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blech: Images from Johnston 100: A New Typeface for the Underground at London Reconnections. Looks like that’ll be a good article to spend more time with, when I get a chance.
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Blynk
Blynk matildadigital: App interface builder for Arduino
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Now, as automation and globalization renders whole swaths of the American labor force useless to capital, Blacker sees the economic system transitioning from a mode of exploitation to one of “elimination.” From the perspective of capital, an ever-increasing portion of the population is no longer seen as a resource to be cultivated, but as a…
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superheroesincolor: Get into the Audible Free 30 days Trial and get two free audiobooks Here you have a collection of Octavia E. Butler’s books you could get for free. Cancel anytime. Your books are yours to keep, even if you cancel. Go here and sign up, get your books and enjoy. Admin says: If you found…
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The Aridity Line
stoweboyd: Naomi Klein, Let Them Drown In his latest book, The Conflict Shoreline, the Israeli architect Eyal Weizman has a groundbreaking take on how these forces are intersecting. The main way we’ve understood the border of the desert in the Middle East and North Africa, he explains, is the so-called ‘aridity line’, areas where there is…
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note to future self
nine months from now you will lead a course called Advanced Seminar. It is a writing intensive course for undergraduates. what kind of writing are you good at? and what kind of writing can you hope to help the students learn through? You have led graduate seminars on design and on a variety of cyberpunk…
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The most important lesson to take from all this is that there is no way to confront the climate crisis as a technocratic problem, in isolation. It must be seen in the context of austerity and privatisation, of colonialism and militarism, and of the various systems of othering needed to sustain them all. The connections…
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As an act of bravery, love cannot be sentimental; as an act of freedom, it must not serve as a pretext for manipulation. It must generate other acts of freedom; otherwise, it is not love. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (via bellemaddox)
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tattoolit: From The Handmaid’s Tale. 🙂 “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”