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vivaharehills.bsky.social
Writer of CYBERBOSS (Verso). Co-built Novara Media. Co-host Heart Reacts. Co-StreamArtNetwork. Co-digital gavagai. LTQ contributor 🍸🏳️‍🌈 http://c-gent.net/ https://shop.novaramedia.com/products/cyberboss
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DH Now!!! (Can a renaissance in DH blogging be far behind??)

Write to us at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts 💌 Recent questions include what to do about rich partners, the state, aggravating in-laws, political organisations, and polyamory. So yknow, we've got your bases covered

My periodic reminder that I co-host an advice podcast with @vivaharehills.bsky.social and we want to answer your questions! www.patreon.com/HeartReacts

“There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.” This is the energy I am trying to encourage people to cultivate instead of “they’ll arrest you next.”

You can get 30-50% off CYBERBOSS and all other titles when ordering 3 books or more from Verso in their May Day offer! Discount is applied at checkout and the offer is on until 8th May. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

I had to write something about Joshua Clover in longer form because i could not possibly squeeze it into a whatever the hell we call messages on this app sarahljaffe.substack.com/p/heaven-kno...

I hope that somewhere, deep in their heart of hearts, everyone involved with ruining these young people's lives are deeply ashamed of themselves. These kids represent the best of us, and universties are happily throwing them to the wolves.

Episode 20 (20!) of Heart Reacts is now in your podcast feed. Me and @sarahljaffe.bsky.social get into The Family and its discontents, and whether socialism means being nice to everyone. Thanks to all our patreon supporters who helped us get this far!

Remarkable new series from @novaramedia.com documenting JSO's incarceration from behind bars. Absolutely compelling listening on direct action, political communication, repression of protest, and democratic injustice. novaramedia.com/category/aud...

Obituary: Pope Francis, 1936-2025 https://www.ft.com/content/424ee29b-4715-4fb9-abdb-c7754d835adc

Something on your mind this bank holiday weekend? The Heart Reacts mailbag is open for questions! Write to us at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts ❤️

Tressie ❤️

Deadline extended to Apr 15!

Or to paraphrase Joan Robinson, "the misery of being exploited by gargantuan thieving fash-adjacent US AI companies is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Im seeing endless workshops on "how to use AI/incorporate AI in the classroom" etc, does anyone know of workshops on how to refuse AI? Not even be critical of AI (which is often just one or two slides of handwaving-but-it-is-here) but to refuse it in the classroom and in our research?

This is very good and will be really illuminating listening for British listeners

Beautiful piece on Linda Williams (1946-2025 💔) in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/a...

News just in: new @piercepenniless.bsky.social just dropped

Please share! I'm editing a special issue of international labor and working class history on "The Global Labor History of Artificial Intelligence" with Susannah Glickman (Stony Brook). Please submit an abstract (just 250 words) for our issue if this is your topic! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

New Heart Reacts just dropped 💌 Me and @sarahljaffe.bsky.social bringing some care and advice for your tired heart while capitalism collapses around us 🙂❤️ Patreon.com/heartreacts or wherever you get podcasts!

Had such a stimulating conversation about AI and algorithmic mgmt with Leeds Trade Union Council tonight. Trade unionists are livening up to AI and seeing through the hype. They are realising AI is not inevitable and that they do have ideas in the toolbox for how to contest it. Genuinely heartening.

This article by Sussex university’s vice chancellor about how the Office for Students seemingly oversaw its investigation into worries about free speech at Sussex is… quite something. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

That'll be the Amy Pascal who accused Jonathan Glazer of blood libel then I guess. Great! www.007.com/amy-pascal-a...

We've had some great questions over the past few months - please keep them coming!

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, which is an excellent moment to revisit the excellent @adamrutherford.bsky.social interview on @novaramedia.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1VR...

Landing page or soviet poster?

Can anyone recommend a good tool for untangling a slightly chaotic mind map?

Lots of great stuff going on during the British Philosophical Association’s #PhilosophyMatters campaign: bpa.ac.uk/activities/p...

This week on Heart Reacts, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I discuss what to do when it turns out your socialist friend has a house full of $10k sofas, and why the left is overdue a new theory of the State. On patreon and all podcast platforms! www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

This research is so vital, and so sobering.

I feel like I have been waiting for this!

They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Shocking to see that Kingston University plans to close its Humanities department, including CRMEP, where did i my MA. CRMEP is unique in fostering a space for students to think critically – it's no exaggeration to say that i owe my entire career to it. www.e-flux.com/notes/658933...