Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 8hThat first pot of tea when I’m home from the road tastes like the elixir of the gods. 1180
Reposted by Chica MarxHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 20hNon zero chance the nativist wing of the Trump coalition get this one trending and use it to cancel the H1-B program. Cue a lot of unhappy Silicon Valley fash. Can’t get rid of the Indians before the robots are ready 113712
Reposted by Chica MarxMad Dr. Jimbosaur, Espooky. @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The core problem w/ EA today is that most of the *money* in the ecosystem has pivoted from "mosquito nets are an efficient way to fight malaria and sleeping sickness" to "quadrillions of future lives depend on me becoming a trillionaire," even if most of the people are still doing the former. 526829
Reposted by Chica MarxDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. 191752874
Reposted by Chica MarxJeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Actually how are we surviving right now? What are our nice little things we're doing for ourselves? (I'll start: here I am at the nice donut diner eating a sandwich I can not really afford, but that's for end of pay cycle Jeanne to worry about) 7191
Reposted by Chica MarxQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 03/10/2026Love to watch the Eloi emerge 2201
Reposted by Chica MarxQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 03/10/2026Listening to Bostrom interview beaming about how in a few years this dormroom solipsism might be all that is left of centuries of the humanistic tradition. 5253
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Some chefs just love adding wheat to things that just don’t need it. 020
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Staring down the young cis women in the hotel lobby. 0101
Reposted by Chica MarxTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Finally reading the “who needs writing in higher education anyway?” piece, and it is truly one of the most blinkered perspectives on the scale and processes of modern learning I have ever encountered or imagined possible. 4597
Reposted by Chica MarxErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026would anyone from a non elite college like to write about this for Contingent because you know we would publish it 910949
Reposted by Chica MarxBelinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Misalignment”, the AI industry’s term for system behaviours that are not aligned with human values, may turn out to be the most dangerous euphemism in history www.independent.co.uk/tech/securit...independent.co.ukAI caught telling future versions of itself to bypass human controls, OpenAI revealsAI agents also sought to access secret information and covered up what they were doing 1148
Reposted by Chica Marxfunferall @funferall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026can AI even revaluate all values bro 162
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Potential motto for the @nytimes.com: —speaking power to truth 2142
Reposted by Chica MarxMaladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think a lot about how some ex-fundamentalist Christians adopt toxic leftist praxis and ideology as a stand-in for their former religion because they still crave the same high-control, high-shame relationship with the world 1211726
Reposted by Chica MarxCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 30/09/2026grindr bio of a guy who’s absolutely not getting laid 755555
Reposted by Chica MarxThe ɅɅeech @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 30/09/2026just had a beautiful vision of the state taking over Cornell and turning it into a SUNY campus 0105
Reposted by Chica MarxAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...assignedmedia.orgDemocrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned MediaInsiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights. 311132332
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Translation: the United States lost yet another war which killed millions and cost billions. 1257
Reposted by Chica MarxRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“There’s a prevailing sense that campus culture is rape culture, especially in fraternity houses: It’s a deeply embedded feature of life here that is widely known but rarely protested.” @katemanne.bsky.social in NY Mag on Cornell but also US unis—& culture—writ large www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 0142
Reposted by Chica MarxMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/09/2026I don't want to spend my time fighting for the right way to punish the right guy for the right offense; I want the offense to end 010220
Reposted by Chica MarxMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/09/2026one future we could begin experimenting with right now is: when, as a way to deal with a problem, we are invited only to invent better ways to punish people, we can refuse 113236
Reposted by Chica MarxKen Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is one of the most amazing books I have ever been honored to work on. Around 40 years of oral & documentary history about Selassie's visit to Jamaica and the Caribbean which transformed the place of Rastafarians in Jamaican society. A historic volume. 03110
Reposted by Chica MarxTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology. 1159684
Reposted by Chica MarxAram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026AI-customized media vs human-authored media is not an either/or scenario. Suno may be great at background music (lofi beats to chill etc) while listeners' attachment to Taylor/Olivia/Bruno remains stronger than ever. What matters is economics, sociology, culture, context, & marketing. Like always. 361
Reposted by Chica Marxjoyce’s monster 🎃 @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i can’t wait to chop it up in the dining hall at the h. nef memorial living center for transgender adults 0584
Reposted by Chica MarxAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030791084
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026From the fuckers who think it’s too hard to learn ppls pronouns. 0196
Reposted by Chica Marxjoe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple 322911484
Reposted by Chica MarxHilarie Ashton @hilarieashton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And if writing is so useless, why are you using it to make your argument 0112
Reposted by Chica MarxMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 29/09/2026it’s tiresome but I think we have to keep asking these guys, so—who benefits from convincing people reading and writing doesn’t matter anymore 322864
Reposted by Chica MarxGerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If you worked with Wesleyan University Press on a book, check your Anthropic allocation. In the last few days they went through and assigned themselves 100% of the allocation. 13432
Reposted by Chica MarxThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things 471431196
Reposted by Chica MarxOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The murder of a trans man who worked for the NYT is too terrible. And damn them for enabling it and then reporting on it. 04713
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is the “agent” I use for shopping lists. Cheap, efficient, and it doesn’t record or report my data to anyone. 1375
Reposted by Chica MarxBenjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'd also just point out that this is very much within the tradition of Oscar Micheaux, who Coogler cites as an influence and who often mislead the audience into thinking one thing only to show it was false later in the film. 1111
Reposted by Chica MarxBenjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026After reading countless articles, watching interviews, rewatching the film several times, and reading the script, I feel that I can definitively say that Coogler did not intend the vampires in Sinners to be metaphors for cultural appropriation or assimilation. 2283
Reposted by Chica MarxKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen 262882666
Reposted by Chica MarxSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...calendar.eji.orgSep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than IntegrateLearn more about our history of racial injustice 251142439
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Gee, maybe scapegoating trans women is a way to avoid confronting the endless parade of rape and abuse by cis men... 0218
Reposted by Chica MarxMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential. 363731792
Reposted by Chica MarxDiskette Press @ A2CAF @diskettepress.com · 28/09/2026Hey Diskette Fans! This is your first notice that we're putting together a fundraiser anthology for a new Riso. Sign up here for launch info. More details to come in the coming weeks, this is gonna be a good one. diskettepress.com/pages/belove...diskettepress.comBeloved! A Riso Fundraiser AnthologyHelp Diskette Press get a new Risograph by picking up a new anthology featuring work by artists you know and love. 18463
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Altho there’s a strain of feminist political theory about the tension between the patriarchal and fraternal. Drawing among other things on Freud. 160
Reposted by Chica MarxDanielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican... 2347897