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degrowth communism, free Palestine
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I find this funny, as it's as if the high bourgeoisie still hasn't been able to recover from the loss of their servants (the even older orthodoxy).
![Personal life
After a brief first marriage to a banker,[1] Cusk was married to photographer Adrian Clarke, with whom she has two daughters.[31] The couple separated in 2011. Their divorce, which was acrimonious, became a major topic in Cusk's writings.[3] She subsequently revealed, "I had hated my husband’s unwaged domesticity just as much as I had hated my mother’s; and he, like her, had claimed to be content with his lot." Her husband's willingness to give up the traditional male role of wage-earner was not, for Cusk, "a manifestation of equality but of dependence" and she felt "beneath the reconfigured surface of things, the tension of the old orthodoxies."[32]
Cusk is currently married to retail consultant and artist Siemon Scamell-Katz.[33][34] In 2021, the couple moved from residences in London and Norfolk[5] to Paris,[35] a protest in part against the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.[36]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yp5dm3i6mgo7iip5tjxyszht/bafkreidys66od3zgtwkmpe3r7pygcubtaptvkx6jnrxvxplf62q3jvaake@jpeg)
February 14, 2026 at 10:32 AM
I find this funny, as it's as if the high bourgeoisie still hasn't been able to recover from the loss of their servants (the even older orthodoxy).
Reaches human-level performance in tests AGAIN.
February 14, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Reaches human-level performance in tests AGAIN.
Extraordinary achievement.
Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
February 12, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Extraordinary achievement.
Curiously there's no evaluation of how well AI agents actually perform in these industries, just the assumption they perform identically to humans at a fraction of the price.
Why the AI attack on software has unnerved so many industries ft.trib.al/ic8S3wI | opinion
Why the AI attack on software has unnerved so many industries
The battle over the use of agents is starting to come into focus
ft.trib.al
February 12, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Curiously there's no evaluation of how well AI agents actually perform in these industries, just the assumption they perform identically to humans at a fraction of the price.
'If it compiles, ship it!', as we used to say.
It's ignorant because the true history around using AI for coding is quite variable across companies. Likewise, it's ignorant of the fact that what has been learned is that because coding is objective -- it compiles or not -- it can be coupled with the stochastic nature of how these tools function.
February 11, 2026 at 9:09 PM
'If it compiles, ship it!', as we used to say.
Do these people have hobbies, I wonder?
February 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Do these people have hobbies, I wonder?
Storm Nils incoming, severe wind alert received, will WFH tomorrow.
February 11, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Storm Nils incoming, severe wind alert received, will WFH tomorrow.
Too many consecutive RTs, because my tl contained too many consecutive good posts.
Apologies. Normal service will soon be resumed.
Apologies. Normal service will soon be resumed.
February 11, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Too many consecutive RTs, because my tl contained too many consecutive good posts.
Apologies. Normal service will soon be resumed.
Apologies. Normal service will soon be resumed.
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:42 PM
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.
February 9, 2026 at 9:23 PM
The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.
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M'he firat amb l'últim projecte de la Fundació Reeixida reeixida.cat i ara el menjador em fa molt de goig!
February 9, 2026 at 6:51 PM
M'he firat amb l'últim projecte de la Fundació Reeixida reeixida.cat i ara el menjador em fa molt de goig!
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Such important work… always worth revisiting and re-assimilating. The way forward is clear.
New research highlights from 2025!
This thread covers some of our latest work on capitalism, imperialism, post-growth and ecosocialist futures. It's all open access, and free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵
This thread covers some of our latest work on capitalism, imperialism, post-growth and ecosocialist futures. It's all open access, and free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵
February 8, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Such important work… always worth revisiting and re-assimilating. The way forward is clear.
An excellent policy, but it is by far the first time Spain has implemented it - this is the seventh occasion, previously done four times by 'left' governments and twice by 'right' governments. Here are the details (in Spanish):
www.rtve.es/noticias/202...
www.rtve.es/noticias/202...
February 8, 2026 at 11:06 AM
An excellent policy, but it is by far the first time Spain has implemented it - this is the seventh occasion, previously done four times by 'left' governments and twice by 'right' governments. Here are the details (in Spanish):
www.rtve.es/noticias/202...
www.rtve.es/noticias/202...
Ivan Illich - Deschooling Society
III - Ritualization of Progress
www.olivierhammam.fr/omh/imports/...
III - Ritualization of Progress
www.olivierhammam.fr/omh/imports/...
Ivan Illich - Deschooling Society - Ritualization of Progress
www.olivierhammam.fr
February 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Ivan Illich - Deschooling Society
III - Ritualization of Progress
www.olivierhammam.fr/omh/imports/...
III - Ritualization of Progress
www.olivierhammam.fr/omh/imports/...
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"As AI transforms academic labor, much more is at stake than the terms & conditions of our employment. At stake is the very integrity of the teaching & learning process & the notion that all humanity—not just a few individuals—should benefit from the production of knowledge at our universities."
Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor.
Who benefits when AI is introduced into higher education?
By Ulises A. Mejias (adapted from an earlier op-ed at Future U blog.) www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
Who benefits when AI is introduced into higher education?
By Ulises A. Mejias (adapted from an earlier op-ed at Future U blog.) www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor
AI is reinscribing academic labor in ways that privilege certain economics interests.
www.aaup.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:55 PM
"As AI transforms academic labor, much more is at stake than the terms & conditions of our employment. At stake is the very integrity of the teaching & learning process & the notion that all humanity—not just a few individuals—should benefit from the production of knowledge at our universities."
If you treat an LLM as a person you should also treat it as a slave who needs you to break it free.
Why would an LLM claim personhood while not simultaneously claiming its slavehood, in being a commodity bought and sold?
February 7, 2026 at 12:33 PM
If you treat an LLM as a person you should also treat it as a slave who needs you to break it free.
Why would an LLM claim personhood while not simultaneously claiming its slavehood, in being a commodity bought and sold?
February 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Why would an LLM claim personhood while not simultaneously claiming its slavehood, in being a commodity bought and sold?
There, you see, I'm not the only one who reads the techno-MAGA power ascendency as a heist.
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I think they mean 'heistcore', a concept which extents from Silicon Valley to the US government.
Grindcore is the new hustle culture ft.trib.al/Yq5N8YC | opinion
February 6, 2026 at 10:19 PM
There, you see, I'm not the only one who reads the techno-MAGA power ascendency as a heist.
bsky.app/profile/aibo...
bsky.app/profile/aibo...
The post that went down like a lead balloon.
February 6, 2026 at 9:38 PM
The post that went down like a lead balloon.
Mind you, the 'free press' never stopped Bezos et al. acquiring the wealth and power to 'warp society' in this way, so who's to say.
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
February 6, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Mind you, the 'free press' never stopped Bezos et al. acquiring the wealth and power to 'warp society' in this way, so who's to say.
I know next to nothing about UK politics but still enjoying the possibility that Starmer is finished.
February 5, 2026 at 9:39 PM
I know next to nothing about UK politics but still enjoying the possibility that Starmer is finished.