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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 5d

Billionaire-owned “philosopher” Benjamin Bratton finally coming out as full technofash in this declaration of alliance with JD Vance & a16z — here’s his scathing rejection of those who “stand in the way” of corporate AI agendas nobody wants. www.noemamag.com/is-european-...

Is European AI A Lost Cause? Not Necessarily. | NOEMA

If Europe wants to build a new AI Stack it should stop listening to critics who claim to lead the way but only offer resistance.

www.noemamag.com

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galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · 6d

talk/essay idea: unpack all the missed encounters between authors... jameson not writing about kittler, derrida not writing about badiou, malabou (mostly) not writing about deleuze, etc..

galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · 6d

crits in painting/fine art. and it's not even close.

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galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · 7d

counterpoint: *all* LLMs are revanchist by definition

Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 7d

A data point to mull as you wonder whether it's impossible to build "a conservative LLM": we definitely can train a language model on pre-1920 text that will defend the British Empire, condescend to childlike native people, recommend radium therapy and eugenics as SOTA medicine, &c.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 15d

In his playful collection "Forty-Four Esolangs," Daniel Temkin (@dtemkin.bsky.social) challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255308...

A copy of "Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code" by Daniel Temkin. The cover features an image of a blue sky with clouds with various vertical colorful stripes overlaid across it.

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galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · 21d

trump admin: we demand more conservatives be added to college curriculum

me: *adds Bruno Latour to syllabus*

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galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · Aug 31

i mean LL is the only real artist of all those four what are we even talking about (exceptions made for erin brockovich)

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galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · Jul 31

would teach in a faraday cage if i could

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galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · Jul 29

remembering how you once told me that inside every 500 page book there is a 100 page book

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galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · Jul 25

When he slept, Argus would close his eyes only in rotation. Even if several dozen eyes were sleeping, at any given moment there were enough vigilant ones to keep watch. that makes a bit of sense in the context of this passage -- but i agree with you that "des Argus" is a stretch

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galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · Jul 25

this is correct. in marx, cyclopean = large-scale machinery.

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Jenny Rhee @jsrhee.bsky.social · May 8

Informatics of Domination is out with @dukepress.bsky.social! I co-edited this experimental collection with Zach Blas + @melodyjue.bsky.social across years + countless zoom chats. I remain stunned by the brilliance of our 50 contributors: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

Informatics of Domination

Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriar

read.dukeupress.edu

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galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · May 7

...AND is build from stolen intellectual property

galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · May 4

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Apr 28

Devastated to learn of the tragic and untimely passing of Joshua Clover. His revolutionary intelligence and conviction (and great sense of humor) will be missed.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2016/07/the-...

The Modality of Necessity: On Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot

www.unemployednegativity.com

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galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · Apr 20

healthy reading and sick reading - or how your illness also means you're a narcissist lol

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nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Apr 20

as columbia still refuses to say the names of its abducted students and accepts Trump's narrative about antisemitism on campus, i'm happy to bring this counter-narrative to campus. tomorrow night if no one shuts it down:

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galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · Apr 20

especially important since the second theft is the narrative peak of the film

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · Apr 13

it’s actually hilarious that Habermas called Bataille, Foucault and Derrida “young conservatives” in 1980

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Apr 4

all faculty and eligible university workers should pile into AAUP

AAUP @aaup.org · Apr 4

DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵

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galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · Apr 2

the key being that code is essentially deductive/procedural whereas current gen AI is inductive/emergent. hence two different senses of law: axiomatic vs vernacular

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galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · Mar 17

reading Barchester Towers rn. he's so great.

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galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social · Mar 13

wow didn't know this was in the works.. big congrats <3

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