Dean Dettloff

Thanks! I'm actually less interested in tools per se and moreso in these kinds of process questions, so this is helpful.

Thanks!

Thanks! Do you have any kind of template for notes, or any pieces of advice for notetakers? Some arguments in the sector for AI is that notetakers often take uneven notes or either gather too much or too little info. Personally I think that's just part of it, but I'm curious about manual methods.

Feel like this is a good @prisonculture.bsky.social question.

Social movements have had to figure out how to gather, interpret, and use large datasets derived from people discussing things forever. In this age of everyone arguing for AI, what are your favorite methods for manually taking notes in small groups and collating information in a meaningful way?

Once our book is out there it'll clear everything up.

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I don't want a tax break I want a government that isn't slashing budgets in every department and calling it an investment in Canadians.

And the Dems will reward him with contracts when they're back in the executive office, as they did just recently when they were in the executive office.

"Degrowth" is a conversation. There are Marxists in that conversation (Hickel, Saito, Foster, Löwy, etc.). There are other people in that conversation too. In Enough Is Enough, @mattbernico.bsky.social and I draw on Marx quite a bit and explicitly, which is an intervention in the conversation.

Degrowth | Columbia University Press The term “degrowth” has emerged within ecological and other heterodox schools of economics as a critique of the idea (and ideology) of economic growth. D... | CUP

Fwiw, degrowth isn't simply Marxist. There are Marxist currents within degrowth, along with other currents (especially anarchism and some social democratic voices). Kallis in particular has a respectable argument for why he appreciates Marx but isn't a Marxist here: cup.columbia.edu/book/degrowt...

"people tell me"

My guy just read a book, there are so many of them. You can even read an article, there are so many of those too. E.g.:

monthlyreview.org/articles/pla...

I read this and now you all have to read it too.

omg it hurts me to read this

What if Pope Leo took a maximal Humanae Vitae level stance opposing AI

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

I do appreciate this analysis.

A New Book Smashes Idols of Economic Growth This excerpt from ‘Enough is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, and Liberation Theology’ makes the case for faithful resistance to wanting more and more.

"In their appeal for degrowth...the bishops propose a revolutionary conversion of all of society, one that would require dethroning growth as the ruling ideology of global and national economies."
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Fortress authors are very cool actually

By German theologian Dorothee Sölle, from Of War and Love (1983)

Yes there have been a few journalistic documentaries, but I feel like they fit naturally into the niche of longer form prestige TV docuseries. It's a bit strange that Shen Yun hasn't broken the containment of journalism.

Idk I feel like Mormons don't enjoy any real cultural cache outside of Utah and are the butt of a lot of jokes. There have been plenty of journalist exposés on Falun Gong and Shen Yun for years. Feels sort of overripe.

How is there not a compelling HBO docuseries about Shen Yun yet? Feels like right now is exactly the moment for something about an anticommunist Chinese acrobat cult that publishes a fascist newspaper but manages to have a poster in every cafe on your block.

Porco Rosso is a single film about an antifascist pig that features pirates. PotC is a series of films about how capitalism and colonialism are disenchanting the world and only piracy can resist it. As far as *pirate movies* go there's simply no contest.

A similar sentiment underlies my permanent unironic love for the greatest cinematic franchise of all time, Pirates of the Caribbean.

Embargo Is a Polite Word; For Cubans, It’s ‘Crucifixion’ Cuban Christians are making a tangible difference amid an economic crisis with no end in sight.

"U.S. policy toward Cuba has never been about justice or human rights, but in the 21st century, this policy is also something of an anachronism, ideologically belonging to a Cold War framework."
sojo.net/articles/opi...

Volume 54, Issue 1 - Spectrum Magazine From Our Office2 Why Liberation Theology Might Refresh the Faith of Our Fathers | BY ALEXANDER CARPENTER3 From Whom Does God Liberate Us Now? | BY CARMEN LAU6 Liberation Theology and the Future of Adv...

The Seventh Day Adventists put out a very interesting magazine issue on liberation theology featuring Elsa Tamez, Franz Hinkelammert, and others. Angelica Tostes (of @tricontinental.bsky.social) has a great piece on generational change in liberation theology.
spectrummagazine.org/journal/volu...

Proud to have @giorgoskallis.bsky.social's endorsement for Enough Is Enough, out May 12!
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Italian food is obviously God-tier but that first pour over coffee at home beats any cafe espresso.

Catholic clergy gain access to Broadview ICE facility—when no one's there A federal judge ordered immigration authorities to allow religious leaders inside the facility for Ash Wednesday.

Three Catholic clergy entered the Broadview ICE facility on Ash Wednesday afternoon for court-ordered visit, only to find out no one was being held there when they arrived.

Instead of leaving, they waited to minister to new detainees brought in after 4 pm.

My latest for the @chicagoreader.com: