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bruit.bsky.social
E z r a
@bruit.bsky.social
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* /\ * //\\ * * ///\\\ * ////\\\\\ lll sephardic librarian / archivist / researcher / artist on six nations lands i study technology, techno and tech no
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bruit.bsky.social
E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 3h
i already do this? i would be glad to have the researchers I study there with me while i eat hot wings, which I already do
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E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 3h
i would do this
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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 3h
citation is @unbreaking.org's love language
shannonmattern.bsky.social Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3h
One thing I’ve observed in recent wks: it’s important, even for public-facing political education — re: democratic process, civic institutions, etc — to *cite your sources*; citation is a political practice and it acknwldges the value of the resources your work builds upon, + which need support too!
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bruit.bsky.social
E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 3h
Loooooove to see joshua light in there, was not expecting it
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 6h
"This book is a reaction to frictionlessness AI, which operates in a space of pure wish fulfillment, outside of history and context.... Letterforms are all around us as we move through the world, providing a comforting and reliable index. And it’s easier to understand their history through play."
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jetjocko.bsky.social
Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 22h
My middle school had a fully kitted out print shop because I am old enough to remember when California public schools were well-funded.
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bruit.bsky.social
E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 3h
www.journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl...
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lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 6h
"The digital image is dead, long live whatever fluid vessel has taken its place this week." @robarcand.bsky.social reviews Hito Steyerl’s new collection, "Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-network-of-global-incinerators/
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bruit.bsky.social
E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 3h
Have you ran into jesse shera's and hawrik's "diagram is the message" essay before? It's good
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 6h
we've got you covered, assignments, short readings, syllabus language, o captain speeches, the works! against-a-i.com
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d
Here's an issue from the Purdue Univ. student paper, The Exponent, dealing with the IU censorship of their student paper. Purdue put it in IU news boxes. (Purdue & IU are normally huge sports rivals.)

Download link: www.purdueexponent.org/frontpdf/lat...
Page 1, The Exponent WE STUDENT JOURNALISTS MUST STAND TOGETHER graphic of hands holding each other's wrists Red, Black, Yellow and White background is shredded newsprint
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bruit.bsky.social
E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 20h
I wish protests took more than space and time
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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 23h
this is exactly the sort of thing I had in mind
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Saralegal @saralegal.bsky.social · 23h
Small correction: The Exponent *offered* to print the banned issue, but the IDS students were afraid that would get them punished/sanctioned. So instead, the issue that The Exponent printed and delivered is a new, special solidarity issue co-written by students from both presses!
Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus
The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.
www.heraldtimesonline.com
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vortexegg.com
𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 20h
Fascinating. So this is like corporate sabotage of the web as a functional marketplace for other businesses to do business on top of, right?
Other key findings from the report revealed: • Meta's Al bots alone generate 52% of Al crawler traffic, which is more than double that of Google (23%) or OpenAl (20%). • Sectors facing the highest levels of scraping for training Al models include high-tech, commerce, and media & entertainment. • ChatGPT generates the most real-time traffic to websites, with 98% of fetcher bots requests attributable to OpenAl's bots.
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bruit.bsky.social
E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 22h
Clearly i am discussing a1 steak sauce
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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · Sep 5
If you think technology will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you probably don't understand your problems either.
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bruit.bsky.social
E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 22h
Do you ever think about how good allison crutchfield has always been
bruit.bsky.social
E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 23h
that mechanically prevent people from having to chose between dying and expropriating landlords. the latter is frankly too much work
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E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 23h
between the luddites and the clanker-haters we've gotten fast fashion and faster content. the problem is still the same though: are we gonna keep selling each other garbage so the same old white guys eat steaks in bunker-mansions, or are we gonna build systems
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E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 23h
clearly computers didn't reduce drudgery (for librarians, or for the wider working class they are part of). This is the classic dynamic of increasing access increases production / consumption, even if the quality of the traded good suffers deeply.
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E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 23h
a shift to a new level of magnitude. It reminds me of this somewhat niche librarian's discourse in the late 60s:
In its initial manifestations automation was received by librarians with little more serious attention than if it had been the scientific fantasy of a Rube Goldberg or a Buck Rogers. But Robert Maynard Hutchins is right when he states in a recent syndicated column that the computer cannot be treated as though it were just another invention, whereas it cannot be compared with any mechanical device in history. It adds a new dimension to the powers of man and to human life. To suppose that so fundamental a change can leave the economic system (and, one might add, librarianship) virtually untouched is to ignore the radical nature of the new instrument that mankind now has at its disposal. I believe that whenever the computer establishes itself-and it is rapidly doing so everywhere—it will eventually reduce labor as we have understood it and may 22 reduce it almost to the vanishing point. The impact of this new mechanism on a branch of organized human activity that is aspiring to professional prestige, then, is worthy of serious thought. Marshall McLuhan, who welcomes rather than fears or criticizes tech¬ nological change, holds that, on the evidence of technology’s past encounters with human society, cultures are shaped more by the media through which men communicate than by the content of their communication. Along with the historian Harold Innis and most cultural anthropologists and students of evolution, McLuhan believes that it was the invention of hand tools and spoken language that differentiated man from the beasts and that these innovations led to the development of the human brain as distinct from the brain of all other species.
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E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 23h
there was an article going around talking about how workers wanted a1 to be treated just like any other technology, i've been thinking about it all afternoon. In a sense, yes, it's just the latest episode in the alliance between states and industrial capital. In another, though, it does represent...
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bruit.bsky.social
E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 23h
let's goooooooo make those presses roar fam
gabriellehecht.bsky.social Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 1d
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 1d
Alex’s opening. As artist-in-residence with the Dept of Homeless Services, Alex took inspiration from shelter logs, conducted workshops with residents, invited them to journal their experiences, then worked with the Dept of Transportation’s sign shop to transform those letters into installations
Alex speaking before a crowd in an NYC Park Tuesday, September 12, 2023 3: 31pm My name IS briand I am an musical artist, Entrepreneur Ive been in and out of the shelter a few times. Mostly famiy shelters and every time I found myself in that situation I learned a new lesson. Though I am tired of going through this process. I do belieur I am here for a reason. Ive seen Deople Judge others for being in a shelter including myself. But prople don't Knou that they can be In this same situation in a blink of an eye. People think because we go through the shelter because we broke or don't know how to keep up with nice things. Iruth Is I beleve we go through this to help us; whether its to humble us, Take us out of Domestic Violence, Nater aamage or fire damage. Bad living conditions Yany different reason. I hate how quick peopl are $0 judge. I tal to people ream their Stories I learn without going through ther Situation atso. this shelter 1s a step. Some people cant even get into a shelter and haur to be homeless. The shelter can't stop anyhng yore destine to be or brome, I was in the shelter for most of m high school 3 years to be exact but that never stoppe yrars. me from graduating on fime. I pushed through for everything I wanted. A Strong mindset Soul can't break easily. Putting God Hrst and belleving in him. Behevong in youself no matter how many times you break down, feel lost, or just Sometimes wanna give up. I've been there so many times all those feelings: You can't break or give up. This 18nt the end. If you ever find youself in this Sitvation Just knows the is only apart of your sitt Abril 11 del 2025 Hola mi nomboe es Roxy, soy madre de dos hesmosas niñas, somos de Ecuador y venimos huyendo de revestra tierra que esta llena de peliquas, con una maletas llenas de Sueños y esperanza emos llegado hasta aquí, solo buscamos Hemos pasado por tunto peligro en el camino que solo queremo tener ana vida tranquila corazón de todas esas personas que quitren sacanos de aque creemos que no es justo recibir to maldad sin que nos des hu oportunido Tuesday Vuty 25, 2023 12:37 PM Hi, my name is Alexander. L consid made be fourself and survive being un housed. I'm in one of the safest
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