Coach Sankhavaram ®My superpower is #sensemaking messy ideas into fewer than 140 characters.
It turns out, we mutants are legion.
#cyberpunk is broader and usually more narrative or world-building driven.
#cybergrunge is more about clothing, styling, and visual mood.
Think of cyberpunk as the world and cybergrunge as the outfit.
Cyberpunk is about a tech-dystopia story.
Cybergrunge is about borrowing some of that future-facing energy and mixing it with grunge style.
https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Cyber_Grunge
Cyber Grunge
Cyber Grunge is an aesthetic that blends elements of Grunge, streetwear, and Y2K Futurism, sometimes with slight military influences. This style, which has been observed since approximately 2022, is characterized by bold silhouettes, utilitarian features, and an infusion of futuristic elements. It largely utilizes "subversive basics," referring to simple clothing with alternative or avant-garde details such as cut-outs, mesh, and pockets. The influence of the Y2K revival is also prevalent...
Clarence Thomas was chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision—the U.S. federal agency that enforces workplace civil-rights laws and investigates employment discrimination–from 1982 to 1990.
Anita Hill worked for Clarence Thomas at both the Department of Education and then the EEOC, where she served as his assistant/attorney-adviser when he was chairman.
Things we get for free, we don’t value much.
Only what costs us something feels truly worth it.
Freedom is one of the most precious things in the world.
Of course it comes at a high price.
#CandaceOwens and #HunterBiden had a non-insane convo, apparently.
I haven’t seen it, yet.
I dunno, man, I dunno.
Media of CooperationWe are excited to have Chris Salter with us to kick off our “Mobile Sensing / Sensing Mobility” workshop with a lecture on:
🎤 "Sensing Immersion: Video passthrough, bodily technologies and sense coupling in co-extensive reality"
📍Universität Siegen, AH-A 217/18 & webex
🕑 19 May, 4 - 6 pm
🔗 info & registration: https://u-si.de/y4mnr
#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #GuestLecture #MixedReality #Immersion #SenseMaking #Navigation #SensorMedia
Pride turns repairable moments into permanent damage.
Association REDefineWe know enough to be worried. We understand enough to see the pattern. We care enough to be affected.
But we do not have enough power to feel agency.
Our new essay is about that gap: between awareness and agency, information and orientation, witnessing and repair.
#CivicIntelligence #Democracy #DigitalCulture #NewsFatigue #SystemsThinking #Sensemaking #MentalHealth #PublicLife #MediaLiteracy #InformationOverload #EmotionalArchitecture #Resilience
Jim Crow has left the chat.
We the People™ are out here watching James’ nepobaby grandson—Chad Crow—trying to manifest by maxxing himself with self-help podcasts.
It’s cringe, brey.
It’s wild and it’s cringe, my sibling in Dionysius.
As an introspective person, I am fascinated by people who know—or intuit—something about me that I didn’t already know.