a small black teapot, a mao era teacup with a rising sun motif, and and small glass pitcher full of steaming green tea with visible condensation, all sitting on a green cotton placemat on a small white table
ok deleting this infernal portal from my phone, but before that some advice: drink more tea, support local artists, 读毛主席的书
«To collect photographs is to collect the world,» Susan Sontag once wrote. Where photography appropriated the world, generative AI exploits what has already been appropriated. To generate synthetic images is to let the world disappear behind the dominant patterns derived from already existing images
enough doomscrolling for the day/week, but: if you’re targeting water infrastructure you’re evil, and if you support this, at all, you’re also evil.
i saw a post recently that somehow migrated from the manosphere to whatever my digital milieu is, and it pains me to admit they’ve 1) discovered anthropology and 2) misinterpreted theories of initiation rites
I don't think I understand the outrage around Polymarket when the stock market exists. maybe im missing something
trump is married to an immigrant.
New Position: Associate or Full Professor in Cultural Studies at Maastricht University.
We are looking for a senior colleague who is capable and enthusiastic to take on management roles. Please share widely.
www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3589...
ai generated hamburger in a mcdonald’s ad. the sauces and the bun look very strange, especially where they touch each other.
AI slop in a mcdonald’s slop ad
new tag yourself just dropped
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
“squeeveillance”
essay published a year or two ago in surveillance & society @survstudiesnet.bsky.social
“squeeveillance”
LITERALLY just watching
'Amsterdam passed a world-first motion seeking to end the "excesses" of unsustainable advertising, such as "flying vacations at rock-bottom prices". And the city's newly passed ban goes even further by restricting advertising for meat as well as fossil fuel products.'
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
venn* but also venom tbh
venom diagram of gays worried about being transitioned against their will and straights worried about being homosexually hit on
New from Picketty's lab: The world can raise incomes toward global equity & stabilize the climate under "under very strict conditions"
—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment
New CAST report on "Hairdressers as ‘everyday influencers’ on climate change and sustainability", by Dr Briony Latter (@brionylatter.bsky.social) & Dr Sam Hampton (@samhampton.bsky.social). 📣💇
Read the report: cast.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Key messages thread 🧵
"surprisingly little attention has been paid to land in relation to pesticides—to the point of dismissiveness"
Exploring the Pesticide-Land Nexus
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Q. In the top of our story, we talk about the rally you attended in Managua and a wire report at the time said that there were anti-American chants from the crowd. The United States at that time - I don't know how much you know about this — was actively supporting the Contras to overthrow the government. So that there's anti-American sentiment? I remember that, I remember that event very clearly. You do recall hearing those chants? I think the wire report has them saying, "Here, there, everywhere, the Yankee will die." hey were fighting against American -- Huh huh--yes, what is your point? I wanted to —— Are you shocked to learn that there was anti-American sentiment? My point was I wanted to know if you had heard that. I don't remember, no. Of course there was anti-American sentiment there. This was a war being funded by the United States against the people of Nicaragua. People were being killed in that war. Do you think if you had heard that directly, you would have stayed at the rally? I think Sydney, with all due respect, you don't understand a word that I'm saying.
Bernie Sanders interviewed by NYT's Sydney Ember published on May 18 2019
www.the-scientist.com/generation-x...
imo everyone should read the essay from Salvage in the tweet below and also read this longer essay about opposition to war: www.academia.edu/64028197/Int...
I totally understand the impulse to point to elite illegality but Rob lays out why that isn't as effective as it feels like it is/should be.
can you teach something at Texas A&M? just follow this flowchart.
www.chronicle.com/article/insi... via @jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @mzahneis.bsky.social
Now online: 'A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979)' trans. Roberto Mozzachiodi.
what i love (read: don’t love) about duke press books is that you can read the title and subtitle and still have no clue what the book is about ♥️
i keep seeing people say european leaders are cowards or spineless. this is a bit true, but the bigger issue is that they're selfish and stupid and racist.
belgian foreign minister: this is a clear violation of international law
also belgian foreign minister: but who cares lol
www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1999...
150+ countries admit what we already know: endless GDP growth and sustainable biodiversity cannot coexist.
GDP growth = more extraction, more land use, more pollution.
Death by GDP is a choice. We need a Wellbeing Economy!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
1000s of public domain films that you can stream, no ads!
www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...
we need a universally accepted gif response for when your first impulse on social media is totally wrong and someone corrects you and they’re absolutely right, something that’s friendly and not performative and not super cloying or apologetic
