"Ultimately, war transforms all subjectivities, not just those associated with ethnicity." (from an excellent book about performing sovereignty by Bart Klem)
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Hello World! We have a new website. It is a teaser about our many special characters! Also, tertiary colors, the “off-off” set, I am in love! www.warthog.nl
NYT covering the eclipse like it should have covered the genocide!
It is not even 9 am yet, show me a better text, you got all day. It is the same guy that killed Trotsky
feelings, after being inundated by pop-psychology and pseudo psychoanalysis at every turn...
women be like “yeah im going to show him how it’s done” and get a casual phd in deep chest trauma through self - stabbing w dagger
« protein psychosis » look unexpectedly wholesome as roommates in a sentence www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/pushing-pr...
Pushing Protein
Niloufar Haidari on protein psychosis
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how it feels to process Horizon calls for proposals, in art and science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hltb...
Tuttle's Demise
YouTube video by Montag Beeblebrox
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22: 16 Theory: people do think of AI as a kind of duplicate wife, but incorrect guess is what he should have been writing down instead, that is the path to surprise discovery. www.youtube.com/watch?t=1335...
Reinventing Entropy | Compression is Intelligence Part 1
YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown
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networkcultures.org/longform/202... stunning research into what AI has got to do with plantations from a colleague in the Netherlands! 😍
Lines of Code: Your AI is on Cocaine « INC Longform
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knows nothing about football: 0:0 is ok for now! we can handle a bit of mirroring
they call the mouse at our sports club Messi. bet he is here w all of his referee uncles!
Can't care less for any of the eleven men running after one ball, still mad as hell about the World Cup. Sport is so political, there's no sport left in it!
As public awareness and resistance ramp up, I'm regularly reminded that researchers have been addressing the environmental, geopolitical, and political-economic impacts of data centers for *a very long time*; legislators, journalists, et al just haven't noticed!
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al
A lot of this workshop is sitting with something I keep coming back to: we're intelligent enough to know our agency is very limited, but are we intelligent enough to recognize it and work as if we have it anyway? nias.knaw.nl/events/proce...
new selecta course on time. open to everyone with university affiliation. long reading list, but since overwhelm is era, we're allowed to impose no more than 3 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Capita Selecta Course: A Great Circle With No Rim
Thank you for signing up for the Capita Selecta course designed and facilitated by WUR post-doc researcher Mari Bastashevski. Below you can find all information about this series of evening seminars! ...
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I once introduced a man I was dating to philosophy. At first he didn't think he was smart enough for it, but I told him he was Ok. He's now a multi-millioner defense tech investor in the US and Israel. Don't use dating apps
Things that just happen in my brain on a random Thursday: Does Lola from Run Lola Run and the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland share the same prehension of time?
Wow, it’s like Christmas came early, in that I’m confused and disoriented because something fundamental has been violated and I’m wondering where all the time went.
absolutely losing my mind over the new found state paper's damning review of my parents' Central Asia tour. apparently they trolled the censorship committee -those lowlife criminals -by promising a professionally trained fly act but performing banned sad songs instead...unhinged 🪰💩🪰
I don't know where exactly the Centre for Luminescence Dating is in our building or what it does, but as someone with considerable experience in the queer dating scene, I know luminescence is a red flag. I spent a lot of time alone in the dark before this glow up
Human: uses AI to avoid limits and knowledge. Snails: merging cells to transcend phylogenetic limits and live exclusively off light. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDw...
Vidéo Elysia chlorotica
YouTube video by Sciences BICHAT54
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Sunday thought for this legend www.npr.org/2023/08/06/1...
The mysterious story of Connie Converse, the singer-songwriter who vanished
The artist quit music in the early '60s, then later disappeared so completely even her family didn't know where she'd gone. Now, an album of her songs — as she wanted them heard — is coming out.
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Things that I noticed to be much more commonplace in society than people who exoticise them seems to realize: 1. Queer men that date men and women. 2. Older women with younger men in an ordinary (non-fetishistic) relationships. 3. Zizeks. There's a Balkan pub full of them 200m away from my house
the most obv. move for algorithms, managing society: as soon as humans draw near solving the riddle of immortality, make their lives unbearable