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Marc Garrett
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Buy my Feral Class book. https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1561

Researcher in Post-digital Culture, academic, artist, writer, curator, activist, techie, PhD co-founder @furtherfield.bsky.social :-)
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Marc Garrett @mgarrett.bsky.social · Jun 26
OK. The 'Feral Class' book is out! By Marc Garrett.

Untamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class artist… Art on the Margins, Life Without Permission.

Available direct from Minor Compositions (in the UK) for the special price of £13.

www.minorcompositions.info?p=1561
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All ready for 2026, is -- Furtherfield legacy Research. diwologue.co.uk

A journey by a non-profit digital arts org that for 30 years has pioneered international engagement with art, technology, and eco-social change.

Image, Andy Deck, 2006.
January 5, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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All ready for 2026, is -- Furtherfield legacy Research. diwologue.co.uk

A journey by a non-profit digital arts org that for 30 years has pioneered international engagement with art, technology, and eco-social change.

Image, Andy Deck, 2006.
January 5, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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mgarrett.bsky.social
Fresh article for the new year!

In 2025, we stand at a precipice: we must reclaim our history, reject oppressive systems, and choose collective, urgent resistance to avoid a future of fascism and ecological collapse.

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #readingcommunity #books #writing
The Relentless Suffocation of our Community Spirit and Radical Selves. - diwologue­.co­.uk
This Christmas has been a sombre and reflective one, cast in a new light by the profound sacrifice of the … More
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January 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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How the Media is Trying to Talk a Nigel Farage Government Into Reality
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How the Media is Trying to Talk a Nigel Farage Government Into Reality
Why for much of the British press, the unlikely story of Reform UK's rise to power is simply "too good to check"
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January 1, 2026 at 1:45 PM
mgarrett.bsky.social
Fresh article for the new year!

In 2025, we stand at a precipice: we must reclaim our history, reject oppressive systems, and choose collective, urgent resistance to avoid a future of fascism and ecological collapse.

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #readingcommunity #books #writing
The Relentless Suffocation of our Community Spirit and Radical Selves. - diwologue­.co­.uk
This Christmas has been a sombre and reflective one, cast in a new light by the profound sacrifice of the … More
diwologue.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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21st-century anarchism freedomnews.org.uk/2025/12/17/2...
21st-century anarchism - Freedom News
Evolving our response to climate crisis, militarisation, and digital transformation ~ Salvo Vaccaro, Umanità Nova ~ Not possessing prophetic visio…
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December 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Portrait of a Raven (2025) #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography
Head and shoulders portrait of a raven. The huge black bird is facing forward with large beak pointed down as if in thought or looking at something below. Feathers are all fluffy. Background is soft white/grey giving the photo a black and white feel.
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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rgrusin.bsky.social
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.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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A minimalist New Year greeting illustration in a retro digital style. The image is vertically split into two halves. On the left, a teal background displays the lowercase white text "happy new year", stacked on three lines. On the right, on a very light mint background, the same phrase "happy new year" appears mirrored and reversed, as if reflected or flipped horizontally, in teal lettering. At the bottom center, overlapping both halves, is a pixel-art vintage desktop computer setup from the early 1990s, including a CRT monitor with a small webcam on top, a keyboard, a mouse, and two boxy external speakers. The overall color palette is teal, mint, gray, and white.
December 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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TON 618s mass challenges physics Shocking facts - Learn how to choose the perfect telescope --> https://www.telescopeadvisor.com/how-to-choose-a-telescope.php and Get started with this beginners telescope --> https://amzn.to/3JaxN9u #Astronomy #AmazonAffiliate #NASA #Space
What Makes TON 618 the Most Massive Black Hole Ever Discovered?
What Makes TON 618 the Most Massive Black Hole Ever Discovered?
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December 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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manchesterreview.bsky.social
Dear all,

Please find issue 28 of the Manchester Review at the link below. Thank you to our wonder writers and readers who continue to support the review.

The Editors

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
Issue 28 - The Manchester Review
Image: © Courtesy of Manchester City Galleries Editorial Luke Buffini, ‘Damilola’ Joe Bedford, ‘Mating Habits’ Lillith Pollock, ‘On Wanting’ Lavanya Arora, 3 poems Thomas Storey, ‘Windwatt’ Gary Dunca...
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December 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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stereid.bsky.social
A powerful piece.
December 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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gemmaclark.bsky.social
So tired of these clowns going to universities to provoke young students and then running off like cry bullies for more media attention when the students exercise THEIR free speech rights on THEIR campus
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 16d
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
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December 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Why a 19th century concept of “social murder” is very much relevant today | Section on Marxist Sociology
The social murder concept makes explicit the source of excessive morbidity and premature death experienced by the working class in today’s society. Hopefully, it can stimulate public resistance to our...
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December 22, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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The response to The Invisible Doctrine w/ @georgemonbiot.bsky.social has been amazing. Don't miss the film that Film Threat rates "10/10." www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR4e... #Neoliberalism #Economics #LateStageCapitalism #Politics #Sociology #SocialJustice #FreeMovie #YouTube #WatchNow #FullMovie
The secret history of Neoliberalism | The Invisible Doctrine | Full Film
YouTube video by Journeyman Pictures
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December 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy
According to sociologist
Tressie McMillan Cottom,
the AI future is for the rich.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/professor-ai-wealthy-inevitable
Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." The post Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything appeared first on Futurism.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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mgarrett.bsky.social
Two reviews of Feral Class, Josephine Bosma and Simon Poulter.

The reception to my forthcoming book has been a profound source of hope. This enthusiasm is especially heartening, as the book is not officially released until January 2026.

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #readingcommunity #books #writing
Two New Reviews of Feral Class.
The reception to my forthcoming book has been a profound source of hope. Despite the challenges of connecting in a world that often feels ghastly and controlled by monsters, the remarkable pre-sale…
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December 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Great lyrics, so on point!
Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Body Electric - Woods Stage @Pickathon 2016 S04E01
YouTube video by Pickathon
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December 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
mgarrett.bsky.social
Great lyrics, so on point!
Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Body Electric - Woods Stage @Pickathon 2016 S04E01
YouTube video by Pickathon
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
mgarrett.bsky.social
Two reviews of Feral Class, Josephine Bosma and Simon Poulter.

The reception to my forthcoming book has been a profound source of hope. This enthusiasm is especially heartening, as the book is not officially released until January 2026.

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #readingcommunity #books #writing
Two New Reviews of Feral Class.
The reception to my forthcoming book has been a profound source of hope. Despite the challenges of connecting in a world that often feels ghastly and controlled by monsters, the remarkable pre-sale…
marcgarrett.org
December 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
mgarrett.bsky.social
21st-century anarchism freedomnews.org.uk/2025/12/17/2...
21st-century anarchism - Freedom News
Evolving our response to climate crisis, militarisation, and digital transformation ~ Salvo Vaccaro, Umanità Nova ~ Not possessing prophetic visio…
freedomnews.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Thank you all for your support
December 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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pudner.bsky.social
Powerful and beautiful.
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robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 24d
This is the #poem I read at end of my resignation - it will be in the follow up collection to Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth , most likely called Let The Quiet Ones Rise

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THE QUIET ONE Fingers relentlessly unpicking The anxious alopecia of another woolly jumper Under the desk Skin picked to the quick Stomach sick Dread accelerates thumb nail digs Wishing for a note to be an absentee Of another bout of insults and failures in PE Pierced by every slight Ponders possibility of escape The safest place? The library for the lunch break Seek solace in a comic book Is this forever This shitty world that drowns you? But one day you'll see From that unnecessary pain Came someone So much more complex Intriguing And resplendent Make it through Many are waiting for you You will be feted You will find your people And be magnifcent
December 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM