Going through old images and found this one from the "See Red Women's Workshop," a London printing studio that existed from 1974 to 1990

MAYOR: Did you do that sculpture solemnly honouring our civil war dead SCULPTOR: Sure thing boss, real sexy just like you asked MAYOR: What

Spotted this morning on Washington St! ♥️ #Cork #Corcaigh #Speirgorm

For those interested in the history of British immigration control, I am going to do quick thread of my academic writing on the subject. In 2014, Marinella Marmo and I wrote this book, 'Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control'. link.springer.com/book/10.1057...

'The Concerto', Queen's Hall, Langham Place (c.1935) by Cyril Power

“The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.”

The problem with Thatcherism is eventually you—the State—not only run out of money, but the means or even the vision of how to generate it, and you wake up one day, and all that money, and power, and sovereignty, is in the hands of a deterritorialised capitalist force that you have no control over.

The description here by @jamellebouie.net of Trump administration propaganda as 'real life AI slop' is a remarkably on-point way to describe something I have been trying to put into words about the MAGA pagentry, cosplay, of authoritarianism in the absence of actually consolidating control.

This basically. As one person pointed out on here, the elites believe they can have a small d-democratic high trust society, while the rest of us live in a low trust totalitarian one. The elites really are upset about being called out, and really do see fascism as a necessary corrective to

The strategy of the Trump administration is mostly firing less lethals via press release, post, video or spectacular example, and we need to stop yelling "ruuun" every time

There are too many apps. 90% of apps should instead be a better website.

If you see this, post a ship USS Monitor, Civil War ironclad. In its historical battle against the CSS Virginia, the first between two ironclads, the crew found the mechanism controlling the turret too cumbersome, so they fought the whole battle with the turret rotating continuously

Strange, the bully is kicking my ass even though I've been telling everyone how much I respect him. Maybe he hasn't heard

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Irish portraitist John Lavery depicts his wife Hazel in 1927, sketching outside in the sunlight. Hazel was famous for her beauty, & Lavery used her as the model for “a female personification of Ireland” which appeared on Irish banknotes for many decades

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Look I expected the Right and the center to spend all of its time focusing on Charlie Kirk instead of the fucking ethnic cleansing ICE and Border Patrol are carrying out in Chicago but I didn't expect that shit from the left Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

i think this is actually more propaganda on openai’s part bc they do not list “this is just how LLMs work, on a structural level” as one of the reasons but that’s the truth LLMs can never not “hallucinate” bc they’re not intelligences, they don’t even know what words are much less know meaning

i've been thinking a lot about the historical record on this and how hard it will be to communicate that this guy was a fucking nobody

Complete and total surrender

> OpenAI’s own advanced reasoning models actually hallucinated more frequently than simpler systems. An observation I made in my book, even in the first edition two years ago, was that research gave us reason to believe that hallucinations got worse with increasing model size

you literally don't have to take bad faith criticisms from fascists seriously like at all

I genuinely always thought of him as a knock off Ben Shapiro

My favorite line from that song, 10/10

Ezra Klein 🤝 Neera Tanden Despite the overwhelming popularity of abortion rights in all states, we should surrender instead

Dems advertising that they are capitulating to threats of violence is not an especially smart plan even on narrow selfpreservation concerns

Nuclear fusion level of loser energy

The thing is that fascists view their causes as divine and their foes as subhuman, so their struggles are always elevated to existential in nature, far beyond any kind of rational discourse. That's like their whole vibe, to make political conflict into wars of annihilation

a reminder that most of the time what appears to be hypocrisy is in fact a coherent statement of values

📣My analytical op-ed in @ForeignPolicy on AI-powered information warfare. Is the window for combating AI-driven propaganda is closing? Local, open-weight models let State, non-state and micro-operators run industrial-scale influence ops with no central points. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/a...

'Ginkgo Tree' (1965) Shiro Kasamatsu

We already have summaries of research articles. They are called abstracts. I have written many of them. In fact, I am in the middle of revising one right now.

I have a new book coming out this autumn via @mitpress.bsky.social ...details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

By losing to Trump a second time ... and losing so comprehensively, the Democratic Party stands revealed as one of the most incompetent, rudderless, and barren political forces in modern history." -- Trevor Jackson in the NYRB (9/25/25)

the history will continue until morale improves

Poland has been trying exactly this for 2 years now and hey, so far, the results are pretty shite. But - it could be very useful to figure out why.

Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2

My respect for anyone who says they're afraid of voting against this resolution is zero. You are a member of Congress. The country is being dragged to hell. 'People will threaten us.' What did you think this job entailed? Quit blubbering, vote no, and move on.

If you had told me in the mid 1990s that "Jimmy the Sports Guy," from KROQ'S Kevin and Bean morning show, would in 2025 be cancelled from his job as host of a popular late night show as part of a Gleichschaltung project under aspiring dictator Donald Trump, I would have been pretty skeptical

This is good but like, the time to demonstrate that the Democratic party would bring harsh consequences for unacceptable behavior was in the Biden administration. Or under Obama. Or even Clinton. American institutions clearly fear Republicans a LOT more than Democrats, and you can easily see why

not too late for chuck schumer to chain himself to Mahmoud Khalil

Obamacare in a nutshell

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

I was in the US at the time and was always part of the precariate but my experience was similar--finished my PhD in 2016 and until COVID I never lacked for teaching gigs. Six (??) different institutions around Los Angeles, usually 7-8 courses (like modules) at 3-4 schools per semester

One positive thing that's happening is that the "let's meet in the middle" people are looking more and more unhinged in the eyes of regular people. My FedBook page which includes a lot of normies is on fire regularly. Folks are done.

Jesus Christ.

Vance is truly like nuclear-level loathsome

I just hate the way our society views the homeless. I’ve been homeless before and that shit ain’t easy to get out of. Ppl aren’t on the street bc they want to be. They’re not less human than you. And you could easily find yourself out there in today’s world. Have some compassion.

Rather than seeing this as a political project, I would suggest it's better to see this as a reflection of an economy increasingly centered around the extremely niche emotional needs of people with billions of dollars to spare...