What a fantastic set of finalists alongside us.
Read fanzines. Read them!

Congrats @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org @hugobookclub.bsky.social @galacticjourney.bsky.social @renay.bsky.social @journeyplanet.bsky.social

travel + margaritas on the beach for twelve months + read anything and everything

a computer can never be held accountable therefore *all management decisions must be made with computers*

leaked software industry training manual (2026)

A brief history of techno-negativity From the techne pessimists of Ancient Greece to the computer firebombers of the Information Age, here's a look at the long—and fruitful—legacy of refusing the machine.

From the techné pessimists of Ancient Greece to the computer to the loom-breaking Luddites to the firebombers of the Information Age, here's a look at the long—and fruitful—legacy of refusing the machine.

By @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social, for BITM:

"Of course, we have to teach our students about AI technologies. Teaching about AI technologies
should be just like how we teach ‘no smoking’ or the causal links between lung cancer and cigarette
smoke; yet, we do not teach students how to roll cigarettes and smoke them." - I love it.

torn between "we need to soften IP law to stop the calcification of the culture" and "we need to give the Tolkien estate the right to extrajudicially execute these clowns at will"

First draft is for telling yourself the story, revisions are for telling your readers the story.

Thyme Travellers 2 An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

Friends, could you help me share this Kickstarter? It’s doing well but I need to extend its reach: www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

CORNELL AAUP | A New Code The Cornell Chapter of the AAUP proposes its recommendations for what the Student Code of Conduct ought to look like, including elements of shared governance, restrictions on the use of extraordinary ...

"University codes of conduct... should be maximally protective of speech. They should treat universities and colleges not as tightly regulated spaces, where any unprescribed activity is a disruption to be repressed, but as vibrant microcosms of a free and open society."

They Thought What? Unpacking the history (and present) of science

". . . turning a blind eye to science’s potential for harm tends to harm marginalized people the most."

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas not only recorded an anthem for the civil rights era – they fought for fair pay and proudly called themselves divas Classic songs ‘Nowhere to Run’ and ‘Dancing in the Street’ captured the revolutionary spirit of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

Wrote a piece about Martha and the Vandellas, civil rights, and their place in the history of Black women R&B groups. I also created a YouTube playlist (in the comments) with some of their hits

Vintage style image of smiling woman in work uniform and red bandana holding tool beside aircraft nose

The Weekly Read is “What Universities Can Be: Strategizing amid the Crisis in Higher Education,” a conversation published in @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social issue 23:1.

Read it for free: buff.ly/y2paoSr

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

less of a butlerian jihad and more of a butlerian discussion about land use and zoning for datacenters

Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn Climate Imagination is its own eclectic assortment of puzzle pieces.

A return to the hopeful futures mines at SH (including citations of @hararereview.com’s prior writings on this topic for us): Seamus Sullivan on the Climate Imagination collection from @mitpress.bsky.social.

Really worth sitting with this essay, it’s expansive and covers a disparate book very well.

It's a sign of a failed society when it continues to platform people who consistently get big things wrong. We should not still be subjected to most of the people writing Op-Eds at the New York Times who spent DECADES getting everything about war AND peace wrong.

Berkeley Students Make 300,000 Wikipedia Edits to Preserve Queer History Against Trump Their work has already racked up nearly 100 million views.

www.them.us/story/berkel...

BU’s DOS and Office of Judicial Affairs were thus doing the work of tamping down protest well before the reelection of Donald Trump, the deployment of ICE against protesters and the broader entrenchment of an authoritarian program in the federal government. Unfortunately, those offices and other units of the University have continued to do so to the present moment, in a local reflection of Trumpian disregard for law and free speech, notwithstanding repeated efforts of faculty and affected students to engage with the University administration.

For everyone asking “why aren’t the students protesting Trump?” perhaps ask instead “What’d the universities teach students would happen if you protest?”

More from BU @aaup.org documenting pre-Trump censorship at Boston University.

dailyfreepress.com/04/16/21/219...

it’s weird how “having a job that isn’t actively evil” now feels like a genuine luxury

Thomson Reuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into ICE Contracts The shareholders explicitly cited multiple 404 Media investigations, including one that showed Thomson Reuters' CLEAR is integrated with a tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to target.

NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE.

www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

There are Nine Kinds of Great Organizers. You Don’t Have to Be Them All. Organizers often feel like they have to be a master of all trades. Stephen Smith of the Rural Defenders Union uses the Enneagram to propose nine different approaches to being a good organizer.

"The organizer’s calling is not to do everything ourselves; it is to find everyone we need." convergencemag.com/articles/nin... - An organizer Enneagram - I fit a couple of these.

America’s True Fascist Architectural Legacy It’s not the kitschy White House ballroom—it’s logistics warehouses converted to ICE detention centers.

wrote about the most important architectural legacy of the Trump administration: the conversion of logistics warehouses into detention centers www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Love’s Work — Parapraxis The Generic Pleasures of Romance Anna Kornbluh

who up anti-bedtime-leftist-ing?

perhaps you'd take pleasure in this newly online tryst of psychoanalysis, genre theory, and the romance boom? www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/lov...

IT ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK IS NOT

Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

Exactly what Kate said.

Whenever someone asks me where the Mayor should get the $150 million more funds for NYC public libraries, the answer is the cops. Period.