Maya Bornstein

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There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”

My dad used to quote this one a lot. He might still do, but he definitely used to.

My favorite E.B White quote was his response to join an arts council under Eisenhower:

"I must decline, for secret reasons."

"No" is a complete sentence but sometimes you want a little filigree on it, you know?

I've created a new AI assistant called Bartleby that politely refuses to do any task you ask it to do.

I am sincere when I say when lockdown happened and everyone decided to Go Onto Computer the majority of people didn’t have internet brainworm antibodies and now they’re the greatest marks known to man

i'd rather ask ursula from the little mermaid for a favour and life advice than ask chatgpt anything

you know you don’t have to call HR 1 the “big beautiful bill” right? you know that by doing so you’re carrying water for fascists, right, even though you’re trying to be ironic or w/e you’re doing the fascists a real solid? Just checking.

yeah this one is very bad rn. it's not funny or cute or "wow, these guys are wild" that there's a concentration camp in Florida. it's a horror. It's "the concentration camp at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport," but all major news outlets are going with "Alligator Alcatraz" in quotes.

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

An excellent video about eugenics, disability justice and masking

The story is this. There is a fan of such enthusiasm that their life is devoted to the music of others; they are, not to be overly technical, adjacent to the radio. One day they encounter an ordinary object. it could be a kite but it could just as well be a neon sign or a chewing gum wrapper, we could call this object common or trivial or proletarian , popular in the old sense, of the people, but in any regard the object is a commodity because that's the fate of objects in the modern world

RIP Joshua Clover. From "Roadrunner," which is a marvelous book

tweet from @marxnetwork - "We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. We will miss him forever. 1:22pm - April 28, 2025

Oooof, what a loss - how many people are equally concerned with, and adept at, both praxis and poetry? who can write books about both Jonathan Richman and the political economy of riots?

We will never know what would have happened if all arrests and deportations under the Nazis had gotten this kind of response.

We do know what happened when they didn't.

Info for international student workers What is this document? This is a living document maintained by SWC’s International Students Working Group and Cops Off Campus Working Group. We will keep adding to it as the situation develops and as...

My union @swcolumbia.bsky.social has created a resource to support international students who are experiencing increasingly higher risk of immigration enforcement. We have done this on our own time while the University has remained silent and complicit.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In case you live in a red state and feel like your voice doesn't matter--it does. Keep the pressure on.

I've said it before and I'll say it again
Public Libraries are inherently antifacist and supporting them is the most punk thing you can do 🤘🖤

Hear me out —

If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.

Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.

This is a great reminder from day one of how they work; three or four times a day, every day, they will do something and then insist they didn’t do it and force everyone to burn out arguing that it is what it is.

The sole purpose is to exhaust you and it will absolutely work if you let it.

A fluffy black cat asleep on their left side with paws mostly at one point in front and tail tucked and atop a red and blue and green quilt with white borders.

Today is an effort at shock and awe.

It is a directed, organzied, and planned effort to demoralize, confuse, and overwhelm.

Getting through today is important in part because things will be clearer and action points better defined with time.

NOT YOUR PERFECT MEXICAN DAUGHTER + YOU HAVE A MATCH

Alma Aguilar is set on breaking her family’s curse of bad luck. But meeting the half-sister she never knew and reuniting their late father’s band for one last show forces her to confront buried secrets and redefine her future. #BluePit #Q #YA

The people who were able to buy real estate back when it was affordable can shut the fuck up for the rest of forever.

The ethical case for resisting AI I had my moment of reality regarding generative AI in my chemistry and physics classes this past term. I’ve always had the student frustration “I can’t Google your homework problems!” as a point of…

Just in time for the AI policies to go into my syllabi - I've cleared my brain of all of its frustrations regarding generative AI.

I think it's important to resist the stuff. For all of us. And for no greater reason than preserving our humanity.

I think the stakes are that high.

meme showing ma looking at 2145661(1) PDF file while other girl named 2145661.PDF looks on angrily

Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:

I am once again thinking about this Nick Cave quote: "I'm forever near a stereo saying 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chilli Peppers"

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.

1) historicist/historiographic affordances of documentary poetry
2) material power of (Adamic?) language in fantasy novels

How to disable the AI on Word: go to file, options, trust centre, trust centre settings, privacy options, privacy settings, connected experiences and then disable.

FYI

a “socialist” asking me: “It’s almost 2025, what are you doing still talking about masking?”

What an unreal question. “It’s 2025, why haven’t you abandoned disabled and high-risk folks yet?”

“The rest of us all agreed to forget about you in 2021, why haven’t you caught up?”

Desktop sandwich chalkboard proclaiming “Today’s Special” with a hand-drawn burger, under which is written “The Historical Novel by ‘Spiders Georg’ Lukács”

Partner bought and illustrated this tiny sandwich board to help motivate me to read for my qualifying exams, and has been sneaking into my office to update the special whenever I start a new theory text. This week’s reading:

What Does "From the River to the Sea" Really Mean? The much-maligned slogan resists the fragmentation of Palestinian land and people by Israeli occupation and discrimination.

i basically need every zionist jew to read this.