Revise and resubmit.

But hey, if you're already down the path of automagically generating knowledge through hands-off spooky math at scale, I guess motivated reasoning is a powerful engine for seeing "let's not rebuild this from scratch, forever" as a Great Leap Forward?

{ very much muttering to myself }

I don't really feel confident that having a hands-off automagical Memex compiled by opaque tools (but represented in a legible personal wiki) is a better approach than just making your own common place book / wiki garden and building those habits of mind directly.

We've had educators from Idaho and Montana attend our previous workshops, and we've had good support from legislators from those states for our work. We're not going to stop working to tell this story.

In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.

John Waters standing beside a wall with a sign that says: The John Waters Restrooms. All Gender. Not my photo.

In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD

Wikipedia will often do the same, with a more approachable entry for a generalist audience.

Rather than stride into some Discourse, I'm just going to remind people that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a fantastic, freely-accessible resource that often maps out the multiple genealogies of many widely-used terms.

"We could replace a great deal of CEOs with AI at this moment, if we are ready to be honest about their shared tendency towards truth-agnostic bullshit claims," said most critical thinkers.

"Go back to listening to Gang of Four and Delta 5, you dork!" clearly remains a helpful response to most of the non sequiturs I post on here.

Somehow all these hours of playing Wages for Housework Campaign Simulator haven't been as fulfilling as I was led to expect.

Fingers crossed for this being Best Saturday.

Seems like every single day BlueSky is experiencing «une autre petite mort».

I'm just happy for them.

My humble contribution is that nothing—chronology least of all—will convince me that this so-called "Andy Kaufman" persona wasn't actually Eddie Murphy in makeup.

I haven't ever used Ghost, so I don't have a recommendation for how @hyperallergic.com might address that easily.

But hopefully it's useful to suggest what might be the underlying cause?

(I've been trying to move a site off WP for an embarrassingly long time, & this is one of our biggest hurdles.)

Poking around at "view source" & the Wayback Machine, my best guess is that @hyperallergic.com used to use WordPress & has moved to Ghost.

WordPress needing a plug-in in order to have multiple authors on a single post is one of that platform's worst design constraints—and might be the cause?

It's just really weird & honestly disappointing to see otherwise insightful people talk about such a highly differentiated set of spaces as though they're a single entity.

That tendency toward mentally flattening crucial, meaningful, structural difference doesn't bode well.

And yes, it's absolutely a systematic design problem that experiences there are profoundly context-dependent, yet the process of choosing a spot happens with basically zero ability to discern what the actual orientations of each micro community will be in practice.

I totally get that everyone's experience of Mas todon has been different (esp. due to how one is interpellated by kyriarchy).

And simultaneously, so many "takes" come across as "I just can't fathom why there were so many intimidating men and so few women at a place called 'The Bear Bar' in WeHo".

Oh, but when someone says something similar in Arabic, it's somehow bad.

I love this question & motivation! Ghost and Buttondown are by far the two I hear people praising / moving to.

Depending on one's ethics, Ghost might have a slight advantage btw those because it's non-profit?

Here's a page with lots of links to options & guides for migrating or getting started.

Sadly, I think this is likely where "interest convergence is an under-acknowledged driver of change" might apply.

I'm increasingly convinced that changed I've long thought were won through ethical or moral appeals were actually due to interest convergence.

The second western white folks started putting life into taxonomies was the second they detached themselves from the interconnected web of existence to which humans play role of steward at best. This is one crucial ideology serving as the foundation of fascism and settler colonialism.

There are too many levels of irony about how I'm wishing that I could find an interface / infrastructure that would let me search for a particular author + concept as cited within a certain discipline.

(Yes, Goggle Scholar is sort of the closest thing, but it's certainly not doing the thing.)

Add a food to a movie title

¡FrittÁtame!

“Scholars and publishers, along with librarians and other knowledge workers…have more shared interests and struggles than our siloed institutional locations, traditional professional roles and…notions of who and what count as ‘academic…’” Brilliant essay from @rcolesworthy.bsky.social (link below)

Yeah. I mean, on one hand, I always was closing down clubs/raves well after midnight when I was 18 to 25ish. But I also was always the designated driver, so that meant immediately ferrying everyone an hour+ back from LA to Riverside. Between that & going to music-focused spots we avoided most drama.

"Ma'am, this is the USA. We don't contextualize like you're doing here."

(Yes, I think you're spot on.)

Thanks for sharing the technique—and sorry that it's been necessary to learn & use.

(Saw someone say that they dislike "neurospicy" because it feels condescending / infantilizing / twee. Which… to each their own, I guess? I'm not going to argue with their feelings!

But it made me wonder about what the equivalent of "bash back" discourse would be, some type of warning coloration.)