting videos from a JCVD impersonator. I'm not complaining. Also I subscribed.

I think when things begin to settle, we are due for a reckoning on social media and politics. We need to understand how social media sell us feelings. We need to examine our own desires to be quick to post when things are largely unknown.

Big Tech & Algorithmic Social Media have effectively re-privatized the formerly Public Sphere into mutually uncomprehending silos. Call it the Zuckerberg Reaction to the Gutenberg Revolution. (1/2)

Social media held out the promise of a new cosmopolitanism; we are connected to everyone! In practice it seems to have generated millions of small town networks with their associated rumors, gossip, and provincialism. There are lessons about network structure and cognitive load there.

This Everton v Villa game is the pits

I know this is in some ways a joke, like, we all have the madness, but I do really try to commit to always communicating with complete earnestness online, and I treat other people like they are too until they give me reason to think otherwise. I think it helps.

Portland is interesting in this regard. There is a big community, business and city government push to build upon the local music scene. Noise ordinances changed, music can be played more freely. There are a bunch of synth and music co-ops/collectives to get people playing and learning.