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This is Nambia erasure.

A flawless post. Straight to my library of screen-grabbed gold.

They recognise that the books, like the activity of thinking itself, are their competition. This is an enclosure of the commons. An internal Anthropic memo says “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project.”

I did not expect to return from a quick lunch to find blood and shit on my desk (none of it mine). I guess that the bird that flew into my study window did not expect to encounter Frank, crusher of dreams. (I'd hoped that the bird got back out of a window, but a wider search turned up the corpse.)

Here's a really nice paper by @edbaggs.bsky.social on "James J. Gibson’s affordance examples". The affordance idea is often glossed as about "possibilities for action". Anyone who actually reads Gibson will see many examples that don't fit that schema. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Shanthivathie "Shanthie" Naidoo (1935-2026)

Shanthivathie Naidoo: Anti-apartheid campaigner who chose 371 days in solitary confinement over betrayalNaidoo spent a year in solitary confinement rather than testify against her friend Winnie Mandela and other anti-apartheid activists. Her defiance helped bring about the collapse of the apartheid stat...www.dailymaverick.co.za

Just saw this banging preprint by a cool posse headed by @aidanhorner.bsky.social (I saw it because I follow @suttonprofessor.bsky.social who is right in there): "Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations" osf.io/preprints/ps...

All the takes and hollering has led me to read the Odyssey. I'm only about 1/3 of the way through. One major insight so far is that Nolan has left out pretty much all of the weeping. There is a great deal of weeping in the text, often by Odysseus himself. (Maybe Matt Damon sucks at weeping?)

Alena Smith has gone too far this time.

This is good. Constitutional Court in SA confirms spatial apartheid (persisting injustice in human geography) AND obligation and city and region planners to address it rather than perpetuate it. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

The truth of spatial apartheid — ConCourt delivers a history lesson to DAA landmark Constitutional Court ruling confirms that Cape Town’s government perpetuates spatial apartheid, urging immediate action or equitable housing distribution in the city.…www.dailymaverick.co.za

This will lead to some truly appalling cocktails...