April Anson
@aprilanson.bsky.social
Asst prof at UConn (English, AMST, NAIS). 26-27 Co-prez Association for the Study of Lit and Environment. Settler studying ecofascism and anti-racist/colonial enviro humanities.
We must fight these nightmare visions of the future directly and champion the kind of anti-oligarchy and anti-corruption politics that could meaningfully roll back elite control of our economy.
The SpaceX Sham - Dissent Magazine
The chief scandal of the AI boom is not the secretive financial machinations of tech oligarchs, but how much money they have raised on the open promise of an automated, transhumanist future.
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He bailed on higher education after spending just five years as an assistant professor, but during that time he came to some sweeping conclusions about all of academia.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · yesterdayErstwhile humanities scholar (I personally love the humanities) and current anti-higher ed propagandist for the right Tyler Austin Harper has now decided his position is that “entire fields of the social sciences” are “functionally fake” and “basically witchcraft with Data.”
As political repression worsens in the US, we’re all going to really rue the oligarchic fact that none of us owns any of these platforms where we share our knowledge and coordinate our voices
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · yesterdayIt’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Everyone is talking about Flock but I've been reading the same article for 15 years about different technologies so I rage wrote about it for @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2026/08/floc...
Flock is just the latest example of using surveillance to stalk women
The technology is under fire for how police officers have abused it. But it’s only the symptom of a larger problem.
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Not really beating the accusations of preying on 13 and 14 year old girls here, is he?
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump: These young beautiful girls, these young beautiful girls, these young beautiful girls in the White House, they come in. Now I'm not supposed to say beautiful, but what the hell. These young, these gorgeous, beautiful girls, they want to be safe and they come say Mr. President, thank you, sir.
“Obsessing over whether a person of color deserves a spot prevents everyone from noticing that white people get and keep positions without needing to be impressive at all.”
ProfKori@profkori.bsky.social · 2d agoThis summer, Black scholars in THE NEW YORK TIMES and THE ATLANTIC have become spectacles. Meanwhile, white mediocrity remains OUT of the spotlight. Notice that and save your sanity! www.korithamitchell.com/seeing-black...
. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social has spoken about AI being a whole theory of politics meant to reinforce the power of the haves against the have-nots. i'll add that it is a theory centered on divide & conquer. if we are consuming content made by AI and endorse it, we starve other human beings
Reminder for those who might not remember that a scholar in my subfield was, c2013, credibly accused of plagiarism, found guilty by an independent committee, had the book revoked by the press—& was not fired or dragged in the press but (over objections from 13 of her own colleagues) made into a dean
After plagiarism allegations, prof. was named dean
Serving the Brown University community since 1891
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ICE plans to spends tens of millions of dollars on the gloves, which are supposed to incapacitate people. A manual 404 Media found says the gloves may even contribute to “sudden death.” www.404media.co/heres-the-ma...
Here's the Manual for ICE's Electric Shock Gloves
ICE plans to spends tens of millions of dollars on the gloves, which are supposed to incapacitate people. A manual 404 Media found says the gloves may even contribute to “sudden death.”
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we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism
Had Eddington had this ending (and cut that repugnant and asinine scene of the “soros-funded antifa plane” 🤬), it would have been one of the great films of our time.
Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 2d agoEddington was a documentary with an alternate ending. www.fierce-network.com/cloud/oracle...
Eddington was a documentary with an alternate ending. www.fierce-network.com/cloud/oracle...
Oracle does damage control after New Mexico data center backlash
Oracle is pitching fuel cells as a cleaner fix for its massive $165B Project Jupiter data center in Ne | Oracle swapped a gas plant for fuel cells to save its $165B Project Jupiter data center from ba...
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Looking at actual New Deal murals it’s clear why a16z “American dynamism” slop will never be able to create a convincing mythology. You can’t sanctify the dignity of labor if you don’t believe in the dignity of labor.
Hello: actual co-organizer of No Kings here: these texts are not from anyone who actually organizes No Kings. Please trust that we hate them just as much as you do
David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 3d agoFuck off, feds
predictably excellent from hollingshead, every word "Against the forces of antiintellectual fascists+AI tech lords, self-flagellating academics+immediacy fetishists alike, we need to champion the difficulties+pleasures of humanities scholarship with our whole chests." defector.com/humanists-ha...
Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...
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My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.
Reuters@reuters.com · 3d agoSpain removes remains of 11th century kings from monastery as wildfire rages reut.rs/4zAAN4r
What a lot of Americans do not know is that the Southern border is dotted with mass murder sites where white supremacist militias (such as the Rangers) performed lynchings and mass executions of Mexicans and Indians. To this day, bleached skulls with bullet holes in the head can be found out there.
Ben Johnson@benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social · 3d agomore on the outrage of possibly destroying the Porvenir massacre site. See link for a correction to the idea that the US cavalry rather than the Rangers were responsible. bigbendsentinel.com/2026/08/11/w...
The sudden release of an accurate AI-writing detector is going to have hilarious repercussions in politics and journalism, let me tell you. (It’ll also literally save higher education.)
Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 4d agoPeople have real qualms with AI detectors, and so do I, but the evidence is mounting that Pangram in particular very rarely gets it wrong (especially on longer chunks of text, but increasingly even on short ones). @brianx.bsky.social tested it and it didn't miss: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/t...
Since Breitbart wrote a piece that largely just quotes this chapter of Let This Radicalize You (which MK and I reprinted here in my newsletter last year), I thought I would reshare the full text with you all. IMO, it's one of the best and most relevant things MK and I ever co-authored.
Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate
"We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."
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people blaming "peak woke" for ??? should just say "that time when police were killing people and people noticed"
One of the reasons I suspect kids aren't reading is that they continue to force them to read Ayn Rand in school. In 2026. What the fuck. I might stop reading too if that was a formative experience.
If the argument from the Washington Post Ed Board is over the hypothetical that people might leave the state due to Hong's policies, perhaps it's worth recognizing that young people in Wisconsin have been leaving the state in droves over the last generation, here in reality.
“It’s hard to overstate the dystopian nightmare this tech creates. Imagine being watched and evaluated at every moment, everywhere you go, by a machine that’s terrible at identifying people who look like you.” (Many of us do not have to imagine this)
exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
Dr Katie Twomey@k2mey.eurosky.social · last wk.Arguing that LLMs are anything more than a load of numbers going into a complicated mathematical function and spitting some more numbers out. Yes they simulate. But they simulate *language*. They do not simulate the cognitive processes underlying communication.
The cats of experimental film. 1. Fuses (Carolee Schneemann, 1967)
Yes. Connecticut is much more sticky and uncomfortable! Thanks Exxon!!! 🔥🌎💥☄️
Climate change is turning up the humidity in Connecticut
Climate scientists say a warming climate is helping increase the amount of moisture the atmosphere can hold, leading to more humid days and warmer nights across the Northeast. As temperatures rise, the air is able to retain more water vapor, creating the muggy conditions that many Connecticut residents have experienced during recent summers. For meteorologists, humidity is often measured using…
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Curators Anna Kornbluh and David Maruzzella are inviting Chicago-based artists to ask what political art can do now. Their Fall of Freedom exhibition will be held Oct. 2–4 at the In These Times offices in Chicago. Proposals due Aug. 10: interccect@gmail.com
Art In These Times – Fall of Freedom — In These Times Events
Authoritarian assaults on free thinking, fellow feeling, and creative making call for artists to unite in defiance. The 2nd annual Fall of Freedom festival convokes us to assemble, to curate,…
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