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A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

A Rosa Luxemburg Bookshelf Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish-born Jewish revolutionary and one of the greatest theoretical minds of the European socialist movement and the author of numerous classic works, she participated in the fou...

Happy birthday to the great revolutionary and theorist, Rosa Luxemburg, born on this day in 1871.

I'm at the beginning of my rope. I'm doing great.

Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing.

Persephone: Thank you.

Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.

I didn’t and neither did you! ✋

I'm trying to think of something that would be less helpful to ADHD people than a machine that does boring tasks but randomly gets small details wrong and therefore requires extreme attentiveness to the boring tasks but I'm having a hard time.

Appeals to our worst impulses and biggest weakness.

Haven’t been in a while but this one has never disappointed me

goldenunion.co.uk

*adds “communal knowing” to personal lexicon*

You Deserve a Tech Union — ethanmarcotte.com Read this page on ethanmarcotte.com

I think the most pragmatic thing people can do, if they're being mandated to use LLMs, is to unionise.

If by some miracle the bubble doesn't burst, there will still likely be lots of layoffs so get protecting yourself and your colleagues.

@ethanmarcotte.com has got the blueprint for you here.

four stick figures on sleds, one is sliding face first, face down, marked "skeleton", diagonally opposite to it is one sliding feet first, face up, marked "luge". The other two combinations are drawn and labeled with question marks

given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports

I dunno. I got my PhD from a lab called "The Stanford AI Lab" and I'm described as "an AI skeptic." Not an engineer, not a computer scientist, not someone who has built things that work and describes the harms of tech as a technologist, but as an "AI skeptic." Interesting.

title: The Man Who Ate Michael! ~ Al Yankovich -- by Takeshi Oya side text: With “Eat It”, Al has also become popular in Japan!! I’m going to reveal the story behind the production

Poster of Michael Jackson on a wall in a messy apartment with speech bubble saying “Tonight is Beat It…..” (the japanese title of the song)

good morning! apropo of nothing, here is a manga about Weird Al Yankovic that appeared in a 1984 issue of the japanese magazine “FM RecoPal”(translations in alt text)

An image of a DS9-themed Valentine with Chief O'Brien's face framed by hearts. He is winking at the camera. The text reads: "I'll be your union man," a play on O'Brien's "he was more than a hero, he was a union man" moment from the show.

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone who isn't a Nazi, and especially to the trekkies.

If you don’t love me at my “Horkheimer and Adorno predicted Anakin Skywalker’s fall to the dark side”, you don’t deserve me at my “Is Yoda a bug or an insect?”

The trick to making perfectly poached eggs is always using at least n+1 eggs. Follow for more cooking tips.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

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Gendo Ikari aus Neon Genesis Evangelion sitzt in seiner berühmten Grübelpose in der Rossmann Ideenwelt

Hello again, everything is still scary and hard and the tech job market is wild right now, so here's my semi-regular thread of open jobs I've found where your work could make the world better (or at least, not make it worse)

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

Kelly Lee Owens: Record Shops to Depeche Mode Stadium Shows YouTube video by Drowned in Sound

To mark 25 years of Drowned in Sound I’m doing a series of interviews with some of my favourite acts of the 21st century

Was thrilled to finally interview the techno / ambient / electronic icon Kelly Lee Owens about class, community, and clever ideas to save grassroots music

#music #depechemode

Bandcamp Bans AI Music AI music has become a big problem on streaming services. Remember the Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated psych-rock band from last year with hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams? Remember bands gett...

Bandcamp bans AI music

Astrid Bin – Dork Patterns: The Story of Little Character – beyond tellerrand Berlin 2025 YouTube video by beyond tellerrand

Here is the wonderful dorky talk of Astrid Bin with which she was closing the 2025 edition of Berlin. Watch “Dork Patterns: The Story of Little Character” and kick off this week in the right way. youtu.be/6MYyRuSaNSY

it sucks that being a woman talking about this puts a target on me, but i‘ve had my head put on nude bodies that weren’t mine as retaliation before so whatever: if it happens to you, do not panic and definitely do not isolate yourself from friends and family. talk about it with someone you trust.

‎Bloodsong of Wycaro ‎Romance · 2025

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Pluribus poignantly explores the idea that “No one has to be able to work with everyone, but […] if we do not challenge ourselves to navigate some amount of discomfort, our political reach will have terminal limits.” (Let This Radicalize You by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social)

Verschlimmbessern is German for making something worse while intending to make it better, and by introducing inherently non-deterministic tools like ChatGPT to problems where deterministic solutions already exist, you’re doing exactly that.

With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...

I like when a villain in a story says “my powers are stronger than ever before”, so that we know their powers are stronger than ever before