I trust you're all living in accordance with my teachings on the sanctity of revenge.

JOB ALERT: Assistant Professor of Art at Smith College, focusing on artists’ books and artist publications:

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When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Communiversity Catalog: How to Create a Personal Archive — Interrupting Criminalization

Whew, what a day? Popping in here for a minute to share that we have opened up more slots for my "How to Create A Personal Archive" Communiversity session happening on Saturday [in person]. We can use a bigger room to accommodate more people. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...

From THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP, on the stripping away of American rights. The book is mostly a family travelogue. But new laws were devised midway through our travels, and I got mad, and wrote that down too.
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

I keep thinking I need to feel less doomstruck but then more doom just comes along and strikes me.

Dear friends,
As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here:
#everynightapoem

This is the perfect encapsulation of Trumpism -- because of its obsession with imagery, the White House crew caused a problem but blamed it on other people, leading to MAGA making threats against the United Nations for their own screw up

I'll be speaking at the Plants on Paper exhibit opening reception on Oct. 3 from 3-5PM - let me know if you'd like an invite! We'll look at some gorgeous botanical illustrations, herbarium specimens, cyanotypes, and other 19thC plant-based objects, many of them produced by women. 🌸

And if you're in the area, check out the exhibit Plants on Paper: Artists' Engagement with the Green World at Yale's Arts Library, which is beautiful and rich (checklist + bibliography linked on the website). Open until 11/2.

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Everything is terrible but the house smells like brownies so at least there’s that.

So yes, lots of bad shit happens, we are set back frequently by assholes and bad luck, but we still keep staggering forward toward a better world.

I hate so much of what is happening in the US, but it’s actually still a really good time to be alive compared to all the others.

it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.

An animal hide covered in blue felt with a floor plan of a museum drawn on it

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

This came to me in a vision

the early bedtimes will continue until morale improves @jpbrammer.bsky.social

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now.

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A politician and his party who don't accept they can legitimately lose elections have no basis to insist they can legitimately win elections.

You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.

“We” is more important here.

we have both computers and science fiction because Byron was so insufferable it inspired all the women around him to come up with elaborate reasons to get away

Every city choose your anti-fascist culinary projectile challenge.

There’s totally a Buffy episode about this.

Here's a hot take: Libraries would be a lot less susceptible to mission creep and values decay if library workers, particularly in administration, had a little more self-respect for who we are and what we do.

Deleting 1,000 emails would have a carbon benefit of about five grams CO2e. Using a laptop for 30 minutes to delete those emails would emit about 28 grams of CO2e.

Destroying the corporations responsible for climate collapse would be so much more fun and effective.

Art history grads: Learn to crit, losers

Just read (+ blurbed) the galleys of this book! It's 🌟🎉🪴🔥💕!! A thrilling, moving, heartening text, given shape through @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's + @wehere.bsky.social's clever play on bibliographic + bureaucratic form. Such a ✨ mix of protocol + improvisation. Can't wait to see this out in the 🌏

People who put very sticky price stickers on the *front covers* of books should have a special place in at-least-purgatory, where they can ponder their crimes for a good long while.

We're holding a celebration of public transit/benefit show & looking for SEPTA employees who also have a fun skill they'd like to show off. Do you know a bus driver who can play a musical instrument? Do you know a rail machinist who can juggle? Send em my way! gettingbare.eventbrite.com