Herastrophe
@herasalander.bsky.social
MHA (the degree). She/they. Writer/reviewer, researcher, and metalhead. I sometimes talk about the books I read.
@ninecirclesblog.bsky.social and other bylines.
Se habla castellano/español. Nazis a la horca. #metalbandcampgiftclub #metalmusicstudies
@ninecirclesblog.bsky.social and other bylines.
Se habla castellano/español. Nazis a la horca. #metalbandcampgiftclub #metalmusicstudies
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you have been visited by the Quail of the Double Top Knot. Like for good luck. Ignore to go fuck yourself.
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
you have been visited by the Quail of the Double Top Knot. Like for good luck. Ignore to go fuck yourself.
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Bonus #artAdventCalendar
Happy birthday to Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), who published the first computer program. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🧮 #histsci She worked together with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine (the first computers), correcting his notes on how to 🧵
Happy birthday to Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), who published the first computer program. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🧮 #histsci She worked together with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine (the first computers), correcting his notes on how to 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bonus #artAdventCalendar
Happy birthday to Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), who published the first computer program. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🧮 #histsci She worked together with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine (the first computers), correcting his notes on how to 🧵
Happy birthday to Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), who published the first computer program. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🧮 #histsci She worked together with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine (the first computers), correcting his notes on how to 🧵
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Reminder that not only do library systems have physical media (& many also lend tools, electronics etc), your library card may give you access to streamers Kanopy and Hoopla. We just watched Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Rainmaker via a hoopla the other night. Pretty good!
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Reminder that not only do library systems have physical media (& many also lend tools, electronics etc), your library card may give you access to streamers Kanopy and Hoopla. We just watched Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Rainmaker via a hoopla the other night. Pretty good!
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This is a time in our nation's history that will be remembered for all the broken fools who needed so much attention.
December 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This is a time in our nation's history that will be remembered for all the broken fools who needed so much attention.
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Missing my former colleague David Golumbia a lot today, as I keep working on a chapter about the gross tech rationalist community. I wish I could have talked to him about *all of this.*
i’ve been looking forward to this book for so long, and now that i have the galley i can’t help feel a little sad i won’t get to discuss it with david.
i’ll be discussing on the podcast somehow, and i hope you all buy a copy — even preorder!
i’ll be discussing on the podcast somehow, and i hope you all buy a copy — even preorder!
December 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Missing my former colleague David Golumbia a lot today, as I keep working on a chapter about the gross tech rationalist community. I wish I could have talked to him about *all of this.*
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pals you gotta quit spotify
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
pals you gotta quit spotify
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Holy CRAP.
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Holy CRAP.
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
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good morning to evil women
December 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
good morning to evil women
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even worse, Google accepted that
Pagaron para ocultar que matan a los palestinos de hambre.
Asesinos, cobardes, miserables. Y Google cómplice.
Asesinos, cobardes, miserables. Y Google cómplice.
December 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
even worse, Google accepted that
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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@terzijdehorde.bsky.social brought the fury tonight! What a great show, supported by Teardrinker and broeder Dielmann! I appreciate that they kept the stage banter tweetalig!
December 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
@terzijdehorde.bsky.social brought the fury tonight! What a great show, supported by Teardrinker and broeder Dielmann! I appreciate that they kept the stage banter tweetalig!
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Dat was weer een heerlijke avond @terzijdehorde.bsky.social. Pure emotie 🤘
Geniale backdrop ook
Geniale backdrop ook
December 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Dat was weer een heerlijke avond @terzijdehorde.bsky.social. Pure emotie 🤘
Geniale backdrop ook
Geniale backdrop ook
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I fear for the usage of AI becoming more commonplace, especially in the higher education system.
I fear that, at least for healthcare, it will become easier to avoid learning the complex aspects of health administration. Quality assurance courses are going to get the world's biggest overhaul.
I fear that, at least for healthcare, it will become easier to avoid learning the complex aspects of health administration. Quality assurance courses are going to get the world's biggest overhaul.
December 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I fear for the usage of AI becoming more commonplace, especially in the higher education system.
I fear that, at least for healthcare, it will become easier to avoid learning the complex aspects of health administration. Quality assurance courses are going to get the world's biggest overhaul.
I fear that, at least for healthcare, it will become easier to avoid learning the complex aspects of health administration. Quality assurance courses are going to get the world's biggest overhaul.
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The CSU system is paying OpenAI $15 million for ChatGPT access for people on its campuses. What a colossal waste of taxpayer money. laist.com/news/educati...
Inside Cal State's big $17 million bet on ChatGPT for all
Critics say the cash-strapped system misspent millions of dollars getting upgraded accounts for all students. CSU leaders insist they're needed to meet a changing economy.
laist.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The CSU system is paying OpenAI $15 million for ChatGPT access for people on its campuses. What a colossal waste of taxpayer money. laist.com/news/educati...
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I love companies being punished for replacing workers with AI. Gimme more
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I love companies being punished for replacing workers with AI. Gimme more
You can take Pretty Hate Machine off my cold, dead hands
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
You can take Pretty Hate Machine off my cold, dead hands
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if you use AI to make your album cover you should just stop making music indefinitely until you fix your brain
December 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
if you use AI to make your album cover you should just stop making music indefinitely until you fix your brain
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Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![Texas is not on “the eve of an election,” as was true in the
case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v.
Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020)
(per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days
after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was
“just weeks” away. 549 U. S., at 4. Here, Election Day is
eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which
Texas could change) is in March. The District Court care-
fully listed the various “election preparations” underway to
switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the
court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein-
stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145.
Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from
the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, every-
one expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it
will be used in a special runoff election in the State’s largest
county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly
concluded, “[a]n injunction in this case would not cause sig-
nificant disruption.” Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of
us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congres-
sional election is not well underway.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreifzzrhpyftoam4b4eqcpdcegf2hksn4ula6rwbtv6fqwviqfgikte@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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For example: If you have the means to not use streaming services and support artists directly, then that is great. You should exploit that privilege to stop supporting streaming services.
You should not, however, demand everybody else match your privilege. This is antithetical to class solidarity.
You should not, however, demand everybody else match your privilege. This is antithetical to class solidarity.
December 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
For example: If you have the means to not use streaming services and support artists directly, then that is great. You should exploit that privilege to stop supporting streaming services.
You should not, however, demand everybody else match your privilege. This is antithetical to class solidarity.
You should not, however, demand everybody else match your privilege. This is antithetical to class solidarity.
Went through the Spotify Wrapped thing, and let me tell you, I make a lot of jokes to my friends regarding my mental age.
This is hilarious to me and only to me.
This is hilarious to me and only to me.
December 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Went through the Spotify Wrapped thing, and let me tell you, I make a lot of jokes to my friends regarding my mental age.
This is hilarious to me and only to me.
This is hilarious to me and only to me.
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Do everything you to....
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Do everything you to....
This album is going to haunt me the same way The Old Dead Tree's album did, huh?
hangmanschair.bandcamp.com/album/saddic...
hangmanschair.bandcamp.com/album/saddic...
Saddiction, by HANGMAN'S CHAIR
9 track album
hangmanschair.bandcamp.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This album is going to haunt me the same way The Old Dead Tree's album did, huh?
hangmanschair.bandcamp.com/album/saddic...
hangmanschair.bandcamp.com/album/saddic...
Hello, music friends. Question: is Qobuz good? I don't want to stream music as much I want to own it, and I want to know if it's good or not.
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Hello, music friends. Question: is Qobuz good? I don't want to stream music as much I want to own it, and I want to know if it's good or not.
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How the fuck does anyone use this terrible exploitative shit service let alone pay for it, shame
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
How the fuck does anyone use this terrible exploitative shit service let alone pay for it, shame