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Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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January 10, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
"Today, the aim is to prevent the world from turning into a den of thieves, where the most unscrupulous take what they want" — German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier
January 9, 2026 at 3:30 PM
"Today, the aim is to prevent the world from turning into a den of thieves, where the most unscrupulous take what they want" — German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier
"But this rough magic I here abjure . . . I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book"
The Tempest (Act 5, Scene 1)
The Tempest (Act 5, Scene 1)
January 6, 2026 at 12:01 AM
"But this rough magic I here abjure . . . I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book"
The Tempest (Act 5, Scene 1)
The Tempest (Act 5, Scene 1)
2025 Reading Log: Finished multiyear reading projects of all the Hardy, Scott, Turgenev,and Zola novels. Other highlights: Caroline Blackwood, Leonard Gardner, Han Kang, Walter Kempowski, Benjamin Labatut, Curzio Malaparte, Hilary Mantel, Anthony Trollope.
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2025 Reading Log: Finished multiyear reading projects of all the Hardy, Scott, Turgenev,and Zola novels. Other highlights: Caroline Blackwood, Leonard Gardner, Han Kang, Walter Kempowski, Benjamin Labatut, Curzio Malaparte, Hilary Mantel, Anthony Trollope.
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“Who cares? Who cares what it even means?” The ruthless app creator Tindra Bergstrand in THE BOOK OF LAMPS AND BANNERS on being told she is misconstruing Jean-Paul Sartre. “Everything is code. No more words.”
December 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“Who cares? Who cares what it even means?” The ruthless app creator Tindra Bergstrand in THE BOOK OF LAMPS AND BANNERS on being told she is misconstruing Jean-Paul Sartre. “Everything is code. No more words.”
In Elizabeth Hand’s THE BOOK OF LAMPS AND BANNERS, digital apps have a lobotimizing effect, burning holes in memory and volition. The Ludis Mentis — “mind-game” —app’s developer is a wealthy doppelgänger for punk photographer Cass Neary, but has digitally excised her own trauma.
December 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
In Elizabeth Hand’s THE BOOK OF LAMPS AND BANNERS, digital apps have a lobotimizing effect, burning holes in memory and volition. The Ludis Mentis — “mind-game” —app’s developer is a wealthy doppelgänger for punk photographer Cass Neary, but has digitally excised her own trauma.
“She thrust the mobile at me again and now it’s screen reflected my own face. ‘You see how it all ties in? The way we’re all sucked in by this? We can’t look away, none of us, no matter how hard we try . . . ’” — the centripetal force of the digital in THE BOOK OF LAMPS AND BANNERS
December 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“She thrust the mobile at me again and now it’s screen reflected my own face. ‘You see how it all ties in? The way we’re all sucked in by this? We can’t look away, none of us, no matter how hard we try . . . ’” — the centripetal force of the digital in THE BOOK OF LAMPS AND BANNERS
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"A Wish for Unconsciousness" -- Thomas Hardy biblioklept.org/2025/12/28/a...
“A Wish for Unconsciousness” — Thomas Hardy
“A Wish for Unconsciousness” by Thomas Hardy If I could but abide As a tablet on a wall, Or a hillock daisy-pied, Or a picture in a hall, And as nothing else at all, I should feel no do…
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Whiteout conditions up north, with 40mph wind gusts driving the 6” of new snow that has fallen since noon. Reading the last (for now) of Elizabeth Hand’s Cass Neary novels, THE BOOK OF LAMPS AND BANNERS which leaves behind gritty analog realism for digital necromancy.
December 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Whiteout conditions up north, with 40mph wind gusts driving the 6” of new snow that has fallen since noon. Reading the last (for now) of Elizabeth Hand’s Cass Neary novels, THE BOOK OF LAMPS AND BANNERS which leaves behind gritty analog realism for digital necromancy.
“History’s what people are trying to hide from you, not what they’re trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through a landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.” Hilary Mantel, GIVING UP THE GHOST
December 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“History’s what people are trying to hide from you, not what they’re trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through a landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.” Hilary Mantel, GIVING UP THE GHOST
“For I imagine the devil, when he goes to walk in the world, spruces himself in his dressing room . . . I imagine how he sleeks his rough fur with baby fat, polishes his teeth with ground bones, and swills his mouth with blood.” Hilary Mantel, GIVING UP THE GHOST
December 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
“For I imagine the devil, when he goes to walk in the world, spruces himself in his dressing room . . . I imagine how he sleeks his rough fur with baby fat, polishes his teeth with ground bones, and swills his mouth with blood.” Hilary Mantel, GIVING UP THE GHOST
The amorphously tangible presence of the devil in Hilary Mantel’s GIVING UP THE GHOST: “I cannot wrench my gaze away. . . . I beg it, stay away, stay away. Within the space of a thought it is inside me, and has set up a sick resonance within my bones and in all the cavities of my body.”
December 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The amorphously tangible presence of the devil in Hilary Mantel’s GIVING UP THE GHOST: “I cannot wrench my gaze away. . . . I beg it, stay away, stay away. Within the space of a thought it is inside me, and has set up a sick resonance within my bones and in all the cavities of my body.”
“Words are a blur to me; a moth’s wing, flirting about the lamp of meaning. My own thoughts go at a different speed from that of human conversation, about two and a half times as fast, so I am always scrambling backwards.” Hilary Mantel, GIVING UP THE GHOST
December 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
“Words are a blur to me; a moth’s wing, flirting about the lamp of meaning. My own thoughts go at a different speed from that of human conversation, about two and a half times as fast, so I am always scrambling backwards.” Hilary Mantel, GIVING UP THE GHOST
“One of my difficulties was that I had not understood that school was compulsory. I thought you could just give it a try and that if you didn’t like it you were free to revert to your former habits” — the precocious Hilary Mantel reaches school age in her memoir GIVING UP THE GHOST
December 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“One of my difficulties was that I had not understood that school was compulsory. I thought you could just give it a try and that if you didn’t like it you were free to revert to your former habits” — the precocious Hilary Mantel reaches school age in her memoir GIVING UP THE GHOST
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Physical copies of our Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities book (newest volume in Debates in DH series) arrived today just in time for the holidays! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Physical copies of our Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities book (newest volume in Debates in DH series) arrived today just in time for the holidays! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social
In C.H.B. Kitchin’s THE SENSITIVE ONE, the dour spinster aunt Margaret observes a gloomy family funeral with quiet satisfaction, even longing, silently intoning to herself: “One funeral makes many.”
December 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In C.H.B. Kitchin’s THE SENSITIVE ONE, the dour spinster aunt Margaret observes a gloomy family funeral with quiet satisfaction, even longing, silently intoning to herself: “One funeral makes many.”
“One by one, the bees fly from the old hive.”
Reading C.H.B. Kitchin’s THE SENSITIVE ONE (1931), in which a multitudinous family dwindles as its iron-willed patriarch loses his grip on life, even as he possessively tallies his current brood’s combined lifespans at 597 years.
Reading C.H.B. Kitchin’s THE SENSITIVE ONE (1931), in which a multitudinous family dwindles as its iron-willed patriarch loses his grip on life, even as he possessively tallies his current brood’s combined lifespans at 597 years.
December 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“One by one, the bees fly from the old hive.”
Reading C.H.B. Kitchin’s THE SENSITIVE ONE (1931), in which a multitudinous family dwindles as its iron-willed patriarch loses his grip on life, even as he possessively tallies his current brood’s combined lifespans at 597 years.
Reading C.H.B. Kitchin’s THE SENSITIVE ONE (1931), in which a multitudinous family dwindles as its iron-willed patriarch loses his grip on life, even as he possessively tallies his current brood’s combined lifespans at 597 years.
The chief villain of THE LUMINOUS FAIRIES AND MOTHRA is the Rosilican (Russian/American) P.R. man Nelson. Glimpsing the tiny luminous girl singers on the nuclear test site Infant Island, he grabs the chance to cage them and put them to work as a glitzy entertainment act in Tokyo and “New Wheel City”
December 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The chief villain of THE LUMINOUS FAIRIES AND MOTHRA is the Rosilican (Russian/American) P.R. man Nelson. Glimpsing the tiny luminous girl singers on the nuclear test site Infant Island, he grabs the chance to cage them and put them to work as a glitzy entertainment act in Tokyo and “New Wheel City”
Mothra nears landfall: “Mothra had grown extremely quickly. Perhaps grown wasn’t exactly the right word; it had transformed into an enormous creature. . . . In its strange groans and moans, there seemed to be some hint of melancholy.” THE LUMINOUS FAIRIES AND MOTHRA
December 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Mothra nears landfall: “Mothra had grown extremely quickly. Perhaps grown wasn’t exactly the right word; it had transformed into an enormous creature. . . . In its strange groans and moans, there seemed to be some hint of melancholy.” THE LUMINOUS FAIRIES AND MOTHRA
Mothra, still in larval form, appears in the ocean, headed toward Tokyo Bay: “It wasn’t long before it came into the ship’s field of vision. It was an astounding yet perplexing sight — it looked like a series of low hills covered with snow.” Nakamura, et al., THE LUMINOUS FAIRIES AND MOTHRA
December 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Mothra, still in larval form, appears in the ocean, headed toward Tokyo Bay: “It wasn’t long before it came into the ship’s field of vision. It was an astounding yet perplexing sight — it looked like a series of low hills covered with snow.” Nakamura, et al., THE LUMINOUS FAIRIES AND MOTHRA
Spending a frigid Saturday with Jeffrey Angles’ lively translations of the original Mothra stories, a follow-up to his Godzilla volume. The fierce “GRAAWRR!!” of the lizard-like kaiju here becomes the plaintive chant, “mo ..… th .…. ra” of the tiny shobiji (luminous fairies).
December 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Spending a frigid Saturday with Jeffrey Angles’ lively translations of the original Mothra stories, a follow-up to his Godzilla volume. The fierce “GRAAWRR!!” of the lizard-like kaiju here becomes the plaintive chant, “mo ..… th .…. ra” of the tiny shobiji (luminous fairies).
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Sean Sherman: “Food systems don’t lie. Restaurants are like canaries in a coal mine, and the whistle is blowing. The danger is here and real.”
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December 19, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Sean Sherman: “Food systems don’t lie. Restaurants are like canaries in a coal mine, and the whistle is blowing. The danger is here and real.”
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Reading the final chapters of Walter Scott’s last major work, COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS (1831), an ensorcellment narrative set in the Byzantine empire. Scott suffered multiple strokes while writing it, and it’s hard not to see a kind of cerebral self-portrait in its shadowy spaces and convoluted plot.
December 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Reading the final chapters of Walter Scott’s last major work, COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS (1831), an ensorcellment narrative set in the Byzantine empire. Scott suffered multiple strokes while writing it, and it’s hard not to see a kind of cerebral self-portrait in its shadowy spaces and convoluted plot.
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thoroughly recommend this brilliant book by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social it’s a short read (and the link has the online text) with good stuff on fascism and myth, whiteness and sci-fi, fascism and time, etc 🗃️ manifold.umn.edu/projects/spe...
December 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
thoroughly recommend this brilliant book by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social it’s a short read (and the link has the online text) with good stuff on fascism and myth, whiteness and sci-fi, fascism and time, etc 🗃️ manifold.umn.edu/projects/spe...
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