Kory Riemensperger

I think a lot of people's fears of urban life are fed by the luxury belief that violence is about stranger danger and dark alleyways when it's more often about family and poverty. Any woman could get on the rankest subway car at 1 a.m. and statistically be safer than they are at home

has shams announced the new pope yet

NPR and PBS' history starts in the 1920s, founded on the conviction that the general public--everyone--should have equal access to local, regional, and national news as well as educational programs such as Sesame Street. Shepperd's article offers crucial background for the battle over NPR and PBS.

Happy Earth Day!!! #birds

#EarthDay

So Google's latest consent violation is them generating "AI" audio of your voice in YouTube as an opt-out "service."

Here's how to turn it off (original images reposted with alt text):

ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' | TechCrunch A few ChatGPT users have noticed a strange phenomenon recently: occasionally, the chatbot refers to them by name as it reasons through problems.

Information asymmetry, and a reminder that chatgpt is wholly a surveillance technology.

North Carolina Rapper Among 15 Hip-Hop Artists Jailed under State of Exception

Hardly anyone talks about this but U.S. citizens have already been imprisoned under El Salvador's State of Exception. This is an article I translated in 2023. As far as I know, Nelson is still in prison.

Eno!

underrated album.

For new Bluesky followers wondering about this post, the relationship between Donald Trump and pro-wrestling is something I’ve written about for a few years.

The 2024 election campaign was even more directly seeped in pro-wrestling than the 2016.

Absolutely devastated.

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trump got a steelworker from Alabama and not Pittsburgh????? country in decline

My go to online bookshop

oh, youre here from tik tok? (chuckle's lightly ) Is that like reddit for babies

#OtD 7 Jan 2019 Wet’suwet’en land defenders in Canada were attacked by the RCMP, who had been authorised to use deadly force in order to assist the construction of an oil pipeline through Wet’suwet’en ancestral lands. Learn more in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podca...

The cover of my Local Media class's Philadelphia Local Media Field Guide. Green cover, title in pink text, contributors' names and topics in white

A spread from the book, with a green background + collage on the left, and the introductory text on the right

Another spread from the book featuring two collages on green background

A close-up of a chapter on community fridges

This was one of my favorite prjcts from last year. The subject is ✨, timely, + important, and I did my best to animate it. Yet my students' + institution's 💔 disinterest was also illuminating, concretizing our misalignment + my need to go where I'm useful localmedia.wordsinspace.net/spring2024/o...

"But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm."

Academic job market support network is an open repository for sample job materials. Please use, share, and contribute!

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@iburiedpaul90.bsky.social more cat photos, please.

Tracing Neighborhoods in the Sky

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Red Bellied Woodpecker. It's woodpecker season in Maryland and Virginia. #birds

l'appel de la voix.

"This book is about a geography apprehended through sound, made through sound: a resonant ecology…Humpback song and Indigenous metal…Their polyphony...reveals sound as a site for charting how nature-society relationships are made and unmade in geographies marked by capitalist and colonial change."

A Resonant Ecology by Max Ritts

Picked this up at the @dukepress.bsky.social booth yesterday - the Sign, Storage, Transmission series just doesn't miss