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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh the faculty lounge? Where the aloof, lazy profs are planning how to spend their millions on indoctrinating your kid? Is that the same lounge where we've been collecting water in a trash can for months because they haven't fixed the pipe

The drop ceiling has a black
Garbage bag hanging down from it, with a hose leading to a yellow trash can

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Aaah look what I got in the mail! Congratulations to @miriamposner.com on publication and congratulations to everyone else who finally gets to read this incredible book.

My hand holding the very groovy white and rainbow book cover of "seeing like a supply chain: the hidden life of logistics" by Miriam
Posner

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

While I have my doubts about the sourcing I will NOT stand for any slander of the first poly administration

The poly flag apparently (yellow heart in a white triangle with horizontal blue red and purple stripes)

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Been thinking about this passage from Slobodian and Tarnoff since I read it. Haraway told us 40 years ago why we'd be freaking out about x-risk and trans folks at the same time. We're gonna be cyborgs, but the guys who own the grid are trying to set the terms of that human-machine synthesis.

But none of these factors account for the apocalyptic inten sity of Musk's rhetoric. *The woke mind virus is either deteated or nothing else matters." he tweeted in December 2022.' Neither do they say much about the content of the virus, what its code" actually consisted of. Musk himself wasn't always much help on this question, as he liked to cast a wide net. (When the chief film critic of The New York Times failed to put lop Gun: Maverick in his top ten list for 2022, Musk decried the paper for being "woke"" We can come closer to an explanation by starting with a theme that occupied an especially prominent role in his tirades: transphobia. "Pronouns suck," Musk tweeted in July 2020.* It was an opening salvo in an anti-trans campaign that steadily intensified in the coming years. This wasn't unique to Musk: anti-trans politics became a defining feature of the right-wing counteroffensive launched in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests. Moreover, Musk had a personal connection to the issue: his daughter Vivian came out as trans through an Instagram post in 2020, and officially changed her name and government-documented gender on the day of her eighteenth birthday in
2022. Musk later told Jordan Peterson that he considered his child to be dead— "killed by the woke mind virus."62
Musk's transphobia suggests an answer to the question of what the woke mind virus really meant, and why the stakes of the struggle to defeat it may have felt so existential. Musk-ism's mandate to meld us with our machines represented an effort to turn humans into cyborgs, both figuratively and liter-ally. The cyborgs of the Muskist imagination were drawn from cyberpunk science fiction, where cybernetic augmentation gives people superpowers, such as enhanced strength and intel-ligence. But it is also possible to think of a transgender person as a cyborg. Their superpower is the ability to modify their body to better fit their gender identity, which is achieved through the use
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$of technologies like hormone replacement therapy and surgery. This raises a troubling possibility for Muskism: dissolving the boundary between the natural and the artificial might open the door for other boundaries to be redrawn. The theorist Donna Haraway, in her 1985 essay "A Cyborg Manifesto," pointed to such opportunities as proof of the Manifesto," pointed to such opportunities as proof of the biotechnologies were "recrafting our bodie." he tate 6 and biotechnologies were "recrafting our bodies," she wrote, ts In doing so, they enabled new configurations of identity and embodiment. Cyborg feminism wasn't just about expanding the palette of personal expression, however, but inventing a new kind of politics. By "rejoicing in the illegitimate fusions of animal and machine," cyborg feminists could discover the political forms capable of fracturing the "matrices of domination" imposed by capitalism, patriarchy, and racism."* But this wasn't the only shape that a cyborg politics could take, Haraway cautioned. The fusions of animal and machine could also serve to strengthen traditional social hierarchies rather than undermine them. Here, the endpoint was "the final imposition of a grid of control on the planet," an idea that Haraway associated with Ronald Reagan's Star Wars program." The "grid of control" is a good description of Muskism's guiding ambition. (The Star Wars reference is also evocative, given the importance of the program's legacy to the early years of SpaceX.) Vigilance was required to ensure that the cyborg synthesis did not disturb the existing distribution of power. In the Western tradition, Haraway observed, "the relation between organism and machine has been a border war." For Muskism, this border war had to be waged in such a way as to erase some lines while hardening others. Humanity should merge with the machine—so long as it remained segmented by gender, race, and class. Call it cyborg conservatism.$

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I generally hate artists who have A Schtick but I love Anna Uddenberg and her Weird Chairs

Udenberg's "Human Resources": a woman in office garb sitting backwards in a weird office chair that is also eating her or something

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Last four characters you saved on your phone are your D&D party

Dolly Parton complaining no one cares about her great ass

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Lucky to celebrate at our favorite restaurant in DC, Izakaya Seki, where we've been going since it opened in 2012. Just perfect. We were joking about getting "uni on a spoonie" like we got at a crazy yacht club bar in Greece on our honeymoon and lo and behold what do we have here from Seki himself

Lobes or orange uni in a blue bowl with a quail egg yolk and a wooden spoon

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

congratulations to Mawii Zothan on successfully defending her dissertation "Making Workers Visible: An Ethnographic Exploration of Data Work in Northeast India." Brilliant piece of research. Blends ethnographic detail about tribal politics with political economy of the planetary labor market.

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Admittedly a smaller state cut than we're dealing with here

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yeah obviously no one held any guns to anyone's heads but just as obviously, like you say, he was told to knock it off and campaign staffers have confirmed that www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You're worried that AOC is going to be stained by connections to DSA, meanwhile this was the latest post on a local Republican Facebook group (really, a screenshot of someone's browser window with this in the middle.

A dumb slop cartoon of three apparitions holding rainbow, Soviet, and Saudi flags in front of a red and white tent. The text reads

BIG TENT LIBERALISM
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
EQUITY OVER EQUALITY
DAS
KAPITAL
SHARIA IS THE
SOLUTION
Modern day "Big Tent" Liberalism is more than a random collection of mindless zombies, its core is the Trinity of Evil.
The Woke, The Marxists, and the Islamists.

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In my inbox today (we have not lived in MA in eight years)

2026 DR. FAUCI LEGACY SURVEY
Congratulations, Daniel!
You're one of [10]
Massachusetts Democrats chosen to complete our Dr.
Fauci Legacy Survey!
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Today we're saying goodbye to neighborhood old man Vernon Sears. You judge a man by his funeral. For someone with no real family, this was packed. Vernon and his dog Cookie roamed MtR long after he couldn't walk. Hung out on all our porches, smoking something or other. Led our jamborees.

A picture of an old man in a cowboy hare playing guitar on the big screens with an array of other guitars in front of him

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

And then a perfect little french seafood dinner at Crevette in the Village. Note-perfect, down to the little stuff like the poach on the shrimp

A seafood platter with oysters clams shrimp scallops and melon and Sicilian sashimi ina shell

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Trying to do more wholesome foodposting, like it's 2014. Anyway, Mắm on the edge of Chinatown was one of my favorites meals in a long time.

Bún Đậu Đặc Biệt

A pile of crispy brown sitting in a basket, piled with green leaves, next to plastic bowls for dippies. Text stolen from The Infatuation: "It comes with a bushel of herbs (including less common ones, like fish mint, shiso, and lemon balm), and pork in several glorious forms: strips of belly, sticky rice sausage, grilled intestines, and our favorite: springy blood sausage. Not to mention the tofu, which is made fresh daily, and expertly fried. Mắm does offer fish sauce or soy instead of the mắm tôm if you’re not into shrimp paste."

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

As a steel mace strength coach for neurodivergent women over 35, this advice makes me wanna scream

A lady in black workout gear swinging a mace in a field overlaid with the text in the post

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

God I love bluesky, just blocked one of those zillion follower/followed accounts with this pfp

An ai pic of a absolutely jacked grandma wearing glasses and a crucifix necklace, holding a flag with 27 stars

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Milos Kerkez kinda has a Serbian Theo Vonn thing going on

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is what got me this time. None of these men would live to see automated computation--Babbage's machine wasn't practical. But the dream lived on because of the fact of mechanical computation driven by human labor. Human labor that, Prony and Babbage agreed, should be as dumb as possible.

sible for each step in the process and costs of materials are laid out in a table alongside a calculation of profit margin. (Fig. 4.3.)
In The Wealth of Nations (1776), Adam Smith, influenced by the Encyclopédie article among other sources, used pin manufacture to show how the division of labor increased the dexterity of the workers and the productivity of the workshop; " the French engineer Gaspard Riche de Prony (1755-1839), in turn, read Adam Smith's account of the division of labor and decided to "manufacture my logarithms as one manufactures pins*; 7° the British mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871) personally inspected Prony's manuscript logarithm tables in Paris and concluded that not only logarithms but all mental operations might be mechanized.? At each

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hey it's @reuning.bsky.social and friends talking about how much ass Faculty Alliance of Miami are kicking! AFT-AAUP doesn't stop fighting

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If there's one guy you wanna give three pages in the program to, it's Bill.

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