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when USians say “boomers ruined X for us all,” I think many of us are trying to articulate a real critique of the last 80 years of capitalism, but in the language of bourgeois economics (ie propaganda), which is the closest most of us can get to political economy from inside mainstream US culture

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sorry i can't get over the fact that this lady is ten years younger than me

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reading stuff I wrote eight years ago and wondering what has happened to my brain

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how do you continue to believe in the value of a dissertation while also witnessing or reading daily about state assaults on people’s lives, resources, housing, access to medicine, freedom of movement? I am struggling so much with this.

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"As I watched Twin Peaks: The Return each week, I couldn’t help but recall the words of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky: “The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.”

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“I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.” - David Lynch

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JUST PUBLISHED: It has been the honor of my career to co-author "Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza" with Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com —a story about Palestine, AIDS, genocide, and an extraordinary survivor named E.S. Please read & share. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...

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more evidence that the goal of AI use in classrooms is not to pay wages to actual humans: “the reality is that teachers and teaching assistants are often strapped for time and can’t always provide this thoughtful feedback” lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/news-notewor...

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I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water. Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?

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nice to see that Barnes & Noble is still a haven for the queers

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Academic Christmas

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Here’s the AAUP statement on the insane full metal jacket crackdown on peaceful protestors asking for investment transparency and divestment from genocide in Gaza yesterday. I am one of the faculty members who was labeled persona non grata (PNG), banned from university buildings.

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as with everything these corporations do, this is a calculated tactic—meant to produce exactly these kinds of headlines, which will help paper over the ongoing, unexceptional, routine extraction of money from many many other people who are seeking medical care. An investment in a corporate future

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give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head

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Insurers must spend 80-85% of premiums on care by law. "But big insurers have figured out if they also become health care providers—by buying physician practices, clinics, and pharmacy benefit managers—they can meet that threshold by paying themselves and avoiding payment for their customers’ care."

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To nobody’s surprise, McKinsey came up with it.

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listening to Wendy Brown being interviewed on a podcast: one thing the US right has done well, which the left seems overlook and undervalue and misrecognize, is to assemble a political coalition and a political blueprint that are not ideologically coherent

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I'm reading Roderic N. Crooks' Access Is Capture, and... "Part of what makes access to technology so appealing is that it offers a way to address inequality among minoritized peoples without having to identify or name the racism and structural oppressions that shape the life chances of all people."

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a cloak believed to belong to the shooter transformed into a dozen beautiful white doves and flew away, Authorities said,

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Lmao they're so scared, this is deranged

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absolutely fascinated by the Luigi Mangione news because (1) we mostly have no idea if he actually shot the gun (and since when have we trusted the institutions of capital to tell us so), and (2) the immediate disappointment people have over his politics says so much about how we think of our own

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This made me so angry that I read the entire article and actually I do not understand how AI helped at all, everyone seems to be doing more work to help the robot than it would take just to have humans teach and edit a textbook and everything else. Also I hate it so much did I say that

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The thing is, everybody has one (1) perfect memory of a diner breakfast, and we're all just trying to get that back

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BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

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‘It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives” (1971) by Rosa von Praunheim

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This is why I look askance at any, ANY, academic who tells me AI integration into our teaching is "inevitable" and we "must not be luddites" because clearly you have lost any capacity for critical thinking

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Differences in US life expectancy are so large it's as if population lives in separate Americas instead of one 20+ yrs separates avg longevity of American Indian & Alaska Natives in western US (63.6) and Asian Americans (84.0) Read our Lancet study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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In our new issue, @novicsara.bsky.social writes against the commodification of deaf communication, particularly new systems that don’t take existing deaf language seriously.

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Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

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We’re seeing that when capital runs out of things to steal, it destroys that which it has already stolen to rebuild it. Gaza, AI, urban renewal, crypto, and otherwise are linked in their “recursive enclosure” a process only accelerated as traditional mechanisms of profit making collapse.

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The last art we may have left is the art of not being statistically predictable.

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been reading/thinking about this a lot lately—representing the world in media is part of what makes it “real” (eg genocide in Gaza), but that process of abstraction also makes it so much easier for a single person to dismiss, ignore. Always a different piece of abstracted reality to consume instead.

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hello, good evening, my name is chen chen, i’m a poet, and you may know me from such poems as this, “i love you to the moon &”

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I'm having a drink by myself at my hotel bar and a woman is trying to chat me up and now I understand what Frank O'Hara meant when he wrote "Heterosexuality! you are inexorably approaching. (How discourage her?)"

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