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a question for all the investigative crime reporters out there:
- why is my foia request for a 1969 murder police report denied?
- why is the case still open?
- when do cases close?

serious academic protocol question from a millenial:
we use outlook at my university and is it weird to heart emoji emails from my department chair and a dean that don't require long responses?

i just got another hospital bill and lololololed cause what else am i gonna do
20$ for tylenol!? 🤪

i use so much passive voice in writing as of late and it's horrifying and there's definitely some psychoanalytical explanation in there

The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance Şerife Wong The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 2025 Original score by Jeromey Cooks (rikuwru) This video is part of Icarus Salon. It is intended to be viewed in…

New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
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Thank you 🙏🏽 to @tamigraph.bsky.social, Jeffrey Moro, and Briana Vecchione for editing this cluster on Algorithms and the Occult for @asapjournal.bsky.social 🧙🏾

Always grateful to @xrw.bsky.social and AX Mina for, well, everything 🖤

Important intervention as an act of solidarity by Sinophone artists against the Chinese state’s efforts to conduct political censorship of artists in one of Thailand’s leading artistic institutions

awww i'm glad you're getting around to all this! good luck with the root canal!

3) the very REAL phenomenon of everyone and their mom having an opinion or imaginary of 'china' and therefore saying a lot
anyways shout out to the real ones out there who still read chinese policy docs

2) does pointing out framework of techno-orientalism in US on ai discourses (china as threat that must be overcome thru economic development) really decolonize knowledge production
does it count as decolonial if you're talking about an imperial country like china

hot take that i feel like as scholars in the digital tech x china space we're struggling rn with is
1) how to square away techno-orientalism if you aren't writing from position within the US/europe (aka majority of world)

Americans desperate to copy WeChat without understanding anything about the context of its success

There seems to be a concerted effort by AI boosters lately to deny this & act like critics are ignorant (or insist it's fine because AI will be smart enough to solve climate change and energy shortages). But energy usage data and projections remain astronomical.

deep in a character study of scorpio men, god, scorp men are crazzzy

🥰 gotta love the aunties.
me: "i'm in chicago now for a job at northwestern"
auntie: "chicago is colder than san francisco. drink hot things and dress warmly!"

Litquake 2025: Gilded Rage—Elon Musk and the Radicaliza... View more about this event at Litquake 2025

Tomorrow in San Francisco: @jacobsilverman.com and @alexhanna.bsky.social at Litquake.

7 p.m. See you there?

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Global Circuits | Session 1, from mining to chip manufacture in the Congo and Taiwan. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining... Join us for our first session in the Global Circuits speaker series where we draw connections and forge solidarity from the Congo to Taiwan. We are lucky to host Maurice Carney, Executive Director at ...

📦🔋🌱Global Circuits, a new series on environmental justice and the AI supply chain, co-sponsored by (m)otherboard, Green Screen Coalition, & @datasociety.bsky.social Climate, Technology, and Justice program

everytime i read a post about digital humanities and arcgis storymaps i cry a little on the inside
background, esri is a baddie in the bad way & there's plenty of open source alternatives: www.societyandspace.org/articles/bey...

The banchan was great. You can get free refills. Highly recommend. We ordered 100g beef which they brought out coals for, and the waiter was definitely laughing at us but also we weren't the only ones getting the free banchan game.

This is why I like Dewey's engagement with community in "The Public and its Problems."

For Dewey, community isn't just sharing an attribute: it is the ways that we come together in collective association towards a common goal. Insofar as this is the case, we can do so across difference.

right? lol

"relax, it's just a job, omg, you're still getting paid aren't you? that's the whole act, you give us homework, we do it, you get paid, we struggle, maybe i remember some stuff you taught"
i'm d-e-d

5) she said she just finished a psychology course that helped her a lot on self care stuff and also the internet helped her in school, basically rendering most of her teachers useless
I was like: BUT WHAT ABOUT ME I WANNA BE A PROF
to which she said...

4) performance reviews are just tools to control you anyways, they aren't actually reflective of anything
when i asked her how she got so wise at her young age, she said:
THE INTERNET.

2) if you get a bad performance review bc you aren't "working hard enough", whatever. just say you can't work any harder, that's not a lie.
3) a boss is like a bad relationship, you do fine most of the time, you don't get commended, you make one mistake and ppl give you a bad review

caught up with my gen-z cousin in beijing and damn THE INTERNET WORKED y'all, we have reached THE END OF HISTORY
she schooled me for 2 hours (while also side eyeing my life choices) and told me that:
1) there's no use busting your ass at work bc promotions are arbitrary/based on sucking up

tfw doctors are like "you need a surgery where we put a tiny camera in you" and you're like, no thanks dude, i don't want cameras on me or in me, ever.

wow finally got an mri appointment after 7 months of insurance insanity, can't wait to get pumped full of rare earth and lie in a tube for 40 minutes

oh no they put me and my frands into a computer and i can't get out

open to suggestions of any places that accept short story submissions these days, please 💖