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alex is rude
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International researchers and instructors are essential to UC—but too often, we're denied stability and respect. We're organizing for visa fee reimbursements, job security, and real support. Sign up or get involved today!
July 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
rudenshiold.bsky.social
vampire weekend lp1 on at the powerlifting gym rn…
January 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
rudenshiold.bsky.social
sorry but the two mineral songs from 2019 are the best emo songs of the 21st century thusfar
January 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
rudenshiold.bsky.social
lotta people have no clue how fearful of their bosses intl workers are. whether they’re on H1-B, F-1, etc often folks are terrified to the point that they refuse to fight abuses through union grievances because they think they’ll get laid off & then deported.
January 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Forgot to post on the day of, but some of us @uaw4811.bsky.social workers at Irvine joined our @sbworkersunited.org siblings in Anaheim outside of Disneyland on the first day of their historic nationwide strike!

No contract, no coffee! 🚫📑🚫☕️
Solidarity forever!
3 uaw goons w sbwu picket signs sbwu and uaw workers posing together in front of a 100% shut down starbucks little candid of a uaw worker at the sbwu picket table sbwu and uaw workers picketing in front of the shut down starbucks’ door
December 22, 2024 at 5:49 PM
rudenshiold.bsky.social
in discourse on twitter, but i can retreat here for peace and quiet :) 🙏👼☮️🕊️
December 21, 2024 at 11:22 PM
rudenshiold.bsky.social
Jean Baudrillard, “America” (Verso, 1988)
December 21, 2024 at 7:40 PM
rudenshiold.bsky.social
Of Grandmatology
December 21, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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i let his will in my art til my kunstwollen
December 19, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Uppers: Mango Loco Monster
Downers: my students' disappointing finals
December 19, 2024 at 7:16 AM
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grading my students' finals
December 19, 2024 at 2:05 AM
rudenshiold.bsky.social
Exciting news! I’m in the running for a lucrative, publicly funded Alt-Ac position! They’re pretty far along in the search, but the committee chair just reached out to me personally. Feeling good about this one! 🤞 #academicwins
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December 11, 2024 at 9:34 PM
rudenshiold.bsky.social
comprehensive/qualifying/whatever exams complete. no more exams for the rest of my fucking life. thank god.
December 9, 2024 at 11:10 PM
rudenshiold.bsky.social
meanwhile, down in Orange County, UCI’s School of Humanities is trying to lay off our critical AI researcher—who regularly warns about this kind of garbage—over the holidays 🤔
December 8, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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learning about metal…
December 8, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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heckled the undergrads blasting music / playing 11:30pm basketball outside my window and they didn’t leave 🫤
December 8, 2024 at 7:27 AM
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“marx didn’t account for…” -type section
The Limits of Anticipation in Marx and Weber A case can be made that Marx and Weber foresaw the social phenomena that I call the mode of information and accounted for them within the contours of their theories. At least, this position might maintain, one need not abandon completely the theories of Marx and Weber in order critically to comprehend the mode of information; one need only supplement their views to encompass new historical developments. While this position has some merit, 2 I argue that the action-based theories of Marx and Weber have only limited ability to grasp the linguistic mechanisms that are at the heart of the mode of information. The considerable ability of the discourses of Marx and Weber to anticipate the direction of things to come speaks to the extraordinary vision embedded in their theories. Yet even these prescient thinkers were not able completely to overcome their historical circumstances. Their mental worlds were limited by certain cultural assumptions that precluded an adequate conceptualization of structures of communication. At least this is what I will try to demonstrate below. — Mark Poster, The Mode of Information (1990), pp. 30
December 7, 2024 at 1:50 AM
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concept: academic gangstalking
December 6, 2024 at 6:39 AM
rudenshiold.bsky.social
folks, don’t release an album in january
December 2, 2024 at 3:59 PM
rudenshiold.bsky.social
Bicep into a capella Hallelujah at Hmart right now
December 1, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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apparently i’ve had bronchitis and just been ignoring it for 2 months. if you don’t see me much this week, it’s the prednisone.
November 30, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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compiling a starter pack of furry & anthropomorphism researchers as people migrate from twitter.

hit my line if you would like to be added! 🐺
go.bsky.app/JwGNYox
November 30, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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just finished Sherry Turkle’s The Second Self and it’s totally an artifact of its time—but the 2004 20th anniv. edition preface and afterword are actually i think still very relevant.
November 30, 2024 at 3:48 AM
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did i irresponsibly buy gay kemo doujin today?
am i stressed about my final qualifying exam?

you put the pieces together...
November 29, 2024 at 5:30 AM
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epigone of when you could just write a theory book about how future people would need to just figure something new out
3. To be effective, future political movements must discover a new exploit. A wholly new topology of resistance must be invented that is as asymmetrical in relationship to networks as the network was in relationship to power centers. Resistance is asymmetry. The new exploit will be an "antiweb." It will be what we call later an "exceptional topology." It will have to consider the radically unhuman elements of all networks. It will have to consider the nonhuman within the hu-man, the level of "bits and atoms" that are even today leveraged as value-laden biomedia for proprietary interests. It has yet to be invented, but the newly ascendant network sovereigns will likely breed the antiweb into existence, just as the old twentieth-century powers bred their own demise, their own desertion. (from The Exploit by Galloway and Thacker)
November 26, 2024 at 6:24 PM