#othernetworks still and forever

aha - thanks

yellow rectangular box of legos labeled "CREATOR". depicts a pink typewriter with flowers growing out of it, made of lego. also depicts other options for the kit: a pink vase with flowers and pen and pad of paper; and pink musical instrument with a small piano keyboard

is this what happens when Gen Xers are allowed to design toys or is this how kids are actually thinking about being a creator these days?

that is beautiful - I am a fan of directness!

that will be a nice little zinger in the event that someone responds with yet more questions and lengthy commentary

and I also would not object to someone inventing a widget for wordlessly indicating in emails "and this is the last email I want to send on the matter please don't respond." anyone?

Silicon hand covered in white skin is attached to a 3d printer that is used to make the hands roll Instagram as if it were the human artist

Man with long brown hair and light colored skin wearing a black shirt and black pants sits at a desk covered in new and old computers. Grey carpet and gray walls. Floor lamp to the speaker’s right and a bookcase behind him

the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social has been hosting Berlin artist Clemens Schöll for the past month - tonight he installed his incredible “Artist at Work” while talking about “the right to automation”

thank you for commiserating!

would anyone be interested in hearing how faculty & staff might not get merit raises this year (keeping in mind that we are below the national average for salaries) but yet CU still paid $2 million for access to a version of ChatGPT that is about as good as the free version? anyone? #ruminating

"the point [of a university education] is not supposed to become an adept user of corporate tools."

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I had the chance to go on the Boulder Valley Frequency podcast to express my...disgust, I think is the right word, with the contract that CU recently signed with Open AI and with the prospect of integrating ChatGPT throughout higher education #ai www.boulderfrequency.com/2600535/epis...

Indeed…and in fact exactly in the vein of “things” I was ranting to you about in Chicago

I can’t tell you how much I appreciate hearing this

thank you for sharing and sorry I didn’t notice your post was old! Apparently I’ve just been waiting for an excuse to vent myself.

Media studies depts also have had the gall to have actually read philosophy from the past 100 years and understand what a horror show “progress” is, as evidenced by the current horror show we are living through. Sorry - I know I am preaching to the choir…this piece is just so utterly infuriating

I’ve always thought as evidenced by the astounding arrogance of writing and expecting people to read a 600+ page tome in this day and age and then to see people gobbling up that 600 page long tome is another thing altogether

I’ve always thought as evidenced by the astounding arrogance of writing and expecting people to read a 600+ page tome in this day and age and then to see people gobbling up that 600 page long tome is another thing altogether

Well then. I knew I intuitively hated him and now I’m glad to have reasons why.

Your daily reminder that a Walmart exec and the average college administrator have the exact same opinion of unions

I'm happy to talk with you anytime about options here!

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Photo from patent of a man standing with arms extended upward. His arms are supported by a set of straps rigged to a backpack.

"Uplifted Hands Assist Device for Praying Like Moses"
Patented today.
US 12588778

There exists a theoretical baseball, truer and more authentic than any baseball that has existed in the physical world. We are always striving for truest baseball

haha stop! clearly the solution is to pay myself.

it is Monday morning and once again I acknowledge that I have many jobs, one of which is to wear my rigid jeans to break them in so I purchase fewer jeans in the future...this is indeed labor that I am not particularly enthusiastic about.

I appreciate this. I will do it! and might start smallish with the Grundrisse.

it's all so disturbingly relevant, which I suppose WB would scold me for thinking this way

picture of the 8th thesis. text reads: The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency, and this will improve our position in the struggle against Fascism. One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress its opponents treat it as a historical norm. The current amazement that the things we are experiencing are "still" possible in the twentieth century is not philosophical. This amazement is not the beginning of knowledge-unless it is the knowledge that the view of history which gives rise to it is untenable.

Benjamin wrote his "Theses on the Philosophy of History" in 1940, shortly before he died by suicide escaping the Nazis. Imagine, now, Hannah Arendt reading this aloud to fellow refugees fleeing the Third Reich on the ship that was smuggling them to the U.S.

I have never been able to sit down & actually read Marx himself. for whatever reason. yet whenever anyone else writes abt him or quotes from him, I think "wow, I really like this Marx guy! this is exactly how I think too!" because it turns out I have been breathing him for most of my academic life.

a little clip of me talking more personally about how ChatGPT's pilfering of my work (produced after years of research & writing, "ironically" supported by the very institution that's undermining its worth) shows up in student essays---> www.instagram.com/reel/DWr4VHv...