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artist, writer, researcher. often upset. infrastructure is what matters & feminist tech support is my praxis. they/them
the Black Radicalism reading group is starting up again and our first meeting for the fall semester is tomorrow. SO. PUMPED. We're working through Of Black Study (2022) by Joshua Myers with additional weekly articles from authors highlighted in the book. I started reading the introduction at an emotional low point and, genuinely, my heart was vitalized just after reading the first few pages.
for some reason downloads from Sage have some fucked typographic errors in the text that I find VERY distracting, but ironically much more so when someone cites well-known affect theory folks in the body of the text

10 years. this actually brought a smile to my face.

Gaming the iron curtain (2018, MIT Press)

i kinda can’t believe this is a legit solicitation on an STS listserv
(text 1/2)
My colleagues and I look for a researcher to help recognize future trends. This is a contractor position with negotiable terms.
Key focus will be on combining advances in science and technology with deep understanding of societal and political trends to develop a framework that would help in predicting future technological needs.

so i got my birthday present early: therapy gun!!!! it is exactly as awesome as I hoped it would be. very happy 😭

and now that it is here, hard not to start thinking about a dissertation chapter on therapy guns

i have no doubt in my mind that the people in charge of instituting and policing content moderation workers will review critical evaluations of their workspaces and conclude that the problem is the degree to which workers are exploited, surveilled, and dehumanized, not that any one of these circumstance is problematic on its own.
Want. Need.
the energy i was going for when picking out my nail colors at the salon today:

y i k e s ✍🏻

This is a way for third party marketers to advertise drugs to people. Seen at the gyno office. Made me feel uneasy.