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Moira
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DC/MD. Freelancer doing English review/copyediting for academic papers. Dance/art/language/bike life.
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DC today
A crowd in front of the Washington Monument. One woman holds a sign that says “Hands Off!” A crowd of marching protesters. One holds a sign that says “Democracy not Dictatorship” A crowd of marching protesters. One holds a sign that says “They want 1939 Germany. Let’s give them 1789 France.” Another says “No good billionaires.”
April 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Lion man
Ink drawing of a long-haired man with eyeglasses and a lion-like face
April 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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It is hard, even futile, Mellor argues, to imagine a world where an advanced technology is put to the common good when it is erasing livelihoods right now. If dismantling the machinery ends an injustice and tips the scales toward equality, that should be the project. This dispute, too, remains as relevant and pointed as ever, two centuries later. It lies, I believe, at the heart of the matter of actualizing the laudable prescriptions put forward in Morozov’s essay: reimagining how we might develop and institute technologies like AI more democratically, more holistically, more attuned to amplifying humanistic and scientific pursuits—and decoupled from its current death drive to profit management at any cost.
March 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Doodles I find in the trash
Men’s’ faces drawn with a single line Ink drawing of a woman carrying a steaming plate
February 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The lead gave Emily Perkins in Ginger Snaps vibes. Another darkly comic Canadian film I love.
A poster for the film Ginger Snaps features two young women and the tagline “they don’t call it the curse for nothing”
February 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Loved this little Québécois film I watched on a flight from Montréal. Great bit where the vampire’s parents take her in for psychiatric help because she doesn’t want to kill.
A poster from the film Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person featuring illustration of a young man and woman. There are also blood bags, a piano, a bowling ball, and bowling pins.
February 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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I was so pleased with myself when I figured this out. Jumpsuit from shredded Brooklinen
Dancing woman in gray and white striped jumpsuit
February 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Me when I found ATTAQUE INVISIBLE in a little library
Battered pulp paperback cover of Attaque Invisible by Paul Kenny
January 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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It’s happening!
Photo of a snowy backyard with a blue shed
January 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM