Emma Tumilty (she/her)

I just bookmarked this and you may want to, as well. 🙄

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

its genuinely horrifying to have professors telling the class ‘i have to watch what i say now, in case i lose my job’ and warning us about democratic backsliding. we literally live under an oppressive authoritarian regime.

The thing about 7 billionaire freaks passing the same increasingly large wad of IOUs back and forth, is that only a pundit could possibly think this translates to increasing prosperity for everyone else.

Stuart Hall took Thatcherism seriously & tried to understand its affective & aspirational appeal. Trumpism operates differently, as @cnewf.bsky.social notes, but the need to offer a cultural & political counter-strategy is key. I keep thinking about Hall’s adept use of new forms of media.

The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments Cities create challenging environments for many nonhuman species, and the presence of nonhumans in cities influences the health and well-being of the humans with which they share the environment. Dist...

In a 2020 #ScienceReview, researchers investigated how systematic racist practices such as residential segregation have led to an unequal distribution of “nature” within cities.

Learn more on #WorldHabitatDay: https://scim.ag/3KQnEir

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

REBUILD Calendars - Darkness Rising Project 2026 REBUILD Calendar Each month showcases powerful artwork and uplifting quotes from current and formerly incarcerated individuals, who are compensated for their contributions. Last year’s calendar i...

Every year the Darkness Divided folks make a calendar that features artwork and poetry by currently and formerly incarcerated people, who are compensated for their contributions. See more here (they sell out): www.darknessrisingproject.org/rebuildcalen...

The incredible arrogance of OpenAI With Sora 2, OpenAI is betting it can spit in the face of workers, creators, and the biggest media conglomerates on the planet — and win

OpenAI's Sora gambit is somehow even more reckless and arrogant than we've grown accustomed to with the company. OpenAI is betting that it can spit in the face of creatives, workers, and the largest media companies on the planet—and bend copyright law to its whims.

Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names. When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.

But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.

By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com

Give the new Research Ethics journal account a follow for the latest updates on publications and journal issues, as well as calls for special issues, etc.

Picture of group logo over landscape image (image of wheat field at dusk). Text reads: Are you interested in: Deceased donation or transplantation of organs, cells or tissues? research ethics? use of human organs, cells or tissues in research? Please provide your feedback on new draft ethical guidelines for research that includes deceased donors https://redcap.link/integrity (Includes logos of ESOT, ISODP, and TTS)

Are you interested in #ResearchEthics or research related to #DeceasedDonation, or a someone who has had family donate their organs after death? We are a group who are creating research ethics principles for research on deceased donation and we'd like your input (see flyer).

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

Image of page from Disabling Intelligences. The text is in this thread.

Re: the Windy City, 🧊, and social media surveillance

Patricia Hill Collins reminds us that "oppression cannot be reduced to one fundamental type, and that oppressions work together in producing injustice."

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The #SST26 call for papers is live! Deadline 14th Dec. Theme: “Theology: A Discipline of Failure”
Bursary applications also open

www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/...

Book cover for Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine edited by Lisa Diedrich and Briana Martino. The image on the cover is from Ian Williams, & is a version of an image from his book The Bad Doctor, a graphic narrative based on his own experience with OCD. A boy is in bed with his hands folded in prayer & his thoughts take the form of a sefirot surrounding his head.

Look at this gorgeous cover for Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine!! Thanks to Ian Williams for giving us permission to use his image on the cover, which captures brilliantly the concept & structure of the book. Briana Martino (@briwok.bsky.social) & I are grateful & thrilled!
#GraphicMedicine

The AI bubble, which accounts for over a third of the US stock market, which exceeds the amount of consumer spending, which has literally warped the entire tech industry into an incestuous ponzi scheme of funding, is 17 times bigger than the dot com bubble.

Again, Kavanaugh justified racial profiling by claiming that this doesn't happen--a justification that becomes more preposterous with each passing day as Trump's goons terrorize more people based on the color of their skin

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

The absolutely horrific reports of inhumane and degrading treatment that the courageous people abducted from the Sumud Flotilla have been subjected to should jolt the Prime Minister Albanese and Minister Wong into action.

They took 4 Black children from their US citizen parents. Chicago PD needs to make kidnapping arrests. Now.

There is no need to compare ICE to a foreign group when the Klan—a home grown group of masked men who terrorized communities of color—is right there for comparison.

No lie.

The Campus Crisis Toolkit

Good news! The full table of contents for THE CAMPUS CRISIS TOOLKIT, edited by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and Lisa Di Bartolommeo, is now available on the @sunypress.bsky.social website: sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-.... Follow the link or see next post for screenshots. 🤗

"AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix The author of 'Why We Fear AI' on why he sees generative AI as "class warfare through enshittification."

If you follow AI, you've heard a number of cognitive scientists weigh in with valuable insights and concerns. You may not have heard from one quite like Hagen Blix, however, who describes generative AI as "class warfare through enshittification."

My interview with @hagenblix.bsky.social:

so excited to be part of the Give Writers Money club, though I do wish theft was not involved and it was just a rich guy writing us all checks to be nice instead of us being compensated for the wrongs done us

not a single news org signed. that's what it takes. stand together. everywhere, every time.

“And in this respect, I’m coming to understand the AI hype machine as part and parcel of the fascistic project. That’s not an analogy. I’m not saying AI is similar to fascism, or parallel to it. I’m saying AI is fascism.”

Every U.S. state incarcerates women at a higher rate than most of our closest international allies.

How does women's incarceration in your state compare to the rest of the world? Find out in our new report 👇
www.prisonpolicy.org/global/women...

Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.