Jesse Cohn
@jessecohn.bsky.social
Board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS): https://anarchiststudies.org/
I teach English and translate a lot of things into it
Interested in New Materialisms, Indigenous struggles, SFFH by BIPOC, Kafka, Yiddish...
Antifascist. He/him.
I teach English and translate a lot of things into it
Interested in New Materialisms, Indigenous struggles, SFFH by BIPOC, Kafka, Yiddish...
Antifascist. He/him.
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
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Lynda Barry is a genius and a treasure. Her full page in today’s @nytimes.com is a perfect example.
Opinion | The Real Horrors of America
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Lynda Barry is a genius and a treasure. Her full page in today’s @nytimes.com is a perfect example.
Did anyone record or make a transcript of Hortense Spillers' June 9, 2021 talk at the New School? fb.me/e/1rDQKo6x1
Redirecting...
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October 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Did anyone record or make a transcript of Hortense Spillers' June 9, 2021 talk at the New School? fb.me/e/1rDQKo6x1
Yes. This kind of persecution is unacceptable.
October 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Yes. This kind of persecution is unacceptable.
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This is kind of amazing; a CATO institute article attacking Trump’s EO on antifa
www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...
www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...
On Trump's Anti-Antifa Executive Order
George Orwell, one of the most well-known antifascists of the last century, is undoubtedly rolling over in his grave right now.
www.cato.org
September 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is kind of amazing; a CATO institute article attacking Trump’s EO on antifa
www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...
www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...
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This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more
September 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more
I think capital-S Stoicism is poisonous -- a doctrine for philosophical emperors and their submissive slaves, absolutely inimical to any kind of social justice. Lowercase-s stoicism is sometimes useful, though, for justice-seeking people trapped in Empires.
September 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I think capital-S Stoicism is poisonous -- a doctrine for philosophical emperors and their submissive slaves, absolutely inimical to any kind of social justice. Lowercase-s stoicism is sometimes useful, though, for justice-seeking people trapped in Empires.
In my reading, fiction and non-fiction, I am always looking for allies. I suppose that entails looking out for my enemies as well.
August 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
In my reading, fiction and non-fiction, I am always looking for allies. I suppose that entails looking out for my enemies as well.
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Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs
August 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs
Do I know anybody who might be willing to speak to my two composition classes about their experiences as a worker and union member/organizer? Deets: ideally, you'd come in on Tuesday, Sept. 16, live or via Zoom, say about 10:30-11:15ish AM, if that's convenient. All dates and times negotiable.
August 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Do I know anybody who might be willing to speak to my two composition classes about their experiences as a worker and union member/organizer? Deets: ideally, you'd come in on Tuesday, Sept. 16, live or via Zoom, say about 10:30-11:15ish AM, if that's convenient. All dates and times negotiable.
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
It's telling that at the very moment the majority of the public starts to recognize that Israel is committing a genocide, Israel's last defenders only want to talk about Hamas.
August 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
It's telling that at the very moment the majority of the public starts to recognize that Israel is committing a genocide, Israel's last defenders only want to talk about Hamas.
I keep hearing that the rule of law is dead, but new oppressive laws are being heaped up before my eyes. It is important to keep Wilhoit's Law in mind: lawlessness is for the powerful only.
August 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I keep hearing that the rule of law is dead, but new oppressive laws are being heaped up before my eyes. It is important to keep Wilhoit's Law in mind: lawlessness is for the powerful only.
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I will entertain zero discussions about the environmental impacts of air conditioning until we deal with energy-obliterating scourge that is AI. People need to stay cool when it’s hot. What we don’t need are plagiarism machines flooding our lives with more lies and slop. And we can’t have both.
As record heatwaves boost demand for cooling, air conditioning becomes vital – but with a steep environmental cost.
How do air conditioners work, and what is the effect on the environment?
As record heatwaves boost demand for cooling, air conditioning becomes vital – but with a steep environmental cost.
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July 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I will entertain zero discussions about the environmental impacts of air conditioning until we deal with energy-obliterating scourge that is AI. People need to stay cool when it’s hot. What we don’t need are plagiarism machines flooding our lives with more lies and slop. And we can’t have both.
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Thank you. Yes, here’s the link to my campaign:
gofund.me/1842594d
gofund.me/1842594d
Donate to Help me save my family in Gaza, organized by Maher Naem
Hello, I am Maher Al-Jarousha from Gaza City, my family and I are suffering a lot because of… Maher Naem needs your support for Help me save my family in Gaza
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July 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Thank you. Yes, here’s the link to my campaign:
gofund.me/1842594d
gofund.me/1842594d
This administration's concentration camps take the same stance toward prisoners' deaths as the administration itself takes toward truth: casual indifference.
July 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This administration's concentration camps take the same stance toward prisoners' deaths as the administration itself takes toward truth: casual indifference.
Thank goodness
public pushback, refusal and resistance remains the main avenue of change so yea... counting on it
www.wired.com/story/genera...
www.wired.com/story/genera...
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
www.wired.com
June 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Thank goodness
This is a very compelling argument about what's happening to us right now. Have we been undergoing a revolution in "common sense" to which Trump 2.0 is the counter-revolution? It's worth thinking about.
June 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is a very compelling argument about what's happening to us right now. Have we been undergoing a revolution in "common sense" to which Trump 2.0 is the counter-revolution? It's worth thinking about.
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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 97 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 97 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
June 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 97 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 97 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
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"Through developing a speculative genre that I call Blaxperimentation, the film follows in the footsteps of Blaxploitation, speculative methods, and the horror genre to address sociological issues through dystopian fantasy..."
#movies #GiftArticle
medium.com/theuglymonst...
#movies #GiftArticle
medium.com/theuglymonst...
They Cloned Blaxploitation: Exploring Blaxperimentation and Black Futures in Film
Reviewing “They Cloned Tyrone” and the Emerging Genre of Blaxperimentation Film
medium.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"Through developing a speculative genre that I call Blaxperimentation, the film follows in the footsteps of Blaxploitation, speculative methods, and the horror genre to address sociological issues through dystopian fantasy..."
#movies #GiftArticle
medium.com/theuglymonst...
#movies #GiftArticle
medium.com/theuglymonst...
(Windigoog are real)
“The behavior of the people who built these smelters, invested in them, ran them, continued to emit tons of lead and arsenic into the air in populated cities... It just struck me how much their behavior is comparable to that of serial killers..."
grist.org/culture/murd...
“The behavior of the people who built these smelters, invested in them, ran them, continued to emit tons of lead and arsenic into the air in populated cities... It just struck me how much their behavior is comparable to that of serial killers..."
grist.org/culture/murd...
What warped the minds of serial killers? Lead pollution, a new book argues.
Ted Bundy, the Green River Killer, and others terrorized the Pacific Northwest. "Murderland" asks what role polluters played.
grist.org
June 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
(Windigoog are real)
“The behavior of the people who built these smelters, invested in them, ran them, continued to emit tons of lead and arsenic into the air in populated cities... It just struck me how much their behavior is comparable to that of serial killers..."
grist.org/culture/murd...
“The behavior of the people who built these smelters, invested in them, ran them, continued to emit tons of lead and arsenic into the air in populated cities... It just struck me how much their behavior is comparable to that of serial killers..."
grist.org/culture/murd...
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[Alt-text] post reads “If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487
[Alt-text] post reads “If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487
June 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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[Alt-text] post reads “If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487
[Alt-text] post reads “If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487
The more the horrors pile on, the more I feel crushed into silence, and that can't happen.
Free Palestine.
Free Palestine.
May 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The more the horrors pile on, the more I feel crushed into silence, and that can't happen.
Free Palestine.
Free Palestine.