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If you want a break from snow or ICE, I have a #longread in the current @harpers.bsky.social about a mystical drift through London. Includes Blake, Hawksmoor, the Sex Pistols, Derek Jarman, John Dee and conversations with Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair harpers.org/archive/2026...
Another London, by Hari Kunzru
Excavating the disenchanted city
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January 25, 2026 at 6:53 PM
If you want a break from snow or ICE, I have a #longread in the current @harpers.bsky.social about a mystical drift through London. Includes Blake, Hawksmoor, the Sex Pistols, Derek Jarman, John Dee and conversations with Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair harpers.org/archive/2026...
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"Donald J. Trump shall serve as inaugural Chairman of the Board of Peace... The Chairman shall at all times designate a successor for the role of Chairman."
So Don Jr will still be in charge even if Kamala Harris wins the presidency in a landslide in 2028.
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So Don Jr will still be in charge even if Kamala Harris wins the presidency in a landslide in 2028.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:21 PM
"Donald J. Trump shall serve as inaugural Chairman of the Board of Peace... The Chairman shall at all times designate a successor for the role of Chairman."
So Don Jr will still be in charge even if Kamala Harris wins the presidency in a landslide in 2028.
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So Don Jr will still be in charge even if Kamala Harris wins the presidency in a landslide in 2028.
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Masaki Fujihata on interactivity vs reactivity, 2008.
![E: The audience is a very important part of your work and I wonder again whether they are also a 'site of production', and by interacting they produce the piece. But, when the work isn't interactive, do they still provide this function?
M: I am strongly trying to question what is interactivity, between the pieces and with the visitor (and maybe I can say'participant' or'user' in this case). In the last 10 years people have been over using the buzz word 'interactive art. The term 'interactive comes from computer technology. The computer was so slow in the 70's when engineers first tried to add interactivity. At that time, an interactive terminal meant that when you typed a word, characters would appear on the screen. This was an interactive terminal! [laughs] but I should say this is 'reactive, it's a reaction from the computer. Even today, most of the interactive art showing is 99% reactive. The term "interactive" has a deeper meaning and can be used to describe public space, social areas, and social interaction. How we communicate, how we talk, and how we meet each other is interactive and of course when we see a painting or read a novel we interact with it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t6irrjbeuyw7qifywe37btc7/bafkreiffxlkfhih63pprfxve55pyets624o4wl4sflrgerx3mu5wt5tadm@jpeg)
January 16, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Masaki Fujihata on interactivity vs reactivity, 2008.
Complicated history here. My take (admittedly naive) has always been that Apple under Jobs (soon followed by FB) paywalled the open web by taking advantage of a genuine debate within the web standards movement about Flash and openness. The history of mobile Safari reveals some of this.
It is interesting on this 25th anniversary of Wikipedia to ponder: what factors of the blooming of the early Internet led to Linux and Wikipedia; why the mobile explosion didn’t lead to similar commons explosions; and whether the Claude Code moment is more 1991-2001 or 2007-2008.
And in the current moment (which is very different from the seed moments of Linux and Wikipedia) doing that community construction probably requires doing something that both (1) breaks through the noise but (2) performs a filtering function to keep a good ratio of contributors:hangers-on.
January 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Complicated history here. My take (admittedly naive) has always been that Apple under Jobs (soon followed by FB) paywalled the open web by taking advantage of a genuine debate within the web standards movement about Flash and openness. The history of mobile Safari reveals some of this.
I was obsessed with this game, which required the supercharger cassette accessory, in no small part due to its tendency to crash frequently and leave me wondering what I’d missed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons...
January 11, 2026 at 2:06 AM
I was obsessed with this game, which required the supercharger cassette accessory, in no small part due to its tendency to crash frequently and leave me wondering what I’d missed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons...
Don’t you dare retcon my floppies
January 11, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Don’t you dare retcon my floppies
Can’t not see “Dr Phil”
January 10, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Can’t not see “Dr Phil”
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AIER’s finest weighing in.
January 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM
AIER’s finest weighing in.
A nice illustration of one of the tenets of perspectivalism qua Nietzsche: the “sum” of all perspectives is not Truth but yet another perspective. If you assume the former you’re doing it wrong.
The forensic promise of networked images was: the more digital footage there is of an event, the more reliably that event can be reconstructed. Methodologically, this still seems true. Politically, however, the opposite seems to be the case: the more images, the more competing versions of reality
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January 10, 2026 at 2:12 PM
A nice illustration of one of the tenets of perspectivalism qua Nietzsche: the “sum” of all perspectives is not Truth but yet another perspective. If you assume the former you’re doing it wrong.
The more you read about “consciousness” these days (in English, at least) the more you notice the absence of “desire”. Do they take the role of unconscious desire seriously? The phenomenological and psychoanalytic traditions are almost completely ignored.
January 10, 2026 at 1:56 PM
The more you read about “consciousness” these days (in English, at least) the more you notice the absence of “desire”. Do they take the role of unconscious desire seriously? The phenomenological and psychoanalytic traditions are almost completely ignored.
“lived experience” is a knotty phrase. What would non-lived experience be? Or lived non-experience?
January 10, 2026 at 1:52 PM
“lived experience” is a knotty phrase. What would non-lived experience be? Or lived non-experience?
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ladies, it's ok because only paying subscribers can make/distribute deepfake porn of you and your children now www.ft.com/content/c24d...
Elon Musk’s xAI restricts Grok after outcry over sexualised images
Start-up limits use of image generation system to paid users following spread of deepfakes and child sex abuse material
www.ft.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:36 AM
ladies, it's ok because only paying subscribers can make/distribute deepfake porn of you and your children now www.ft.com/content/c24d...
Wow. there’s a lot going on here.
January 8, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Wow. there’s a lot going on here.
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SCOOP: 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work.
One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 2:10 PM
SCOOP: 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work.
One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
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claude code is fucking insane
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
January 5, 2026 at 6:49 PM
claude code is fucking insane
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
“Ineffability” has been getting dumped on a lot here of late -- somewhat uncritically imo — but it has its respected defenders. Here’s Schrödinger:
December 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
“Ineffability” has been getting dumped on a lot here of late -- somewhat uncritically imo — but it has its respected defenders. Here’s Schrödinger:
Whence this treatment of the summary as a mere window into the essence of the “summarized” text? We don’t treat sources this way in academic writing. AI produces a source about a source about something in the field. So now you have 2 sources instead of one. This saves time?
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Whence this treatment of the summary as a mere window into the essence of the “summarized” text? We don’t treat sources this way in academic writing. AI produces a source about a source about something in the field. So now you have 2 sources instead of one. This saves time?
Shorter Stiegler: Algorithmic personalization is entropic
December 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Shorter Stiegler: Algorithmic personalization is entropic
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Th first person to teach African America studies here was WEB Du Bois (1948). John Cage was on the faculty (1956-1960). Martha Graham taught and workshopped here for many years, in a studio that's still in the basement at 66 w12th st. I want us to be a home for their c21 inheritors.
December 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Th first person to teach African America studies here was WEB Du Bois (1948). John Cage was on the faculty (1956-1960). Martha Graham taught and workshopped here for many years, in a studio that's still in the basement at 66 w12th st. I want us to be a home for their c21 inheritors.
Possibly fruitful path for future research from B. Stiegler: “… the process of transindividuation is one of the concepts absent from Saussure’s structural linguistics: this absence will block its development, to the great detriment of generative grammar.”
December 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Possibly fruitful path for future research from B. Stiegler: “… the process of transindividuation is one of the concepts absent from Saussure’s structural linguistics: this absence will block its development, to the great detriment of generative grammar.”
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If you're staff, faculty, grad or undergrad student, alumni, or other community member of any UNC system school, please send Peter Hans a letter opposing the mandatory public release of syllabi.
First amendment & academic freedoms aside, this policy could actively endanger instructors of record.
First amendment & academic freedoms aside, this policy could actively endanger instructors of record.
Oppose the Public Release of Syllabi!
On Wednesday, December 17th, members of AAUP NC from across the state met with UNC system President Peter Hans to discuss our concerns over the proposed syllabi release policy. This meeting is a direc...
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December 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
If you're staff, faculty, grad or undergrad student, alumni, or other community member of any UNC system school, please send Peter Hans a letter opposing the mandatory public release of syllabi.
First amendment & academic freedoms aside, this policy could actively endanger instructors of record.
First amendment & academic freedoms aside, this policy could actively endanger instructors of record.