Uncle we must go to the sea for the healing air

A drag queen named Donna Summer Sanders

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Bethany Klein's book about this was pretty good www.bloomsbury.com/us/selling-o...

A fun birthday gift membership to @filmforumnyc.bsky.social from my siblings

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They really be writing emails about the criminal conspiracy

Fellas, is it gay to ponder your cube?

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They really be writing emails about the criminal conspiracy

Gamergate never ended unfortunately

Some 2020s wisdom in Hades II - "Compromising to achieve consensus is one thing; but compromising on beliefs or principles...on ideals? Such reasoning is how wars often start, not merely end."

Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!

James Bond is a fictional character

i'm gonna lose my mind

I think one of the things that makes it convenient for the companies that make these models to mystify them is that they know their models are fundamentally non-deterministic, and mystification is a good way to obscure that design. it's not just putting out something random, it's *profound*

Cool thread. Have many questions about how algorithmic and platform logics characterize this newer spiritualism

James Bond is a fictional character

Some 2020s wisdom in Hades II - "Compromising to achieve consensus is one thing; but compromising on beliefs or principles...on ideals? Such reasoning is how wars often start, not merely end."

Getting into sports not for the love of the game but for the sweet mix of betting scam dramas and platform political economy

No, see, this time Lucy is gonna let Charlie Brown kick that football

No, see, this time Lucy is gonna let Charlie Brown kick that football

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

magnifique

Chutzpah

It's like these experiments treat AI agents as unmediated subjects, instead of media objects? This seems both mistaken and needlessly complicated

rosalia - lux

Scientists failed to reckon that once we discover the gay gene, we'll turn it ON in everyone. Then we'll finally have our random sample

Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)... hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

Scientists failed to reckon that once we discover the gay gene, we'll turn it ON in everyone. Then we'll finally have our random sample

Grad students: My colleagues and I have organized an interdisciplinary conference! Come join us at Mcgill University in Montréal!

Chat has declared Shakira law

Watching Hasan Piker livestream Mamdani’s victory party and the energy seems electric. Chat losing it

Interested in resources to help students learn what "counts" as an argument when interpreting a text. Because they're accustomed to more empirical modes of argument, they struggle with the difference between "interpret" and "just say your opinion." Any resources that outline this in a helpful way?

Making notes and taking film/tv recs for a heist cinema class

Making notes and taking film/tv recs for a heist cinema class

One of my early core political memories is when Dick Cheney received an apology for shooting someone else in the face

We all get to have an opinion about public technology

Someone else, a school or job or boss, signs the terms of service on our behalf

We all get to have an opinion about public technology

yes, many people on Bluesky do respond incredibly aggressively to any non-negative mention of AI. if that upsets you, while I get it, there are people responsible for *why* so many Bluesky users are utterly enraged at AI, and they are not in fact those Bluesky users.

“In their eagerness to dampen down the empathy that might restrain it, aspirational capitalists attest to the tenacity of that capacity, too…’Mr Clinton', Kissinger once famously (and rather unfairly) muttered into a cocktail, 'does not have the strength of character to be a war criminal.’ “

Every new detail is just *chef's kiss* parfait

The four words every woman loves to hear

interesting how this isn't a new rule, just the enforcement of existing rules. I tend to think pre-print culture is a bit cavalier and this is why

"It would be absurd technological determinism to blame social media for this...conversely, it would be naïve to deny that forms impact norms. With social media and online culture the barrier to entry to performative psychological sadism is lowered"