appierce.bsky.social

Everything Reacting to Everything, All at Once Why the Trump administration is posting messages like “THIS IS OUR HEMISPHERE” after the attack on Venezuela

Not sure how to summarize this one. Wrote about the podcaster-occupied government invading for content, how the algorithmic internet is governed by the logic of reaction videos, and how it has contributed to a very nihilistic illiterate politics and culture of performance for imagined audiences

Once again: this is not something that "threatens" academic freedom, though it will doubtless be reported that way. This is only possible where academic freedom has already ended.

Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants

comrade JCO gets it completely

CHOP FROM THE TOP

(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)

The Financial Times' Bryce Elder (@bryce.lol) wrote up a piece about my newsletter.
www.ft.com/content/fce7...

“I identify as a queer man today as part of a political project,” says Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi, author of the new memoir "Fire in Every Direction."

“It's not just a sexual identity. It expands beyond that, and rejects Zionism and rejects authoritarianism.”

i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

Mutual Aid Dean Spade Mutual Aid Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) 2020

I find Dean Spade's work alongside other feminist, anti-racist, disability justice writing on this topic absolutely crucial in trying to strategize against this many-headed, neoliberal, "late-stage" capitalist monstrosity.

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dean...

Our connections to one another and our ability to create communities and care for them are at stake and up for sale.

the GenAI industry is actively profiting off of, and worsening, the neoliberal atomizing project keeping people isolated from one another and keeping repro. labor unsupported

A photo of Angela Davis at a microphone (a Black woman with an afro hairstyle and a polka dotted red shirt) alongside text reading, "'The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework' (1981) By Angela Davis"

The easing of the mental burden of care work has been a key strategy in advertising LLMs. The burden of writing a sympathetic message to a friend or creating a schedule.

Burdened by unpaid rote physical tasks, with no remaining brainpower to care for our loved ones/ourselves, we automate the care

A screenshot of the cover of Jennifer Denbow's book, "Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype." The cover is gray with the image of many white wires.

@jennydenbow.bsky.social unpacks this abandonment and devaluation of reproductive labor in her book, wherein neoliberalism and the fetishization of tech innovation exist alongside and through this degradation of feminized labors

The way that we have abandoned parents and children in the US, removed every social service or safety net, and continue to rocket toward climate collapse with no care for future generations is the context that must be added when we think about this issue.