So now that we’re acting tough again when is the federal government going to block Thompson Reuters’ ICE surveillance contract?
Kavi …
@geryon.bsky.social
Writer/teacher/etc [computational rhetoric] in Haldimand Tract/CUPE5524. See https://titleduntitled.name/
Pretty smart advertising to hire away a few top US academics while ceasing to fund and closing the doors to your own education system (in Ontario especially). This appeal to liberalism while capping and restricting international students (including Americans!) is another rank hypocrisy
Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 15h agoMore brain drain: “Twenty-one universities in Canada announced on Thursday the hiring of dozens of researchers to join their top academic ranks, poaching the majority of the recruits from the United States. Of the incoming 64 researchers, 48 will leave American campuses…”
Striking that, after decades of attacks on the humanities as too P.C., woke, etc, the U.S. public stil rates English departments as the most essential for a university to have.
Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com · 2d agoDoes the public think that philosophy is "essential" at a typical university? And how does its opinion about philosophy compare to its opinion of other disciplines?
it's depressing to think about how quickly massive data centres are being built around the world, but there are so many communities that still don't have clean water, or schools without air conditioning and HEPA filtration, and bike lanes are being removed from streets
It’s funny how the conservation areas (~county parks) in Ontario don’t have pedestrian access from adjacent streets. Pretty telling of how “outdoorsy” “middle class” US/Canadians relate to nature. It’s why you own your suv and camping gear and make peace with your colorless strip mall suburb.
This incident needs to be thoroughly investigated. If true, no public office in the EU or any member state can continue to run any microsoft products. nltimes.nl/2026/05/22/m...
Microsoft accused of leaking Dutch civil servants' names to U.S. government
Microsoft has reportedly shared the names of Dutch civil servants working for two regulatory agencies with the U.S. House of Representatives. The agencies involved include the Authority for Consumers ...
nltimes.nl
The problem with the default commentary *here* is that it assumes a liberal, rights-oriented, order is going to just come back because its "normal" & good. But social liberalism in office (Biden, 🇳🇱, 🇨🇦, 🇬🇧, 🇬🇹) is failing politically & ceasing to be progressive. So what subject could reassert "reason"?
Honestly, you couldn't make this shit up: Cami Clark, spouse of Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei, "wanted Jeffrey Epstein to invest in porn business"
Cami Clark—Dario Amodei’s Wife—Wanted Jeffrey Epstein To Invest In Porn Business
Clark approached Epstein after he had already been convicted for soliciting prostitution.
forbes.com
New: Target staff "pranked" for social media; a comedian filmed mid-set; a Sprouts worker whose boss started wearing Meta glasses; and a cashier worried customers are filming down her shirt. Meta glasses are in the workplace, and workers feel powerless to stop it. 🎁 www.theverge.com/report/98241...
Meta glasses are a workplace menace
“Pervert” glasses are making jobs weird and putting workers on edge.
theverge.com
Eh. I mean so much of the classic Japanese poetry (from the Manyoshu on) consists of compilations, collages, and rearrangements. That compilation becomes a social game and site of artistry in producing new works. Or, like, The Wasteland. Fk LLMs though: minimal artistry in that collage.
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · last wk.In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.
here's one: 1. It's written by a leftist 2. It's about western imperialism via capital 3. One of the best explainers of modern capital, in a very indirect manner 4. Great storytelling goodreads.com/book/show/18...
Capital: The Eruption of Delhi
A portrait of Delhi and its new elites—and a story of g…
goodreads.com
"There is a red thread that ties together the highest echelons of American power, a wave of murderous terrorism across the Western world, and esoteric thinkers scribbling in the political wilderness. That thread is the civilization-state." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-schoool-...
The School Shooter Civilization
"Civilizationist" thinking, once confined to the radical fringe and the manifestos of mass killers, has moved to the center of American foreign policy.
liberalcurrents.com
Mamdani as the descendent of Ken Livingstone’s GLC, analyzed by Stuart Hall as the only mass Left contester of Thatcherite hegemony, built on social movements and tenuously reconciling representational and redistributive demands - targeted for strangulation by right and center for this reason?
I have a dear historian friend who’s leaving academia for a different job. Instead of starting a podcast to bitch about it, he spent years organizing a faculty union. Instead of leaving academia to bitch more about it, he’s leaving to go do higher ed union organizing. Just something to chew on.
In the second part of his monumental essay, Magdi El-Gizouli shatters the story that Sudan’s civil war is a lawless free-for-all and instead reveals how it is the direct result of the country’s integration into the global capitalist order. www.equator.org/articles/sud...
Sudan’s Revolutionary Ghosts • EQUATOR
How Sudan’s violent integration into global capitalism led to civil war
equator.org
This is an absolute travesty. Northwestern has, probably, the 2nd best library collection for African History/Studies in the USA (behind Yale and ahead of MSU, UCLA, etc). A self-inflicted wound that is absolutely, 100% unnecessary given the massive wealth of Northwestern--north of $15 billion.
SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies
thepurplewire.beehiiv.com
OUT: Carney's speech. IN: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speech in Beijing "navigate this post-Rupture world in which Washington’s reliability can no longer be assumed, and in which Beijing’s partnership, however complicated, cannot be refused" www.sinicapodcast.com/p/pm-pedro-s...
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 5mo ago"Spain, rarely the center of gravity in European affairs, has become the standard-bearer for Europeans frustrated at the continent’s fear of standing up to a U.S. president." www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Would love to know if any of the (undisclosed, unnamed) donors at the Center for American Progress have complained to the board of directors that their president is retweeting a Nazi on Twitter who invokes the idea of taqqiya to justify racism against Muslims.
This is an opportunity for me to post on bluesky, for the first time, the audio I cleaned up from 1971 where Nixon and Kissinger use the occasion of the Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh to talk about Indian women.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2w agoDavid Frum seems to be under the impression that Zohran Mamdani— an INDIAN-Ugandan-American— is pro Pakistan? Also the Indian army in question was backed by the USSR and the Pakistani one was backed by Nixon lol.
Taper Zine, the journal of tiny, self-contained HTML/CSS/JS writing and art, is looking for submissions by August 17: For Taper #17, we invite submissions in response to the theme “Prime.” For full details and theme prompt ideas see the full call bellow Submit here: taperzine.org
Taper | Computational Poetry
Taper, the literary magazine for small computational pieces, has moved to taperzine.org. Issue 17 will launch here.
taperzine.org
Best example of this of all time was when David Lammy went on camera while serving as Foreign Secretary of the UK and cried about how liberals don't care about Sudan like they do Gaza, only for it to be later revealed that the Labour government withheld knowledge about the UAE supporting the RSF.
UK prioritised ties with UAE over averting mass atrocities in Sudan, MPs to be told
Foreign Office failed to act on warnings of genocide due to ‘pressure’ from emirates, Yale human rights investigator will tell a parliamentary select committee
theguardian.com
Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social · 2w ago*PERSON YOU DISLIKE* claims to be opposed to *BAD THING,* yet they have yet to denounce *EVERY OTHER BAD THING.* Really makes you think.
Given the tornado warning we may have to reschedule for next year!
Kavi …@geryon.bsky.social · last mo.Come out to Waterloo Park on Saturday August 8 (world HTML day!) at 5 pm, to write HTML in the park. This is a casual celebration of the playful possibilities of the web: no experience is expected, and html activities (with or without computer) will be provided titleduntitled.name/facades/html...
One of the most brilliant essays we’ve published. Magdi El-Gizouli’s singular and utterly unique analysis of the war in Sudan, blending revolutionary theory, sociology and frontline reporting. This is the first part of two: www.equator.org/articles/kha...
Khartoum After the Storm • EQUATOR
How Sudan’s revolutionary generation was dragged into total war
equator.org
Worth grappling with the abominations “affordability“ can be mobilized to excuse, like deregulation and fossil fuel expansion. There probably isn’t an alternative and it’s better focused than other forms of economism but ”affordability” is a terrain to be defined, not an inherently progressive focus
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 3w agoDeleted and reposted this because I realized the wording in my original social post (not the video/article thank god!!) was misleading — more than 1300 federal gov officials met with oil and gas lobbyists during Carney’s first year as PM. I had said “Carney’s government” met with them.
It’s remarkable how persistent this myth is. German democracy survived hyperinflation; it did not survive mass unemployment in the 1939s. It would be better to say this the other way round: because German leaders are conservative, they remember hyperinflation. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
FT: UAE's imperial push into Africa UAE is now a bigger investor in Africa than China,UK,France,US! UAE's dark king MBZ is supporting/extracting from african actors (particularly in north africa) with investments in logistics, gold, copper, arms, farming www.ft.com/content/a4c6...
AI discourse often goes “there were also moral panics around the radio, internet, and social media and this is just another technology.“ Problem is, many of us didn’t survive those previous fascist, capitalist, and imperial controlled tech “disruptions”! Your ”we“ who “was fine” is much too narrow!