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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 8d

Boston area friends and colleagues! I will be at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social tomorrow (Wed 10/1) in conversation with @bentarnoff.com at 7 pm.

All info here: brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-1...

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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · 10d

If you're in the Boston area, come see me quiz @triofrancos.bsky.social about her new book EXTRACTION in Brookline on Wednesday brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-1...

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 13d

Morning walk

Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo

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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 20d

Pretty sure the civil rights act of 1964 polls better than every single living democratic politician and some good dead ones. The idea that you’d give up that advantage, that you’d betray CENTURIES of work by a multiracial coalition of Americans, to prove how much you like Charlie Kirk, is insane.

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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 20d

The idea that “the civil rights act was a mistake” is a mainstream conservative position we can only tolerate but “defund the police” is a great cancer that must be excised from America for Democrats to win is the actual reason Democrats lose. Sorry.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21d

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Paul Laity @paullaity.bsky.social · 22d

'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Laity · After Martha

For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Sep 9

woke up this morning thinking about this

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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · Sep 9

Looking forward to reading!

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · Sep 8

EXTRACTION is hitting the road this fall. Thrilled to be in conversation with @dharna.bsky.social @bentarnoff.com @dwallacewells.bsky.social @earthworks.bsky.social and others.

Stay tuned for more events in the winter and spring! @wwnorton.com

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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · Aug 24

I could see "abolish the mobile web" as a demand that gets some traction over the next decade or so

Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · Aug 21

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · Aug 14

Every day offers further evidence for my pet theory that "AOL Anticipated Everything." Someday I will be permitted to write a book on this topic

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hundreds of billions of dollars to automate the experience of being groomed in an AOL chat room in 1998

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Aug 14

New reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, who got hold of internal standards for chatbot behavior at Meta.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · Aug 10

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate.

A three-panel composite from the movie HACKERS, the coolest movie.
Dade Murphy: I got a record! I was 'Zero Cool'!
Paul Cook: Zero Cool? Crashed fifteen hundred and seven computers in one day? Biggest crash in history, front page New York Times August 10th, 1988.

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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · Aug 6

Coming March 2026

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Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social · Jul 22

I put my “dating historian” hat back on to write about a good movie about bad men, now out in a new edition from @criterion.bsky.social www.criterion.com/current/post...

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Linda Huber @puellaludens.bsky.social · Jul 23

Very excited to share this workshop I'm helping to host on August 19: "From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing"
tech-organizing-reflections.github.io

a simple, dark green flier with a bold, white text header:
From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing

The flier includes the following text and details:
Hybrid Workshop @ Aarhus - Tuesday August 19, 8:30–11:30 am EST / 2:30–5:30 pm CEST
Computing is a field plagued with presentism, oriented towards the new in ways that limit our design and research practices - as well as our capacity to understand and collectively respond to emerging crises. To improve our sensemaking and strategizing about today's crises, this workshop explores what Tamara Kneese has deemed the last decade's shift from "techlash" to "tech fash". What have we learned from the era of misinformation and bias, of "surveillance capitalism" and tech worker organizing that can inform our struggle against the increasing power of a techno-fascist oligarchy? We will also look towards previous generations of computing professionals and activists, who likewise sought to address the harms of emerging automated systems and the complicity of computing within violent, imperialist projects. This workshop will create space for participants to explore these questions collectively, bridging past and present moments in an effort to devise strategies moving forward.

RSVP by Aug 12 https://tech-organizing-reflections.github.io/

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · Jul 24

The government of Israel is exterminating every man, woman and child in Gaza. And our governments, and most leaders of liberal institutions in "the West" - parties both left and right, the press, universities - are doing all they can to support this. This is the central political fact of our time.

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Alice Speri @alicesperi.bsky.social · Jul 22

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication.

My latest.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication

As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Jul 21

Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years.

“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Jul 11

Wow — New Gallup poll:

— Trump approval on immigration: 35-62 (!)

— Record high approval of immigration (79-17 overall)

— 78% of people support a pathway to citizenship (+8 from 2024); only 38% support mass deportation (-9 from 2024)

— 30% want a decrease in immigration (-25 from 2024)

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨 My next book, EXTRACTION: THE FRONTIERS OF GREEN CAPITALISM is out 9/23 with @wwnorton.com

Today and tomorrow, you can pre-order it at 25% off 😊 Use code PREORDER25 at www.barnesandnoble.com/w/extraction...

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · Jul 7

A Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds that Mamdani's proposals (freezing rent, free universal child care, taxes on the rich) are overwhelmingly popular, especially among Democrats – and that's nationally, not just in deep-blue NYC. www.yahoo.com/news/poll-zo...

A chart titled "Most Americans approve of Zohran Mamdani's proposals to lower the cost of living"

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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · Jul 1

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jun 29

Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Jun 29

Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jun 25

Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies

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