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aspirational service top. scorpio sun, taurus rising, virgo moon.
i use so much passive voice in writing as of late and it's horrifying and there's definitely some psychoanalytical explanation in there
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
i use so much passive voice in writing as of late and it's horrifying and there's definitely some psychoanalytical explanation in there
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New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
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vimeo.com/1116289621
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The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance
Şerife Wong The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 2025 Original score by Jeromey Cooks (rikuwru) This video is part of Icarus Salon. It is intended to be viewed in…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
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vimeo.com/1116289621
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Thank you 🙏🏽 to @tamigraph.bsky.social, Jeffrey Moro, and Briana Vecchione for editing this cluster on Algorithms and the Occult for @asapjournal.bsky.social 🧙🏾
Always grateful to @xrw.bsky.social and AX Mina for, well, everything 🖤
Always grateful to @xrw.bsky.social and AX Mina for, well, everything 🖤
Just in time for Halloween, our @asapjournal.bsky.social cluster on Algorithms and the Occult is out! 👻
Featuring @emmaquilty.bsky.social, @aketchum22.bsky.social, @xrw.bsky.social, @drs.bsky.social, @serife.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social, @jessrauchberg.bsky.social, and more!
Featuring @emmaquilty.bsky.social, @aketchum22.bsky.social, @xrw.bsky.social, @drs.bsky.social, @serife.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social, @jessrauchberg.bsky.social, and more!
Algorithms and the Occult - ASAP/Review
asapjournal.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Thank you 🙏🏽 to @tamigraph.bsky.social, Jeffrey Moro, and Briana Vecchione for editing this cluster on Algorithms and the Occult for @asapjournal.bsky.social 🧙🏾
Always grateful to @xrw.bsky.social and AX Mina for, well, everything 🖤
Always grateful to @xrw.bsky.social and AX Mina for, well, everything 🖤
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Important intervention as an act of solidarity by Sinophone artists against the Chinese state’s efforts to conduct political censorship of artists in one of Thailand’s leading artistic institutions
"Artists Carry Out Guerrilla Art Installation in Bangkok Art and Culture Center to Resist Chinese Censorship" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
Artists Carry Out Guerrilla Art Installation in Bangkok Art and Culture Center to Resist Chinese Censorship | New Bloom Magazine
In July of this year, an exhibition in the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC) was censored at the behest of Chinese authorities. The exhibition was titled “Constellation of Complicity: Visualising…
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October 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Important intervention as an act of solidarity by Sinophone artists against the Chinese state’s efforts to conduct political censorship of artists in one of Thailand’s leading artistic institutions
hot take that i feel like as scholars in the digital tech x china space we're struggling rn with is
1) how to square away techno-orientalism if you aren't writing from position within the US/europe (aka majority of world)
1) how to square away techno-orientalism if you aren't writing from position within the US/europe (aka majority of world)
October 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
hot take that i feel like as scholars in the digital tech x china space we're struggling rn with is
1) how to square away techno-orientalism if you aren't writing from position within the US/europe (aka majority of world)
1) how to square away techno-orientalism if you aren't writing from position within the US/europe (aka majority of world)
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Americans desperate to copy WeChat without understanding anything about the context of its success
October 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Americans desperate to copy WeChat without understanding anything about the context of its success
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There seems to be a concerted effort by AI boosters lately to deny this & act like critics are ignorant (or insist it's fine because AI will be smart enough to solve climate change and energy shortages). But energy usage data and projections remain astronomical.
October 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
There seems to be a concerted effort by AI boosters lately to deny this & act like critics are ignorant (or insist it's fine because AI will be smart enough to solve climate change and energy shortages). But energy usage data and projections remain astronomical.
deep in a character study of scorpio men, god, scorp men are crazzzy
October 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
deep in a character study of scorpio men, god, scorp men are crazzzy
🥰 gotta love the aunties.
me: "i'm in chicago now for a job at northwestern"
auntie: "chicago is colder than san francisco. drink hot things and dress warmly!"
me: "i'm in chicago now for a job at northwestern"
auntie: "chicago is colder than san francisco. drink hot things and dress warmly!"
October 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🥰 gotta love the aunties.
me: "i'm in chicago now for a job at northwestern"
auntie: "chicago is colder than san francisco. drink hot things and dress warmly!"
me: "i'm in chicago now for a job at northwestern"
auntie: "chicago is colder than san francisco. drink hot things and dress warmly!"
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Tomorrow in San Francisco: @jacobsilverman.com and @alexhanna.bsky.social at Litquake.
7 p.m. See you there?
litquake2025.sched.com/event/28YrM/...
7 p.m. See you there?
litquake2025.sched.com/event/28YrM/...
Litquake 2025: Gilded Rage—Elon Musk and the Radicaliza...
View more about this event at Litquake 2025
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October 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Tomorrow in San Francisco: @jacobsilverman.com and @alexhanna.bsky.social at Litquake.
7 p.m. See you there?
litquake2025.sched.com/event/28YrM/...
7 p.m. See you there?
litquake2025.sched.com/event/28YrM/...
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📦🔋🌱Global Circuits, a new series on environmental justice and the AI supply chain, co-sponsored by (m)otherboard, Green Screen Coalition, & @datasociety.bsky.social Climate, Technology, and Justice program
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Global Circuits | Session 1, from mining to chip manufacture in the Congo and Taiwan. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining...
Join us for our first session in the Global Circuits speaker series where we draw connections and forge solidarity from the Congo to Taiwan. We are lucky to host Maurice Carney, Executive Director at ...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
📦🔋🌱Global Circuits, a new series on environmental justice and the AI supply chain, co-sponsored by (m)otherboard, Green Screen Coalition, & @datasociety.bsky.social Climate, Technology, and Justice program
everytime i read a post about digital humanities and arcgis storymaps i cry a little on the inside
background, esri is a baddie in the bad way & there's plenty of open source alternatives: www.societyandspace.org/articles/bey...
background, esri is a baddie in the bad way & there's plenty of open source alternatives: www.societyandspace.org/articles/bey...
Beyond Esri: Moving Toward Abolition in Geography
We call on geographers, planners, geo-spatial analysts, and all spatial thinkers to divest themselves from the creation of carceral space.
www.societyandspace.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
everytime i read a post about digital humanities and arcgis storymaps i cry a little on the inside
background, esri is a baddie in the bad way & there's plenty of open source alternatives: www.societyandspace.org/articles/bey...
background, esri is a baddie in the bad way & there's plenty of open source alternatives: www.societyandspace.org/articles/bey...
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This is why I like Dewey's engagement with community in "The Public and its Problems."
For Dewey, community isn't just sharing an attribute: it is the ways that we come together in collective association towards a common goal. Insofar as this is the case, we can do so across difference.
For Dewey, community isn't just sharing an attribute: it is the ways that we come together in collective association towards a common goal. Insofar as this is the case, we can do so across difference.
We really got some warped ideas about what community should be when we reduced its meaning to "people who share one thing in common."
August 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is why I like Dewey's engagement with community in "The Public and its Problems."
For Dewey, community isn't just sharing an attribute: it is the ways that we come together in collective association towards a common goal. Insofar as this is the case, we can do so across difference.
For Dewey, community isn't just sharing an attribute: it is the ways that we come together in collective association towards a common goal. Insofar as this is the case, we can do so across difference.
caught up with my gen-z cousin in beijing and damn THE INTERNET WORKED y'all, we have reached THE END OF HISTORY
she schooled me for 2 hours (while also side eyeing my life choices) and told me that:
1) there's no use busting your ass at work bc promotions are arbitrary/based on sucking up
she schooled me for 2 hours (while also side eyeing my life choices) and told me that:
1) there's no use busting your ass at work bc promotions are arbitrary/based on sucking up
August 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
caught up with my gen-z cousin in beijing and damn THE INTERNET WORKED y'all, we have reached THE END OF HISTORY
she schooled me for 2 hours (while also side eyeing my life choices) and told me that:
1) there's no use busting your ass at work bc promotions are arbitrary/based on sucking up
she schooled me for 2 hours (while also side eyeing my life choices) and told me that:
1) there's no use busting your ass at work bc promotions are arbitrary/based on sucking up
tfw doctors are like "you need a surgery where we put a tiny camera in you" and you're like, no thanks dude, i don't want cameras on me or in me, ever.
July 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
tfw doctors are like "you need a surgery where we put a tiny camera in you" and you're like, no thanks dude, i don't want cameras on me or in me, ever.
wow finally got an mri appointment after 7 months of insurance insanity, can't wait to get pumped full of rare earth and lie in a tube for 40 minutes
June 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
wow finally got an mri appointment after 7 months of insurance insanity, can't wait to get pumped full of rare earth and lie in a tube for 40 minutes
oh no they put me and my frands into a computer and i can't get out
June 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
oh no they put me and my frands into a computer and i can't get out
eeeee a friend just read a draft of a short speculative fiction story i wrote and texted: omg. my jaw is on the floor.
now just have to find a place to publish it 🙏 putting this wish out into the universe.
now just have to find a place to publish it 🙏 putting this wish out into the universe.
June 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
eeeee a friend just read a draft of a short speculative fiction story i wrote and texted: omg. my jaw is on the floor.
now just have to find a place to publish it 🙏 putting this wish out into the universe.
now just have to find a place to publish it 🙏 putting this wish out into the universe.
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STARTING IN TWO HOURS! See you there.
June 6 @ 1 pm ET! Join authors @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and @karenhao.bsky.social as they discuss their must-read new books exposing AI hype and tech industry power with D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social. datasociety.net/events/chall...
June 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
STARTING IN TWO HOURS! See you there.
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Americans under 25 have no idea how anomalous and deranged it is for the news to report obsessively on the persona and psychology of the executive with respect to matters of policy and governance. This is not even remotely normal.
June 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Americans under 25 have no idea how anomalous and deranged it is for the news to report obsessively on the persona and psychology of the executive with respect to matters of policy and governance. This is not even remotely normal.
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executive order shutting down twitter in 3, 2,
June 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
executive order shutting down twitter in 3, 2,
my poor friends and lovers who i force to suddenly drop everything and read something i wrote while i hover over them, blinking and rubbing my hands like an over eager squirrel
June 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
my poor friends and lovers who i force to suddenly drop everything and read something i wrote while i hover over them, blinking and rubbing my hands like an over eager squirrel
"We could call it spreadsheet culture in hyperdrive, a world in which all data can be translated into summary language and all language into optimized data with nothing more than a prompt. " www.theideasletter.org/essay/our-sp...
Our Spreadsheet Overlords - The Ideas Letter
Weatherby argues that the current discourse around AI, especially the buzz around “artificial general intelligence,” is a distraction from its actual impact: the expansion of bureaucracy through massi...
www.theideasletter.org
June 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
"We could call it spreadsheet culture in hyperdrive, a world in which all data can be translated into summary language and all language into optimized data with nothing more than a prompt. " www.theideasletter.org/essay/our-sp...
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Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids.
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
amandaguinzburg.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids.
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
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I talked with @arthurkaufman.bsky.social about China work and responsibilities as practitioners on Gaza thelasttrain.substack.com/p/doing-what...
Doing What's Easy vs. Doing What's Right
Rui Zhong draws a connection between China-watchers' responsibilities towards China, the US, and Palestine.
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June 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I talked with @arthurkaufman.bsky.social about China work and responsibilities as practitioners on Gaza thelasttrain.substack.com/p/doing-what...