I think they drove your priestess Kossil mad a long time ago; I think she has prowled these caverns as she prowls the labyrinth of her own self, and now she cannot see the daylight any more.
to write in long form is to reckon with yourself
i wonder about people forming newsletter/blog collectives where they edit each other and get work out into the world together, not for the purposes of building a business, but for the purposes of doing good work, keeping the tools sharp, and speaking needed words into the world
something i've been thinking about for weeks is how to say that i think writers should get paid for our writing but if they won't pay us, actually it's important we keep writing anyway
don't want to advocate giving away labor for free but the alternative, where we don't write, seems catastrophic
it feels like a small thing in context of all of the other things but it is a piece of the larger authoritarian project that there are fewer places to publish essays now and the carefully edited essay as a public form for thinking and responding and criticizing and analyzing is in trouble, i think
CD is 100 dollars or so short of sustainability. Incredibly valuable resource for anyone who cares about games, whether for research or just casual reading. Also like... look lmao, web's as fractured as it's ever been. Having the roundup gather a bunch of cool stuff you'd never see otherwise is good
Meaning, how do your reframing mechanics, in your view, potentially help us 'reframe' the world around us? See beneath to those invisible systems, or practice 'agential reframing' in our own lives? Would love to hear your thoughts here!
@chan.gallery This was awesome! I put a question too late in the chat, about framing in your works. Zantar uses reframing as a mechanic/device to help us see our own agential role in the game, and world. How do you think about your viewers taking this ability to ‘see the frame’ and reframe offline?
Being bold here, but I’ve combined the Critical AI starter packs and some others (ie, contributors to @techpolicypress.bsky.social) to create a Critical AI feed. It’s a bit unfiltered at the moment but I am working on it. Find it & subscribe here: bsky.app/profile/did:...
“Machine intelligence doesn’t transcend human fragility but echoes and amplifies it.”
@prometheanwatch.bsky.social reviews Lawrence Lek’s NOX High-Rise at @hammer.ucla.edu, up until 11/16, in LARA no. 2.
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One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way. What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money. Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight. To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.
TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
“So you say you're under a curse? So what? So's the whole damn world.“
The idea of interacting with surveillance tech wearing bros who are doing ‘vibe thinking’ is where I found the pitchfork leaping into my hand techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/h...
…I’m also struck that they — in their brilliance, creativity, competence, and ethical commitment — represent what the academy *could be*, but it’s burning them all out, exhausting their goodwill. Their obligations are now to each other, rather than to the industry for which they’ve sacrificed.
Another thing you can do is be less useful. If you use Instagram, use it in a way that generates less engagement. Click through a few stories then drop off the app, don't use the feed, avoid clicking or staying on any ads, and (as Geoffrey. Fowler of the Washington Post recommends) reset your feed regularly. Delete the data that these companies have on you regularly. and any time a company asks you for feedback that isn't about a customer service rep, skip it or close your browser, as that data is only useful to them. In general, engage with apps less — both in the amount of time you spend on them and the amount you interact with their features — and obsessively read every_privacy policy. These companies make billions off of idle, muscle-memory-based use of their software, so get used to their tricks, and work against them. And if you really don't use a service, stop using it. I will not, however, judge you for staying. I'm still on Instagram because it's where a lot of my friends are and I like seeing what they're up to. Again, I'm not against these products in principle. I just hate what they've become. More importantly, I want you to find solidarity with others against the Rot Economy. Every single person you meet is a victim, every single person you meet faces similar problems to you, and every single person you know is likely angry at email spam, the collapse of social networks and Google, or the abominable state of modern business software.
Want to fight back? Be less useful. Click less things, lower time on apps, do not give them feedback, regularly delete your data, read every privacy policy. These companies make billions off of idle scrolling - so never scroll idly again.
www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/
Hey bro I don't wanna sound like I don't trust you but I can't help but notice that you're acting as a friend and guide to our party yet you aren't in the box art
I had this scene as my background header on different personal pages for years. Wake up, pretty girl; the joke is ON YOU!
Obsessed with the Liam Neeson-Pamela Anderson romance and her make-under revolution but can't help but think of Dawn Campbell's turn in I Heart Huckabees. youtu.be/cu64xOaDe7Y?...
Mike Davis, City of Quartz
Nora Khan, Seeing. Naming. Knowing
Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism
Ruha Benjamin’s body of work
Thea Riofrancos, Resource Radicals
Anne Elizabeth Moore, Cambodian Grrrl and New Girl Law
Casey Johnston, “The DIY Dumbphone Method” (for funsies)
People liked it when I shared these last time so here are the reading recs I make for each writing student at semester's end (my classes are capped at 20 & can run with as few as 8 so it's not unwise for me to commit to this). These are for students in True Stories, a narrative nonfiction course:
Thank you for reading!
Late to this, but I finally got my copy of Holo 3, “Mirror Stage: Between Computability and its Opposite,” edited and (much of it) written by Nora Khan & Peli Grietzer and it’s brilliant. Many of you will dig it. www.holo.mg/shop/holo-3/
the only “grey lady” I respect is the spirit who sobs in the corner of my bedroom from 2-3am each night
I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them
do you ever randomly think of someone and say “our arc is not yet finished!!l” or are you a normal person and not a writer, asking for myself
creative writing is way harder than coding what the hell
A lot of us have backgrounds like this I’d guess.
Interesting book by this Mexican anthropologist, going against both physicalism and panpsychism to read consciousness as situated between the mind and the world, the neural and the symbolic.
I think ppl should be paid a living wage to do doctoral level research in the humanities purely for its own sake, to produce knowledge and understanding of the human.
