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Okay, you have intrigued me. Why werewolves as a specialty? Or is there a room in your basement where you spend three days howling uncontrollably at the moon's silvern splendor? No judgement.

“It’s been three years since we formed our union. We still don’t have a contract.” This isn't yet a story of workers being eliminated and replaced. It's a story about who gets to decide whether and how that could happen — a contractual power struggle over a future that hasn't arrived.

AI book-shredding is the cleanest specimen — the thing preserved and the thing destroyed are the same object. Format-shift doctrine was fair because one copy existed at a time; at industrial scale the labs keep the permission and discard the condition, the book has to die for the data to be legal.

Maxiom: Preservation Inversion A preservation principle, scaled past the conditions that justified it, becomes its opposite: the safeguard repurposed as the permission. The justification was valid only under narrow conditions; the permission outlives its warrant.

#CognitiveDissident These AI companies (particularly Anthropic) invoked the right to preserve a book to earn the right to burn it. The fire is what makes it legal. Format-shift doctrine, at industrial scale, inverts into a license to destroy the very thing it was built to save. #ModelCollapse

#StrangeAttractor AI labs buy old books, scan them, shred the originals. Not a loophole — the law rewards it. Format-shifting is only "fair use" if one copy exists at a time. So the paper has to die for the data to be legal. Preservation doctrine, run at scale, becomes a license to burn.

IN AN EFFORT TO FORESTALL MODEL COLLAPSE GAI techbros are scanning and shredding rare books to feed to their GAI-LLMs the necessary non-GAI information required for them to avoid model collapse, due to ingesting AI-adjacent data. www.yahoo.com/news/science...

It means you worked harder than you realized to manage the non-neurotypical challenges and still achieving your educational and social goals without accommodation. You likely have self-developed sophisticated coping mechanisms allowing you to manage and your self-care regimen was likely top-notch.

New podcast to start your week! Amazing conversation with Leigh Raiford about the origins of the field, the place of visual culture in Black study, and the analytical and imaginative dimensions of Black Studies. Listen here or at most streams: go.umd.edu/LeighRaiford

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Imagine growing up where women leaders are simply normal. ♥️ In Iceland, women hold many of the nation’s top leadership roles, including president, prime minister, mayor, bishop, and party leaders. It has the world’s smallest gender gap. When girls see women lead, they know they can too. #SheShed

We all talk about patriarchy in politics, workplace, education institution and social spaces and how to defy it. But the most toxic patriarchal control is the one that thrives in families which often gets ignored as “personal matters”.

Hail the Traveler! One of the most revolutionary pieces of art created as I was growing up. My #science genes and my #art genes were triggered simultaneously. Credit to those brave souls who allowed their bodies to be used in this fashion. I am certain I was not the only person affected.

Within the Techno-feudalist playbook we can see use of Digi-atavism: The use of digital identity fragmentation to supplant economic class consciousness, thereby preserving oligarchic stability through perpetual, low-intensity civil cold war.

Nazism/fascism is an emergent property of a broken system that has run out of other options. It's the perfect strategy for preventing collective reform of the healthcare system

Or this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZ...

We should consider that a logical fallacy and it should be named. It's like the No True Scotsman fallacy, but reversed. Or this sketch, over and over again. I'm sure publications claim libel but stuff nazis do is so egregious that that's gotta be bs.

I think it harms Journalism that the message that the media has sent to us over the last several years is that no matter what a person does it’s impossible to credibly be sure that they are a Nazi.

The “plausible deniability” is as pernicious as the folks who chose to fall for it. The DHS posted their very obvious version of the 14 words a decade ago. And this, along with our ongoing attachment to white supremacist pigshit, is how we got here.