given the date, not *that* max weber. but what if it were

"It's hard to see [accessibility issues on new .gov sites] as anything but a deliberate choice. That also sends a clear message of who this administration feels has a place in American life, who is worthy enough to access information and services and who is not worth their time."

on bsky i’m nobody. irl i’m an accomplished industry technologist and government bureaucrat who is uniquely qualified to advise academic committees on the relevance and need for their major, minor, certificate, and graduate programs. and i do!

[vibrates with pride in second-rate public land grant university system]

Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize Bolsonaro: Minha tornozeleira esta falando comigo então tentei abrí-la com uma solda

everyone laughs at zines until they turn out to be relevant again. whoops! it just keeps happening, the transmission of information

a couple weeks back i had a few similar interactions on here that left a bad taste in my mouth. the algtorithmic-tech-whatever of online comms shapes exposure to content that we can’t control, we DO still have a lot quite a LOT of power to establish tenor & expectations of personal interactions.

oh my god. i am the dumbest girl in the world. i honestly thought with the nyc mayoral election over, i’d not have to hear about new york city politics again. and yet

sitting in a RUSTBELT PUB listening to many elderly neighbors discuss jeffrey epstein and The Files

this is social science

frankly, how dare clifford geertz?? send post

i do not like how social media works or is designed. i am the first to notice this

yall ever think about how many ways humans can be

New awareness campaign

-close reading clifford geertz this week -ate an incredible stuffed pepper on saturday -the new frankenstein movie was fine

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

One of the major fruits of research is delight. Think of how often you’ve read about a discovery and really enjoyed it. Often the most pleasurable kind of news. Public delight isn’t discussed enough as one of the major outputs of funding research.

Picard management tip: The truth is that sometimes you just won't know the right thing to do. You still have to try.

this thread is really good!

i grade for a course on internet culture that’s designed to be one of the first writing-heavy courses freshmen take. this is a D essay.

Metal band t-shirt but the font is that weird skrangly AI text

This is one of the rare times where we really do need retired senior generals and admirals to speak out--Dempsey and Mullen should step up to articulate that these are illegal orders. The JAGs have been fired, so we need for former leaders to tell us all.

too late; for i have already pictured myself as the hyperphantasic adult who can conjure visual fantasy worlds and you as the typical imager with pruned neuronal connections

Concrete Mixer by Man Ray, 1916 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137472

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

touch mass

Because I’ve seen what HOA meetings do to a man. The lawns are too green, the souls too soft. I speak like this because the spirit of war died in a cul-de-sac, and I was there to bury it—alone, beneath the flicker of a Ring doorbell camera.

i;m literally just a cat

Why yes I did make fantasy outfits for all of my books.

if you see this, post 4 female characters you love

I'll be moderating a panel on Saturday featuring distinguished transgender service members whose careers are being cut short. Don’t miss this vital conversation! 🗓️ Panel at 2PM on Nov 1 | Part of the DISSENT exhibition (Through Nov 9) at Atrium Artspace in Baltimore

Dominant Curve by Vasily Kandinsky, 1936 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137241

Every time someone insists that being in the military explains having gotten Nazi tattoos, what I hear is that military service turns people into or attracts Nazis, so military service should be a disqualifier for elections. You're really doing other veterans harm with this shit.

can we cut the man a break and just stop it with the nazis for a minute

gently trolling a “the digital” research group over whether we should invite comp sci or info science to our symposium. i hate academics in academic meetings

this is where #booksky lives

what if you were a cat and you just wandered around crying for your whole life

I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport. Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably? But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.

in which it takes exactly 21 minutes after this post to dig up that probably platner's grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project

man i fuckin hate online classes

self care is watching documentaries about auteurs on kanopy

Why am I lying here? The night advances; with the day, it is like enough, the enemy will be upon us. If we are to fall into the hands of the king, what is left us but to face the most horrible of sights, and to suffer the most fearful pains, and then to die, insulted, an ignominious death?

Happy birthday Oscar Wilde. - do yourself a favor and read his rambling essay on how a chief benefit of socialism is that we get art made by not rich people www.marxists.org/reference/ar...

frankly it is long past time that this kind of collaboration starts taking place in public

I don’t need therapy, I just need everyone to stop being wrong.

as a protest location it can’t be beat due to proximity to frozen custard

This is the thing about ai. The benefits are nebulous hypotheticals but the costs are very high and immediate

I have actually never seen a politician say anything even remotely like this. Whatever the follow-through, or not, even the fact he said this is really, really something