Yes agree, but I'm not sure to what extent electoral politics can counter facism

It might be time for a nap soon :)

You call it procrastination, but I call it slow scholarship

I agree this would be good but it is pure nostalgia. The conditions for such a form of life no longer exist, and never existed for anyone apart from a small number of people in countries like the USA. We need to dismantle capitalism entirely instead

idk i think it’s probably a best case scenario at this point that trump’s national law enforcement guy is so incompetent and intoxicated that he can’t even effectively oppress us

I legit think some of the belief and experience that the economy sucks is also sheer exhaustion from shit like this and notification fatigue and every single shitty tech-mediated interaction of which there are hundreds a day

Public unrest heats up over Western Sydney’s data centres As the NSW government hastens approvals for large data centres, Western Sydney communities say their concerns about heat and health risks are being sidelined.

This article highlights something really important: it is absolutely bonkers how many massive, energy + water hungry data centres are being built in Sydney suburbs that are already subject to worsening climate impacts and heat island effects. They'll make both worse

Took 15-odd years for BRS to be charged, but at least Qld police got right onto that dude wearing a t-shirt

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this is truly excellent and important work

a reminder that sora, like chatgpt, is a commercial product that can come and go like any other website, which is another reason why a lot of us remain critical of “AI” — and why we focus more on its political economy than its technological mechanisms

Sat in Academic Board at my Uni yesterday where they congratulated themselves on rushing through a new Bachelor of AI, someone commented that “Marketing has warned us if we don’t get a named A.I. degree, we’ll be left behind by all the other universities”

I think everyone knew anyway but sometimes these things need to be done

I just came out as non-binary on the family group chat

"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.

The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.

Link to the full resolution below.

When your own reference list places your work next to Marx 🥰

almost as tho a system of government established by, for and of propertied white males is designed to serve the interests of propertied white males.

every single time these politicians say “keeping people safe” and “community safety” and “keep Australians safe” the context will tell you that colonised and racialised people are not fully human to them, and nor are women and children.

the Aust home affairs minister just told the ABC that meetings like one between Israeli President and Aust intelligence boss “happen all around the world” and “they keep people safe”. Which tells you who are considered “people” to our government.

Language as a "free gift" Alex Luke In this seminar I would like to try and show how specifying the relations between language and political economy can benefit from drawing on Marxian concepts of political economy. Determining the role of language in political economy has been an ongoing project in sociocultural linguistics (e.g. Block, 2018; Gal, 1989), seeking to overcome reified distinctions that separate language from political economy. I believe these distinctions are further erased when we look at language at the point of production rather than exchange, and by drawing on Marx's notion of the formal and real subsumption of labour. Language can, at the point of production, be seen as a form of labour in a Marxist sense, and thus able to be subsumed into capitalist labour and valorisation processes. I will examine how the formal and real subsumption of language and semiosis might work by drawing on Battisoni's recent extension of the notion of subsumption as the use of 'free gifts' of human social labour, in this case language, in processes of valorisation. Examples of language use in the development and use of large language models, as well as my own research on the discourse of performance management in organisations, will be used to illustrate the formal and real subsumption of language.

Here's the abstract

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Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

espresso machines

“Do I Have To Disclose I Used AI In My Query Letter?” And other things about which I’m vehement.

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Forgot alt text so I'll add it here: There's a headshot of Sam Altman with the headline above the photo, OpenAI CEO Same Altman visits orphange. Underneath the photo is written, It's heartbreaking to look into those sad, hopeless eyes -said one of the kids

Massive W as a parent when your child sends you stuff like this

Non-Hegemony | Phenomenal World The neoliberal world order is collapsing. In its wake, powerful states have abandoned multilaterialism in pursuit of national aims.

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Yes, I got water on fast and luckily there were others about who knew what to do. My sinuses were a bit messed up the next day but that was it

I saw this firsthand, after getting pepper-sprayed outside Town Hall

That's why the cops charged protesters on Bathurst St like this, and not those proceedin down George St