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Jr. Asst. Prof. at Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University | Free Palestine | letterboxd.com/LCDanny | the thief, he kindly spoke

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is a good definition of what conservatism actually is: whining about merely being told that your selfishness is harmful to *yourself*
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Brandon Streussnig 📽️ @brndnstrssng.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
An all time great freak. What an actor. Tremendously sad 💔
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Marius Bickhardt @mbickhardt.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Towards a new Fressoz debate. Here is a🧵of reviews. www.penguin.co.uk/books/464145...
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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 11/02/2026
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Post from Avery Edison: I wrote "I am alive" on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/01/2026
just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The international news story about the Dutch elections is sadly misleading: fewer votes were cast for leftwing parties, while the far right remained stable. And Geert Wilders may yet come out on top.
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danny @lcdanny.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Great essay, and great rebuttal of that tired 'but it's already being used' argument: "The simplest reason to refuse resignation is that resignation can only harmonize with the tech-industry narrative of AI inevitability. When we give in, we join the sales force." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2025
YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.
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Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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danny @lcdanny.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
New publication! On the digitized visual economy of the Gaza genocide - if your social media feed's anything like mine, you've been awash in images of atrocities committed by the Israeli occupation forces. Here's an attempt to trace this livestreamed genocide and its social responses. 🇵🇸
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“What our ruling class has decided will be normal”: On how a digitized visual economy constructs, enables, and contests the Gaza genocide - Danny Steur, Jeroen Oomen, 2025
Images of the Gaza genocide spread rapidly through the communication networks that pervade our mediatized social world. Watching this atrocity unfold has been a...
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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: 
- data centers pollute our environment
- energy use drives up costs
- content theft robs creators of income
- the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages
- using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence
- the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape

All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/08/2025
Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./ mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.
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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
AI is perfect tech for 21st-century capitalism: almost no legitimate use cases, unhelpful even when there is a use case, causes cognitive disability and emotional distress in users, destroys privacy, exploits labor, harvests data, disastrous for the environment, unprofitable – and totally ubiquitous
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Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy @cpkp.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Is Marx a degrowth communist and does he advance a conception of "ecological freedom"? The video of Kohei Saito's talk and the conversation w/ Rahel Jaeggi and Thomas Khurana at Volksbühne is online: cpkp.net/event/freedo... @ktbberlin.bsky.social @cominsitu.bsky.social @tbheinze.bsky.social
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Freedom Within the Limits of Nature - Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy
Talk by Kohei Saito, followed by a discussion with Rahel Jaeggi, and Thomas Khurana
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Jan Overwijk @jloverwijk.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 How does ecological stuff become economic value? I survey various approaches to the question--environmental and ecological economics, ecofeminist Marxism and value-form theory--in order to sharpen the question and formulate the eco-Marxist problematic. muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Project MUSE - The Eco-Marxist Problematic: Value Between Economy and Ecology
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.
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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 14/07/2025
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
In solidarity with the movement in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the US, we've made Joshua Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot free to download.
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Riot. Strike. Riot
Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar...
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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
People who are still shouting that Israel is not committing genocide must be clapping their hands over their ears every time an Israeli minister steps onto a podium because
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: We are destroying everything that remains in Gaza, the world isn't stopping us.
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danny @lcdanny.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
It is, sadly, necessary to reiterate our plea as workers in Dutch higher education to our institutions: cut ties with genocide, and keep cops off our campuses. If you're in Dutch higher ed, please consider signing the letter below! And as always, Free Palestine 🇵🇸 openletter.earth/nederlandse-...
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Urgent plea to Dutch higher education institutions: Cut ties with genocide and refuse police on campus!
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"On the day that police have as much to fear from literature professors as Black kids do from police, I will definitely have a statement. Until then I have nothing further to add." RIP Joshua Clover, 👑 www.newsweek.com/uc-davis-cal...
GOP congressman James Gallagher of Yuba City, California, introduced H.R. 22 to the California legislature on March 12. The bill calls for the dismissal of University of California, Davis, professor Joshua Clover over several remarks he made about killing police officers several years ago.

Clover made multiple anti-police comments on Twitter and to local publications, including how he's "thankful that every living cop will one day be dead." The professor stood by his remarks after they were unearthed last month, but the university issued a statement condemning his statements and noted the January shooting death of a young officer in downtown Davis.Clover has repeatedly declined opportunities to offer an apology for his comments, telling Newsweek in an email statement Thursday, "On the day that police have as much to fear from literature professors as Black kids do from police, I will definitely have a statement. Until then I have nothing further to add."
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The Rights Forum @therightsforum.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Nu het Maagdenhuis is bezet moeten universiteiten ingaan op de terechte eisen van hun studenten in plaats van hen opnieuw door de politie in elkaar te laten slaan, betoogt hoogleraar Yolande Jansen. rightsforum.org/opinie/open-...
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Open brief aan de UvA en VU-besturen over politie-inzet bij bezettingen door studenten - The Rights Forum
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Basically, the far right accurately identified the weak point in liberal democracy: mainstream media institutions that were collapsing and therefore easy to purchase or pressure, combined with a public that got most of its information from an almost totally unstructured info ecosystem.
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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Rebuilding a powerful labor movement is THE key to defeating Trumpism & the billionaires Had a great conversation about the stakes & potential of widescale worker-to-worker organizing with @gabrielwinant.bsky.social on the new episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social thedigradio.com/podcast/work...
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Workers Organizing Workers w/ Eric Blanc
Featuring Eric Blanc on We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. Interview conducted by guest host Gabriel Winant.
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William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 @marxinhell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I spent more than a year working on this SEP entry on ideology, and I actually think it is some of the best work I've ever done. There are three parts of it that I am especially happy with: plato.stanford.edu/entries/ideo...
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Ideology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Gillian Rose's 1987 lecture at the University of Sussex has now been published in Thesis Eleven. In it, she explores the idea of "method" in Marx's work and its broader implications for philosophy, sociology, & social theory. Here are a few brief thoughts on it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Does Marx have a method? - Gillian Rose, 2025
This previously unpublished lecture was delivered by Gillian Rose in 1987 at the University of Sussex, as part of a multi-lecturer series called Sociological Th...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
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Urban Futures Studio @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🌞Tomorrow, we're sending a fresh urban futures studio newsletter featuring our upcoming #summerschool , the #FriendsOfTheFuture seminar, and we're introducing our new researchers @ahendriks.bsky.social and @lcdanny.bsky.social ✍️Subscribe here: mailings.uu.nl/hp/rt6Oc-q1P...
open yellow envelope with the urban futures studio newsletter inside
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danny @lcdanny.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
New publication! Very happy and proud to finally see in print (open access!) a volume that grew out of a wonderful conference in Warwick some years ago, examining cultural production and body politics in the age of permanent polycrisis.
A screenshot of the chapter page "Inhuman Futures" in the volume Territorial Bodies
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Peter Avellino @peterapeel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
At least we have this photo of David Lynch and Billy Wilder.
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danny @lcdanny.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Without a doubt, no other artist has impacted my life - in so many ways - more than Lynch did. Rest in peace to the greatest artist I've had the privilege of sharing some time on this earth with; so grateful to have his work in my life, so so saddened by his loss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qauo...
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Dark Space Low
YouTube video by Angelo Badalamenti - Topic
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Mark Frost @markfrost.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Thanks to all for your kind remembrances on this awful day. Words will come later. Only feelings at the moment. Mourn and remember him but don’t forget to celebrate too. We won’t see his like again. The man from another place has gone home. #DavidLynch #TwinPeaks
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Brandon Streussnig 📽️ @brndnstrssng.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Love you forever 🖤
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RandBall’s Stu @randballsstu.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
goddammit, rip
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
The Apartment is a Christmas movie and a New Year's Eve movie and a perfect movie, period
black & white screenshot of Jack Lemmon's C.C. Baxter and Shirley MacLaine's Miss Fran Kubelik in Baxter's apartment. Fran is wearing a plaid flannel robe with her arms crossed, looking at Baxter who's showing her a fruitcake - and his bare knee - where he once accidentally shot himself. his little Charlie Brown Christmas tree is in the foreground, covered in tinsel, lights, and metallic round ornaments. MacLaine's Fran sitting alone wearing a dress and pearls in a Chinese restaurant, looking grim in a New Year's paper crown with two champagne glasses in front of her.
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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I started putting together a starter pack on Marx, Marxism, Critical Theory, and more. Please share if you find it useful and respond to this post if you feel like you should be added to the list (or removed for that matter).
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danny @lcdanny.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
With the exodus from twitter and the influx of new users and followers, this might be a good time for a bio post: I’m Danny, currently a teacher at university of Amsterdam. I’m trained in cultural studies, post-/decolonial thought, though nowadays more interested in climate justice, ...
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danny @lcdanny.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Feeling absolutely helpless, infuriated and inconsolable about the news coming from Gaza these days. Please consider donating (again) to one of these Palestinian aid organizations: www.pcrf.net www.anera.org www.map.org.uk
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
This statement from Jeremy Corbyn on Gaza and Israel is exactly what is called for. tribunemag.co.uk/2023/10/jere...
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