The Carney government is absolutely eviscerating the public service to a level that Stephen Harper never would have dared. Completely ending home delivery is just another step towards privatization.

My favourite fact about minimalist classical music is that contemporary minimalist composers are controversial in the community because they want their music to be pleasant to listen to instead of alienating.

Does anyone know of any papers exploring digital TTRPG marketplaces like itch.io? I'm trying to look at how these marketplaces may have affected labour in the industry, but I'm having difficulty finding if there's any existing research.

Mark Carney’s new budget might be the single most aggressive neoliberal/austerity budget put forward in my lifetime. Far, far more aggressive than anything Harper attempted, and almost entirely targeted at eliminating transparency, environmental protections, Indigenous relations, and essentially completes the last Conservative government’s plan to eliminate Canada Post. Budget increases have primarily gone to finance and the military.

"AI... [is] designed entirely around allowing living labour to produce the most predictable outputs from dead labour. It is perhaps the most aggressive and totalizing form of alienation from labour we know."

Anyway, this week for my digital labour class I'm reading papers on AI in creative spaces (looked at primarily in high-theory ways) and all I can think about is how much these arguments take their structures from rockism vs poptimism, and how that just echoes the neoclassical & Augustan poetic movements' disdain for originality.

Hey, weird question… does anyone remember what poets were in philosophical conflict w/ the Augustans in the 18th century? Was it the Neoclassicists? I remember it coming up in an undergraduate class but can’t remember who they were and the internet has been no help.

I am trying to learn about book cover design and how to use grid systems, while also figuring out a design language for the poetry micropress I'm hoping to launch in 2027. I'm starting by a) reading design books & b) fucking around making fake covers for some favourite books. My first effort:

I feel absolutely certain there are ways to support the people of Iran that do not involve cheering on a fascist pedophile and an apartheid state actively engaged in genocide as they team up to vapourize an elementary school and murder the country’s only viable opposition leaders.