This is one reason I preach the @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social gospel of asking what things do more than what they mean. It's not that the state is disengaged from meaning making--quite the opposite, ours is a meme state--rather, they are an uninterested audience. But gravity exists regardless of belief

Colin M. Henry@henryhenryhenry.com · 10h ago

it's not that mass politics and public opinion don't matter any more -- they just matter in different ways and configurations against state power in unconsolidated competitive authoritarian states, and pretending they're still playing the democratic role is bad news

good morning

Dude what the HECK

Morgan Johnson@poormojo.bsky.social · 16h ago

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 12h ago

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

We also gotta get out of the panopticon mindset and start reading and dancing to music again and stop video-ing each other doing anything slightly weird and taking pictures of strangers on the subway like volunteer cops. Documenting an uninteresting life nonstop instead of living interesting life.

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think "reading a book is performative" is the end point of American anti-intellectualism. The mere act of reading is now suspicious to swaths of slug people.

Use reference. I’m serious. I get it that somehow you or someone convinced you that using reference is “cheating.” It’s not. You are just hindering yourself.

modi has spent the last 12 years being the guy that Trump wishes he could be and gets about 1/300th as much attention as Orban who was lording it over a country maybe 1/35th the size

Athul K. Acharya@athul.acharya.cc · 4d ago

Holy shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream

This is hilarious.

erin@dracula3d.bsky.social · 7d ago

stealing this

I think intimately understanding the labour investment involved in an artistic project changes the way you criticize, which is why lazy young people who aren't good at anything yet lean into Cinemasins style pedantry

there was a really amazing window in which many people who had never considered otherwise began thinking about the way race interfaced with all aspects of their social and material lives that sadly soon got undercut by the grifter motive of “making white people spend money to absolve their guilt“

Gareth Watkins@garethwatkins.bsky.social · 6d ago

Turning up on a first date with the Antiracist Deck.

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

Speedrunners either title their streams: SUBATHON DAY 44! | ANY% SPEEDRUNS FOR WORLD RECORD | KHFMHD1.5 RANDO ARCHIPELAGO TOMORROW !youtube !donate !merch !patreon or runs lol

According to the legal action team Collectif d'action judicaire that is assisting detained kids : “Police practices are not adapted to account for their status as minors.”. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child prohibits arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (Art 37).

"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

Insidious covert spread of Poptimism made everyone think overcaptilized bullshit made without personality is equivalent to actual good art. If you have the guts to actually have discerning taste, then the machine can never reproduce what is valuable to you about art.

I was a very scared boy growing up but nothing, and I mean nothing terrified me more than the trailer for the Strangers.

Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 2w ago

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

Like we don’t have political disagreements, we have disagreements on the nature of reality 

thinking about this again and smiling

Going to post my inktober here, that cool? I dont care if it isn’t I’m just trying to be polite. Anyway. Day 1: (Bad) Apple

This is…wow.

hammancheez but spooky@hammancheez.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

I hope another lesson learned from the Cornell case is that college students can’t just “go to the police.” A lot of public and elite private universities have their own police departments with exclusive jurisdiction over their campus. So going to the police still means reporting to your school.

Honestly instead of learning new techniques to hack my nervous system I'd like to live in a equitable life-affirming society that didn't push me into fight or flight hour after hour. You?

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

Want nothing but the best for this young brother