Mat Wall-Smith
@psysoph.bsky.social
Critical Media theorist and experimentalist working at the intersection of affect-technics-ecology.
This was great on decentralisation/centralised governance...from 2020 but prescient.. www.palladiummag.com/2020/04/11/o...
Only the State Can Succeed at Decentralization
www.palladiummag.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This was great on decentralisation/centralised governance...from 2020 but prescient.. www.palladiummag.com/2020/04/11/o...
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Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
March 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
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The author of SIFT is @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. I first encountered it in 2020. See hapgood.us/2019/06/19/s...
I love that the entire point is (re)building context to support interpretation - “reconstructing the necessary context to read, view, or listen to digital content effectively”
I love that the entire point is (re)building context to support interpretation - “reconstructing the necessary context to read, view, or listen to digital content effectively”
SIFT (The Four Moves)
How can students get better at sorting truth from fiction from everything in between? At applying their attention to the things that matter? At amplifying better treatments of issues, and avoiding …
hapgood.us
February 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The author of SIFT is @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. I first encountered it in 2020. See hapgood.us/2019/06/19/s...
I love that the entire point is (re)building context to support interpretation - “reconstructing the necessary context to read, view, or listen to digital content effectively”
I love that the entire point is (re)building context to support interpretation - “reconstructing the necessary context to read, view, or listen to digital content effectively”
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In this fascinating conversation for TNI's 2025 State of Power report, Adam Tooze and Walden Bello reflect on the fracturing of US power, the rise of China, the growth of nationalisms and the perils and possibilities of a multipolar order: www.tni.org/en/article/a...
February 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
In this fascinating conversation for TNI's 2025 State of Power report, Adam Tooze and Walden Bello reflect on the fracturing of US power, the rise of China, the growth of nationalisms and the perils and possibilities of a multipolar order: www.tni.org/en/article/a...
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My response to Erik Parens’ essay about my book is up at ELSIhub, accompanied by a nice picture of me from twenty years ago. elsihub.org/news/scienti...
Scientific Dualisms
Eric Turkheimer is the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia.
elsihub.org
January 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
My response to Erik Parens’ essay about my book is up at ELSIhub, accompanied by a nice picture of me from twenty years ago. elsihub.org/news/scienti...
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And if you’ve never read Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About 'Technology,'" give yourself 10 minutes to do so—in many ways I feel my whole research & pedagogical philosophy are wrapped up in this short, brilliant text—it’s usually day 1 reading in my classes www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula on Writing: A Rant about "Techonolgy"
Ursula K. Le Guin on the presence of technology in her work
www.ursulakleguin.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
And if you’ve never read Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About 'Technology,'" give yourself 10 minutes to do so—in many ways I feel my whole research & pedagogical philosophy are wrapped up in this short, brilliant text—it’s usually day 1 reading in my classes www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
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Art is inspiration. Art is transformation. An investment in art is an investment in a healthy, coherent society: www.canberratimes.com.au/story/887374...
Belt it out at the top of your lungs, here's how to boost our 'souls'
Yes, part of it is arguing that Frenzal Rhomb is actually art.
www.canberratimes.com.au
January 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Art is inspiration. Art is transformation. An investment in art is an investment in a healthy, coherent society: www.canberratimes.com.au/story/887374...
In my local community far from the absurdism and fascism of North America it feels like the tide has turned against socialist humanism. The racists and misogynists are no longer hiding their vitriol.
January 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
In my local community far from the absurdism and fascism of North America it feels like the tide has turned against socialist humanism. The racists and misogynists are no longer hiding their vitriol.
Stephen Markley’s ´The Deluge’ my second favourite climate fiction novel. Glad to have a proper copy for the shelf.
January 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Stephen Markley’s ´The Deluge’ my second favourite climate fiction novel. Glad to have a proper copy for the shelf.
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so here’s a short story i like to call
“an example of why communities turn on wind projects”
it goes like this:
• guy gets rich off his wind lease
• no royalties from the wind lease for nearby residents, nor new steady jobs, plus tax abatement
• neighbor turn on their neighbor, yelling abounds
“an example of why communities turn on wind projects”
it goes like this:
• guy gets rich off his wind lease
• no royalties from the wind lease for nearby residents, nor new steady jobs, plus tax abatement
• neighbor turn on their neighbor, yelling abounds
Here's a question that I have no idea of the answer to. Might work in an article. Does a rancher make more money in lease payments from having wind turbines on their property than they do from oil or natural gas leases?
January 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
so here’s a short story i like to call
“an example of why communities turn on wind projects”
it goes like this:
• guy gets rich off his wind lease
• no royalties from the wind lease for nearby residents, nor new steady jobs, plus tax abatement
• neighbor turn on their neighbor, yelling abounds
“an example of why communities turn on wind projects”
it goes like this:
• guy gets rich off his wind lease
• no royalties from the wind lease for nearby residents, nor new steady jobs, plus tax abatement
• neighbor turn on their neighbor, yelling abounds
Really wonderful as usual…
pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/c...
Just the starter pack thing here makes a marked difference to the potential for immediate engagement…with mastodon it never quite felt like I could escape my bedroom. The Pharmakon… you WANT to be immediately captured…
pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/c...
Just the starter pack thing here makes a marked difference to the potential for immediate engagement…with mastodon it never quite felt like I could escape my bedroom. The Pharmakon… you WANT to be immediately captured…
Pluralistic: Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
January 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Really wonderful as usual…
pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/c...
Just the starter pack thing here makes a marked difference to the potential for immediate engagement…with mastodon it never quite felt like I could escape my bedroom. The Pharmakon… you WANT to be immediately captured…
pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/c...
Just the starter pack thing here makes a marked difference to the potential for immediate engagement…with mastodon it never quite felt like I could escape my bedroom. The Pharmakon… you WANT to be immediately captured…
Penny Wong’s remarks that trump’s ‘enshrinement’ of binary gender is ‘domestic’ policy and not for her to comment on is shameful. On what principles do we stand if not this - disgusted. Everything tolerated in the service of economic expediency.
January 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Penny Wong’s remarks that trump’s ‘enshrinement’ of binary gender is ‘domestic’ policy and not for her to comment on is shameful. On what principles do we stand if not this - disgusted. Everything tolerated in the service of economic expediency.
12ft.io/https://www....
Selective schooling was a bad idea from the outset based on notions of intellectual elitism and poor understanding of the diversity of intelligences.
Selective schooling was a bad idea from the outset based on notions of intellectual elitism and poor understanding of the diversity of intelligences.
12ft
12ft.io
January 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
12ft.io/https://www....
Selective schooling was a bad idea from the outset based on notions of intellectual elitism and poor understanding of the diversity of intelligences.
Selective schooling was a bad idea from the outset based on notions of intellectual elitism and poor understanding of the diversity of intelligences.
In the light of the 6th mass extinction event we are taking away your nice things until you can grow the fuck up.
January 19, 2025 at 6:11 AM
In the light of the 6th mass extinction event we are taking away your nice things until you can grow the fuck up.
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New on CNN : “Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution”
Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution
www.cnn.com
January 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
New on CNN : “Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution”
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Good to see this. At the time, I called out Büntgen assertions as "superficial" and "naive" (www.varsity.co.uk/news/27665) and "mendacious" (www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...).
van Eck et al unpack that nicely here:
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
van Eck et al unpack that nicely here:
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
January 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Good to see this. At the time, I called out Büntgen assertions as "superficial" and "naive" (www.varsity.co.uk/news/27665) and "mendacious" (www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...).
van Eck et al unpack that nicely here:
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
van Eck et al unpack that nicely here:
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
How to realise a minor politics at the scale of multitude while operating under a system the demands of which are controlled by minority interest? This is *the* question…or perhaps this is *the* conundrum. ‘Question’ would imply an answer…
January 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
How to realise a minor politics at the scale of multitude while operating under a system the demands of which are controlled by minority interest? This is *the* question…or perhaps this is *the* conundrum. ‘Question’ would imply an answer…
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There are so many things I would ban before TikTok, including SUVs and assault weapons…
January 19, 2025 at 1:42 AM
There are so many things I would ban before TikTok, including SUVs and assault weapons…
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Good analysis of why fact checking on social media matters in a world where false claims are sticky + go viral so fast.
But no mention of how X + Meta have altered their algorithms to suppress expert accounts & factual info.
Fact checking on those platforms isn’t a level field. It’s a steep cliff.
But no mention of how X + Meta have altered their algorithms to suppress expert accounts & factual info.
Fact checking on those platforms isn’t a level field. It’s a steep cliff.
Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse
Meta’s decision could open the floodgates to more climate misinformation on its apps, including misleading or out-of-context claims during disasters.
theconversation.com
January 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Good analysis of why fact checking on social media matters in a world where false claims are sticky + go viral so fast.
But no mention of how X + Meta have altered their algorithms to suppress expert accounts & factual info.
Fact checking on those platforms isn’t a level field. It’s a steep cliff.
But no mention of how X + Meta have altered their algorithms to suppress expert accounts & factual info.
Fact checking on those platforms isn’t a level field. It’s a steep cliff.