when rather
when rather
Friend and I were thinking yesterday where are the equivalents of sex pistols now in these days where everything is breaking
"If the redeployment happens, it will feed the perception that the U.S. is prioritizing its Middle East interests ahead of an Asian ally". S Korean media said several US military flights already observed that could be potentially moving Patriot, THAAD systems out from Osan.
“Oil stocks in the region vary: Thailand has enough for 95 days while Indonesia — the most populous country in the region — has only around 25 days.”
I Take into My Arms More Than I Can Bear To Hold Janet Frame Reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency from Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books 2008) I take into my arms more than I can bear to hold I am toppled by the world a creation of ladders, pianos, stairs cut into the rock a devouring world of teeth where even the common snail eats the heart out of a forest as you and I do, who are human, at night yet still I take into my arms more than I can bear to hold Poems on the Underground tfl.gov uk/poems poemsontheunderground.org MAYOR OF LONDON ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND BRITISI COUNC THEPOETRYSOCIETY PORTIN LINEAR TRANSPORT FOR LONDON EVERY JOURNEY MATTERS
seeing a young boy reading a book on the bus- not sure why this feels heartbreaking and not comforting as it is
University AI policy
it's quite a show to watch self-harm unfolding live
“Is that the reason why Germany’s culture commissioner, Wolfram Weimer, is now consulting the domestic intelligence agency before approving funds to bookshops?… A quick look at the three bookshops is telling: they are antifascist, they are proud of it and they are institutions in their communities.”
unedited, forgive the grammar mistakes, repetitions.... it's going to be about deniability and impunity in the end. tentative title: "rules are for losers"
*long time ago
yes everything is shaped by the imaginary which is basically not saying very much. structure and causality need more analysis than tendencies.
Pace Kim Sang-Hyun, who I had the pleasure of meeting a long time, I think it's really time to put down to rest the "sociotechnical imaginary" concept for a more granular, materialist and historical analysis of temporality
You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
Words fail me.
another day in this world with a narcissist “world leader” and sycophants who think they are short cutting capitalism
they really think we are this stupid
Trump: All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are right now walking around with no legs.
New pub alert! My article is out in Science as Culture sciasculture.bsky.social!
'Tech oligarchy meets developmental state: translating developmentalist and regulatory imaginaries to platform capitalism in South Korea'
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
They use it in environmental law and tort - can try to send you something if I manage to find it again
That, too
There is a notion of causal correlation, too…
We were both catholic and met in parish/church. Irony is truth.
My first boyfriend
“The one whose story you read is more yourself than you are.”
(“Celui dont vous lisez l’histoire est plus vous-même que vous-même.”)
— Pascal Quignard, Mourir de penser
so far prefer it to ernaux if a comparison was necessary
starting to get hjorth-pilled and i thought i was over autofiction
one of the most efficient local-global networks unified in one jurisdiction that i know. and zero accountability.
the globality of the catholic church administered by meticulous record keeping in small parish rooms, responding in person and sending scan of baptism certificates for another parish across oceans. antidote to german notary bureaucracy. guess no apostille is needed when you claim divine authority