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nî maina africana @barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

what sometimes hits my mind when i hear about the countless supervision exercises done to produce socially sanctioned writings in institutions like media, court of law, academia et al. we really live and swim in an illusion of endless bullshit

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The Bottomless Pit Supervisor

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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Design books Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine Benyus #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #designthnking #biomimicry

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Emeline Brule @emeline.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A great exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art: Motherboards, exploring women's contributions to computing history. Lots of textiles work! sjmusart.org/exhibition/m...

Main room of the exhibition, showing video art and a standalone sculpture seemingly extended by a wall mounted pattern made of electric cables.

Amor Muñoz
Born 1979, Mexico City, Mexico
Lives and works in Mexico City
Polyptych MR4 (First period), 2010/2013
Canvas, screen printing, embroidery with cotton thread, and worker documents
MR4-Maquila Region 4, 2010/2013
Video and sound
Produced by Nestor Jimenez
Courtesy of the artist
Taking the form of a mobile factory for the manufacture of electronic textile artworks, Amor Muñoz's Maquila Region 4, or MR4, project sought to make visible the individual women workers who are routinely obscured through the process of outsourced manufacturing,
Muñoz would bike her nomadic project through economically disadvantaged areas of Mexico and offer residents a chance to work for US minimum wage-$8.00 per hour at the time of the project, compared to the standard rate of $1.20 per hour in Mexico-embroider conductive thread into artisanal fabrics to create fully functioning circuit panels. The electronic textiles brought together the main exports of maquilas (factories along the US-Mexico border that offer raw materials and cheap labor for export), textiles, and electronics, while the accompanying time cards are physical reflections of the individual maquila workers who would otherwise remain anonymous.

Marilou Schultz
Born 1954, Leupp, Arizona (Navajo Nation)
Lives and works in Mesa, Arizona
Replica of a Chip, 1994
Wool mounted on wood
Courtesy of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Silicon Valley's Fairchild Semiconductor operated an assembly plant on the Navajo Nation in Shiprock, New Mexico, from 1965 through 1975. During its operations, the Shiprock facility employed primarily Navajo women. The company's promotional materials characterized these women as particularly adept for assembly work due to their
"nimble fingers," honed through generations of intricate jewelry and textile work.
In 1980, another Silicon Valley giant, Intel, expanded its operations to New Mexico.
In honor of the relationship between Silicon Valley technology and Indigenous women weavers, Intel commissioned artist Marilou Schultz to weave a replica of one of its microchips. The commission was technically demanding, requiring substantial experimentation and skill to reproduce the chip's asymmetrical patterns and varied colors. The experience inspired Schultz to continue exploring new technologies through weaving, creating textiles of digital graphs, QR codes, and other microchips. Intel gifted Schultz's Replica of a Chip to the American Indian Science and Engineering Society during its 1994 conference, "Weaving Tradition and Technology, held in San José.

Analia Saban
Born 1980, Buenos Aires, Argentina Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Flowchart (Painting Gesture), 2025
Oil stick on encaustic paint on panel
Museum purchase with funds provided by Tad Freese and Brook Hartzell, Geraldine and Marco Magarelli, Karen Hillenberg, Yvonne and Mike Nevens, Daniela Barone and Matt Reiferson, and the Collection Committee, 2026.04.01
Analia Saban makes visible the hidden infrastructures of the digital age by rendering them through the techniques and materials of older technologies. Using a Jacquard loom, Saban weaves patterns of computer chips and cooling fans from copper wire and linen yarn for her "Copper Tapestries" series. Her "Motherboards" series comprises circuit boards coated in thick printer's ink that paradoxically brings out the boards' intricate surfaces.
Her most recent series, "Flowcharts, continues her concern with the dichotomy between the hand and the machine but expands beyond hardware to uncover the manual work behind artificial intelligence. On a panel covered with white encaustic made of beeswax, resin, and pigment, and layered with black oil stick, Saban has carved a flowchart with instructions for depicting gesture. Her graphic instructions parallel the inputs that structure machine learning-_-from the manual labeling of data fed into training algorithms, to the prompts users enter into generative artificial intelligence tools to produce text, images, and other outputs.

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nî maina africana @barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

fair point. But sperms are critical for reproduction, and linguistic elements aren't. Chomsky is skeptical of adaptive accounts of language, and comparing words to sperms in their incredible multiplicity to try and give such an account kinda bolsters this skepticism, methinks..

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Dan Dennett Refutes Noam Chomsky! #shorts

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nî maina africana @barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

skeptical view on the relevance of such a question is to "link interface conditions". I have a sense of what this might superficially mean and sympathetic to the anti-communication view of the adaptive value of language..

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nî maina africana @barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And whatever good songs are in the soundtrack of its screen adaptation

One Hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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nî maina africana @barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they didn't even try this time.. Good movie tho

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nî maina africana @barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

and the only freedom worth talking about is one worth dying for... existential anxiety educates freedom.. contra the whole free will discourse.. bla bla bla.. continue collecting futile cobwebs..

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Oste Grogno 🦋☕🍷🎲⚽🏴‍☠️🇮🇹🇬🇧🇫🇷🇪🇸🇩🇪 @ostegrogno.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

trailer sul sito del Guardian, in questa pagina verrà poi pubblicato il film intero per visione streaming gratuita da novembre 2026 www.theguardian.com/film/video/2... passate parola…☕🎲🍀

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NAZA - official trailer

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Talk With Saul @talkwithsaul.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

because ofc Israel created a fake NAZA

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nî maina africana @barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Golf is the most elaborate example of something extremely boring gaining the status of fun by repeated association with prestige. Who also remembers the artwork of a banana taped on a wall?Y'all in wealthy societies are just mind numbingly comfortable and bored, and nothing shows this like golf,etc

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 30/09/2026

Ballard Congratulates Golf Course on Its New Light Rail Station: tinyurl.com/yncw9jep

Map of new Pinehurst light rail station opening Sept. 30 next to I-5 and 160-acre Jackson Park Golf Course.

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Robinson Erhardt @robinsonerhardt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How Communists Run the Paris Metro | Richard Wolff Full Episode: youtu.be/hQsIOcDemPc

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Robinson Erhardt @robinsonerhardt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Europe Is a Tourist Destination" | Richard Wolff Full Episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6SwjEs7bec

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Diego’s Sonic Scapes @diegoalonso.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#MusicChallenge #ClocktoberMusic 🕰️ 1️⃣ 🎶 "Time" 🎤 Alan Parsons Project 💿 The Turn of a Friendly Card 📆 7 November 1980 music.youtube.com/watch?v=z55u...

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This came on the heels of the Ethiopian army's capture of towns and cities in Tigray, and the shelling & drone bombing of cities across the region. The Ethiopian army is all but poised to walk into an empty Mekele, where traumatized residents are reeling from 72 hours of aerial attacks on the city.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tigrayan rebels have abandoned the capital Mekele & have melted into the mountainous surrounding countryside. Which is what they did in November 2020, sparing residents from enduring urban neighbourhood to neighbourhood battles for the city. TPLF head Debretsion Gebremichael vows to fight on.

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nî maina africana @barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It might appear contradictory for me to go down this road, but mine is a criticism of priority... in an interview on the book, olufemi speaks of people talking about decolonizing boiling water, and that's the line of decolonial pretenders I have in mind.. They're VERY REAL.. priorities, priorities!!

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nî maina africana @barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

rule of thumb: foreign policy, especially Israel, but not limited to..

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natou @tichatnwa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

lets pretend we already live in an artist commune aaand GO

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 03/10/2026

Israel said Saturday that it attempted to kill Hamas's top leader in the Gaza Strip in an airstrike on an apartment. Local officials said five people were killed, four of them women. Israel said it was reviewing if Ali al-Amoudi was killed or wounded. u.afp.com/S9DT

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j-e-l 🎃 @jelbugle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#ClocktoberMusic 1/31 Will get an obvious one out of the way! Also, Anthrax guitarist Dan Spitz became a master Swiss watchmaker, so can’t leave them out. I like the solo’s on this one! Anthrax - Time youtu.be/GZknKOM0RTo?...

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Appropriated funding for HIV research is currently being held by HHS. Several research programs will stop if these funds are not released including clinical trials. Please take 2 mins to sign this letter and demand congress act to release these funds. savehivfunding.org/organization...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Alice Coltrane: Artist’s Muse and Sonic Healer Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...

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A New Hammer Museum Show Traces Alice Coltrane’s Influence (Gift Article)

Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

'The radical work of the musician and composer was dismissed by sexist critics and overshadowed by the legacy of her late husband John. But today, musical stars from Doja Cat to David Byrne all champion her experimental sound.' www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

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‘She sounded like the cosmos breathing’: David Byrne, Flying Lotus and more on the greatness of Alice Coltrane

The radical work of the musician and composer was dismissed by sexist critics and overshadowed by the legacy of her late husband John. But today, musical stars from Doja Cat to David Byrne all champio...

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