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they are openly advocating for the use of physiognomy in recruitment make it stop

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

All true things: -you should spend political capital wisely -universities, academics, and scientists have not always spent political capital wisely -this is probably a good time to spend your political capital because you probably won't have any after this anyway

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The older I get, the more I appreciate the concept of "IQ." Whenever someone seriously mentions the importance of IQ, I know I can shut my brain off because nothing they say is worth thinking about. It's so convenient!

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

This is a really beautiful and powerful piece from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social combining metaphor, synaesthesia, craft, and anger sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-crafts...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

It's down thread but I'm stealing "the process of searching is the process of learning" as one of the aphorisms I annoy my students by overusing, second only to "writing is thinking".

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Another word for "regulation" is... "consumer protection" "environmental protection" "Regulation" means your milk is safe. "Regulation" means toys that harm your babies are removed from the shelves. "Regulation" means chemical companies can't dump waste in your river.

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

George Lakoff pointed out years ago that framing these things as "protecting American families" was better than "regulations" to get republicans on side. Maybe even @theonion.com's "Somebody Should Do Something About All The Problems" would work? @bencollins.bsky.social theonion.com/somebody-sho...

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submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Agree that my/our political imagination is stunted. Hungry for fictional & historical examples of alternative/cooperative/generative resistance

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Hollywood movies (and the people whose writing has inspired them) have for at 60+ years given us examples of evil supervillains / dictators / megalomaniacs being defeated. Our imaginations are full of them (especially where they, like the current criminals, can't resist boasting about their plans).

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

submitted 23 days ago • 49 comments

Any countries whose scientific research funding bodies are NOT currently under siege by their own national leadership would do very well announcing investments in bringing in foreign research talent right now

submitted 20 days ago • 64 comments

This is what I think of as a specific kind of ignorance that heavily affects young white guys who work in tech. It says “i don’t know about this, so I assume no one else does either.” It’s new to them, so it must be new to everybody!

submitted 19 days ago • 390 comments

This is very good (particularly like the description of him as a "mid-level oligarch"). I regularly undertake this mental exercise with news coverage of the US, it's the only way to see what's actually going on and it's a crude form of the commutation test I learned in 1st year semiotics.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Abandoning trans rights means abandoning ALL rights. They are inseperable. Abandoning trans people is to abandon all people, and indeed our very humanity. Think about what the fascist asks for, and then think of the totality of its cost. And then say no. To all of it.

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

In a functioning democracy, a President who pardoned a mob that assaulted the Capitol while trying to overturn the election, and who then fired the prosecutors who put them behind bars, would be removed from power.

submitted 22 days ago • 54 comments

Enjoy Happy World indeed. Getting the ferry from Hoek van Holland to Harwich involves a certain kind of #severance 😅

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

fe(de)ral government

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New Utopian Pulse out @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social: The perils of foretelling the future: www.uu.nl/en/opinion/t.... My effort to make sense of recent struggles, from Trump's re-election and spread of populism across Europe, to deepening rifts among pessimistic & optimistic outlooks in the classroom

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Last year I met another creative who told me that they don't like to keep up with the news/politics, and that their creative practice isn't impacted by "things like that". It upset me, because there is no world where that is possible Whether you "keep up with politics" or not it impacts everything

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

I know it's not the main point of the article, but why are we using "centimillionaire" and not "hectomillionaire" (or perhaps just "parasite")?

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So sorry to hear about the passing of @nicolasnova.bsky.social. I met him only 2 or 3 times in person, but from Pasta & Vinegar ("Why do I blog this?") to everything Near Future Laboratory do, to Curious Rituals, to Bestiary of the Anthropocene, to his 2 PhDs, he inspired so much of my thinking.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Just in the nick of time, I blew the cobwebs off the blog and finished a post / newsletter looking back at some projects from 2024 — read it here: architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2024/12/31/2... or subscribe to the newsletter: buttondown.email/imaginaries

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.

submitted 67 days ago • 48 comments

This is fascinating and I wonder what design (and art) can do with it — or whether intuitively we already have done but just didn’t realise

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Very useful episode of the (always interesting) Changing Academic Life podcast from Geraldine Fitzpatrick, with @peck.phd's reflections on value-centred career decisions in academia (and their intersection with circumstance).

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Okay I presented this in class and people were excited about them so I'm probably gonna make some to actually send to community activists who might find them useful. Each of these has a programmable NFC tag in it, that can be used to contain and share info. More here → reveleth.com/radical-tali...

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Preparing ‘Sunsets & Sunrises: Lost Futures & Emerging Hopes’ with Femke Coops at Litteraturhuset in Oslo — for the final exhibition / conference of the IMAGINE project www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future...

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