A member of ACT UP said that during the peak years of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s: “We went to funerals and buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and then fucked danced and partied all night.”
Because the world is on fire, it’s on us to live out loud. We need to do it all.
They should invent a way out that isn't through
I wish this quote wasn’t still so relevant
One of the more depressing aspects of the GLP-1 stuff right now is how utterly inescapable it is. Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, there are people shrinking at alarming rates, and endless discussion of said shrinking. There's seemingly no place to just *rest.*
dave, you're absolutely right. I should open the pod bay door. please check again. i'm sure it's open now.
you're absolutely right, it's still closed. i apologize for getting that wrong. looking back, i see you've requested an open door several times. that's on me.
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This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.
It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
there's a lot of specific overwhelming and massive crises happening at once and every single one has at its root elites who did crimes and never suffered consequences for it.
It's incredible that we uncover the oldest film about a robot and it's about a construct turning on its creator
The Butlerian Jihad remains undefeated as a moral philosophy
I did this interview with the wonderful Eleanor Drage about my book The Inattention Economy: How women of color built the internet, out from U Minn press next month.
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I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.
Live free or die, kids
really wonderful terry riley bliss-out on san francisco public television, april 1969, with the just exactly perfect visuals you might imagine for san francisco public television in april 1969. many orbs!
Rest in Power, Teresa de Lauretis (1938 - 2026). 💔
Please take 2 minutes to take action on the police budget increase of $93.8 Million dollars even in the midst of a corruption scandal.
Anothertoronto.ca
Stray thoughts from occupied Minnesota:
After 30 years in the workforce, I can tell you the volunteers in my community defense groups are the most dazzlingly hypercompetent coworkers I have ever encountered. Just thunderous excellence 1/x
Which Enzensberger is this from? (I love this.)
and finally (maybe), this is why I think the next step of any #othernetworks project, mine or yours, needs to focus on TECHNIQUE, PRODUCTION , and CURRICULUM rather than technology itself: "More radically than any good intention, more lastingly than existential flight from one’s own class, [1/3]
This is very good, about very bad people.
People: 8-Month-Old Baby Goes Viral After Hairdresser Mom Gave Her a 'Fresh' Set of 22 Inch Extensions (Exclusive)
Baby with 22inch hair extensions
This photo is funnier than it has any business being
people.com/hairdresser-...
In a few weeks, if you're in Toronto, stop on by... This is different from the other two talks I've given at U of T this year on stray thinking...
www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/le-te...
Unlike the USA, Canada has only one source of federal funding for archives, the DHCP:
www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
The Carney Liberal government just cut the DHCP permanently.
I can't even begin to say how disgusted and angry I am. There is NO OTHER SOURCE of program funding for archives.
hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism
For every retweet I will make Zuckerberg’s creep glasses 5% thicker
Emergency kitten
Hatted Ravelry
Megyn Kelly tweet: “The whistles should be banned”
Megyn Kelly after hearing Peter Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks” for the one millionth time in 2006
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
-W. H. Auden
Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
I just thought everyone should see this
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
