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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 9h

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...

Page 1, The Exponent

WE STUDENT JOURNALISTS MUST STAND TOGETHER

graphic of hands holding each other's wrists
Red, Black, Yellow and White

background is shredded newsprint

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 5h

I wish protests took more than space and time

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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 8h

this is exactly the sort of thing I had in mind

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Saralegal @saralegal.bsky.social · 8h

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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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 5h

Fascinating. So this is like corporate sabotage of the web as a functional marketplace for other businesses to do business on top of, right?

Other key findings from the report revealed:
• Meta's Al bots alone generate 52% of Al crawler traffic, which is more than double that of Google (23%) or OpenAl (20%).
• Sectors facing the highest levels of scraping for training Al models include high-tech, commerce, and media & entertainment.
• ChatGPT generates the most real-time traffic to websites, with 98% of fetcher bots requests attributable to OpenAl's bots.

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 7h

Clearly i am discussing a1 steak sauce

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you think technology will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you probably don't understand your problems either.

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 7h

Do you ever think about how good allison crutchfield has always been

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 8h

that mechanically prevent people from having to chose between dying and expropriating landlords. the latter is frankly too much work

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 8h

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

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 8h

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.

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 8h

a shift to a new level of magnitude. It reminds me of this somewhat niche librarian's discourse in the late 60s:

In its initial manifestations automation was received by librarians with little more serious attention than if it had been the scientific fantasy of a Rube Goldberg or a Buck Rogers. But Robert Maynard Hutchins is right when he states in a recent syndicated column that the computer cannot be treated as though it were just another invention, whereas it cannot be compared with any mechanical device in history. It adds a new dimension to the powers of man and to human life. To suppose that so fundamental a change can leave the economic system (and, one might add, librarianship) virtually untouched is to ignore the radical nature of the new instrument that mankind now has at its disposal. I believe that whenever the computer establishes itself-and it is rapidly doing so everywhere—it will eventually reduce labor as we have understood it and may 22 reduce it almost to the vanishing point. The impact of this new mechanism on a branch of organized human activity that is aspiring to professional prestige, then, is worthy of serious thought. Marshall McLuhan, who welcomes rather than fears or criticizes tech¬ nological change, holds that, on the evidence of technology’s past encounters with human society, cultures are shaped more by the media through which men communicate than by the content of their communication. Along with the historian Harold Innis and most cultural anthropologists and students of evolution, McLuhan believes that it was the invention of hand tools and spoken language that differentiated man from the beasts and that these innovations led to the development of the human brain as distinct from the brain of all other species.

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 8h

there was an article going around talking about how workers wanted a1 to be treated just like any other technology, i've been thinking about it all afternoon. In a sense, yes, it's just the latest episode in the alliance between states and industrial capital. In another, though, it does represent...

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 8h

let's goooooooo make those presses roar fam

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 11h

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 9h

Alex’s opening. As artist-in-residence with the Dept of Homeless Services, Alex took inspiration from shelter logs, conducted workshops with residents, invited them to journal their experiences, then worked with the Dept of Transportation’s sign shop to transform those letters into installations

Alex speaking before a crowd in an NYC Park

Tuesday, September 12, 2023
3: 31pm My name IS briand I am an musical artist, Entrepreneur Ive been in and out of the shelter a few times. Mostly famiy shelters and every time I found myself in that situation I learned a new lesson. Though
I am tired of going through this
process. I do belieur I am here for a reason.
Ive seen Deople Judge others for being in a shelter including myself. But prople don't Knou that they can be In this same situation in a blink of an eye. People think because we go through the shelter because we broke or don't know how to keep up with nice things. Iruth Is I beleve we go through this to help us; whether its to humble us, Take us out of Domestic Violence, Nater aamage or fire damage. Bad living conditions Yany different reason. I hate how quick peopl are $0 judge. I tal to people ream their Stories
I learn without going through ther Situation atso. this shelter 1s a step.
Some people cant even
get into a shelter and haur to be homeless.
The shelter can't stop anyhng yore destine to be or brome, I was in the shelter for most of m high school
3 years to be exact but that
never stoppe yrars.
me from graduating on fime. I pushed
through for everything I wanted. A Strong mindset Soul can't break easily. Putting God Hrst and belleving in him. Behevong in youself no matter how many times you break down, feel lost, or just Sometimes wanna give up. I've been there so many times all those
feelings:
You can't break or give up.
This 18nt the
end. If you ever find youself in this Sitvation
Just knows the is only apart of your sitt

Abril 11 del 2025
Hola mi nomboe es Roxy, soy madre de dos hesmosas niñas, somos de Ecuador y venimos huyendo de revestra tierra que esta llena de
peliquas, con una maletas llenas de Sueños y esperanza emos llegado hasta aquí, solo buscamos
Hemos pasado por tunto peligro en el camino que solo queremo tener
ana vida tranquila
corazón de todas esas personas que quitren sacanos de aque creemos que no es justo recibir to maldad sin que nos des hu oportunido

Tuesday Vuty 25, 2023
12:37 PM Hi, my name is Alexander. L consid made
be fourself and survive being un housed.
I'm in one of the safest

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 9h

free health insurance / Amazon, inc.

literally you can pick which world you want

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 12h

has anyone checked on that jezebel writer

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 12h

anyways please join me in the "I'd rather read hex code than LLM outputs" club

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 12h

I do find it quite interesting that two abstract objects so so close to each other in their means of production---books and GenAI---could be the most and least human artifacts made by contemporary humans

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 12h

Okay, this is amazing.

Ami @amidanruo.bsky.social · 15h

Billionaires Against Mamdani

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 13h

!!!!

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 2d

7. But the # of protests in Trump-leaning counties in June 2025 was comparable to those in Jun 2020, during the height of the Black Lives Matter uprising. But unlike in 2020, that trend has held. Since April, the median protest county in the US cast more votes for Trump than Harris.

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 13h

that's not what I said in that book review (it contained neither the words "soundscape" nor "acoustic environment" nor "community") at all but thanks for the citation I guess ???

The acoustic environment is not merely a residual effect of urban activity but a dynamic medium through which the city is lived, remembered, and contested.3 It is a text, rich with social and cultural meaning, that narrates the stories of a place and its people. The concept of the "soundscape," first popularized by R. Murray Schafer, offers a powerful analytical framework to move beyond the reductionist view of urban sound as noise. A soundscape is an acoustic environment as perceived or experienced by individuals or a community.4 It comprises a complex layering of sounds: "keynotes" that form the constant background hum (such as traffic), "signals" that are consciously listened to (such as sirens or bells), and "soundmarks" that are unique, community-cherished sounds (such as a specific street vendor's call or a local festival's music). This framework allows for an investigation of the acoustic city not just as a physical phenomenon measurable in decibels, but as a cultural and social construct. The sounds of a city are imbued with meaning; they can foster a sense of belonging and continuity, evoke memories, and delineate social and cultural territories.

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 13h

well whatever you're doing is going well! Always a treat to read your work

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 14h

One thing that has helped is making a day either writing or reading. Like it's ok to look up the exact phrasing of a reference but not too much more on writing days. Then the reading days you can also just really power through stuff because you know all you have to do is highlight, not be clever

E z r a @bruit.bsky.social · 14h

I'm dipping back into fiction and writing without needing to read at all might be the hardest and most painful