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* /\ * //\\ * * ///\\\ * ////\\\\\ lll sephardic librarian / archivist / researcher / artist on six nations lands i study technology, techno and tech no
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“We are going to make them pay their fair share in taxes to fund our school, to fund jobs, to fund healthcare, to fund transportation.”
I would never, obviously
Shout out to people who steal from others richer than them
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increasingly of the opinion that stealing Big Famous Jewels from big famous institutions is kiiiiiind of a victimless crime, guys
I have long been anti-diamonds, but honestly like there are no Big Famous Jewels that weren't paid for by absolutely apocalyptic human suffering
i already do this? i would be glad to have the researchers I study there with me while i eat hot wings, which I already do
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citation is @unbreaking.org's love language
One thing I’ve observed in recent wks: it’s important, even for public-facing political education — re: democratic process, civic institutions, etc — to *cite your sources*; citation is a political practice and it acknwldges the value of the resources your work builds upon, + which need support too!
Loooooove to see joshua light in there, was not expecting it
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"This book is a reaction to frictionlessness AI, which operates in a space of pure wish fulfillment, outside of history and context.... Letterforms are all around us as we move through the world, providing a comforting and reliable index. And it’s easier to understand their history through play."
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My middle school had a fully kitted out print shop because I am old enough to remember when California public schools were well-funded.
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"The digital image is dead, long live whatever fluid vessel has taken its place this week." @robarcand.bsky.social reviews Hito Steyerl’s new collection, "Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-network-of-global-incinerators/
Have you ran into jesse shera's and hawrik's "diagram is the message" essay before? It's good
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we've got you covered, assignments, short readings, syllabus language, o captain speeches, the works! against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
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Here's an issue from the Purdue Univ. student paper, The Exponent, dealing with the IU censorship of their student paper. Purdue put it in IU news boxes. (Purdue & IU are normally huge sports rivals.)

Download link: www.purdueexponent.org/frontpdf/lat...
I wish protests took more than space and time
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this is exactly the sort of thing I had in mind
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Small correction: The Exponent *offered* to print the banned issue, but the IDS students were afraid that would get them punished/sanctioned. So instead, the issue that The Exponent printed and delivered is a new, special solidarity issue co-written by students from both presses!
Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus
The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.
www.heraldtimesonline.com
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Fascinating. So this is like corporate sabotage of the web as a functional marketplace for other businesses to do business on top of, right?
Clearly i am discussing a1 steak sauce
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If you think technology will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you probably don't understand your problems either.
Do you ever think about how good allison crutchfield has always been
that mechanically prevent people from having to chose between dying and expropriating landlords. the latter is frankly too much work
between the luddites and the clanker-haters we've gotten fast fashion and faster content. the problem is still the same though: are we gonna keep selling each other garbage so the same old white guys eat steaks in bunker-mansions, or are we gonna build systems
clearly computers didn't reduce drudgery (for librarians, or for the wider working class they are part of). This is the classic dynamic of increasing access increases production / consumption, even if the quality of the traded good suffers deeply.