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Zack Furness

@punkademic.bsky.social

Professor | Noisemaker | Half-Steeler | Dad | Luddite | Books - One Less Car: Bicycling & the Politics of Automobility, Punkademics, The NFL: Critical & Cultural Perspectives | Views are mine alone | Pittsburgh, PA | https://linktr.ee/punkademic

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These would fix me

05.03.2026 05:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah it’s really great 😊

05.03.2026 05:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

this is a really fun article and great work from the NYT digital storytelling team. richard hell is a type of, like, semi-enlightened dirtbag that we just don’t make any more, for a lot of reasons.

04.03.2026 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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Look at my troll, dawg, I’m never getting across this bridge

16.09.2025 03:08 β€” πŸ‘ 172    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

AGENT SMITH: you hear that mr. anderson? that is the sound of inevitability. it is the sound of your death. goodbye, mr. anderson...

KEANU REEVES: my name... is Da_Puzzy_Smasher_64

[onboard nebuchadnezzar]

TRINITY: why did it have to be him

MORPHEUS: we don't get to choose these things, trinity

05.03.2026 04:46 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

03.03.2026 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 8008    πŸ” 1919    πŸ’¬ 106    πŸ“Œ 67

Yuuuup

05.03.2026 04:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They bombed a girl’s school. Twice.

05.03.2026 04:42 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds about right

05.03.2026 04:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

<washed up old rock star>
β€œThe CIA did this”

05.03.2026 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wait, you can bet on that? Prediction markets allow people to place money on the outcome of just about anything, but is that a good thing for our time and money?

A week and a day ago, I was on tv to talk prediction markets, and the risks of financializing everything. It seems pretty high risk for top secret info to become an opportunity for a (relatively anon via crypto) windfall. Watch the segment here www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/v...

05.03.2026 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes

05.03.2026 04:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ghetto Dub, by Bim Sherman 10 track album

Music for the healing of the planet

05.03.2026 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This could be us

05.03.2026 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Unabashed

05.03.2026 04:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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real grim

05.03.2026 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œreality-adjacent vibe”

05.03.2026 04:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Republicans see only two uses for children: sex and cannon fodder.

04.03.2026 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
This $50 Meal Plan Feeds You for the Week
YouTube video by LifebyMikeG This $50 Meal Plan Feeds You for the Week

A really useful video for people on a tight food budget. Everything from ingredients to recipes for a week’s food prep.

youtu.be/J24pCkgJoyQ?...

04.03.2026 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ™πŸΌβ€οΈ

05.03.2026 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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US launches military operations in Ecuador The joint military operation with Ecuador targeted what the U.S. called "designated terrorist organizations" in the country.

Bro, are you fucking kidding me rn??

US launches military operations in Ecuador - POLITICO share.google/Rxx2PtZgXpzM...

05.03.2026 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

We're basically the unwitting subjects of Mk-Ultra experiments run by the largest companies in the world.

04.03.2026 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 160    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
The Composer's Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America Theodore Gordon's first book tells us how a handful of practitioners (Morton Subotnick, Donald Buchla, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Lucier, and Sun Ra) realized their singular visions of music in cyberneti...

my review of Theodore Gordon's new book "The composer's black box" is on the Leonardo website.

leonardo.info/review/2026/...

Not sure what happened to my bibliography, lmk if you need any references.

An edited version might make it to print in a later Leonardo issue. maybe?

04.03.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

04.03.2026 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 15931    πŸ” 2544    πŸ’¬ 259    πŸ“Œ 130
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Chicago-Style Scorpion β€” Phineas X. Jones 8” x 10” Acrylic on Panel in a gold 13” x 15” frame, ready to hang.

Celebrate Chicago's birthday buy buying this Chicago-style scorpion from me

04.03.2026 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

"Ghost Town" by the Specials is the only recording of an actual skeleton vocal chorus.

04.03.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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Grammarly Is Offering β€˜Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authorsβ€”Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writersβ€”without their permission.

Once a simple proofreading tool, Grammarly is now bristling with AI features and a suite of "expert" agents based on the works of real authors. But the company doesn't ask permission and in some cases offers feedback from virtual versions of dead writersβ€”including one historian who died in January.

04.03.2026 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 319    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 26

β€œI love to eat product”

04.03.2026 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0