Lauren Pikó
@booklearning.bsky.social
Sometimes historian, evaluator, writer, researcher. Always about disability justice and lying down. Exhortations for slowness, process, practice.🥄 Views own. laurenpiko.com
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While you're stocking up on Evan's work, technically you can also still get my book www.routledge.com/Milton-Keyne...
And also, a great book I got to edit early this year: www.routledge.com/The-Liberal-...
And also, a great book I got to edit early this year: www.routledge.com/The-Liberal-...
TFW your body doesn't regulate adrenaline properly and you submit a huge multi-org grant application with under an hour to deadline
a cartoon of a cat sitting on a set of stairs with the words trendizisst at the bottom
Alt: A flattened Sylvester the cat from Looney Tunes slithers down a flight of stairs
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November 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
TFW your body doesn't regulate adrenaline properly and you submit a huge multi-org grant application with under an hour to deadline
Useful thing for Aussie people juggling jobs: the Fair Work Ombudsman has an app called Record My Hours which doesn't store your data (unlike all the other freelancer type apps/programs out there) and lets you track actual hours worked in a way that is lowkey and doesn't add too much cognitive load.
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Useful thing for Aussie people juggling jobs: the Fair Work Ombudsman has an app called Record My Hours which doesn't store your data (unlike all the other freelancer type apps/programs out there) and lets you track actual hours worked in a way that is lowkey and doesn't add too much cognitive load.
I empathise with my nervous system for using stress-induced narcolepsy to try to nope me out of things; it's like putting a blanket over a parrot's cage to trick them into going to sleep. Except, there's this thing called a deadline, which as far as I know is not a significant feature of parrot life
November 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I empathise with my nervous system for using stress-induced narcolepsy to try to nope me out of things; it's like putting a blanket over a parrot's cage to trick them into going to sleep. Except, there's this thing called a deadline, which as far as I know is not a significant feature of parrot life
I got to do a tiny bit of editing on this book and it was genuinely such an absolute treat to do because it's a wonderful collection -- people with really fascinating activist experiences that interweave with their scholarly work, and unlike some collections it hangs together as a coherent read!
The hardback edition of our new edited book, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, is published through @manchesterup.bsky.social today!
You can get 30% discount by using the code ‘EVENT30’ right now, or tell your library!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
You can get 30% discount by using the code ‘EVENT30’ right now, or tell your library!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Manchester University Press - In solidarity, under suspicion
In solidarity, under suspicion - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of In solidarity, under suspicion by Daniel Frost
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November 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I got to do a tiny bit of editing on this book and it was genuinely such an absolute treat to do because it's a wonderful collection -- people with really fascinating activist experiences that interweave with their scholarly work, and unlike some collections it hangs together as a coherent read!
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"Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts. Without that foundation, regardless of the hundreds of billions we pour into developing superintelligence, we’ll keep erasing knowledge systems that took generations to develop."
🤖 "Holes in the web: Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, GenAI is shockingly ignorant too."
Excellent essay on algorithmic epistemological knowledge and the collapse of knowledge throughout mean-driven data machines.
aeon.co/essays/gener...
Excellent essay on algorithmic epistemological knowledge and the collapse of knowledge throughout mean-driven data machines.
aeon.co/essays/gener...
Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
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November 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts. Without that foundation, regardless of the hundreds of billions we pour into developing superintelligence, we’ll keep erasing knowledge systems that took generations to develop."
gonna get this framed to hang next to my unreasonable number of Blake prints 💜
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
gonna get this framed to hang next to my unreasonable number of Blake prints 💜
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In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI
An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the ...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
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Know anyone who would want to come work with me? 1 year position for someone with a HASS background (don’t need to be a programmer), working on a tool to search historical documents like colonial Hansard. unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
Research Assistant in Digital Humanities
Role type: Full Time; Fixed term until February 2027 Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Department: School of Computing and Information Systems Salary: Level A - $87,226 - $118...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Know anyone who would want to come work with me? 1 year position for someone with a HASS background (don’t need to be a programmer), working on a tool to search historical documents like colonial Hansard. unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
Beset by impossible crushing deadlines, the postie chose to interrupt my panic attack to give me a treat ... Though now I need to not actually read any of it until the weekend/after Sisyphean tasks are somehow complete
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Beset by impossible crushing deadlines, the postie chose to interrupt my panic attack to give me a treat ... Though now I need to not actually read any of it until the weekend/after Sisyphean tasks are somehow complete
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Our book comes out this week!!!
With the publication of our book 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956' next month, @manchesterup.bsky.social are offering a 30% discount using the discount code below!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Our book comes out this week!!!
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Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
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In disability communities, grief isn’t episodic. It’s cumulative. It layers. It reverberates. We lose people who should’ve had decades more time—because the world is engineered to wear us down. And yet, in that same world, disabled people keep building life with one another anyway.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
In disability communities, grief isn’t episodic. It’s cumulative. It layers. It reverberates. We lose people who should’ve had decades more time—because the world is engineered to wear us down. And yet, in that same world, disabled people keep building life with one another anyway.
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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"As disabled oracles, we continue to build and create on the knowledge and dreams of our ancestors. They left their mark on the planet as will we. After we’re long gone, we will show up in other ways." Alice in 2020 at the Assembly of the Future
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Message from the Future: Disabled Oracle Society
On August 6, 2020 I gave a talk, “The Last Disabled Oracle,” as part of Assembly for the Future, a project of The Things We Did Next collaboration based in Melbourne, Australia. …
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November 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
"As disabled oracles, we continue to build and create on the knowledge and dreams of our ancestors. They left their mark on the planet as will we. After we’re long gone, we will show up in other ways." Alice in 2020 at the Assembly of the Future
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/08/14/m...
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/08/14/m...
When I had to get regular infusions a couple of years ago, I brought Alice's memoir as a kind of companion since I couldn't bring anyone with me in person. I dipped in and out whenever I needed to help ease the passing hours. I don't think I ever told her I did that.
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
When I had to get regular infusions a couple of years ago, I brought Alice's memoir as a kind of companion since I couldn't bring anyone with me in person. I dipped in and out whenever I needed to help ease the passing hours. I don't think I ever told her I did that.
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For those not on Instagram, here is the statement from Alice Wong’s family:
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
For those not on Instagram, here is the statement from Alice Wong’s family:
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Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
This is genuinely so devastating. I'm so grateful to Alice for her sharing of wisdom and support and insight all while fighting for and with us all. It's an incalculable loss to the world.
Love and solidarity to those also grappling with this. 💜
Love and solidarity to those also grappling with this. 💜
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
This is genuinely so devastating. I'm so grateful to Alice for her sharing of wisdom and support and insight all while fighting for and with us all. It's an incalculable loss to the world.
Love and solidarity to those also grappling with this. 💜
Love and solidarity to those also grappling with this. 💜
I spent years researching how 1970s Britain was essentially constant cultural panic attacks about supposed terminal decline, due to things like *checks notes* inexpensive concrete public art
Is it worse to cultivate imperial nostalgic declinist nonsense for a decade, or to forget doing it?
Is it worse to cultivate imperial nostalgic declinist nonsense for a decade, or to forget doing it?
There were rolling bin strikes throughout the 70s which left the streets groaning under piles of rubbish.
November 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I spent years researching how 1970s Britain was essentially constant cultural panic attacks about supposed terminal decline, due to things like *checks notes* inexpensive concrete public art
Is it worse to cultivate imperial nostalgic declinist nonsense for a decade, or to forget doing it?
Is it worse to cultivate imperial nostalgic declinist nonsense for a decade, or to forget doing it?
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If you’re interested in the history of the far right in Australia, as well as those who have opposed it, our book ‘Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia’ is now on sale with a 20% discount.
@drjpersian.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Histories-of...
@drjpersian.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Histories-of...
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
If you’re interested in the history of the far right in Australia, as well as those who have opposed it, our book ‘Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia’ is now on sale with a 20% discount.
@drjpersian.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Histories-of...
@drjpersian.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Histories-of...
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An excellent read; Keith Gildart’s review essay in The English Historical Review focusing on a collection of recent historical works on aspects of the 1984/5 British Miners Strike and remembering that 40years on. Incl.
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Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5
The year 2025 marks the fortieth anniversary of the end of the bitter twelve-month miners’ strike of 1984/5. The dominance of coal in British energy produc
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November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
An excellent read; Keith Gildart’s review essay in The English Historical Review focusing on a collection of recent historical works on aspects of the 1984/5 British Miners Strike and remembering that 40years on. Incl.
@nataliethomlinson.bsky.social
FYI @ewangibbs.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
@nataliethomlinson.bsky.social
FYI @ewangibbs.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
Lost to time when I nuked my Twitter feed: a thread of highly emotional reflective letters between Gough Whitlam and Tom Uren. Someone's gotta do a history of emotions / masculinity PhD on that correspondence
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Lost to time when I nuked my Twitter feed: a thread of highly emotional reflective letters between Gough Whitlam and Tom Uren. Someone's gotta do a history of emotions / masculinity PhD on that correspondence
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Some of you may be interested in this symposium on 'truth-telling' (in its many guises) being held at the University of Melbourne this week. Students and mob can attend for free, Unimelb staff get a 20% discount, and unwaged scholars get a 75% discount. I will be there for some of Friday's sessions!
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Some of you may be interested in this symposium on 'truth-telling' (in its many guises) being held at the University of Melbourne this week. Students and mob can attend for free, Unimelb staff get a 20% discount, and unwaged scholars get a 75% discount. I will be there for some of Friday's sessions!
I just remembered I submitted *two* chapters for collections last year, and I have no idea what's happening to them (if anything) 😑
The vagaries of publishing are rough enough for humans, but for us snails it's additionally brutal 🐌
The vagaries of publishing are rough enough for humans, but for us snails it's additionally brutal 🐌
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I just remembered I submitted *two* chapters for collections last year, and I have no idea what's happening to them (if anything) 😑
The vagaries of publishing are rough enough for humans, but for us snails it's additionally brutal 🐌
The vagaries of publishing are rough enough for humans, but for us snails it's additionally brutal 🐌