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crucial coverage from The Guardian that features our collaborative, movement-building website
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I agree with this and it's something for which community groups should already be developing concrete plans. I think reparations are already due.

I thank them in our little protocol sheet, but I'll also acknowledge here that @caiti-blog.bsky.social and Xinan Ran helped me design our production process, prepare materials, and paste-up the whole thing :)

I'm so sorry you've been through this, too, Lucretia — but I'm glad those good days have returned ❤️

Bibliomancy For The Living Autobiography In The Third Person Thoughts about my new project here, autofiction, third person memoir and living autobiography.

We drew some inspiration from @alexanderchee.bsky.social's bibliomancy exercise :)

A photo of the Poets House atrium, with letters painted on the windows casting reverberant shadows

People sitting in couches and at table alone the windows overlooking Hudson River Park; bookshelves to the right

Our Oulipian prompt sheet with slips of colored paper, on which participants wrote passages collected from books

Our collaged book of poetic scraps

Today in Search & Discovery we visited Poets House, explored the space + their new catalog + digital asset management system, then did a little aleatory composition / exquisite corpse zine-making exercise. After I collect bad cover art, I'll share :)

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Thank you, McKenzie ❤️

Same to you, Jeanne ❤️

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I’m so sorry to know that you’ve been here too, Benjamin. Thank you for your well wishes ❤️

Thank you , Adia ❤️

"We realized we were making ourselves deeply vulnerable to a class action suit that absolutely would have wiped us out financially so we're going to find a way to do this without actual human names attached."

The Laid-off Scientists and Lawyers Training AI to Steal Their Careers Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.

this is a horror story nymag.com/intelligence...

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Result! Just received from Grammarly:
"Hi,

Thank you for reaching out.

After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces."
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Thank you, Christina ❤️

Thank you, Emily ❤️

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Thank you, Mariame ❤️

Thank you, Meredith ❤️

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we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'

A war no one wants among people who don’t care about us making tech to kill us.

I didn’t know Phil well — I met him a few years ago when he offered me a job, which I (regrettably) didn’t take — but it was clear that he sought to make a data school a very human place 💐

Rest in Power, Phil Bourne. He was a kind and decent person who managed to actually do that thing that UVA and so many other institutions have as their aspiration: to be "both great and good" - to pursue excellence and also to make the world a better place.

One thing we kind of know but I'm not seeing discussed enough re: Iran is Trump's view that every state clearly must be/is run by a single autocrat who makes every decision. It's how he views business and politics and is why he likes people like Milei, Putin, etc. He figured Maduro was that way(1/x)

PLATFORM: Resettler Nationalism Makes Rental Babies The following is an excerpt from a chapter in Esra Akcan’s book Architecture and the Right to Heal: Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster (Duke University Press, 20...

An excerpt from my book "Architecture and the Right to Heal" is published in PLATFORM. Thank you PLATFORM editors and especially Kishwar Rizvi for this opportunity: "Resettler Nationalism Makes Rental Babies" @dukepress.bsky.social @cornellaap.bsky.social
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notes from fallow on lying as method

"What if... the goal of method is to assemble ppl around shareable scenes + situations? What if method is a call that gathers different ppl—... in the call + response tradition... What if method calls us to assemble so we can be curious, so we can share wonder, so we can muse on possibility?"

I really don't think people understand the degree of organization that is happening in so many regular neighborhoods in America.

It is really hard to overstate how much damage has been done to this country on a purely institutional level, and we have three more years of this shit.