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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 14h

For a political-theoretical lens: www.pennpress.org/978081225274...

Artificial Life After Frankenstein – Penn Press

Artificial Life After Frankenstein brings the insights born of Mary Shelley's legacy to bear upon the ethics and politics of making artificial life and intel...

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

I love this.

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 1d

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

also do u want to write a business book with me called Up The Slide

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Lucy the other day a mom tried to gossip with me about how this one kid was allowed to go up the slide and it was. my kid

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 5d

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Jane Goodall’s Second-Greatest Talent

She knew how to wield her fame to protect the animals she loved.

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 8d

Yessss @patrickcottrell.bsky.social!!!!

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Patrick Cottrell's 'Afternoon Hours of a Hermit' Is a 'Hilarious and Heart-Wrenching' Whodunnit — See the Cover (Exclusive)

'Afternoon Hours of a Hermit' sees a man unexpectedly thrust back into the question surrounding his late brother's death. Seeking answers, the man returns to his childhood home, where he reckons with ...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

"A literature which is made by machines, which are owned by corporations, which are run by sociopaths, can only be a “stereotype” — a simplification, a facsimile, an insult, a fake — of real literature. It should be smashed, and can." -- @nplusonemag.com 🙏🏽

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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 ...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

"The GenAI sector’s foremost feat of marketing, then, has been the term *intelligence* itself . . . A refusal of AI in creative work begins with a refusal of that product’s ideological packaging."

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

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

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 9d

let it be known that I am back on my bullshit (sneaking a reading of a Robert Lowell poem into a horror novel)

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 10d

Not zines per se but love Tricia Hersey’s work

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 10d

welcome email and some logistical stuff (including a signal group chat link) will go out tomorrow, so please sign up for the AI Skeptics Reading Group mailing list for that info

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AI Skeptics Reading Group

A reading group for AI skeptics It's exactly what it sounds like!

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 12d

Need 2,000 words stat

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 14d

Lucille Clifton 💜

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 15d

Lucky us 💜

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 15d

I'm so happy to finally share this news. This book is about how the past 9 years changed my ideas about family, community, and care, and how those ideas fit into a long history. Huge thanks to my agent @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social, who held my hand through much angst, and to my editor Abby Mohr.

A Publishers Marketplace Deal Report for "How Much, How Little" by Rachael King. "UC Santa Barbara professor Rachael King's HOW MUCH, HOW LITTLE, about how her life was transformed in the wake of her late husband Ady Barkan's ALS diagnosis, and how it galvanized her to search for a new vision of caregiving in America, to Abby Mohr at One Signal, by Caroline Eisenmann at Francis Goldin Literary Agency (world English)"

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 15d

This whole thread is bracingly clarifying.

Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 16d

But if pregnancy is all-consuming, painful, and may happen at any time, then it's much harder to do other things with your life, too. Women's spheres narrow. And that's what they are aiming for: circumscription of women's lives. (Really all our lives.)