brendan coke

potus: "batshit.."

Cavanaugh, and NEH officials Adam Wolfson and Michael McDonald.

the National Endowment for the Humanities and others over its cutting of hundreds of millions of grants. DOGE members Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh were a driving force behind those cuts. The deposition videos, which the MLA uploaded to YouTube earlier this month, included depositions of Fox,

because its distribution has been decentralized. 404 Media verified that the torrent did contain the DOGE deposition videos.

The depositions come from a lawsuit the Modern Language Association, American Council of Learned Societies, and American Historical Association brought against

the title of the page on the Internet Archive reads. The page says the files were uploaded on Saturday. On the Data Hoarder subreddit, multiple users said they had downloaded a torrent of the videos. Once a torrent of files has been shared, it becomes much harder to fully delete off of the internet

404 Media. On Friday a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.

DOGE deposition videos in Depositions for MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit About the NEH,”

??..aww never mind..

well..at least we're not just sat around reading about albert tatlock and ena sharples all day..(without a right of reply..)

and (2) expanding and reorienting the political sphere. In doing so, we invite a broader inquiry into how democracy's renewal and alternative data governance approaches might reinforce one another.

various proposals to countervail these dynamics. On this basis, we argue for governance alternatives that embed countervailing forces to address democracy's crisis dynamics by (1) disrupting the mutually reinforcing relationship between data extractivism and the erosion of public authority,

This article argues for situating alternative data governance proposals within a dynamic account of democracy's crisis. Drawing on Nancy Fraser's neo-Marxian framework, we examine how this crisis is expressed, deepened, and reproduced by data extractivism and assess the capacity of

for deep democratic ordering. Such approaches remain analytically and normatively oblivious to the ongoing crisis of democracy under financialised capitalism and the countervailing dynamics necessary for meaningful political and technological transformation in this context.

Alternative data governance proposals have emerged across policy, civil society, and academic spheres in response to the harms of data extractivism. Yet, many of them either rely on individual decision-making or presume that existing public institutions possess the capacity

Information, Communication & Society. #OutNow in #iCS

How should data governance be rethought in light of democracy’s crisis? Bou Nassar and Calleja-López draw on Nancy Fraser to situate data extractivism within a neo-Marxian analysis of democratic erosion.

interminable (often brutal) shellacking(s).." (don't say: "and indeed why not..?") heh..why not indeed..(too late..!)

"shellacking(s) abound.."

"shellacking(s) a cookin..?"

and that a wide range of Labour figures are involved in the campaign committee such as a Westminster MP, Torsten Bell.)

Morgan “was angry that the central party [in London] took control of the Caerphilly by-election,” another of the people added.

(A Morgan ally disputed this reading of events, saying she would always take a bigger role as the election drew near,

One of the people said: “During Caerphilly, it became quite clear there were a lot of problems. Eluned wasn’t happy with Welsh Labour or the way the campaign was running. She did a lot of lobbying and got the Welsh executive to basically give her complete power over the campaign.”

Morgan has mounted a fightback since Plaid won October’s Caerphilly by-election.

She has hired Matt Greenough, a strategist who worked on London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s re-election campaign last year, said three people with knowledge of the appointment.

POLITICO Europe. In the old coalfields of south Wales, Britain’s center-left establishment faces being crushed by a nationalist left and populist right. We went to find out why. [a "political/cultural lashing" in the making..?]

to write for independent publications and engage with community initiatives. I helped to create events that brought together artists across forms and raised money for a local rape crisis centre.

keep my small studio space in a light-filled warehouse in the heart of Dublin. The Back Loft, one of the few affordable spaces left for artists, is a strong community of visual artists, musicians, writers, tattooists and knitters.

The basic income gave me more freedom to experiment in my work,

The Guardian. Ireland's basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck | Caelainn Hogan.

Only months into the scheme, I found out I was pregnant. The basic income helped me decide to have my baby, knowing I could continue creative work and

"clean it up homeboy.." (or indeed homegirl.."fly girl.. ")

ICYMI..chuckle chuckle.."oh for heracles' sake.." ["get on with it.."]

What..? He's a stone cold killer..

Arthur Morgan..a symbol of egalitarianism and justice..

heh..and why not..?