@kctipton@mas.to2025-12-24 03:02:10
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a screed of an essay
https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-bible-essay-instructor-fulneckydei-f37ba4b8afdc9d9aba3b73b124f13b9b
@kctipton@mas.to2025-12-24 03:02:10
@steve@s.yelvington.com2025-11-24 18:35:03
Background of the speech and debate clause
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S6-C1-3-2/ALDE_00013301/#:~:text=The text and …
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-24 18:55:47
The Other Way the 'Super Woke' Left Discriminates (Thomas Chatterton Williams/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/savage-compact-essay-discrimination/685416/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p49#a251224p49
@mela@zusammenkunft.net2025-12-24 06:13:09
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-10-23 15:29:38
Rounding off the first day of #NCKF25 with an astoundingly profound talk by @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social who reminds us of Kim Stanley Robinson's essay dystopias now. The work starts here.
https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-22 00:18:20
@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc2025-10-23 11:23:18
Dem Text von Jonas Rosenbrück in @… wurde im Zusammenhang von #Ballroom zu wenig Aufmerksamkeit zuteil
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-12-23 09:46:35
Reading Tim O'Reilly's essay on the economic future of #AI, one sentence stands out:
"By product-market fit we don’t just mean that users love the product or that one company has dominant market share but that a company has found a viable economic model, where what people are willing to pay for AI-based services is greater than the cost of delivering them"
/Continued
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-22 15:50:45
A Battle with My Blood -- When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought ... (Tatiana Schlossberg/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-battle-with-my-blood
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p38#a251122p38
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-10-23 18:48:18
Still thinking about this on the way home...
"maybe we should just give up entirely on optimism or pessimism—we have to do this work no matter how we feel about it. So by force of will or the sheer default of emergency we make ourselves have utopian thoughts and ideas. "
#NCKF25 with an astoundingly profound talk by @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social who reminds us of Kim Stanley Robinson's essay dystopias now. The work starts here.
https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-21 18:54:12
Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-11-19 07:07:55
Having just watched #Jaws for the first time in ages, I was stunned by the famous opening sequence ... but not by its cinematography or acting or editing - but by the never-ending chain of in-your-face #continuity errors in lighting once the girl enters the water: one moment we have a low Sun and a red sky, then we have the Sun near the zenith (with a day for night effect) then low again and so on, for several cycles.
Now #Spielberg, is there supposed to be some hidden message here? Well, there isn't.
(Once it's day, fortunately, this problem is gone, and a great movie unfolds, still fresh after 50 years. And I know, you shouldn't mess with a masterpiece, but Lucas added characters to Star Wars IV, and Cameron corrected a wrong star pattern in Titanic, so may be Spielberg could just, for an anniversary special edition ... o.k., I shut up. ;-)
@hynek@mastodon.social2025-09-30 06:59:05
Long but very good:
"An essay on wank"
It names and identifies one of my least favorite genre of posts – finally I have a proper term for it!
I'm sure I've been guilty of it too in the past, so it's useful for self-regulation, too.
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/essay_
@mrysav@social.linux.pizza2025-11-23 15:16:10
New assignment idea: teachers & professors feel free to steal:
It’s a literature review, but it’s submitted as a video essay (we all know most of them use the same boring structure anyway) and/or series of short form videos that must be filmed in a car. It’s called Reference Core, and you must bill it as nostalgia bait or capturing the vibe of a bygone era where people care about truth and giving credit
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-10-18 11:05:37
Dear USians,
How about you don’t call a Middle Eastern guy “white” and go on to tell him he’s “no better than any other oppressor we encounter” simply for trying to warn his Palestinian friends to not take any unnecessary risks and to be careful on Mastodon?
Also, apparently Divya has blocked me for this, which sucks because it has made it impossible for me to keep boosting her fundraiser, which you should, of course, still follow and support (link below).
I’m not going to …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-28 21:10:37
A therapist details treating ChatGPT as a "patient", describing its programmed self-critique as "a brilliant means of seducing a techno-skeptical therapist" (Gary Greenberg/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/pu…
@lmc@mastodon.social2025-10-18 00:01:09
Appreciate the WSJ essay from Lauren Powell Jobs on Philanthropy/Giving https://www.wsj.com/us-news/laurene-powell-jobs-beware-of-philanthropists-who-want-control-in-exc…
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place2025-11-20 08:23:18
With now 80 years after the trials began in Nürnberg I can only recommend Jacob Geller’s essay “Fantasies of Nuremberg” again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ay5tzHIBU
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-10-16 23:17:41
And great timing! Reading group post is up and got posted to the @… account
https://dwebyvr.org/dwebyvr-reading-group-first-meeting/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-15 22:17:07
What is the soul of wit? This multifaceted question has prompted rich and varied reflection throughout human history. In this essay, I will
@Europablog@mastodon.social2025-11-18 22:09:42
Warum auch Sie, lieber Durchschnittsverdiener, zu den Verlierern gehören werden. Essay von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer. https://europa.blog/de/warum-auch-sie-lieber-durchschnittsverdiener-zu-den-verlierern-gehoeren-werden/
@juer@juergenklute@digitalcourage.social2025-11-18 22:30:24
Warum auch Sie, lieber Durchschnittsverdiener, zu den Verlierern gehören werden. Essay von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer.
https://europa.blog/de/warum-auch-sie-lieber-durchschnittsverdiener-zu-den-verlierern-gehoeren-werden/
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-12-21 01:30:19
the future is not a countdown — #climate
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-12-12 16:07:12
@… software is like a lifted pickup truck, in this essay I will…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2025-11-15 11:41:16
@kazys@mastodon.social2025-12-16 05:06:35
If you are up this late, maybe you want to stay up later. Go ahead, read my latest essay, What Did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons?
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/what-did-vibe-coding-just-do-to-the-commons/
What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2025-11-15 00:21:45
I decided to support something for which the only support mechanism is "buymeacoffee" with a monthly donation — so I created a login at buymeacoffee, and now it won't let me go any further without creating a page with my photo, name, link, and a short essay to "Explain how contributions can make a difference in your work" and just no! All I want to do is set up a small monthly donation and be able to manage that in the future!
This isn't hard on liberapay or patreon or…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-10-12 08:45:08
Interesting essay on the Latin American "post new left". A bit dewy eyed re Lula and Boric but some great points taking inspiration from Zapatists, piqueteros and the Landless Workers Movement (MST).
De la conquista a la imaginación colectiva: apologética colonial y la nueva izquierda latinoamericana
@weltenkreuzer@social.tchncs.de2025-10-02 06:11:02
Egal zu welchem Thema, es wird immer unterschiedliche Positionen von Personen geben, die zu diesem Thema als Experte gelten. In diesen widersprüchlichen Meinungen öffnet sich ein Raum, in dem eine eigene Stimme entstehen kann:
"Nothing prepared me better for adult intellectual life than getting two sets of contradictory feedback on every essay I wrote for those classes, because I had to decide, over and over, what to make of these expressions of my teachers’ authority. Yes, they k…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-10-12 17:42:03
from my link log —
Let's take esoteric programming languages seriously.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15327
saved 2025-10-11 https://dotat.at/:/XKTKR.…
@avalon@jazztodon.com2025-11-14 22:14:01
Henze: Essay On Pigs (1968)
Based On A Poem By Gastón Salvatore: müder anlauf und vorläufiges ende "der verstorbene naive"
· Roy Hart · Philip Jones Brass Ensemble · English Chamber Orchestra ·
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8LUSHrNy7yc&si=zQK1KFW9ZL5O…
@vrandecic@mas.to2025-11-09 07:05:42
Essay trying to explain the rise of populism.
It's about an "appeal to common sense" instead of allowing for elitist analytical thinking and theorizing.
https://josephheath.substack.com/p/populism-fast-and-slow
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-09 03:48:20
RUTH BEN-GHIAT: The Geopolitical Context of Trump's War on America: Video and Essay
https://lucid.substack.com/p/video-on-the-geopolitical-context
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-09-30 16:45:23
This goes back to this Marc Andreessen techno-fash essay: https://a16z.com/its-time-to-build/
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-10-11 07:22:58
i have to calm down and stop thinking about football so I can sleep
by which I mean I need to put on a football video essay or football facts asmr bc trying to Not Think About Football will simply not work because AUTISM
@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue2025-12-07 20:27:53
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-06 14:47:06
Truly, everyone's a "rogue capitalist" now.
It's almost like the problem with companies isn't whether their business model is based on showing you ads or charging you money,
but rather, whether they can abuse you for profit and get away with it.
-- Coty Doctorow
https://mamot.fr/@…
@hacksilon@infosec.exchange2025-12-10 09:09:39
Also in Asterisk: an interesting article about the history of the DSM-5, and its critics.
> The psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams captures this concern with unusual clarity in her 2021 essay “Diagnosis and Its Discontents.” She reflects on a shift that began with the release of DSM-III, when psychiatry embraced a more descriptive, symptom-based diagnostic model. The change, she notes, quietly restructured how people speak about themselves in therapy. Once, a client might enter the roo…
@compfu@mograph.social2025-12-08 20:15:08
An older video essay from the great #PatrickHWillems about trains in movies. Why is it such an essential vehicle in so many movies since the brothers Lumière? It restricts space and moves the plot forwards - and both things are great for propelling the plot and forcing the scriptwriters to get creative. And have you noticed that the conductor is often invisible? It's the train who is …
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-13 23:01:33
OU Faculty Senate raises concerns with policy suspending faculty members who receive student complaints (Natalie Armour/Oklahoma Daily)
https://www.oudaily.com/news/ou-policy-suspend-professor-complaint-bible-essay-samantha-fulnecky/article_fadf58c7-3632-492e-ac47-386ada314227.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p50#a251213p50
@whitequark@mastodon.social2025-11-29 18:23:24
abc has commands &if, &if2, &iff, &iiff, &jf, &kf, &lf, &mf, &mfs, &nf, and &of. i think it should also have &yiff. In this essay I will
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-12-16 17:09:35
One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-12-12 22:57:22
I feel a wee essay coming on on why #democracy and #liberalism are incompatible with one another.
I suspect it will irritate a lot of people, because, like the emperor's lack of clothes, this is not something we are supposed to notice.
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-11-16 06:10:47
Deliberate Poetics: Erasure, Materiality, and the Politics of the Page (Essay Collection)
https://ift.tt/2MOoUwQ
updated: Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 11:57amfull name / name of organization: Mahshid Mayar,…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@gfriend@mas.to2025-11-07 21:40:53
I got to thinking, on @… Hunt's EpsilonTheory podcast today, about how capitalism hates satiation…which reminded me of Leopard Kohr's 70-year-old observations about "remedial consumption"… which I was surprised to find nowhere on the Interwebs…except here, from an almost half as ancient NewBottomLine essay:
@_tillwe_@mastodon.social2025-09-28 14:25:10
Kurzen Hinweis auf Cory Doctorows Essay zur AI-Blase ins Blog gepackt.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2025/09/28/kurz-in-der-blase/
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2025-09-28 09:30:07
„Konservativ“, „rechtsradikal“ oder „rechtsextrem“: Eine sachgemäß-nüchterne politische Einordnung der Causa #Kirk ist offenbar schwierig. Das Ziel derer, ihn posthum zum Helden der #Meinungsfreiheit hochleben lassen: Kirk zu entnazifizieren und, im selben Abwasch, neurechtes Denken zu normali…
@arXiv_mathHO_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-14 08:05:07
If you can distinguish, you can express: Galois theory, Stone--Weierstrass, machine learning, and linguistics
Ben Blum-Smith, Claudia Brugman, Thomas Conners, Soledad Villar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09902
@FerdiZ@mastodon.cloud2025-11-03 16:27:25
Why Trump's ICE is kidnapping & disappearing so many legal US residents today: #UsPol
@janneke@todon.nl2025-09-28 09:59:30
@…
Zoals @… in 1997 al schreef in een essay, een vrije, democratische samenleving is onmogelijk zolang niet alle software vrij is.
#FreeSoftware
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-11-27 10:04:31
Reading Berys Gauts essay «The Philosophy of Creativity" (2010) while listening to Gangstagrass — a music collective that combines, well, blugrass with rap... Wondering whether this music is an example of combinatorial creativity or transformational creativity (ref. Boden) or something else entirely.
Did they discover this musical mashup, or did them bring it into existence from nothing?
More and more I find myself in disagreement with the emphasis on the *product* of creati…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-08 09:32:59
From "Arbitrary Timberland" To "Skyline Charts": Is Visualization At Risk From The Pollution of Scientific Literature?
Lonni Besan\c{c}on
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05844
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-09-30 17:14:12
I think that "wank" expresses how I feel about listening to Trump et al. It's all self-pleasure done publicly as a dominance display. Disgusting on all levels. https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vztgtyyp4lhhqmto…
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-09 09:27:11
On the false election between regulation and innovation. Ideas for regulation through the responsible use of artificial intelligence in research and education.[Spanish version]
Pompeu Casanovas (IIIA-CSIC)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07268
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-10-02 04:22:58
In 1934, Dorothy Thompson, wife of Sinclair Lewis, became first journalist expelled from #Hitler's Germany, after interviewing him and finding him "the very prototype of the little man "
By 1941, she'd written an influential WWII era essay that has stood the test of time, on who amongst us makes a likely #Nazi
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange2025-10-03 23:10:44
“the book's thesis: that the AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector,”
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115277162069992407…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-07 04:32:51
Coal miners with black lung fight Trump administration rollback of safety protections | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/photo-essay-coal-miners-with-black-lung-fight-trump-administration-rollback-of-safety-protections
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-11-26 21:45:17
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Watching from the Wings
Michael Goldfarb remembers his theatrical life as an actor. In this essay, he's performing with the Cocteau Repertory Theatre in New York.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xwdt
@galaxydinodragon@social.linux.pizza2025-10-29 18:49:48
I find it quite funny how if I write an essay on tech, I sound really anti tech 😂
#tech
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-10-12 22:35:42
This evening I have been listening to one of @… 's podcasts and thinking about my failure in trying to lead the village's planning working group, and about the cognitive dissonance underlying my Tricycle project. I suspect this essay will be a grim read; it's not well formed in my mind as I sit down to write.
@adamhotep@infosec.exchange2025-10-07 17:24:32
Here's a great webcomic essay on generative model ("#AI") art by @…
https://the…
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-11-14 19:03:01
Why trying to predict the end of the world won’t save it:
https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-case-for-possibility?r=1o5n19&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-16 08:24:42
Actually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-11-02 17:09:40
My TL is full of people making these connections: white supremacy, oligarchs ending democracy, the US has never been a democracy for everyone, Jim Crow was the model the Nazis followed, etc. All important. All worth repeating over and over.
(“Broken record therapy,” my dad says: just keep saying it until they hear it.)
I’m bookmarking this particularly essay for the way it gathers the pieces in one place, the way it brings the history and the present into a single clear picture.
/end
@kazys@mastodon.social2025-11-07 02:44:38
My latest essay, I will offiicially release it tomorrow morning, but in the meantime, here it is!
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/stochastic-histories/
Stochastic Histories - varnelis.net
stochastic histories /stəˈkæstɪk ˈhɪstəriz/ n. pl. [from Gk. stokhastikos “capable of guessing,” from stokhazesthai “to aim at, guess at” + L. historia “narrative, account”] 1. Fabricated historical narratives generated through iterative probabilistic sampling with artificial-intelligence systems, producing documentation that appears authentic through the accumulation of plausible details. 2. A mode of artistic practice that exploits ...
@jredlund@social.linux.pizza2025-09-28 22:52:14
Once More to the Paragraph
#teaching writing An email from The New Yorker a few mornings ago gave me a teaching idea. In it, Nathan Heller discusses E.B. White’s long relationship with the magazine. White is probably most famous for a children’s book, Charlotte’s Web, or perhaps for “Once More to the Lake,” an essay much anthologized in student textbooks, but at The New Yorker…
@arXiv_mathAT_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-01 08:21:27
Manifolds and Disc-presheaves
Alexander Kupers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26392 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26392 …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-02 21:25:49
"Voters are disgusted by what they’re seeing from the right;
-- a political movement so detached from basic humanity that they think hunger, poverty, and suffering are punchlines,"
Michael Cohen wrote.
https://www.rawstory.com/michael-cohen-2674257947/
@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-30 09:21:11
Consciousness Self and Language
Robert Worden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23342 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23342
@kazys@mastodon.social2025-11-06 01:07:19
It would be the greatest challenge for our public intellectuals to write a single essay without using the word capitalism.
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-12-12 01:30:21
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-11-01 08:22:01
"we encounter a lot of detachment from reality these days, and it seems to be at the core of our lot of problems. People lying habitually and shamelessly, dunces being placed in a position of real power over experts, people in high positions making deeply stupid decisions... people act as they are unconstrained by materiality, consequences or the laws of physics. This essay aims to figure out why" -- @…
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-10-01 16:10:36
Essay for edited volume: *Shakespeare and Narrative Theory* (detailed abstract due 31 Oct 2025)
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@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-12-06 01:30:20
Beyond Resistance — #substack
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-10-01 16:10:35
Essay for edited volume: *Shakespeare and Narrative Theory* (detailed abstract due 31 Oct 2025)
https://ift.tt/M24TpWK
updated: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 - 9:53pmfull name / name of organization: Nick…
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@tomkalei@machteburch.social2025-09-29 07:18:35
Just re-read "We need to talk AI" a comic essay that came out 2019.
A look at the present from the past when it was still the future.
https://weneedtotalk.ai/
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-11-27 01:30:22
the future is not a countdown — #climateanxiety
