10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

Fear of killer robots has obscured a deeper shift in warfare: The fetish of automation masks the commodification of combat judgment. Corporate software reshapes war while preserving just enough procedural “human control” to deflect responsibility.

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I wonder if one could eke out subsistence levels of spirit by combining the huffing of second-hand Christmas energy from passersby with the intellectual understanding that days are only getting longer from here

Rushed my child to school so I could make a blasted 9:00am meeting, and that rushing and pleading process it took everything including my dignity and all of carefully allocated energy. Should have just been late to the meeting.

They've invented a pill that makes you arbitrary and unaccountable, a tyrant in your sphere.

word on the street is all that is holy is being profaned

Ok I am calling this as a health food trend: protein gummies that are soup flavored and use allegedly collagen protein-containing bone broth

There’s a person on Instagram who teaches Russian to non-Russian speakers, but most of her followers appear to be already Russian-speaking and maybe are there because they’re hooked on perceiving their familiar language from someone from Barcelona who somehow learned Russian so well

Try to explain pro wrestling’s staged class drama and underlying political economy in an age appropriate manner or let my kid enjoy “Foreign Object” by the Mountain Goats without the lecture…

Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t. There’s some kind of lesson here

I bought a salad spinner to wring out my hand wash only clothes before drying them flat (essentially to replace the ‘blot water out by wrapping in a towel’ step which I always found sort of unpleasant)

An Air Canada flight right now

It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school

Stranger Things season 1 is, in retrospect, incredibly Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH coded

Mid thirties posting for a second I’m so sorry, I’m sorry, I am sooooo sorryyyy but hear me out: compression socks

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The other day I used a cast iron pan and remembered that my mom bought it for me the summer before college, and I calculated that this was approximately half my life ago

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Lindgren’s Emil stories are way funnier than Pippi and Karlsson-on-the-roof, in my humble opinion

Going to the store to buy and then promptly eat a pomelo with my child. Truly one of life’s great joys

while i was making this i was giggling thinking "this is gonna do numbers, in the class i teach where i have a captive audience that has to be nice to me"

struck by this giant ad... era of the dark burger... pestilent burger

Smoothie that generally averaged out to green for breakfast to blended green pea soup for lunch pipeline, what can I say, girls love green glops

I also think we need to keep hammering home that you don’t go to college to “debate.” You go to learn, which is not the same thing.

Index of parental responsibilization in capitalist societies taken from average reported age that child stops believing in Santa, tooth fairy etc in a given year

You’ll be never guess why this one big multipack of scissors that I ordered for classroom use was cheaper than all the others but also still had good reviews

Wait this is wild because “America by Design” is the title of a reasonably popular book by David Noble, where he argues that American technological design was shaped to serve corporate control, profit, and capitalist power, rather than the broader public good…

I don’t know where I would have learned this growing up (I had short hair, my mom had short hair, did not do dance classes or whatever) but I’m still pretty upset that it took me this long to understand how to use this kind of hairpin:

A kid at school announced that he got a new monster truck and that it was “a megalodon monster truck” and i absentmindedly asked if that was a kind of superhero, wholly unaware of the fact that I was about to trigger a long, long discussion about how actually no, it’s an extinct giant shark

The wing feather pattern on this pigeon is quite fetching

they’re saying feet are the hands of the legs

“Community colleges, along with regional public universities, are the workhorses of higher education in the United States, which has roughly 4,000 degree-granting schools. Some nine million students are enrolled at community colleges, accounting for 43 percent of America’s undergraduates.”

Source? The stars, big dawg

good morning happy back to school to all who celebrate, happy one week of summer left to all the syllabus scramblers, happy grr to the quarter system people, here's some help for all of us in the college classroom against-a-i.com

One of the biggest open secrets of the 21st century is that most of the things people blame for workers not getting a fair shake -- technological unemployment, outsourcing -- aren't nearly as big a deal as the law continuing to become more hostile to the existence of unions.

when i have to do something i dont want to i imagine a little hand clicking on me from the sky like in a real time strategy game then i say "yes milord" and go do it

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

"[A] core emotion of modern conservatism: wallowing in terror of largely imaginary dangers. But there is a very real project behind their trembling cowardice—the violent subjugation of liberal cities." - @ryanlcooper.com on how wingnuts create permission structure 2 inflict harm on people they hate.

I'm doing a project on the history of air traffic control modernization and before it got bad, air traffic controllers survived at work by invoking something called "big sky theory" which is exactly what it sounds like: what are that the chances of two planes colliding in the expanses of the sky

Superb Parrot (Polytelis swainsonii) Family Psittaculidae (Old World Parrots) Range: interior southeastern Australia (central New South Wales southward to northern Victoria) IUCN status: Least Concern

Oh, hello: digitallabour.ilo.org

can't wait to wear sweaters again, i'm so sleeve-ready, sleeve-eager

They are filming tell me lies season 3 basically at my doorstep. I don’t know anything about the show but maybe their relationship would work better if they stopped lying about being in a fictional upstate New York college…

Five year old just picked up a blank CD from a stack and cautiously asked me if he could play with it or if it would ‘hurt him’ … damn wtf

Hit with impending semester start feelings (negative and positive valence, high activation)

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Lost my bearings in the basement of the library, it’s been a while since I’ve seen the crank vs the button operated ones