Sergio
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"The genocide in Gaza is not an incidental event that can be ignored but a fundamental event like the Vietnam War, where what is being burned with American weapons are not just nonwhite people but American ideals and the possibilities of euphemism."
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Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire
One way to understand the dilemma of contemporary American literature in the age of Donald Trump is to see it as an imperial literature. The United States is a different kind of empire, exerting gl…
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April 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"The genocide in Gaza is not an incidental event that can be ignored but a fundamental event like the Vietnam War, where what is being burned with American weapons are not just nonwhite people but American ideals and the possibilities of euphemism."
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Annual reminder that instead of Harry Potter, read Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea instead.
Better written, more insightful, more interesting world and characters, not ethically-poisonous, and it wasn't made by a malignant has-been TERF.
Better written, more insightful, more interesting world and characters, not ethically-poisonous, and it wasn't made by a malignant has-been TERF.
April 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Annual reminder that instead of Harry Potter, read Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea instead.
Better written, more insightful, more interesting world and characters, not ethically-poisonous, and it wasn't made by a malignant has-been TERF.
Better written, more insightful, more interesting world and characters, not ethically-poisonous, and it wasn't made by a malignant has-been TERF.
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Great to see the historian of science Jessica Riskin helping to lead this. #histSTM
Proof that when we stand strong, we inspire others to stand strong. This week, Harvard proved we are leaders. Now Stanford needs to do the same.
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Stanford should stand with Harvard
Jessica Riskin and a group of faculty argue that Stanford should align with Harvard, taking an explicit stand against the Trump administration's pressures.
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April 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Great to see the historian of science Jessica Riskin helping to lead this. #histSTM
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Forgot how much this rips. Haven't heard Square Nothing for over a decade. Cannot recommend this enough
Fell behind on this so going to post more publicly. Tonight's album is one of my all time favourites - In Flames -
Clayman
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Clayman - YouTube
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April 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Forgot how much this rips. Haven't heard Square Nothing for over a decade. Cannot recommend this enough
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I will never stop making games with psx-style visuals.
It will be 2047 and I'll be like "hey guys here's my new game inspired by Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil. It has hand-painted textures, dithering, and wobbly polygons."
Then you'll be able to download a demo for it to your brain
It will be 2047 and I'll be like "hey guys here's my new game inspired by Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil. It has hand-painted textures, dithering, and wobbly polygons."
Then you'll be able to download a demo for it to your brain
April 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I will never stop making games with psx-style visuals.
It will be 2047 and I'll be like "hey guys here's my new game inspired by Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil. It has hand-painted textures, dithering, and wobbly polygons."
Then you'll be able to download a demo for it to your brain
It will be 2047 and I'll be like "hey guys here's my new game inspired by Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil. It has hand-painted textures, dithering, and wobbly polygons."
Then you'll be able to download a demo for it to your brain
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Using the word "philistine" to mean "uncultured person" is pretty racist when you think about it. Philistine was a whole country with, I'm sure, a variety of people.
Imagine if in 1000 years "American" was a word meaning "idiot". Well ok...that would make sense. Bad example, but you get the idea.
Imagine if in 1000 years "American" was a word meaning "idiot". Well ok...that would make sense. Bad example, but you get the idea.
April 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Using the word "philistine" to mean "uncultured person" is pretty racist when you think about it. Philistine was a whole country with, I'm sure, a variety of people.
Imagine if in 1000 years "American" was a word meaning "idiot". Well ok...that would make sense. Bad example, but you get the idea.
Imagine if in 1000 years "American" was a word meaning "idiot". Well ok...that would make sense. Bad example, but you get the idea.
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***new podcast episode!*** @bcheves.bsky.social interviews @jamesgustafson.bsky.social about his new book, The Lion and the Sun: Environmental History and the Formation of Modern Iran (I.B. Tauris, 2025). Learn more and listen here: ajammc.com/2025/04/07/a...
Ajam Podcast #47: Towards An Environmental History of Modern Iran - Ajam Media Collective
In this episode, Belle interviews James Gustafson, Associate Professor of History at Indiana State University, about his new book. In The Lion and the Sun (and our podcast episode), Gustafson presents...
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April 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
***new podcast episode!*** @bcheves.bsky.social interviews @jamesgustafson.bsky.social about his new book, The Lion and the Sun: Environmental History and the Formation of Modern Iran (I.B. Tauris, 2025). Learn more and listen here: ajammc.com/2025/04/07/a...
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April 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Huge demonstrations at Heard and McDonald Islands, as the penguins say NO to tariffs:
April 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Huge demonstrations at Heard and McDonald Islands, as the penguins say NO to tariffs:
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ATTN PROTESTERS: Know before you go! Here are helpful tips to protect yourself and your digital devices during a protest. Learn more about the intersection between technology and civil rights at CivilRights.org.
Stay safe! #HandsOff
Stay safe! #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
ATTN PROTESTERS: Know before you go! Here are helpful tips to protect yourself and your digital devices during a protest. Learn more about the intersection between technology and civil rights at CivilRights.org.
Stay safe! #HandsOff
Stay safe! #HandsOff
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If there is a major economic downturn, Americans are going to have to be asking a lot of hard questions, such as:
- what is tariff?
- google dot com tariff what is it
- how tariffs work
- tariffs r they bad??
- what is tax
- what is tariff?
- google dot com tariff what is it
- how tariffs work
- tariffs r they bad??
- what is tax
April 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
If there is a major economic downturn, Americans are going to have to be asking a lot of hard questions, such as:
- what is tariff?
- google dot com tariff what is it
- how tariffs work
- tariffs r they bad??
- what is tax
- what is tariff?
- google dot com tariff what is it
- how tariffs work
- tariffs r they bad??
- what is tax
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Eighty bucks for Mario Kart? I'd rather have eighty elephant turds dropped directly onto my face! What were they thinkiiiiiiing?
April 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Eighty bucks for Mario Kart? I'd rather have eighty elephant turds dropped directly onto my face! What were they thinkiiiiiiing?
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Who needs fantastical Choose Your Own Adventures, when we have history? This hit piece asks the vital questions that will make everyone have to ponder the best choice. Will you pick.... Castration or Clergy?
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April 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Who needs fantastical Choose Your Own Adventures, when we have history? This hit piece asks the vital questions that will make everyone have to ponder the best choice. Will you pick.... Castration or Clergy?
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buff.ly/Tr7qlC4
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We can all sit around and pretend that these goofy dumbasses - one of them formerly a respected and critical reporter at The Register - are making anything other than “just another LLM.” So much capital has burned in the name of this nonsense narrative, it’s time to stop. It’s embarrassing.
March 31, 2025 at 2:36 AM
We can all sit around and pretend that these goofy dumbasses - one of them formerly a respected and critical reporter at The Register - are making anything other than “just another LLM.” So much capital has burned in the name of this nonsense narrative, it’s time to stop. It’s embarrassing.
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Art by • Robert Gould
February 7, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Art by • Robert Gould
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March 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Sam Altman has never been more washed. Green text posting to whine about how nobody is impressed by his unimpressive unsustainable software. Too big to be acquired, too shitty to go public, unprofitable forever, OpenAI, I live for this shit
March 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Sam Altman has never been more washed. Green text posting to whine about how nobody is impressed by his unimpressive unsustainable software. Too big to be acquired, too shitty to go public, unprofitable forever, OpenAI, I live for this shit
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look what the globalists did to me
March 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
look what the globalists did to me
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🧵 You may never have heard of this artist, Robert Campin. I love his work [zoom in for details]. Every item included has a symbolic meaning too. We know so little about him that we are not 100% sure this was actually his name! I love the angel wings! [1]
Humble Virgin Mary, sitting on floor at home, her reading interrupted by arrival of angel she is trying hard to ignore. From the Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin, 1430, for feast day of the Annunciation.
March 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🧵 You may never have heard of this artist, Robert Campin. I love his work [zoom in for details]. Every item included has a symbolic meaning too. We know so little about him that we are not 100% sure this was actually his name! I love the angel wings! [1]
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March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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March 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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nostalgia is a sort of society-wide alzheimer's, where you watch it happen to people older than you and it seems inconceivable, and then before you know it it's destroyed your brain as well
millennials please. please stop this. we were supposed to be better than this
March 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
nostalgia is a sort of society-wide alzheimer's, where you watch it happen to people older than you and it seems inconceivable, and then before you know it it's destroyed your brain as well