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@mckenziewark.bsky.social

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Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
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McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer and scholar. Wark is known for her writings on media theory, critical theory, new media, and the Situationist International. Her best known works are A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory. She is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at The New School. .. more

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1h

If you're cool, ppl *give* you clothes.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2h

Everyone is broke and I feel like this problem could be solved by sacrificing one billionaire.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

an easy way to understand this is that people make clothes cool and not the other way around. so our judgement of what looks "good" is often shaped by the cultural capital of various social groups. punks, skaters, hip hop heads, etc look stylish simply bc they are cool. thus money is not a barrier.

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d

The student did not “cite” the Bible. @cnn.com also gets a failing grade.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat @basquiat.bsky.social · 1d

Baptism, 1982
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5044

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d

More trash from @theatlantic.com. Thomas Chatterton Williams is mad bc pretty much every interesting writer in America ignores his tantrums. Dude gets gold stars from the powerful but still wants to be loved. Can’t have it both ways hun.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.

The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates

Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.

www.theatlantic.com

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2d

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 2d

For years, people have asked me if I have plans to collect some of my best essays - together with several new ones - in an essay collection. So here you go! Femmephilia's cover design is by Vivian Rowe. haymarketbooks.org/books/2758-femmephilia. It'll be published by @haymarketbooks.org in June 2026

Femmephilia

haymarketbooks.org

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

"We will finally invent a tech so cool it produces value purely from code and electricity. Our monopoly powers will allow us to enforce creation of capital completely free from the restraints of social relations" -a bunch of dudes creating the biggest misallocation boondoggle in capitalist history

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Charles GetCovered-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2d

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d

Dunking on assholes just gives them the attention they want. Making you complicit in the assholery.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.

The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates

Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.

www.theatlantic.com

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Gülkan Noîr @noirthequeeng.bsky.social · 2d

"On our feast day, even the Romans threw roses at our feet, because every t-girl deserves her roses while she lives."

[Phrygia - Anatolia]

a cut as roses 🌹🖤🌹🌀

from "Love and Money, Sex and Death"
@mckenziewark.bsky.social

- working on translation for Turkish Edition.

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d

Let's make this a thing everywhere.

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 2d

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 2d

Declaring anti-harassment and disinformation organizations, as well as those working to stem hate speech and anti-vaccination conspiracies online, enemies of the US is basically admitting that trolling, harassment, and conspiracies are our new official ideology.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.

www.nytimes.com

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 2d

for your holiday reading pleasure:

i wrote about why i’m getting back into tapes, and what we’ve lost by letting ourselves get addicted to platforms built around surveillance and instant gratification. 🎶 @404media.co

Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes

In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.

www.404media.co

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

This action by HHS and RFK Jr is unprecedented in scope. Never before has the fed. gov. usurped the authority of medical professionals to set a separate standard of care in an attempt to ban evidence based lifesaving care. The man who thinks getting measles is good wants trans kids to suffer.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 2d

"It would be nice / to interfere with the accuracy of the world."
- Lisa Robertson, Palinode

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 2d

The Unredacted Epstein Files because PDF is an hilarious file format joshwho.net/EpsteinList/...

joshwho.net

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely write-up in Gay City News for @juliewbach.bsky.social and their bookstore Hive Mind Books.

Queer bookstore Hive Mind Books builds community in Brooklyn

At the start of last summer, shortly after Kaitlyn Crockett moved to New York City, she opened her smartphone and searched for the nearest locations matching

gaycitynews.com

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 3d

“MAHA says don’t change the system, change yourself. Purify your body. Deny your kid vaccines. Blame the sick for their sickness. It’s magical thinking for the carceral state.”

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 3d

“MAHA is a seductive process because it speaks to real pain—the pain of being abandoned. But it offers no solidarity only self management, not justice only blame, not transformation only cruelty disguised as wellness.”

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Dmytri Kleiner @dmytri.to · 3d

It’s absolutely true that AI is reducing jobs, but not like you think. AI is not *doing* those jobs instead of people, AI speculation is redirecting *investment* away from job-creating businesses to capital-intensive businesses.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

"I am deeply worried that President Trump has brought about a collapse in the governing capacity of American political institutions...But I am no longer worried that President Trump has created a durable political economy that realigns the electorate."

newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/everything...

Everything-Bagel Authoritarianism

If you want to dismantle a liberal, pluralist democracy, you need to be able to tell parts of your far-right coalition “no.”

newsletter.mikekonczal.com

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 3d

Get hard copies. Especially of queer art, books, music, films. We’ve got to be archivists whether we want to be or not. I’m not going to see more things I love burn.

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Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social · 3d

In the mid-1990s, at the time Jay Bolter and I were writing Remediation, articles like this began to appear in the media about the dangers of the Internet for children--not only discussion boards and forums and online predators, but also text-based games like MUDs and MOOs.
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Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn’t know why. Then she found the AI chat logs.

A majority of teens are interacting with AI companions, and many of their parents have no idea.

wapo.st

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 3d

A lil thing I wrote on xmas for us pagans:
www.documentjournal.com/2023/12/dayt...

Daytripping: Christmas for pagans

Collectible but Not Consumeristic

www.documentjournal.com

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve heard many stories of trans ppl pushed out of higher ed one way or another.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university