zines represent a way of distributing information outside of billionaire- controlled digital platforms: of course they want to criminalize zine-making
Marty Cain
@martycain.bsky.social
Poet / bisexual dad / aging punk freak / library worker in Ithaca NY. Author of three poetry books including The Prelude (Action Books, 2023) & monograph on rural poetic community forthcoming from Clemson UP. Vox in Joyous Shrub. He/him www.marty-cain.com
“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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yes to more humanities-centric LIS research!
kay slater@kslater.bsky.social · 7mo agoCFP: Humanities Methods in Librarianship, Issue 1 • Explorations of concepts re: ‘library’, ‘librarians’, ‘librarianship’ • Disciplinary investigations of LIS • Humanistic analyses of LIS practices/infrastructures • Autoethnographies, oral histories, interviews cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/call-fo...
"Institutions that once proclaimed their commitment to humanistic inquiry now appear eager to embrace a set of tools whose leading use cases—predictive policing, military targeting, advertising, and porn—stand in profound contradiction to the values they claim to uphold."
Dr. Heather Leslie@heatherleslie.bsky.social · 8mo agoOne of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
It's the end of The Best American Poetry. I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse. defector.com/good-riddanc...
Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector
When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...
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just gonna have to keep saying, in company of so many others: we are jewish faculty against the astroturf antisemitism persecution of jewish faculty by our own universities, by online hate groups, and by the regime www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
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We wrote a thing about AI, fascism, and why framing this as "hype" is too apolitical www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save Us
The problem with AI isn’t hype. The problem is who and what it’s useful for.
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a chicken in every pot and an all ages hardcore show in every neighborhood
NEW: Arkansas announced plans for a mega prison in a rural town. Since then, locals are organizing to stop it. At first they opposed it in their own town. But some now say they've taken a more critical look at how we incarcerate in the country. make time for this new feature, you won't regret it
The Prison Next Door - Bolts
How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered residents in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.
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the tiny issue 14 is live! The cover art Bedroom (2023) is by KB Jones. Read the issue at thetinymag.com
I have some poems in the new issue of @thetinymag.bsky.social; but more importantly, the rest of the issue is extremely good and you should read it! www.thetinymag.com/current-issue
Current Issue — the tiny
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Very long time coming but, super stoked that this digital collection of archival materials from Ithaca House—amazing Ithaca, NY-based small press that operated from 1969 to the mid-'80s—is finally live! digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/...
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AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
universities ARE healthcare rural clinics, rural hospitals, urban ERs all run by universities where corporations won't go attacking universities is public health poison bsky.app/profile/dday...
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · last yr.From me: It hasn't been stressed enough just how disastrous the Republican Medicaid cuts would be for the hospital system—rural hospitals, yes, but ALL hospitals will be more crowded, more burdened, & at more risk of collapse if hundreds of closures occur, as is likely. prospect.org/health/2025-...
The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring. Read it for yourself here: www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
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solidarity, everybody, as we navigate the ruins of the postwar anglo-american educational system together —but please know, this does not need to be the way
Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · last yr.In this edition of Ideas, Ilana Horwitz discusses The Entrepreneurial Scholar. hubs.ly/Q03w5-Jx0 #education #HigherEducation #careers
BHP are excited to welcome our July guest editor - M. Forajter!!! @saint-remus.bsky.social THEME: ART & ANNIHILATION: contemporary gothic writing in the Anthropocene “microplastics + dandelion + flawed pearl + fruit punch + The Relic + baroque” Sendxxx burninghousepress.com/2025/07/01/j...
JULY 2025 Guest Editor Is M. Forajter!!! THEME: ART & ANNIHILATION: contemporary gothic writing in the Anthropocene
Burning House Press are excited to welcome M. FORAJTER as the second BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today M. will take over editorship of Burning House Press onlin…
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wrote about the excellent @qzap.bsky.social on my library's blog! blogs.cornell.edu/olinuris/res...
Resource Spotlight: Queer Zine Archive Project
Zines have a curious relationship with libraries. For the uninitiated, zines—pronounced like zeens—are typically self-published, self-distributed, low-budget pamphlets that have historically served to...
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haven't published new stuff in a minute! thank you to John and BHP : )
Burning House Press@thearsonista.bsky.social · last yr.We continue the excursions into INANIMISM w/ >excerpt from STREAMBED by Marty Cain< @martycain.bsky.social “and as the body’s exterior is absorbed its cosmic fluids stew & release smells that translate into musty sound” ~~~ @incastellated.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2025/06/17/e...
"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda." for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
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Chanting “shame” at cops: sanctimonious, doesn’t work because they don’t have any Chanting “quit your job” at cops: constructive feedback, funny