I think one of the reasons generative AI is so deeply grating is that storytelling was an adaptive trait that made (and makes) us human. I'm writing my communication book chapter now and this struck me- not in a present sense but in a deep time sense.
all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene
I love creative ways to think about the more than human, and I've seen similar approaches to considering the needs of future communities.
But I think we have to hold on to the fact that this is role play - we are not giving voice, we are imagining voice. There is a crucial difference.
Still from Harlan County USA featuring a woman pulling a gun from her bra
Still from Poets of Mongolia featuring a coal miner standing in front of a yurt
Cat with caption "She is the neighborhood psychpath" from Kedi
My pitch to teach an ethnographic film class next year got shot down so just for fun here's a thread of what we would have watched
Finally you know I have to get multispecies with it and show Kedi (2016), which details the social lives of stray (or semi-stray) cats in Istanbul
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A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.
Periodic reminder that if you die while employed your manager will move on within days, and that’s only if you die directly in front of them or in an especially surprising way. Anything else and they’ll have forgotten you existence within hours.
Same goes for most coworkers.
Use that PTO!
'ENVELOPE, n. The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a love-letter.'
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
What’s shitty about the discourse about this post both on Threads and here is that there are genuine concerns about colonialism with respect to the moon, including for example: www.cnn.com/2024/01/05/w...
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I was just informed that I could not live in the bookstore. So rude.
Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid.
Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.
Every time I see things like this I just come back to this article:
Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Good grief, of course they granted the exemption.
“Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum convened the God Squad at the Secretary of War’s request on March 31, 2026. This is the first time the God Squad has convened to consider an application by the Secretary of War.”
The map's form: geo-art
It shows: the beloved
Its purpose: connection
Elena Wuest (German, b.1977)
"Beyond," 2025
Oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
The map's form: puzzle box etc.
It shows: urban watercourses
Its purpose: moral
A blackout or erasure poem where the words of the poem have been circled and connected with lines, rather than crossing out all the rest of the words.
"Use art to tell a secret"
Art is encircled with rays like a mini sun.
Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is taking Indigenous culture past the Moon: his mission patch was designed by Henry Guimond, an Anishinaabe artist, incorporating one Indigenous perspective about the seven sacred laws, which are represented by animals.
🧪 #ArtemisII
How your emails find me
RIP English writer Virginia Woolf, died this day 1941.
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
Five lavender colored pasqueflowers with numerous yellow stamens in the center. iPhone 6
11 years ago today I started on my floral journey:
Anemone nuttalliana, our Nuttall's Pasqueflower, blooming then along the Shadow Canyon Trail #nativeplants 🌿
Fossil flower from the Parachute Creek member of the Green River formation. About 40-50 million years old. #fossilfriday
A yellow-rumped warbler perched in a tree.
Counting down the days until the warblers return. The Yellow-rumped Warblers are usually one of the first ones I see.
#birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #wildlife #birding #TRAHR
"with what are you apologizing?...Ubuntu holds that...paying reparations for injuries caused to others, is indivisible from ukubuyisa, the restoration of injured relations. Ubuntu demands costly forgiveness: you cannot receive forgiveness without giving something up as an act of your contrition.
"Dearest, I beg of you, sleep properly and go for walks."
~ Franz Kafka
Use of ancient needles 'more than clothing'
phys.org/news/2026-03-ancient-nee...
Superb thread
A random wander along footpaths east of Horsham (West Sussex) and up onto the High Weald was most productive, with 2 Goshawk, a singing Woodlark, a Hawfinch and, best of all, my most wanted naturalised plant - Purple Toothwort #UKBirding @sussexornitholo.bsky.social
"Beauty is not all brightness. In the shadowlands of pain and despair we find slow, dark beauty. The primeval conversation between darkness and beauty is not audible to the human ear, and the threshold where they engage each other is not visible to the eye."
~ John O'Donohue
That feeling when you read an amazing book and then discover the author has published many other books ~