David J.
@apocalypticdrift.bsky.social
Reluctant literary scholar with a focus on the end (of the world)
American Studies at Universität Stuttgart
(Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
Other research interests include video games (& ludology), zombie studies, sound studies, and dark ecology.
American Studies at Universität Stuttgart
(Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
Other research interests include video games (& ludology), zombie studies, sound studies, and dark ecology.
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Got gossip from a managing editor pal of a journal that a few reviewers used ChatGPT to write their assessments for them, and didn't even conceal it. I'll say it again - it won't be the neoliberal administrators that take down the humanities. It'll be humanities professors who've stopped reading.
July 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Got gossip from a managing editor pal of a journal that a few reviewers used ChatGPT to write their assessments for them, and didn't even conceal it. I'll say it again - it won't be the neoliberal administrators that take down the humanities. It'll be humanities professors who've stopped reading.
GPT stands for General Planetary Treason, right?
July 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
GPT stands for General Planetary Treason, right?
Really good book alert 🚨!!!
The book I wrote with my HANDS and my BRAIN is out in paperback!
June 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Really good book alert 🚨!!!
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Operation Midnight Hammer.
Are we officially living in a Mel Brooks film.
Are we officially living in a Mel Brooks film.
June 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Operation Midnight Hammer.
Are we officially living in a Mel Brooks film.
Are we officially living in a Mel Brooks film.
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"Massive Ordnance Penetrators" We are living in a remake of Dr Strangelove.
June 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"Massive Ordnance Penetrators" We are living in a remake of Dr Strangelove.
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Adam Curtis: But then something happened that the Ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable, a hobbit.
June 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Adam Curtis: But then something happened that the Ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable, a hobbit.
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The terminally online mind cannot comprehend this
June 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The terminally online mind cannot comprehend this
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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
June 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
”I‘d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.“
June 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
”I‘d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.“
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"I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn."
June 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn."
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Here are some tips for ways to “show up” when you aren’t able to show up in person, as well as suggestions for all of us for building more inclusive movements for social justice and human rights.
How to Protest If You're Disabled And Can't Show Up at Rallies
Tips and tricks to help you resist.
www.teenvogue.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Here are some tips for ways to “show up” when you aren’t able to show up in person, as well as suggestions for all of us for building more inclusive movements for social justice and human rights.
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"I want y’all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us."
Read what Doechii said during her #BETAwards2025 speech: rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Read what Doechii said during her #BETAwards2025 speech: rollingstone.com/music/music-...
June 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
"I want y’all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us."
Read what Doechii said during her #BETAwards2025 speech: rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Read what Doechii said during her #BETAwards2025 speech: rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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"The present frenzy surrounding artificial intelligence will not last forever. As the limitations of become clearer+ as the economic returns on massive corporate investments fail to materialize at the expected scale, the speculative bubble will inevitably burst."
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...
Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?
In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances...
www.versobooks.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"The present frenzy surrounding artificial intelligence will not last forever. As the limitations of become clearer+ as the economic returns on massive corporate investments fail to materialize at the expected scale, the speculative bubble will inevitably burst."
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...
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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
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The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--
June 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--
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happy may day, get in formation to get the goods
"decentralized, social media-based approaches were effective in harnessing attention+organizing street demonstrations. But they couldn't steer the response of the system because there was no organizational support."
time.com/collections/...
"decentralized, social media-based approaches were effective in harnessing attention+organizing street demonstrations. But they couldn't steer the response of the system because there was no organizational support."
time.com/collections/...
Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
time.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
happy may day, get in formation to get the goods
"decentralized, social media-based approaches were effective in harnessing attention+organizing street demonstrations. But they couldn't steer the response of the system because there was no organizational support."
time.com/collections/...
"decentralized, social media-based approaches were effective in harnessing attention+organizing street demonstrations. But they couldn't steer the response of the system because there was no organizational support."
time.com/collections/...
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W.E.B. Du Bois, May Day Speech, NYC, 1957
“American socialism should be planned for American conditions... It should demand freedom of thought and speech; freedom to study, travel and learn; and above all, freedom to vote for what we want instead of compulsion to vote for one party under two names”
“American socialism should be planned for American conditions... It should demand freedom of thought and speech; freedom to study, travel and learn; and above all, freedom to vote for what we want instead of compulsion to vote for one party under two names”
May 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
W.E.B. Du Bois, May Day Speech, NYC, 1957
“American socialism should be planned for American conditions... It should demand freedom of thought and speech; freedom to study, travel and learn; and above all, freedom to vote for what we want instead of compulsion to vote for one party under two names”
“American socialism should be planned for American conditions... It should demand freedom of thought and speech; freedom to study, travel and learn; and above all, freedom to vote for what we want instead of compulsion to vote for one party under two names”
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Its not just skipping the humanities, ethics and the arts: they are taught that those ways of seeing the world and understanding it are inferior and useless. Ive seen way too many CS students laugh at these fields. They are taught that their way of seeing the world is not only superior, but complete
This is what happens when an entire industry is made up of people who skipped studying the humanities.
April 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Its not just skipping the humanities, ethics and the arts: they are taught that those ways of seeing the world and understanding it are inferior and useless. Ive seen way too many CS students laugh at these fields. They are taught that their way of seeing the world is not only superior, but complete
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It’s release week for Understanding Octavia E. Butler! 🎉
Check out a sneak peek of my book ahead of the official publication day—this Thursday!
b2l.bz/Vi5c3O
#octaviabutler
Check out a sneak peek of my book ahead of the official publication day—this Thursday!
b2l.bz/Vi5c3O
#octaviabutler
Understanding Octavia E. Butler : Kendra R Parker
b2l.bz
April 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It’s release week for Understanding Octavia E. Butler! 🎉
Check out a sneak peek of my book ahead of the official publication day—this Thursday!
b2l.bz/Vi5c3O
#octaviabutler
Check out a sneak peek of my book ahead of the official publication day—this Thursday!
b2l.bz/Vi5c3O
#octaviabutler
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When you think your commitment to democratic pluralism requires you engage with bad-faith fascists determined to destroy all democracy in the world & replace it with racist techno-states run by billionaire eugenicists. Allen has lost her mind.
April 22, 2025 at 6:53 AM
When you think your commitment to democratic pluralism requires you engage with bad-faith fascists determined to destroy all democracy in the world & replace it with racist techno-states run by billionaire eugenicists. Allen has lost her mind.
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Have you noticed how the internet has just got a whole lot worse? It’s time to do something about it
How to save the internet
Have you noticed how the internet has just got a whole lot worse? It’s time to do something about it
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
April 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Have you noticed how the internet has just got a whole lot worse? It’s time to do something about it
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Sky Daddy by @katefolk.bsky.social is so fucking good. Melville colliding with Ballardian sad girl lit. in the very best of ways.
April 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Sky Daddy by @katefolk.bsky.social is so fucking good. Melville colliding with Ballardian sad girl lit. in the very best of ways.
Sky Daddy by @katefolk.bsky.social is so fucking good. Melville colliding with Ballardian sad girl lit. in the very best of ways.
April 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Sky Daddy by @katefolk.bsky.social is so fucking good. Melville colliding with Ballardian sad girl lit. in the very best of ways.
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