the penne opticon

LOL

Data performance?

I think it’s time we all think very seriously how much of the internet and online life in general we’re willing to give up to shut down the panopticon.

Doesn’t look like there’s a future with both tech and tech regulation. Looks increasingly like safety means being offline.

What if the digital humanities did more projects like this?

So, NonDigital Humanities. Got it.

happy tax day

I bet Frances McDormand could doula some death.

Greatest crossover event ever

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

Nice five post essay

Should be instead a mark of shame.

I keep noticing “billionaire” attached to names like it’s an earned credential, a recognized authority.

There is no end of history A myopic arrogance destined to age poorly

"AI is upending of the psyches of people who build and sell the technology. It’s startling to watch the raw, almost gleeful desperation of these (presumably) bright folks as they completely submit themselves to a product that demands they shut off their minds and critical faculties."

Congrats and hope to see you both in Austin!

Related sentiment: “The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force. Force employed by man, force that enslaves man, force before which man’s flesh shrinks away. “ ~Simone Weil’s “The Iliad, or The Poem of Force.”

We need to talk about this.

Strange turn: the loudest champions of “nothing replaces in-person learning” now insist that the most impersonal tools built through/with AI are somehow indispensable to it.

The Worst and The Blightest

I understand the sentiment, but feel just the opposite. AI is saturating every surface of students’ lives. What we have to offer them is not small tweaks to their engagements w the technology, but rather spaces separate from it via which they can develop their own critical faculties.

One thing I appreciate/admire about this book is how it starts from “thinking otherwise” rather than what a lot of today’s critical theory does by diagnosing a load of ills to only end with the imperative to think otherwise.

It’s Trump, so expect at least two of three.

The difference between a millionaire, billionaire, and trillionaire, as explained in Ray D. Madoff's "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy"

A whole generation of journalists seem to believe that journalism is just stringing together TwitterX posts.

Damn. What’s the class?

He can’t even fill all the seats in his own renderings.

“I never wrote a picture in my life.” -Donald Trump

I don’t know if you’re allowed to do that

She used her academic expertise to improve conditions in the real world?

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

Ohhhhhhh. Got it. Yes. lol