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Writer/teacher/etc[computational rhetoric] in Haldimand Tract🇨🇦/CUPE5524. Maxing Inland Empire and Disco. 🌹⌨️ 🦆 🍄‍🟫🦨🦫 🚩🏴✊🍆🥭🍛🍱🫙🗺️🥶🤬🖖. e.g. did an MFA in Digital Arts & New Media (but so-so at drawing) @UCSC, fond of birds, horde books
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I support more govt funding for research. At the same time, I note that this appeal almost immediately slips from “research sovereignty” to “scientific sovereignty,” an elision that I think is at least part of the problem with the way things are currently done here and in the US alike.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

It is exactly this, happening. And a remarkable, concise, diagnosis from Taylor and Klein and start of a democratic socialist (not inherently better / worse than other traditions, socialist or democratic, but distinct, constantly erased or condescended to, and more or less what I believe) answer

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration has canceled a Biden-era agreement requiring the state of Alabama to clean up raw sewage in poor, Black, rural communities where filthy toilet water has been flowing directly into the yards of homes where children play.

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

Update! UMass-Amherst's faculty senate is now on board!! Last night they passed their own resolution calling for two compacts: 1) of all public and land-grant higher ed in the country 2) of all public and private higher ed in Massachusetts Read and spread widely!! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ikin7...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

submitted 14 days ago • 68 comments

Prophetic xkcd.com/1600/

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

what more is there to say

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I'm selfishly rooting for both of the alternatives to US-led neoliberalism being developed at the level of the nation - Keynesian social liberalism (as Mark Carney is proposing for Canada);& state capitalism managed by Marxist technocrats- even though they won't fix our underlying crises & threats

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

"We knew what we were doing. We knew about the indescribable suffering we were causing. We knew about the crimes we were committing, in real time. We knew, and declared for all the world to hear that this was what justice looked like, this was the face of morality."

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

submitted 5 days ago • 207 comments

OK, a People's Bailout, a short thread. The oligarchs have a plan for how to exit the current economic collapse: with bailouts for the biggest banks, financial firms, and corporations. We need to develop plans for a People's Bailout. 1/x

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

feels worth flagging that we've now had sustained disparate protest and One Big Day protest at or above the scale of 2017 so it might be time to drop the "public reaction to trump has been more muted in his second term" spiel

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

MORE: Libraries in several states have received letters which claim to cancel federal IMLS grants. Congress MUST act to restore this funding. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/04... Use your voice - call Congress to protect & restore library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

submitted 10 days ago • 47 comments

An utterly indefensible institution www.thestar.com/news/investi...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

It's wild to me that every American city has at least one Z list celebrity injury attorney who completely dominates the billboard market.

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

submitted 17 days ago • 301 comments

Haters tell me "but that's not the technology's fault, you can also use it to enhance your own writing rather than outsource everything to the machine" And this is a great lesson in User Experience Design: you CAN but you WON'T, because of how the software is designed. Let's talk about friction.

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

Democrats MUST jointly declare now that sales of public land and assets (including public companies, gold, buildings, patents and data) by the Trump administration that violate law & procedure as followed by previous administrations will be considered illegitimate and reversed

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I wish we could separate decency and respectability better. We desperately need patience, ordinary kindness, and conventional decency in organizing. Whereas respectability and aesthetic policing need to be stuffed into the bottom of the dumpster. Often one is talked about as stand-in foe the other.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

submitted 19 days ago • 145 comments

Former chief of staff to Peter Thiel. And a bunch of Dems just voted to confirm him.

submitted 19 days ago • 170 comments

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.

submitted 20 days ago • 139 comments

It's almost like the long-term question is actually: the abundance of _what_, for _whom_? Lots of new walkups and apartments with bus service and parks would be amazing, and I'm glad lots of commentators agree on this! An abundance of suburbs, data centers, SUVs, golf courses, gas power plants: bad!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Disappointing (unsurprising).

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

submitted 22 days ago • 1564 comments