@jasonread.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift More here: http://www.unemployednegativity.com
Bento (dog) on phone screen
Apple has added tons of apps and features to their phones, but the only one that has improved my life is the ability to use a different picture of my dog every hour for a lock screen
12.12.2025 16:32 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i want to be clear about this: workerβs rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
12.12.2025 15:54 β π 3153 π 463 π¬ 25 π 20A government telling you that Antifa is the biggest terrorist threat is also telling you something about itself, about what kind of state it aspires to be.
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Iβve coverd more of the book sales waterfront than most, bestsellers & tiny sellers, popular works & deliberately fringe works. But i feel confident of 2 truths: her advance was more than that of my 8 books together, & yet every one of them outsold this. www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
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Stealworkers
11.12.2025 13:55 β π 8002 π 1843 π¬ 189 π 258One particular important aspect of this phenomenon is how the promotion of generative AI has inculcated into people that such programmes contain knowledge, & has access to or the ability to find knowledge inaccessible to human beings. Trust is being rerouted from human expertise to digital gods.
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there are not enough hotdog gifs in the world
11.12.2025 01:03 β π 2091 π 248 π¬ 53 π 24LLC Twitter + hustle culture + monetize your hobbies = the unrelenting A.I slop being force fed to us
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Absolutely chilling read (as a disinformation researcher):
The systematic crackdown on disinformation scholars, newsrooms, factcheckers and NGOβs. All in the name of so-called free speech.
By @jamesrball.com @theverge.com
www.theverge.com/features/839...
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a βwastefulβ diversity move
10.12.2025 01:04 β π 2320 π 496 π¬ 1237 π 2792Criterion is great and if this gets more people to subscribe then that would be a good thing.
10.12.2025 17:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βI am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI canβt do it.β
Ethan Hawke is a dude ππ»
We define progress is purely technological terms, but anything that increases our ability to spread racist lies is not progress.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...
That Netflix would produce Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague and yet do nothing to expand their streaming services to include any of Godard's films demonstrates stunning confidence in their audiences lack of curiosity.
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Happy birthday, John Cassavetes. Here are three songs which mention him by name, which is not a lot of songs but more than many other directors get.
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My brother's recent exhibit made the best of the year list in Houston.
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Lmao I love how they present this breathlessly as a bold and new strategy when this is literally what every administration in every institution of higher education has been trying to do this for the last 25 years that I have been in US academia.
09.12.2025 16:23 β π 17 π 3 π¬ 3 π 0
Bento (dog) wearing skull and crossbones sweater with soccer ball in snow
This is how we play when it is well below freezing and the sun goes down at four
09.12.2025 16:09 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Revised and reposted.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/12/from...
A golden retriever holding an octopus in its mouth, so it looks like tentacles
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
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From my former @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social co-host, @jasonread.bsky.social. Brilliant, as always.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/05/do-y...
new squid just dropped
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one of the funniest pieces The Onion has done all year, and it's been a GOOD YEAR.
theonion.com/oprah-pursue...
I finished Gilah Kletenik's Sovereignty Disrupted on the flight back from Minneapolis and immediately had to write something about it.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/12/from...
Flying sideways
08.12.2025 01:42 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βKill all boats no matter where they are going or what they possessβ isnβt a strategy, itβs just a killing spree
07.12.2025 15:42 β π 1943 π 439 π¬ 63 π 17Boy does it hear good to hear a mayor talking like this.
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