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lacanmunist.bsky.social
Assistant professor of rhetoric at the University of Kansas, author of Works like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life https://sunypress.edu/Books/W/Works-like-a-Charm
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Hey. Statisticians. How about we get a regression to the nice sometime. Think about it

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south florida friends! two days of talks, seminars, and office hours start tomorrow!

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

i've been ambivalent about the "tech neo-feudalism" hypothesis until...right now: "The club’s largest single minority shareholder is also set to implement a similar move...with only players receiving lunch as gratis. The remainder of staff there will be offered soup and bread."

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Sisyphus' favorite fruit--it's gotta be pomegranate, right?

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"Thus I [ch]illed [ou]t"--Friedrich Nietzsche, on the weekend

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

love is giving what you don't have, to someone who cannot receive it happy valentine's day

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

(bolts upright in bed) did The Scorch Trials have an appellate system

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Literally all they’re doing is a private equity play. They need these offices so they’ll have to rent them back putting further strain on the budget and justifying further cuts (while their friends make money on the deal)

submitted 12 days ago • 77 comments

@rhetlab.bsky.social's book _Panic Now_ has forced me to revise a mantra I've held dear for decades. New version: "The urge to freak out and the urge to organize are the same urge."

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

They're saying it's too hot for Bluesky: I wrote about art, culture, and capitalism at @publicbooks.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

I'm not disappointed; I'm just mad

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

"Progressive taxation is the single most important policy lever for reducing the power of the rich...When elites face limits on how much they can take home, they use their dominant position to grab less, so there’s more for everyone else."

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Ok why didn't anyone tell me Kendrick was wearing an objet petit a during his Super Bowl performance

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

watching Conclave and it's kinda bullshit that this guy isn't even in the running

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We let all these HS football coaches teach history & this is the end result

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Happy birthday to the wonderful Laura Dern!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

in retrospect, the US president interpreting a "trade deficit" as a net loss is an ironic coda to the process initiated by double-entry bookkeeping as an epistemic precondition for the capitalist mode of production

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I do think it’s funny when the car companies are like “we may be divided but now more than ever, I think we can all agree: car ❤️”

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

when it comes to supporting the Super Bowl winner, looks like Taylor's whiffed

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

does anyone else remember this sketch? i have scoured the internet for the time Drake played a skeezy high school dance chaperone, and it has just been...erased. i wonder why!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

after you eat them, they're called postzels

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59 years ago today, mild-mannered jim bowl was bitten by a radioactive spider

submitted 15 days ago • 43 comments

look. i'm not trying to be a hero or anything. but if i opened up a bakery on Tatooine, you know i'm naming it Ciabatta Hut

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

i feel like i'm in a Philip K. Dick story. Microsoft Word just offered me a procedurally generated phrase as I typed. I accepted it, then Word flagged it and suggested my original wording back to me. The reason? "Conciseness." This future sucks, at least Blade Runner looked cool

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

they're going to walk back the NIH shit in exchange for Orbanization--administrators, now's the time to show which side you are on

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 16 days ago • 271 comments