you set up your altar with the food they liked. Ideally you set up the altar in the cemetry and stayed there the night, but that is no longer possible in most places. Also, Mx is huge, so not in all places they put altars in the cemetery or at home. The Catrina mkt is like w Kahlo: shiny insta crap.

The Catrinas have a long history, but they started as characters for political cartoons not as something for Día de Muertos. I have gone as Catrina to Halloween parties (they are also big in Mx) but 1st & 2nd is for focusing on the deceased, 1/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cala...

La Calavera Catrina - Wikipedia

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As a Mx, I ffing hate the gringation of Día de Muertos. The parades were an invention of a Bond film (cool, its fiction). But that is not what the day is about. As a cultural historian I know traditions change, but this is being pushed as a tourist attraction, to fulfill gringos image of Mx. FU

Max Nichols@maxnichols.bsky.social · 4d ago

Holy shit the Mexico City Dia De Los Muertos parade this year is stunning stuff www.instagram.com/popular/mexi...

Thank you for the love at @afro-tech.bsky.social. Did not expect this line for DEEP UNLEARNING bookmark signing 😯 Stop by the authors corner to see if Kindred Stories has any free books. There might be like 20 left. Either way books preordered from them come with signed plates so preorder yours.

> although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness. Women had discovered the mold’s usefulness centuries or perhaps millennia earlier — Autumn Stanley (1998) www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 21h ago

And also penicillin is a great historical one: olivia.science/cryptogyny/#...

"While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor (...) AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests."

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

project-syndicate.org

data center stocks are really getting hammered right now btw

> Despite all the (allegedly, my lawyer told me to say) interference from America and Big Tech Lula won the elections in Brazil. . That's something to make you happy! www.felienne.nl/2026-44/

AI in week 44

AI in het onderwijs, een AI-Felienne en boekupdates!

felienne.nl

One thing the past 24 hours has emphasized for me - with Google's attempt to extort schools and the rejection of (techno)fascism - is that now is the time to embrace a critical tech education that helps youth and teachers analyze AI as a political project while also pursuing decomputing in schools.

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RTBF info@rtbf-info.be · 17h ago

Philippe Jaenada, lauréat du prix Goncourt, revendique un usage modéré et ludique de l’IA

if you're looking for a good overview for kids of issues around ai, this episode is really solid imo doesn't get lost in the weeds, explains the real ai pitch ("you don't have to think anymore!") but also hits environmental harms, accuracy problems, even how it's a bubble

How do AI companies make money?

Bridget and Ryan visit a data center to find out.

marketplace.org

🚨Check out our manifesto for a theory-driven cognitive science on @jocnforum.bsky.social! Coming out of fruitful discussions over the past few years with my colleague @theresecollins.bsky.social. It would be great to hear your thoughts. Post your comments on the forum! @upcite.bsky.social

JoCNForum@jocnforum.bsky.social · yesterday

"A manifesto for a theory-driven cognitive science" - new @jocnforum.bsky.social post by @lauradugue.bsky.social and @theresecollins.bsky.social. Advocating for theory-driven cognitive science, referencing work by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Giosuè Baggio and others. doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

> Most of AI research does not share the objective of cognitive science –understanding the mind– and often replaces a mechanistic understanding of internal states with output.

😅 oh, thanks, too kind! Also I really like this from the OP: > while psychology and theoretical neuroscience traditionally lie at the core of cognitive science, they are endangered by the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) research.

@olivia.science and I wrote also about that here (open access link): archive.ph/kFxXl mu.social/profile/iris...

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11h ago

"While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor (...) AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests."

Great initiative! > In the current era of open science, big data and […] artificial intelligence, the time is ripe to renew our commitment to the development of cognitive theories and to the pursuit of a cohesive, unified cognitive science — @lauradugue.bsky.social & @theresecollins.bsky.social

JoCNForum@jocnforum.bsky.social · yesterday

"A manifesto for a theory-driven cognitive science" - new @jocnforum.bsky.social post by @lauradugue.bsky.social and @theresecollins.bsky.social. Advocating for theory-driven cognitive science, referencing work by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Giosuè Baggio and others. doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

"A manifesto for a theory-driven cognitive science" - new @jocnforum.bsky.social post by @lauradugue.bsky.social and @theresecollins.bsky.social. Advocating for theory-driven cognitive science, referencing work by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Giosuè Baggio and others. doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

A manifesto for a theory-driven cognitive science

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so gorgeous > LUDDITE TEMPLE is a project that utilizes sculpture and photography to create illustrative assets for a risograph zine and manifesto that accompanies a brass pin for The Knights Of the Luddite Temple. All visuals and text is human made. www.behance.net/gallery/2557...

BOGLUDDITE@brucemackay.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Luddite Temple manifesto in a readable format.

I’m not an expert but I still don’t understand how we can discuss all this without actually talking about what the concrete criteria are which Pangram uses to designate texts as “AI” or not.

Harare Review of Books@hararereview.com · 2w ago

I don't think this helps 🙃 www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1...

So if, as Folarin seems to insinuate, we are again at another rupture in which what is literature is negotiated, it’s maybe not that surprising that it’s done by scandalising Black writers and their practices

> My mother, who was a lab technician at UCH went into labour while at work and so they just moved her down to the maternity unit. ‼️

Roger Watt@rjwatt42.bsky.social · 15h ago

Done. wattstuff.wordpress.com/ucl-first-co...

Which, apropos of this, brings to mind this workflow, which I created years ago for Twitter but applies here (or when using any social media)...

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 19h ago

Questions to ask yourself before replying * Am I just being contrarian? * Do I already have a relationship with this person, or am I being inappropriately familiar? * Am I "ironically" doing exactly what this person just said not to do? Copy-pasted from: scholar.social/@researchfai...

Questions to ask yourself before replying * Am I just being contrarian? * Do I already have a relationship with this person, or am I being inappropriately familiar? * Am I "ironically" doing exactly what this person just said not to do? Copy-pasted from: scholar.social/@researchfai...

Feeling equal parts excited and terrified to be sharing some early thoughts on a newish project at the @histmat.bsky.social conference on Sunday. How has the worker become a sensor within capitalism's computational infrastructures? How is sensing stabilised, hierarchized and integrated as labour?

Lads.

Marie Gardiner@mariegardiner.bsky.social · 5d ago

I've bought something really pointless and stupid and I can't wait to show you when it arrives.

Also surely the point is that even if it's not a big sum to Musk, US$474m is vast amount to spend on campaigning, it allowed republicans to vastly outspend the democrats and it doesn't appear to have bought a single vote.

Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 23h ago

people kept saying "well actually if you adjust elon musk's wealth to the median american he only spent $116 on texas" & all i can think is if i lit $116 on fire for no reason it would fuckin hurt

Found the perfect example - this one did fuck around and find out (he was having a tantrum at Dr. Carrie Rosario, who is a Black woman, that is an assistant professor of public health education). abc30.com/post/carrie-...

'White privilege and entitlement:' NC city official fired after refusing to address woman by doctoral title

The city council cited "white privilege and entitlement" in its decision to strip him of his volunteer position.

abc30.com