How to Protect Your Right to Culture
The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.
"The right to culture is fundamental, and its revocation has grave consequences for the texture of daily life." You should definitely read this, by @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @isanchezprado.bsky.social
15.10.2025 14:01 — 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
#manga #horror
Lesser known that other mangakas Daisuke Terasawa's Warashii was my first manga introduction to J-horror. It combined traditional Yōkai/yāoguài bestiary with some very literal jump-scare panels. It also features small person warashi (Japanese: 童子), an archaic term for a child.
15.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Also "pivoting", whenever Zack or other techbros start using such vocabulary, I think they're signaling the same loyalty as Palantir/Mithril crowd...
15.10.2025 12:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Another graphic novel review up from me - The Power Fantasy continues to be just so goddamn /interesting/, because it takes its premises the right amount of seriously and gets properly invested in what they would mean morally and philosophically. I am so here for it.
14.10.2025 09:43 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Living in Authoritarian Times: An online conversation with Ghazaleh Alimardani (Iran), Rahul Bhatia (India), Volkan Çidam (Turkey), Maik Dele Dittrich Frydetzki (Germany), Joseph Howley (USA). Moderated by Zeynep Gambetti (Turkey).
26.10., 12.00 EST / 18.00 CEST. Live streamed.
08.10.2025 11:01 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
#woodwideweb #communism
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#Planetary
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#human #praxis
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#gender
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#marx
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#capitalism #gender
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#metabolic #relations
ur-division
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#labor #regenerative #subistence #worldecology
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#metabolicrift #gender
14.10.2025 12:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New paper dropped!
Led by @thosvarley.bsky.social and Pai Vaibhav, we show that flows of information within a #xenobot resemble flows of information observed in adult human brains.
Thomas provides caveats and context below.
w/ @drmichaellevin.bsky.social, Caitlin Grasso, & Jeantine Lunshof.
12.10.2025 12:52 — 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
05.10.2025 21:41 — 👍 201 🔁 217 💬 3 📌 3
Lack of "Discipline" by the state and government "oversight" over Big Tech likely derived from the same laissez faire religious doctrine of both economic & scientific realms, payed by the public but under corporate oligopolistic controls. Vannevar Bush and his "Science, the Endless Frontier".
13.10.2025 18:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Going to tell me students this was Baudrillard.
07.10.2025 11:39 — 👍 78 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 2
" #AI is the #asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”~Cory Doctorow
13.10.2025 15:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The "Slopacalypse" Is Here: AI Is an Unmitigated Disaster for Society
Sora 2, deepfakes, disinformation, and slop — plus some hilarious bloopers!
New Realtime Techpocalypse article is out! I think you're going to find this one interesting -- it contains highlights from all the AI-related doomscrolling you've been doing since September 30. Check it out, and subscribe for more.
www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-slopac...
11.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 47 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 2
Cover of paranoid finance by Fabian Muniesa on an ochre table cloth and blue cable
Bright book by @provokedeconomy.bsky.social for a dreary day
13.10.2025 11:42 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Sharepic mit dem Text: Kahlschlag in der Krankenhauslandschaft. Wie Schließungen und Privatisierung die medizinische Versorgung verschlechtern und was wir dagegen tun können
Die Lage spitzt sich zu: Immer mehr #Krankenhäuser melden Insolvenzen oder Schließungen. Vor allem kleinere Kliniken der Allgemeinversorgung sind betroffen. Was die Hintergründe dafür sind und wie wir den Prozess stoppen können. 👇
www.rosalux.de/publi...
11.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
Werbung für eine Publikation.
Schwarzer Text auf gelbem Hintergrund:
Veröffentlichung
Kolonialismus Erinnern
Ein geamtstädtisches Erinnerungskonzept des Landes Berlin
"Berlin übernimmt Verantwortung für seine koloniale Vergangenheit"
Mehr auf:
konzept.kolonialismus-erinnern.de
Kolonialismus Erinnern.
»Eine kritische Aufarbeitung des #Kolonialismus ist ... Voraussetzung für eine gerechte & diskriminierungssensible Gegenwart«
Dr. Ibou Diop
#Berlin übernimmt endlich Verantwortung für seine koloniale Vergangenheit & das Erinnerungskonzept "Kolonialismus erinnern" ist online🧵
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13.10.2025 08:46 — 👍 94 🔁 46 💬 1 📌 1
Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers
"The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.
My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”
12.10.2025 23:14 — 👍 365 🔁 115 💬 3 📌 13
a Hugo and Ignyte Award-winning fanzine covering fantasy, science fiction, video games, comics, cult movies, and other realms of nerddom since 2012.
http://www.nerds-feather.com/
History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
Scientist & skeptic. Dad. Book addict. Pathologically curious. Origins and Evolution of Complexity, Synthetic Transitions, Liquid Brains, and Earth Terraformation. ICREA + SFI professor. Author. Secular humanist.
Researcher/educator ● Exploring where science, biz & prosperity (or lack thereof) intersect ● Love digging into biz history & crafting cases ● Fascinated by stories on innovation v. financialization ● If not nerding out, most likely watching ⚽️!
We are economists and thinkers from a range of disciplines who challenge conventional wisdom and advance ideas to better serve society.
Erratum publishes books that confront the dead end of educated, literary culture, and deploys that culture against itself.
https://www.erratumpress.com/
Just a bunch of crabs in a trench coat, but also a professional marine biologist. My social media is separate from, and does not represent, my employer. Please bring croissants 🥐
https://linktr.ee/rebeccarhelm
California writer. Ida Tarbell stan. Beat: tech fascism, billionaire extremism, network state, crypto cartels.
Writing a book: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.”
The Nerd Reich: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Speculative fiction in translation | SFinTranslation.com | translates Italian sf | contributor at Strange Horizons, World Literature Today, Samovar. I also crochet.
Space industry by day, Science Fiction reader by night...
Love #books #movies #space #scifi and getting lost in galaxies far, far away :)
Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction.
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/
Latest novel "Lake of Darkness": https://store.gollancz.co.uk/products/lake-of-darkness
English Professor, Cetacean Enthusiast, Canine Therapy Human. I write about anthropogenic species extinction, Arctic ecosystems, more-than-human organisms, and blue humanities. Ocean obsessed! Fairbanks, AK. Views my own.
Tech Policy (University of Maryland & George Washington). data scientist. anti-monopolist. consumer advocate. former hill staffer.
Knowledge Curation Done Well. Non-Profit. Podcasts, videos, books, academic articles, and more. Subscribe: https://www.the-syllabus.com/
Chines, bandes dessinées, comics, manhua… He/him (Profile © 叶浅予 1935)
Historian and translator of Chinese comics and science fiction.
The British Association for Chinese Studies 英国汉学协会 英國漢學協會 is a non-political organization which aims to encourage and promote Chinese studies in the United Kingdom. For more information about us, please visit https://bacsuk.org.uk/
Postdoc at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #ChinaComx working on politics in/of Chinese comics after 1949 | PhD @uni-freiburg.de on political study practices in China (1950s-80s) | researching intersections of state socialism, visual culture, and everyday life
SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather, along with reviews elsewhere. 2025 Hugo Fan Writer finalist. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).
Doomsayer, Utopologist. Minor but representative. Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University.
