Casey Boyle
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Every time you unsubscribe from a Dem campaign, they add your number/email to three others you also never subscribed to.
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Jason Read
7 days ago
This image comes to mind every time I learn about some new AI tech. Globalization, and the global inequality, is just the real world version of a green screen.
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In this economy???
marchforbillionaires.org
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March for Billionaires — San Francisco, Feb 7
Stand up for the entrepreneurs, innovators, and risk-takers who build our economy. February 7, 2026.
https://marchforbillionaires.org
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“...poetry today might have more to teach us than economic science, the human sciences and psychoanalysis combined.” ~Felix Guattari, Chaosmosis
16 days ago
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FT
22 days ago
Happy birthday to Antonio Gramsci, one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century and a socialist hero.
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Leah Pennywark
about 1 month ago
Explore Günther Anders’s The Obsolescence of the Human, now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technology
#MLA26
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Prisonculture
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The New York Times
about 1 month ago
Breaking News: Bela Tarr, a Hungarian director whose long, grim films like “Werckmeister Harmonies” made him an art-house titan, died at 70.
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Bela Tarr, Titan of Slow-Moving Cinema, Dies at 70
The master Hungarian filmmaker’s movies included “Satantango” and “Werckmeister Harmonies.”
https://nyti.ms/49H3ykL
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Sarah Quinn
about 1 month ago
“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.” ― James Baldwin
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Nikita Gill
about 1 month ago
Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
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A key for my teaching has always been “finding friction” for students to grapple with. AI removes most friction in favor of a kind of faux fluency. This essay gets at exactly that dynamic also needed at the larger curricular level.
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“I don't write like ChatGPT. ChatGPT, in its strange, disembodied, globally-sourced way, writes like me. Or, more accurately, it writes like the millions of us who were pushed through a very particular educational and societal pipeline, a pipeline…”
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
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I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt
about 2 months ago
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Erika Hall
2 months ago
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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Places Journal
2 months ago
The Texas Department of Transportation is annexing properties along I-35 in Austin to make way for an expansion of the interstate. Here are some of the people and businesses being displaced:
placesjournal.org/article/along-a-path-of-impermanence-highway-displacement-austin-texas/
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Harry Wallop
2 months ago
Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s
@thetimes.com
about Tom Stoppard
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Richard Pettigrew
3 months ago
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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There are so many Zs in this story.
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3 months ago
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Huh…maybe Joyce Carol Oates was onto something here.
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3 months ago
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Saloni
3 months ago
Never before have I been as intrigued by a phrase as I was after reading the title "Inflatable space stations" Super cool new article by
@angadh.com
on how to create artificial gravity in space 🛞
worksinprogress.co/issue/inflat...
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Inflatable space stations - Works in Progress Magazine
If we ever want to live in space, we need to work out a way of creating artificial gravity.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/inflatable-space-stations/
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We’re hiring an Asst Prof of Instruction in Digital Humanities/Data Science with BSDS + English @UTAustin. Teach Python/R for Humanities, build DH projects, mentor capstones. Starts Fall 26. Repost & share widely. Apply by Dec 15, 2025:
apply.interfolio.com/175750
#DigitalHumanities
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https://apply.interfolio.com/175750
3 months ago
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This shortened title hits different these days
3 months ago
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Akela Cooper
3 months ago
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
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Julia Carrie Wong
3 months ago
There are no words for how evil this is
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James Martin, SJ
about 1 year ago
Jimmy Carter's advice to a young person. My nephew Matthew shared this letter with me yesterday. Five years ago, he wrote to all the living presidents and asked for advice on how to participate in public service. Only Jimmy Carter responded. A precis on how to live a life of service.
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Annalee Newitz
3 months ago
The problem with digital ID cards isn't what you think. Here's why Britain and other nations should stop pushing digital ID apps, right now. My latest for
@newscientist.com
, now free from the paywall!
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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Digital ID cards could be a disaster in the UK and beyond
The British government isn't the only one looking to introduce digital ID cards. There is so much to worry about here, not least the threat of hacks, says Annalee Newitz
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26835650-100-digital-id-cards-could-be-a-disaster-in-the-uk-and-beyond/
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We’re hiring an Asst Prof of Instruction in Digital Humanities/Data Science with BSDS + English @UTAustin. Teach Python/R for Humanities, build DH projects, mentor capstones. Starts Fall 26. Repost & share widely. Apply by Dec 15, 2025:
apply.interfolio.com/175750
#DigitalHumanities
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3 months ago
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Alina Stefanescu
4 months ago
"Through his mode of life...Diogenes exposes himself absolutely to domination, to murder. He can be crushed like a snail is crushed underfoot. He can be broken, reduced to pieces. He can be exiled and tortured. But he cannot be governed." Catherine Malabou on Diogenes. No notes.
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Matthew Noe
4 months ago
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Did a data center write this?
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4 months ago
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Anne Trubek
4 months ago
This is how you blurb
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eun song
4 months ago
you can get my book and so many others!!!!
www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics...
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Never lean back your seat on a plane.
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4 months ago
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FT
6 months ago
For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are. I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.
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n+1
4 months ago
The temptation to resign ourselves to resignation is never stronger than at a time of overlapping crises, and the AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/
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Of course one should jump into the novels, but this weird assemblage of excerpts isn’t a horrible way to dip into Krasznahorkai.
4 months ago
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The Guardian
4 months ago
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
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László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/09/laszlo-krasznahorkai-wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-2025?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Roland Meyer
4 months ago
So-called
#genAI
means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
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Fred Scharmen
4 months ago
Old people. Living in big cities. Afraid of the sky. -
@bruces.bsky.social
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4 months ago
Time to repost a classic.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/
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Charlie Warzel
4 months ago
feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak
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vijay iyer
5 months ago
“Instead of being enthralled by its wan superficiality, we would be better off looking beside and beneath it at the extractive project that machine learning serves in its expansion into humanistic research and education”
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Fewer Good Men
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Warrior Ethos
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Iris Meredith
5 months ago
Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:
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An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech
This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/essay_on_redacted
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MIT Press
5 months ago
"Rarely does an esolanger discover the most interesting possibilities of their language on their own; it is others’ experiments that reveal the nuance and character of a language." (The preface from
@dtemkin.bsky.social
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The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding
Esolangs, or esoteric programming languages, highlight the hidden metaphors and conventions that structure mainstream programming.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-hacker-folk-art-of-esoteric-coding/
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At best, AI is weighted dice…likely to land on expected sides, but not certain to do so.
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5 months ago
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It’s time to finally tackle it.
5 months ago
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The future
youtu.be/8WlbQRoz3o4?...
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Leonard Cohen - The Future (Official Live in London 2008)
YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO
https://youtu.be/8WlbQRoz3o4?si=91F9_o4ctGSIHnAx
8 months ago
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FT
5 months ago
Good morning! I’ve received so much support for my fundraiser already, and I’m so grateful. But unfortunately I can’t stop here if I want to stay. Repost/signal boost is greatly appreciated 🙏
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scott⚡️mccloud
5 months ago
Horrible news about Charlie Kirk. Violence ALWAYS benefits the worst forces in society, regardless of who the victim is. Only more hatred and oppression will grow out of this.
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