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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.”
Whew, this was good.
Whew, this was good.
YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.”
Whew, this was good.
Whew, this was good.
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There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
September 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
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I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
July 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
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“For me, it is hard to separate the explosions lighting our night sky from over 600 days of explosions, also funded by our tax dollars, setting alight universities, hospitals, tents, and children in Gaza.”
www.commondreams.org/opinion/4th-...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/4th-...
What to the Arab-American and the Child of Immigrants Is the Fourth of July? | Common Dreams
For me, it is hard to separate the explosions lighting our night sky from over 600 days of explosions, also funded by our tax dollars, setting alight universities, hospitals, tents, and children in Ga...
www.commondreams.org
July 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“For me, it is hard to separate the explosions lighting our night sky from over 600 days of explosions, also funded by our tax dollars, setting alight universities, hospitals, tents, and children in Gaza.”
www.commondreams.org/opinion/4th-...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/4th-...
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Free ebooks from @haymarketbooks.org, including Border and Rule by @harshawalia.bsky.social, which is one of the most important books I've ever read. Download and read, fam.
Another world is possible if we fight for it.
FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...
www.haymarketbooks.org
June 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Free ebooks from @haymarketbooks.org, including Border and Rule by @harshawalia.bsky.social, which is one of the most important books I've ever read. Download and read, fam.
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Good morning to everyone else who only realized as grown adults that u had been lied to as a kid and actually no, children cannot fight "with" their parents
Because of how power dynamics work
Anyhow, let's read a whole bunch of headlines about cops "clashing" with protesters
Because of how power dynamics work
Anyhow, let's read a whole bunch of headlines about cops "clashing" with protesters
June 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Good morning to everyone else who only realized as grown adults that u had been lied to as a kid and actually no, children cannot fight "with" their parents
Because of how power dynamics work
Anyhow, let's read a whole bunch of headlines about cops "clashing" with protesters
Because of how power dynamics work
Anyhow, let's read a whole bunch of headlines about cops "clashing" with protesters
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It's hard to explain to people outside this fight that Texas is currently trying to ban kids from using public libraries... but they are; it's passed out of committee, and it's going to a floor vote.
🚨If you know ANYONE in Texas it's time for them to call their reps and demand NO ON HB3225🚨
🚨If you know ANYONE in Texas it's time for them to call their reps and demand NO ON HB3225🚨
Bad. Despite the voucher debate, the Tx State Affairs committee met and voted FOR HB3225. This bill would require public libraries to have age restrictions and cordone off parts of the library as inaccessible to teens. @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social @everylibrary.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
It's hard to explain to people outside this fight that Texas is currently trying to ban kids from using public libraries... but they are; it's passed out of committee, and it's going to a floor vote.
🚨If you know ANYONE in Texas it's time for them to call their reps and demand NO ON HB3225🚨
🚨If you know ANYONE in Texas it's time for them to call their reps and demand NO ON HB3225🚨
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For his next EO, he will announce his Orange Card program to fast track you through the incarceration process.
February 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
For his next EO, he will announce his Orange Card program to fast track you through the incarceration process.
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Trayvon Benjamin Martin.
Today he would have been 30.
Today he would have been 30.
February 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Trayvon Benjamin Martin.
Today he would have been 30.
Today he would have been 30.
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Netanyahu has the sort of pleased look you’d expect if you successfully helped another country get taken over by Nazis to make it easier for you to kill refugees.
DOOCY: Would Palestinians have the right to return to Gaza if they left during the rebuilding?
TRUMP: It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn't want to return
(A reporter can be heard yelling, "It's their home, sir!")
TRUMP: It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn't want to return
(A reporter can be heard yelling, "It's their home, sir!")
February 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Netanyahu has the sort of pleased look you’d expect if you successfully helped another country get taken over by Nazis to make it easier for you to kill refugees.
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Jongsook Kim, from “Artificial Landscapes”, 2012
January 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Jongsook Kim, from “Artificial Landscapes”, 2012
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Seems like a good day to recommend re-reading Umberto Eco on Fascism and the obligation to oppose it in all its forms: www.nybooks.com/articles/199...
Ur-Fascism | Umberto Eco
I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contra...
www.nybooks.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Seems like a good day to recommend re-reading Umberto Eco on Fascism and the obligation to oppose it in all its forms: www.nybooks.com/articles/199...