Reposted by litherlandÉireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Let a million imagined universities bloom 0115
Reposted by litherlandÉireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Who will organize an "another university is possible" conference with me? 15113
Reposted by litherlandve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026It's a deeply authoritarian model of information access that doesn't trust, and flatly disallows, individuals from searching, discovering, encountering, and accessing information resources based on their own intentions and actions. 25511
Reposted by litherlandJacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the only way forward is to invest in *more* use of open protocols - so website yes, RSS yes, and federated distribution channels yes. Investing in closed platforms and hoping for an occasional bite of the apple hasn't worked for the last 15 years and it will work even less over the next. 173
litherland @lither.land · 26/09/2026If you can no longer afford health insurance, welp, that just means you fucked up somewhere along the line. You’ve proven that you don’t *deserve* healthcare. You deserve to suffer; you deserve to get sick; you deserve to die young from an easily preventable illness. 020
litherland @lither.land · 26/09/2026It seems like one of the hallmarks of the fundamentally conservative mind is the fetishization of punishment and the belief that people have to “deserve” things (like food, clean air, housing, healthcare) that should be basic human rights. 161
Reposted by litherlandJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy. We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task. Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this. 5377164
Reposted by litherlandLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In what world is it the purview of the President/Executive branch “to force conservative cultural changes on academia‘? And why end the paragraph without noting that there is no legal justification whatsoever for Trump and his minions to “force cultural change” on institutions of higher education. 7696166
Reposted by litherlandamityf @amityf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026168 pages, man. And I don't think this is a _new_ analysis or shocking to anyone. But god.amnestyusa.org“We Had Whistles, They Had Guns”: Human Rights Violations in U.S. Immigration Enforcement Operations and the Case to Abolish ICETo comply with international human rights law, Amnesty International urges the U.S. government to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 28421
Reposted by litherlandAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 22/09/2026These were attempts by the federal government to impose docility on the people. But Minnesotans overcame their fear and stood up. 1509
Reposted by litherlandboogypaper.bsky.social @boogypaper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Place’s place Full gallery on commercialtype.com/news Photography by Marjorie Ray @commercialtype.bsky.social 044
litherland @lither.land · 22/09/2026People don’t like to think that the call is coming from inside the house. Ask me how I know! I get it; it’s a very uncomfortable and creepy feeling. But you gotta face it and deal with it! Not blame the person who in all good faith is trying to warn you 🤦♀️ 010
litherland @lither.land · 22/09/2026“What can I say, drawing helps to dismiss early assumptions and gain insight.” letterror.com/articles/klo...letterror.comLettering for the Kloosterkerk at LettError.comTypography for the pavement. 011
Reposted by litherlandDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026If one of the "rewards" of affluence is that you get to opt out of the services everyone else uses -- roads & transit, aviation system, schools, healthcare, etc. -- then those services are inevitably starved of resources & decline. We have to force affluent people to be invested in them. 1433857
Reposted by litherlandDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026Agree with this & I'd broaden it: as income inequality increases, the affluent class increasingly strains to free itself of public services. Those services suffer & the flywheel accelerates. Only way to stop is to say, for certain things, no: you have to use the same shit as us. 1744180
Reposted by litherlandErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I have bad news for the speculators. We've run out of future, so we need to start living in the present. 611520
Reposted by litherlandKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11996981920
Reposted by litherlandPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project. 41280307
Reposted by litherlandTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability. 91320415
litherland @lither.land · 19/09/2026“When you talk about computers, or ask people to talk about computers, you are immediately pushing a conversation into expert and unfamiliar territory for most people, which is not a good posture for being inclusive, inviting, or accessible.” lesscomputer.ca/if-computer-...lesscomputer.caif computer is two, what is one?This strategy is about helping ground conversations about computers in framings that are familiar, well-known, and offer institutional knowledge to draw on. ... 000
litherland @lither.land · 19/09/2026“By better conversations, I mean: slower, historically grounded, full of questions, and making all efforts to engage from a posture of confidence or openness rather than fear.” lesscomputer.ca/the-proposal/lesscomputer.cathe proposalThe idea behind this handbook is that having better conversations about technology leads to better decision-making about technology. Having better conversati... 100
litherland @lither.land · 19/09/2026“A major theme I saw throughout these years, and see to this day, is how mysterious and inaccessible computers are made out to be. I don't like this. I don't like it because it strips people of confidence, power, and agency.” lesscomputer.ca/authors-note...lesscomputer.caauthor's note and welcomeI didn’t mean to know about computers. I didn’t study them in school, though I enjoyed using the clackety-clack keys in grade nine keyboarding class. “Keyboa... 142
Reposted by litherlandJason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comInside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian SchoolPentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab. 11026681410
litherland @lither.land · 18/09/2026The ruling class does not want us to be able to plan. After all, then we might plan a revolution. Burn it the @#$%&! down 🔥 000
litherland @lither.land · 18/09/2026Note: I work hard, think I’m pretty good at what I do, consider myself fairly successful, and am paid fairly and on time 🤞🙏 But this is ridiculous. 010
litherland @lither.land · 18/09/2026Related: If you have to choose between having enough food to eat and spending ~a thousand bucks a month on crappy health insurance with a 10K deductible (and you still have to pay out of pocket in addition to that), then choosing to have enough food to eat is a completely rational choice. 110
litherland @lither.land · 18/09/2026My monthly maintenance, which had already increased by 25 percent over the past three years, just shot up by $200 in August to offset rising fuel costs because of the war of choice against Iran. The increase is supposed to be temporary, but 🤔 100
Reposted by litherlandKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A real problem with concerns about oil prices spiking even more than they already have is that people cannot do anymore to mitigate increased costs. There's already been mass layoffs, SNAP cuts, plus higher energy and food prices. The unnecessary US-Canada trade war. People are exhausted. 19987220
litherland @lither.land · 17/09/2026On my way to the Costco in East Harlem to get my Novavax jab 💉 🦠 💪 160
Reposted by litherlandDana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I think the celebrity jokes about sheeran are just escapism for me. Because israeli forces raided a kindergarten 2 weeks ago, and a building damaged by israeli bombs collapsed on top of families yesterday, and everything is heartbreaking. 131377
Reposted by litherlandShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Every day, I'm like: why are we all doing unpaid advertising and free training for commercial entities run by idiotic, ego-maniacal assholes? 216325
Reposted by litherlandShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I *hate* this "digital divide" framing for AI; even libraries marshal it to justify their "AI literacy classes," ensuring all have "access" for self-actualization and economic opportunity. Maybe instead some folks are sufficiently literate, and they're instead choosing *principled refusal*. 9690165
Reposted by litherlandNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Broke: The billionaire class is using culture war issues to divide the 99% Woke: The multi-millionaire class is blaming everything on billionaires to distract from their own role in reinforcing inequality 1044473
Reposted by litherlandKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15/09/2026This is partly an LLM problem and partly an organizational problem. The LLM makes life much, much easier for everyone who wants to just pretend, and much, much harder for everyone who doesn’t. 5436106
litherland @lither.land · 15/09/2026Adding to my towering TBR stack robindembroff.com/real-men-on-...robindembroff.comReal Men on Top by Robin Dembroff | Philosophy of MasculinityIn the Real Men on Top book, Yale's Robin Dembroff explores the philosophy of masculinity and how patriarchy harms men. Discover the new release. 010
Reposted by litherlandbianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 14/09/2026it’s work to push back on non-consensual social norms. but it’s doable, every day. 152
Reposted by litherlandWill Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 01/08/2026Even in a memo, work email, or dry report there is an implied narrator that isn’t really the writer, but a persona or mode of self-presentation of the flesh-and-blood writer. AI prose is not written at all. There is no act of writing. There is no writer.anyone.noAnyoneAnyone utvikler digitale produkter motivert og inspirert av god design og brukeropplevelse. 310010
litherland @lither.land · 14/09/2026universal healthcare now universal healthcare now universal healthcare now universal healthcare now universal healthcare now 010
litherland @lither.land · 12/09/2026“Through it all we both maintained a sense that—whatever the horrors of capitalism—there was something keenly human and joyful about putting words and type on the internet.” Beautiful. aworkinglibrary.com/writing/in-t...aworkinglibrary.comIn the worldIn memory of Nevan Scott, 1985–2026 031
litherland @lither.land · 12/09/2026“It’s all just cutthroat right now leading up to their IPOs.” 010
litherland @lither.land · 12/09/2026“The amount of time it takes now to go from companies claiming an AI breakthrough to Bernie Sanders proposing a bill is *really* short, and that’s not a good thing.” www.wired.com/story/one-of...wired.comOne of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. 111
