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@geryon.bsky.social
Writer/teacher/etc[computational rhetoric] in Haldimand Tract/CUPE5524. Maxing Inland Empire and Disco. e.g. did an MFA in Digital Arts & New Media (but so-so at drawing), fond of birds, horde books
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To appropriate the election-season discursive techniques of center left Americans for a second, if the choice is between Mussolini (MBS) or Hitler (MBZ) I choose Mussolini
January 25, 2026 at 6:19 PM
To appropriate the election-season discursive techniques of center left Americans for a second, if the choice is between Mussolini (MBS) or Hitler (MBZ) I choose Mussolini
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That's an armoured vehicle sold to ICE by a Canadian company btw.
Some of us were furious about the sale of such vehicles to Saudi Arabia under Harper/Trudeau, and we are equally furious about this under Trudeau/Carney.
Some of us were furious about the sale of such vehicles to Saudi Arabia under Harper/Trudeau, and we are equally furious about this under Trudeau/Carney.
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 8:02 PM
That's an armoured vehicle sold to ICE by a Canadian company btw.
Some of us were furious about the sale of such vehicles to Saudi Arabia under Harper/Trudeau, and we are equally furious about this under Trudeau/Carney.
Some of us were furious about the sale of such vehicles to Saudi Arabia under Harper/Trudeau, and we are equally furious about this under Trudeau/Carney.
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Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com.
‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’
economist.com/united-state...
‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’
economist.com/united-state...
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
economist.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com.
‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’
economist.com/united-state...
‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’
economist.com/united-state...
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NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”
National Nurses United (@nationalnurses.bsky.social)
The largest RN union in U.S. history, with more than 225,000 nurses nationwide.
nationalnurses.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 5:33 AM
NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”
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We all just saw about six different angles of ICE murdering a guy who himself was filming them, but sure, you think body cameras will make all the difference.
How stupid do they think we are?
How stupid do they think we are?
Republicans have blocked every proposal to rein in ICE, but they're happy to let Democrats spend your tax money to equip ICE mercenaries with body cameras. Why? Because they know body cams won't restrain ICE any more than they do cops:
crimethinc.com/bodycams
Don't try to reform ICE. Abolish them.
crimethinc.com/bodycams
Don't try to reform ICE. Abolish them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:17 AM
We all just saw about six different angles of ICE murdering a guy who himself was filming them, but sure, you think body cameras will make all the difference.
How stupid do they think we are?
How stupid do they think we are?
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i think the "immigration turns high trust societies into low trust societies" people were already on really shaky ideological ground but now they're watching neighbors helping one another and calling them paid antifa agitators
January 25, 2026 at 1:00 PM
i think the "immigration turns high trust societies into low trust societies" people were already on really shaky ideological ground but now they're watching neighbors helping one another and calling them paid antifa agitators
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Yesterday, we joined tens of thousands to march.
This am, ICE responded with violence.
Alex was an ICU nurse, a union sibling, & an observer who stepped in to help.
This is a union state. We will continue to show up, to watch, to document, and fight
ICE is not welcome here.
This am, ICE responded with violence.
Alex was an ICU nurse, a union sibling, & an observer who stepped in to help.
This is a union state. We will continue to show up, to watch, to document, and fight
ICE is not welcome here.
January 25, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Yesterday, we joined tens of thousands to march.
This am, ICE responded with violence.
Alex was an ICU nurse, a union sibling, & an observer who stepped in to help.
This is a union state. We will continue to show up, to watch, to document, and fight
ICE is not welcome here.
This am, ICE responded with violence.
Alex was an ICU nurse, a union sibling, & an observer who stepped in to help.
This is a union state. We will continue to show up, to watch, to document, and fight
ICE is not welcome here.
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There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
January 24, 2026 at 11:04 PM
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
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New: Amid the escalating situation in Minneapolis, ICE posted in the Federal Register asking companies to provide info about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities”
www.wired.com/story/ice-as...
www.wired.com/story/ice-as...
ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations
A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance.
www.wired.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:42 PM
New: Amid the escalating situation in Minneapolis, ICE posted in the Federal Register asking companies to provide info about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities”
www.wired.com/story/ice-as...
www.wired.com/story/ice-as...
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What the hell? The YPJ Information & Documentation Office @ypj.bsky.social has been suspended.
In the midst of the attacks on Rojava.
@safety.bsky.app what are you playing at?
In the midst of the attacks on Rojava.
@safety.bsky.app what are you playing at?
January 24, 2026 at 11:07 AM
What the hell? The YPJ Information & Documentation Office @ypj.bsky.social has been suspended.
In the midst of the attacks on Rojava.
@safety.bsky.app what are you playing at?
In the midst of the attacks on Rojava.
@safety.bsky.app what are you playing at?
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Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
January 23, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
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Today we mourn what’s been taken from our
communities.
Today we organize for what comes next.
Today we take a stand.
It’s time to get #ICEOut of our
communities.
communities.
Today we organize for what comes next.
Today we take a stand.
It’s time to get #ICEOut of our
communities.
January 23, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Today we mourn what’s been taken from our
communities.
Today we organize for what comes next.
Today we take a stand.
It’s time to get #ICEOut of our
communities.
communities.
Today we organize for what comes next.
Today we take a stand.
It’s time to get #ICEOut of our
communities.
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Economic strike in Minnesota to protest against ICE: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’
Economic strike in Minnesota to protest against ICE: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’
Organizers demand ICE leave state and agency be investigated for constitutional violations
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ICE protests – live updates
A “no work, no school, no shopping” blackout day of protest was kicked off by community leaders, faith leaders and labor unions on Friday in protest against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surge in the state.
The “Day of Truth & Freedom” protest comes in the wake of the killing of Renee Good, the unarmed woman killed by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis earlier this month. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Economic strike in Minnesota to protest against ICE: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’
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The clergy just keep coming to this anti-ICE protest.
Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.
Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.
January 23, 2026 at 4:18 PM
The clergy just keep coming to this anti-ICE protest.
Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.
Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.
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I am, in particular, interested in updated appraisals of the *in principle* limitations of the technology.
January 22, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I am, in particular, interested in updated appraisals of the *in principle* limitations of the technology.
In academia, on top of MBAs, it's the famous 75+ year old emeritus scholars who are most enchanted by LLM chatbots, evangelize them and confess to writing books with one. This is telling, I think. Like VCs people no one says no to yet, are psychologically vulnerable, and not at the top of their game
January 22, 2026 at 5:03 PM
In academia, on top of MBAs, it's the famous 75+ year old emeritus scholars who are most enchanted by LLM chatbots, evangelize them and confess to writing books with one. This is telling, I think. Like VCs people no one says no to yet, are psychologically vulnerable, and not at the top of their game
lol. And administrators / humanities professors still consider you an ignorant radical technophobe when you talk about AI as: 1) a bubble in the near term 2) primarily a sociopolitical project
OpenAI chair Bret Taylor says AI is 'probably' a bubble, expects correction in coming years
OpenAI chair Bret Taylor says AI is 'probably' a bubble, expects correction in coming years
Taylor said the free market will ultimately determine where the value is and which AI players have the best products.
cnb.cx
January 22, 2026 at 2:26 PM
lol. And administrators / humanities professors still consider you an ignorant radical technophobe when you talk about AI as: 1) a bubble in the near term 2) primarily a sociopolitical project
In the interests of being fair, I do appreciate PM Carney’s speech. Let’s see what they do next (to develop the possibility of good lives on a burning planet in the settler colony shadowed by an empire run by a senile tyrant surrounded by neo-nazis)
January 22, 2026 at 4:05 AM
In the interests of being fair, I do appreciate PM Carney’s speech. Let’s see what they do next (to develop the possibility of good lives on a burning planet in the settler colony shadowed by an empire run by a senile tyrant surrounded by neo-nazis)
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An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 9:18 PM
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
What's so baffling is that before the invasion threats Europe was acting broadly indifferently or as an obstacle to coordinated resistance to US bullying (see: UK; see Venezuela and Iran). The MAGA strategists want to undermine European liberals, and show domination. Still, it's hard to rationalize
January 21, 2026 at 6:38 PM
What's so baffling is that before the invasion threats Europe was acting broadly indifferently or as an obstacle to coordinated resistance to US bullying (see: UK; see Venezuela and Iran). The MAGA strategists want to undermine European liberals, and show domination. Still, it's hard to rationalize
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It would appear that the single biggest point of contention between software engineers and physical engineers is the "people will die" thing. It's true in both cases, but the software engineers are wilfully ignorant of it.
January 18, 2026 at 10:31 PM
It would appear that the single biggest point of contention between software engineers and physical engineers is the "people will die" thing. It's true in both cases, but the software engineers are wilfully ignorant of it.
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Just finished this right after having read @hofrench.bsky.social's Second Emancipation, and it convinced me that the African & African diaspora anti-colonial thinkers of the 1940-1975 period constituted one of the great intellectual movements in the history of humankind.
Second Enlightenment level.
Second Enlightenment level.
We think of the postwar world order as having been built by the US. But as Getachew makes clear, that world order was completed by the intellectual giants of the African, pan-African and African diaspora liberation movements.
It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.
It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.
January 18, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Just finished this right after having read @hofrench.bsky.social's Second Emancipation, and it convinced me that the African & African diaspora anti-colonial thinkers of the 1940-1975 period constituted one of the great intellectual movements in the history of humankind.
Second Enlightenment level.
Second Enlightenment level.
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"More specifically, it was college-educated Black women — not those with less education or advanced degrees — who lost the most ground. In 2024, 74 percent of Black women with bachelor’s degrees were employed; that rate fell to 71 percent in the first nine months of 2025"
“The unemployment rate for Black women rose significantly from the start of 2025 to December, where it stood at 7.8 percent. That pattern of dramatic job loss was not seen for other groups.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...
Black Women Turn to One Another as Their Career Paths Suddenly Recede
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:22 PM
"More specifically, it was college-educated Black women — not those with less education or advanced degrees — who lost the most ground. In 2024, 74 percent of Black women with bachelor’s degrees were employed; that rate fell to 71 percent in the first nine months of 2025"
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every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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Ever wonder “what did Tolkien think of the plane?” Or “what if goblins were played by the Beastie Boys?” Well, I’ve got the show for you.
SHELVED BY GENRE awakens far below the Misty Mountains, and with riddles and talking eagles and exploding pine cones, the hosts continue their discussion of THE HOBBIT! Also, we learn so much about what Tolkien thought of airplanes. rangedtouch.com/2026/01/16/t...
January 16, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Ever wonder “what did Tolkien think of the plane?” Or “what if goblins were played by the Beastie Boys?” Well, I’ve got the show for you.