May 12 – Biblioasis Bookstore (Windsor, ON) w/ THE HOUSE OF LAMB (drinks at The Dominion House) May 15 — Another Story Bookshop (Toronto, ON) w/ NIKO STRATIS (drinks at Tommy's Wine Bar) May 21 — Hive Mind Books (Brooklyn, NY) w/ RAINER HAMILTON (drinks at Carmelo's) May 25 — World Trans Forum (Brooklyn, NY) (drinks at Franklin Park, same as reading) May 26 — Greedy Reads (Baltimore, MD at the 320 W 29th St location) w/ LYRA PEACOCK (drinks at 29th St Tavern) May 27 — Lost City Books (Washington, DC) iw/ ANDREA MORGAN (drinks at The Raven) May 28 — All She Wrote Books (Somerville, MA) w/ ANDREA LAWLOR (drinks at the Tavern at the End of the World) May 30 – The Dinner Party Party ('watch out for deets”)

a recent gesture of LOVE from my gf, many packets of on-sale kerrygold butter arranged in a heart around 2 loaves of einkorn brot and a smoked gouda, very heartwarming and romantic, also a pistachio chocolate, truly I am loved

cat behind a bar drinking and waxing lyrical or philosophical surrounded by bottles

ANNOUNCEMENT!

This MAY I shall be TOURING the NORTH-EAST making SPEECHES in HONOUR of LOVE and drinking ONLY as much WINE as I PLEASE

all to promote my new BOOK "The Dinner Party" from @sevenstories.bsky.social

Come see me and my PHILOSOPHICAL interlocutors?

🥰🍷🤔🏛️📖

#SymposiumTour #DinnerParty

So much Black excellence subordinated to the needs of the white gaze. "Jive," incidentally, started out as uptown slang for cannabis.

i cannot stress enough how thoroughly stupid it is to let great books become right wing coded

What’s wonderful about books is you can explain something in chapter one and not have to do it all over again in chapter two.

If we all just ignored them the problem would solve itself.

Gotta say, I'm skeptical of the value of magnifying self-hating trans women at their worst.

don’t really see musicians bothering with it. maybe it will let laymen make simple tunes in a way that replaces garageband loop drag and drop. at least garageband loop drag and drop teaches you something tho. that’s how i learned to make music on the computer as a kid!

“AI in music” conversation is muddled from the start. depends on what you mean by AI. ableton’s new stem splitter that lets you isolate vocals, drums, bass, melody from a song is powered by machine learning and is a game changer for dance producers. some kind of hypothetical “claude music” program?

The Future of Museums Is a Dance Floor The rave offers a temporary homeland, a space where belonging is felt rather than declared.

And curators

Cameron Granger’s debut video game doubles as a love letter to the Columbus DIY scene – Matter News In ‘Sidechain,’ set at a warehouse party on the final night before the world ends, players navigate scenes that draw inspiration from the formative years the artist spent frequenting spaces such as MI...

Love being name-checked by artists.

An army of animators worked very hard on this and the craft shows. But what if they'd been given the budget to make something truly creative instead?

I love the Chuck Jones Roadrunner shorts. Pinacle of character animation. This just seems an exercise in what Andrew Dewaard called "derivative media." Managing a portfolio of intellectual property to maximize return on it. Even if that meant, for a moment, to not even release it.

"logic of Musk’s empire is total. X shapes the discourse. Grok automates it. Grokipedia rewrites the historical record. Starlink can deliver it all, everywhere, to everyone. Each layer reinforces the others. It’s not about winning arguments in the public sphere. It’s about building a replacement."

Portada de El capitalismo ha muerto. El ascenso de la clase vectorialista de McKenzie Wark. Un fondo rojo con una calavera sobre la que cae un líquido rosa

Si tan solo alguien hubiese reflexionado sobre como una nueva clase dominante se está aprovechando de estas personas y sus circunstancias

The three genders

We should all cash in on the self-hating academic grift.

a bear is looking at its reflection in a mirror in the woods Alt: a bear is looking at its reflection in a mirror in the woods

Opinion: Why Higher Ed Won't Look Itself in the Mirror
Reality:

The article's existence negates its own argument. The fact that the easiest way for an academic to land an opinion piece in The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed is by offering contrarian takes about how awful academia is suggests a strong desire to look in the mirror.

Personally I think "You have one shot at an academic career and too bad if that happens during a world-historical collapse in research funding" is maybe not a great long-term professional incentive structure

My generation of white ppl have a lot to answer for.

Now THIS. THIS is a recession indicator if I ever did see one

Lovely version!

Screenshot from Mastodon, white text on black background: Erik Uden @ErikUden@mastodon.de Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library". Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

Iggy Pop - The Passenger (Official Video) YouTube video by Iggy Pop Official

Happy 79th birthday Iggy www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fWw...

Not our insurance company rolling into my inbox wanting to know how many male employees and female employees we have. Kristen, baby, gender is e x p a n s i v e, the boxes on your forms are b r o k e n.

Does anyone want to go to this with me?

GHOST IN THE MACHINE is a terrific film tracing the prehistory of so-called AI back through the connection btw colonialism, eugenics and statistics. NYC premiere 2nd May 7:30 Tishman Auditorium The New School 63 5th ave. Free, open to the public. Register here: event.newschool.edu/ghostinthema...

For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social I wrote about the decimation of the right to asylum. I went into the history of asylum, how it was formalized post the World Wars, how it was never properly implemented, and how its destruction paves the path for authoritarianism.

jewishcurrents.org/the-death-of...

Which of course is more about the limits of my own tastes.

Mean meaning to write something about not liking John Waters.