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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

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

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 5d

Trump offers universities funding in exchange for segregation. That’s the clearer way to talk about his “deal.“

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · 6d

The struggle is real

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah it’s very good

Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · 12d

This is part of what that doc No Other Land was about too - a thriving non violent civil disobedience movement in a small Palestinian town and it was ethnically cleansed

Stone Cold Skeet Austin @icequebe.bsky.social · 12d

There was the Great March of Return protest of 2018-2019. Peaceful resistance and what did they get for their troubles, shot in their lower extremities

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12d

also worthwhile to set the calls for peaceful resistance next to the insistence of the Israeli right and its regime allies on labeling just about all protest and dissent "terrorism" or "terrorist sympathizing" regardless of their actual tactics

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · 20d

"Canada’s “elbows up” plan for asserting sovereignty looks less like defending against American aggression and more like doubling down on the denial of Indigenous rights in the service of short-term economic gain."

canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Resisting Canada’s ‘elbows up’ colonialism

Canada’s new “elbows up” nationalism frames itself as resistance to Trump and US expansionism—but it risks recycling colonial myths. By glossing over the Mohawk Resistance and ongoing land theft, patr...

canadiandimension.com

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · 21d

Obamas now to the left of Jacobin on this

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · Sep 1

Miles O'Brien fan club assemble.

The image features Chief Miles O'Brien, a character from the Star Trek universe, specifically Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The quote, "He was more than a hero. He was a union man," is a popular meme referencing Chief O'Brien's character and his background.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · Sep 1

I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Wiping Out Unions. Why Are They So Quiet?

www.nytimes.com

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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · Aug 26

I wonder if any university admins have thought even a little bit about what it looks like to unleash LLM chatbots—as a university-purchased, -promoted, and -legitimized “educational” enterprise technology— on a student population in the grips of a well-documented college mental health crisis

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · Aug 16

Where from

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · Aug 14

Why is it always disco anyway?

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · Jul 27

Also the ability for a woman to push out a baby is the strongest superpower there is

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · Jul 26

Nice, thanks!

Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · Jul 26

Is there a recommended article somewhere about this? I see this claim made a lot but would like to read something on it

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · Jul 24

They're going to force us to use AI and then increase our workloads

Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · Jul 23

(3/3) Second, expanding auto production in the US is going to be based on Industry 4.0 - the digitalization of industry with smart factories and massive data processing - to expand automation and require fewer blue collar workers to increase labor productivity. Again, GM benefits from this.

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · Jul 23

First, private union density is still on the decline while Trump is going after the NLRB, not to mention attacks on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will further erode the dignity and quality of life for auto workers. GM benefits from these conditions, not workers. (2/3)

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · Jul 23

In response to Trump's auto tariffs GM is reshoring by spending $4 billion in expanding production at factories in Michigan, Kansas, and Tennessee. But this isn't going to produce a return to the glory days that MAGA envisions for a couple reasons: (1/3)

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

GM Profit Falls as Trump Tariffs Add $1.1 Billion in Costs

General Motors Co. said it suffered a $1.1 billion profit hit from Donald Trump’s tariffs and revealed no plan for a near-term fix to return to pre-tariff profit levels.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · Jul 20

On the other hand you could go for the record

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · Jul 10

Absurd- my sympathies

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · Jul 10

Look at the heaps of praise she’s poured on Whitmer for bending the knee to Trump or how she has no vision for higher ed beyond AI and now she’s saying she wants to be like Mamdani? Your time is over make room for the grassroots organizers who actually give a damn

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · Jul 10

Weingarten is a plague on modern labor and is representative of the centrist neoliberal democrats in the Party. She wants the victory of Mamdani but fundamentally opposes the DSAs grassroots organizing strategy which she totally ignores.

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

A Lesson for Democrats | Randi Weingarten, Daniel Drake

Last month Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, the country’s second-largest teachers union, stepped down from the

www.nybooks.com

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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · Jul 9

Btw I love this book and have recommended it to many people

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