danny
@lcdanny.bsky.social
Jr. Asst. Prof. at Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University | Free Palestine | letterboxd.com/LCDanny | the thief, he kindly spoke
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on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
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The international news story about the Dutch elections is sadly misleading: fewer votes were cast for leftwing parties, while the far right remained stable. And Geert Wilders may yet come out on top.
Far right suffer losses in Dutch election, with country set for its youngest ever PM
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news.sky.com/story/nether...
Netherlands election: Geert Wilders' far-right party suffers blow as centrists lead in exit poll
Far right parties have been on the march in countries including France and Germany, but long-serving Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders has been dealt a blow in his country's latest general election.
news.sky.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The international news story about the Dutch elections is sadly misleading: fewer votes were cast for leftwing parties, while the far right remained stable. And Geert Wilders may yet come out on top.
Great essay, and great rebuttal of that tired 'but it's already being used' argument: "The simplest reason to refuse resignation is that resignation can only harmonize with the tech-industry narrative of AI inevitability. When we give in, we join the sales force." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Great essay, and great rebuttal of that tired 'but it's already being used' argument: "The simplest reason to refuse resignation is that resignation can only harmonize with the tech-industry narrative of AI inevitability. When we give in, we join the sales force." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
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Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
www.whatimreading.net
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
New publication! On the digitized visual economy of the Gaza genocide - if your social media feed's anything like mine, you've been awash in images of atrocities committed by the Israeli occupation forces. Here's an attempt to trace this livestreamed genocide and its social responses. 🇵🇸
“What our ruling class has decided will be normal”: On how a digitized visual economy constructs, enables, and contests the Gaza genocide - Danny Steur, Jeroen Oomen, 2025
Images of the Gaza genocide spread rapidly through the communication networks that pervade our mediatized social world. Watching this atrocity unfold has been a...
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September 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
New publication! On the digitized visual economy of the Gaza genocide - if your social media feed's anything like mine, you've been awash in images of atrocities committed by the Israeli occupation forces. Here's an attempt to trace this livestreamed genocide and its social responses. 🇵🇸
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While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
August 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
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Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
August 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
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The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
mediastudies.hypotheses.org
July 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
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All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.
“On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.” @lilashroff.bsky.social reports on how the chatbot was easily prompted to offer instructions for murder, self-mutilation, and devil worship: https://theatln.tc/Up7Ycoli
July 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.
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AI is perfect tech for 21st-century capitalism: almost no legitimate use cases, unhelpful even when there is a use case, causes cognitive disability and emotional distress in users, destroys privacy, exploits labor, harvests data, disastrous for the environment, unprofitable – and totally ubiquitous
July 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
AI is perfect tech for 21st-century capitalism: almost no legitimate use cases, unhelpful even when there is a use case, causes cognitive disability and emotional distress in users, destroys privacy, exploits labor, harvests data, disastrous for the environment, unprofitable – and totally ubiquitous
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Is Marx a degrowth communist and does he advance a conception of "ecological freedom"? The video of Kohei Saito's talk and the conversation w/ Rahel Jaeggi and Thomas Khurana at Volksbühne is online: cpkp.net/event/freedo...
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Freedom Within the Limits of Nature - Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy
Talk by Kohei Saito, followed by a discussion with Rahel Jaeggi, and Thomas Khurana
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July 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Is Marx a degrowth communist and does he advance a conception of "ecological freedom"? The video of Kohei Saito's talk and the conversation w/ Rahel Jaeggi and Thomas Khurana at Volksbühne is online: cpkp.net/event/freedo...
@ktbberlin.bsky.social @cominsitu.bsky.social @tbheinze.bsky.social
@ktbberlin.bsky.social @cominsitu.bsky.social @tbheinze.bsky.social
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🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨
How does ecological stuff become economic value? I survey various approaches to the question--environmental and ecological economics, ecofeminist Marxism and value-form theory--in order to sharpen the question and formulate the eco-Marxist problematic.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
How does ecological stuff become economic value? I survey various approaches to the question--environmental and ecological economics, ecofeminist Marxism and value-form theory--in order to sharpen the question and formulate the eco-Marxist problematic.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
Project MUSE - The Eco-Marxist Problematic: Value Between Economy and Ecology
muse.jhu.edu
December 13, 2024 at 10:15 AM
🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨
How does ecological stuff become economic value? I survey various approaches to the question--environmental and ecological economics, ecofeminist Marxism and value-form theory--in order to sharpen the question and formulate the eco-Marxist problematic.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
How does ecological stuff become economic value? I survey various approaches to the question--environmental and ecological economics, ecofeminist Marxism and value-form theory--in order to sharpen the question and formulate the eco-Marxist problematic.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
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In solidarity with the movement in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the US, we've made Joshua Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot free to download.
Riot. Strike. Riot
Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar...
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June 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
In solidarity with the movement in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the US, we've made Joshua Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot free to download.
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People who are still shouting that Israel is not committing genocide must be clapping their hands over their ears every time an Israeli minister steps onto a podium because
May 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
People who are still shouting that Israel is not committing genocide must be clapping their hands over their ears every time an Israeli minister steps onto a podium because
It is, sadly, necessary to reiterate our plea as workers in Dutch higher education to our institutions: cut ties with genocide, and keep cops off our campuses. If you're in Dutch higher ed, please consider signing the letter below! And as always, Free Palestine 🇵🇸
openletter.earth/nederlandse-...
openletter.earth/nederlandse-...
Urgent plea to Dutch higher education institutions: Cut ties with genocide and refuse police on campus!
openletter.earth
May 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
It is, sadly, necessary to reiterate our plea as workers in Dutch higher education to our institutions: cut ties with genocide, and keep cops off our campuses. If you're in Dutch higher ed, please consider signing the letter below! And as always, Free Palestine 🇵🇸
openletter.earth/nederlandse-...
openletter.earth/nederlandse-...
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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"On the day that police have as much to fear from literature professors as Black kids do from police, I will definitely have a statement. Until then I have nothing further to add."
RIP Joshua Clover, 👑
www.newsweek.com/uc-davis-cal...
RIP Joshua Clover, 👑
www.newsweek.com/uc-davis-cal...
April 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"On the day that police have as much to fear from literature professors as Black kids do from police, I will definitely have a statement. Until then I have nothing further to add."
RIP Joshua Clover, 👑
www.newsweek.com/uc-davis-cal...
RIP Joshua Clover, 👑
www.newsweek.com/uc-davis-cal...
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Nu het Maagdenhuis is bezet moeten universiteiten ingaan op de terechte eisen van hun studenten in plaats van hen opnieuw door de politie in elkaar te laten slaan, betoogt hoogleraar Yolande Jansen.
rightsforum.org/opinie/open-...
rightsforum.org/opinie/open-...
Open brief aan de UvA en VU-besturen over politie-inzet bij bezettingen door studenten - The Rights Forum
rightsforum.org
April 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Nu het Maagdenhuis is bezet moeten universiteiten ingaan op de terechte eisen van hun studenten in plaats van hen opnieuw door de politie in elkaar te laten slaan, betoogt hoogleraar Yolande Jansen.
rightsforum.org/opinie/open-...
rightsforum.org/opinie/open-...
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Basically, the far right accurately identified the weak point in liberal democracy: mainstream media institutions that were collapsing and therefore easy to purchase or pressure, combined with a public that got most of its information from an almost totally unstructured info ecosystem.
March 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Basically, the far right accurately identified the weak point in liberal democracy: mainstream media institutions that were collapsing and therefore easy to purchase or pressure, combined with a public that got most of its information from an almost totally unstructured info ecosystem.