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tbfld.bsky.social

Ex-academic, ex-artist, editor/writer (EU research network grants 🎯), Open Syllabus co-founder, nettime mod 25 yrs. I “worked at the intersection of” when it was a red-light district not a venn diagram. Deep South 🔁 Deep North. More: https://counter.ink

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Okay!

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

This is really bad news. Here's a thread to explain just how bad it is. [1/x]

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

If you haven’t read this book, run don’t walk. It is so sharp, and it’ll only become more and more relevant as time goes by.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Thus begins another day: I wake up full of lovely, open observations about anything or everything, and over the next 18 hours will morph into an unappealing dish of angry, bitter cynicism.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This one word, “nearly,” in a review of a $60K mattress is peak NYT: it’s almost beyond the writer’s budget. 👩🏽‍🍳 💋 👌🏼

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Seems like we’ll be needing some kewl portmanteau of “nepobaby” and “Lebensborn” so we can make what’s happening sound new and fresh, which it definitely is not.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

If you ask sensible people what should happen to Musk, there’s a gap between what they think and what they actually say. Everything fascists do aims to make those gaps big, so no one tells the truth. It’s your job—our job—to make them small. If you don’t tell the truth, no one will do it for you.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

You can always tell when the NYT is busy triangulating how to triangulate some story, because they do things like “this insufferable couple only had $14M to spend on a Pleasuredome in Brooklyn, which one did they choose and BTW drone attack on Chernobyl.”

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Shot: Make federal employees return to the office Chaser: make those offices disappear by canceling 50% of the office space the fed govt leases As usual, the media will be a week behind on this. www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspecti...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Leave it to Americans to turn a fascist coup into a procedural drama

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is — seriously — one of the most astonishing things I’ve seen in a very long time. The source code is on Github, so in theory anyone could, say, bake it into mobile apps.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

1/x The NSA trying to implement Trump’s “Big Delete” is Borges for the 21C. They’re supposed to purge everything with a list of 27 words, at least a half of which will appear everywhere in the code / comments / dox of the software their surveillance empire runs on. popular.info/p/the-nsas-b...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I say this more to myself than to anyone else, but if the critical study of digital cultures doesn't help us understand and hopefully even confront the conditions of the rise of digital fascism, it remains a purely academic distraction

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments