At Jess Walter's @uvalibrary.bsky.social Zines Now! workshop in @scholarslab.bsky.social. Jess is starting us off w/reading zines they shared on our tables so we can share the different approaches to advocacy-via-zine we observe (& folks new to zines can get up to speed too).

fortnite friday is a talk show that takes place entirely in fortnite, which has nonetheless pulled names as big as gavin newsom, george santos, and the rizzler. I’ve always wondered how @connoreatspants.bsky.social does it, and I finally got a chance to ask him

me all week @ Federal Budget coverage if the welfare of working class Canadians weren't on the line:

New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen. vimeo.com/1116289621 🧵

2026 Primary Woke Wave

As of today, I can finally be Vietnamese in Crusader Kings!? Thanks, Zorhan Mamdani! 🫡

We do need digital sovereignty in this country BUT it needs to be regulated. "Innovation" is total horseshit here because it just means "back tech corporations" and that means don't regulate. And we need to start understanding that "AI" is such a large umbrella you might as well say "digital tech"

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

Capitalism is now illegal

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

every science news article is like "chinese researchers invent cure for hurting your back getting out of bed" and every science policy news article is like "uncomfortable bed lobby successfully lobbies trump admin with $500 bribe"

Toronto rn

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Christine, the enigmatic object that makes nerds evil, is also a pretty OK #StephenKing movie & cheap #Halloween costume 🚘 ⚔️ 🎃

if the notwithstanding clause has no haters, i am dead

My opinion of union leadership is unpublishable if the AFL doesn’t start the ball rolling towards a general strike this week. Anything less is effectively agreeing to the voluntary dissolution of organized labour in Alberta.

from what I understand of Canadain politics, being the Leader of the opposition party is like being endowed a Canada Research Chair but instead of any knowledge mobilization you do a lot of podcasts

Just in time for Halloween, our @asapjournal.bsky.social cluster on Algorithms and the Occult is out! 👻 Featuring @emmaquilty.bsky.social, @aketchum22.bsky.social, @xrw.bsky.social, @drs.bsky.social, @serife.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social, @jessrauchberg.bsky.social, and more!

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enhance your Halloween season reading with this rich, textured, and magickal collection of essays on algorithms and the occult, edited by yours truly with @tamigraph.bsky.social and @briana-v.bsky.social !

When I see suicidal ideation en masse from my male mutuals, I know a Sports thing is happening.

I have so much grading to do, and Canvas is down because of the AWS outage. Object lesson #1940273 that maybe forcing us all to use crappy LMS tools that are beholden to tech infrastructures controlled by Bezos et al wasn't the best idea. #acasky

French millenium of humiliation

if your parents were both academics, you should get a stigmatizing surname like in ASOIAF. Jon Book, Ramsay Nerd, Gendry Cites, etc.

median Toronto motorist opinion:

I’m at #aoir2025 in a sense.

I wrote about what Latin can teach us about toxic nostalgia and the anxieties of the powerful. Thank you @lithub.com.web.brid.gy

EDI is a prerequisite for that coveted "generalizability" fawned over by objectivity fetishists. Anyways, search the quoted names in this article to know your allies and enemies.

Reviewing a manuscript & I can't wait to cite a term it concocts when the final version comes out in 2036!

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

My latest is on Sora's AI and why we should care about stolen art For more, follow: + www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell + www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell

This is what happens when society tells techbros they're very very very special people

AI is a lack of consent machine this attitude about creativity is descended from out attitudes about creativity and chattel slavery we look at certain people's / professions work as a "right" It's public property so they don't deserve respect or credit most of academia and policy agrees

inside every academic is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast idea that would induce 1-2 divorces

guy from the “anti-groomer” party after his weak apology for publicly telling a child they should be assaulted on the rear:

Does anyone have $56 billion and know somebody at EA Games? I have an idea.

we need a Frankfurt School for girls + enbies who dreamed of being on the Computer a lot

It's good to see that Zach Woods has only become more powerful and based with time.

white supremacists and capitalists got so mad at one 18 month stretch of increased labor power that they've agreed to reverse the most complex economy in human history to an agrarian state

Canada nation built (and built and built and built) until the 1970s, then began the great dismantling. I'd pin it to Mulroney era when rails were ripped out across country & Chretien/Harris pulling out of housing funding/backstopping. Canada Post stuff is just another dismantling moment.

"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada. "Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

“‘Landlord’? I prefer to think of myself as a Land Artist/Cultural Organizer whose primary medium is unfixed windows.”

Even the landlords want their cut from livestreaming. Good example of how streaming relies on a background of domestic labor and social reproduction that is ripe for extracting data and money

my gyre: Wide my falcon: Unhearing my blood-dimm'd tide: Loosed ROUGHBEASTCON: 1

Just got an email from a scam academic journal asking if I wanted to "explore new advances in White Psychodrama" and it's just got me like: buddy, I can watch the news myself.