Old Ric
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We who keep the scream as an inviolable secret • i love spinoza ☭
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
i have secured an incredibly obnoxious domain handle for myself
February 9, 2026 at 7:39 PM
i have secured an incredibly obnoxious domain handle for myself
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politics is when i do a crude utilitarian calculation about my yearly Drop in the Pond Decision. everyone else has to do it too, based on Reason, that’s how elections are won. not because of insane libidinal economy reasons or anything to do with affective investment
February 4, 2026 at 6:04 AM
politics is when i do a crude utilitarian calculation about my yearly Drop in the Pond Decision. everyone else has to do it too, based on Reason, that’s how elections are won. not because of insane libidinal economy reasons or anything to do with affective investment
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New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
1/
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
1/
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[Obama voice]: if you like your humanist subject, you'll be able to keep your humanist subject
January 16, 2026 at 1:59 PM
[Obama voice]: if you like your humanist subject, you'll be able to keep your humanist subject
whenever a paper starts with something like "let P be..." or "assume that if X then Y, then..." I'm like, first of all do not speak to me that way
January 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
whenever a paper starts with something like "let P be..." or "assume that if X then Y, then..." I'm like, first of all do not speak to me that way
extremely funny that Sartre begrudgingly read all of Freud for a Hollywood screenplay that he ended up withdrawing his name from.
January 14, 2026 at 6:08 PM
extremely funny that Sartre begrudgingly read all of Freud for a Hollywood screenplay that he ended up withdrawing his name from.
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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
This site’s only good when my ten friends all come back to send a couple tweets onto my feed the same day. Unfortunately this only happens every three months.
January 12, 2026 at 3:24 AM
This site’s only good when my ten friends all come back to send a couple tweets onto my feed the same day. Unfortunately this only happens every three months.
Once my paper “Towards an Italian-American Existentialism” hits Nous, I’ll have my pick of endowed chairs in New Jersey.
January 12, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Once my paper “Towards an Italian-American Existentialism” hits Nous, I’ll have my pick of endowed chairs in New Jersey.
Just saw a guy use dialectical materialism to blow someone’s head smoove off
January 7, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Just saw a guy use dialectical materialism to blow someone’s head smoove off
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December 4 at 10am @ UMich and on Zoom, I'll be talking about the labor & environmental impacts of AI in historical context. Computing's long history of automation & pollution reframes how we understand capitalism in the digital age.
Register for free: sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...
Register for free: sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
December 4 at 10am @ UMich and on Zoom, I'll be talking about the labor & environmental impacts of AI in historical context. Computing's long history of automation & pollution reframes how we understand capitalism in the digital age.
Register for free: sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...
Register for free: sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...
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Adorno-Horkheimer didn’t get a copy of Benjamin’s “Theses” until mid-1941. Reading it they discovered not only remarkable coincidences with their most recent work but differences they couldn’t help but want to fight him over, hours without end, at a Parisian café open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Adorno-Horkheimer: On Walter Benjamin’s ‘Theses’ (Jun./Jul. 1941).
Letters towards “Walter Benjamin zum Gedächtnis” (1942).
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Adorno-Horkheimer didn’t get a copy of Benjamin’s “Theses” until mid-1941. Reading it they discovered not only remarkable coincidences with their most recent work but differences they couldn’t help but want to fight him over, hours without end, at a Parisian café open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
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Finally reading Lukács and it’s pretty cool to read a robust account of something like alienation so early in the 20th century
November 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Finally reading Lukács and it’s pretty cool to read a robust account of something like alienation so early in the 20th century
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i'm a deleuzean in the very specific sense that i spiritually align with the freaks but i really like hanging out at home
October 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
i'm a deleuzean in the very specific sense that i spiritually align with the freaks but i really like hanging out at home
happy wednesday what are we reading this week team?
October 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
happy wednesday what are we reading this week team?
<explaining lecture to my students> imagine an hour-long tik tok! <boos>
Ok imagine 6 ten-minute long tik toks <some thoughtful nods>
Imagine 60 1-minute long tiktoks <loud applause>
imagine 600 10 second tiktoks! <the class is overwhelmed with applause and hollers>
Ok imagine 6 ten-minute long tik toks <some thoughtful nods>
Imagine 60 1-minute long tiktoks <loud applause>
imagine 600 10 second tiktoks! <the class is overwhelmed with applause and hollers>
October 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
<explaining lecture to my students> imagine an hour-long tik tok! <boos>
Ok imagine 6 ten-minute long tik toks <some thoughtful nods>
Imagine 60 1-minute long tiktoks <loud applause>
imagine 600 10 second tiktoks! <the class is overwhelmed with applause and hollers>
Ok imagine 6 ten-minute long tik toks <some thoughtful nods>
Imagine 60 1-minute long tiktoks <loud applause>
imagine 600 10 second tiktoks! <the class is overwhelmed with applause and hollers>
Every political development leads to the conclusion that utilitarian and pragmatic choices have to be resisted, and we can only be guided by what is true and just. Every attempt to turn politics into a game played to win will lose for the simple fact that politics is not a game, and has no rules.
October 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Every political development leads to the conclusion that utilitarian and pragmatic choices have to be resisted, and we can only be guided by what is true and just. Every attempt to turn politics into a game played to win will lose for the simple fact that politics is not a game, and has no rules.
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microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?
me: desktop
me: save to desktop
microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?
me: desktop
October 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?
me: desktop
me: save to desktop
microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?
me: desktop
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Gillian Rose reveals the uncomfortable truth that reckoning with Neo-Kantianism gives dividends.
September 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Gillian Rose reveals the uncomfortable truth that reckoning with Neo-Kantianism gives dividends.
So @misrecognitions.bsky.social , is there a … missus recognitions? 👀
September 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
So @misrecognitions.bsky.social , is there a … missus recognitions? 👀
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back in Sartre’s CDR for something & it feels so good
September 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
back in Sartre’s CDR for something & it feels so good
@exiledpistol.bsky.social i respect that you're working to post here. it's inspiring. but. not enough for me to set up shop here full time. not yet.
September 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
@exiledpistol.bsky.social i respect that you're working to post here. it's inspiring. but. not enough for me to set up shop here full time. not yet.