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  RIP Keith Hart < https://johnkeithhart.muchloved.com/?brid=zNuPwEY7u-01h6x57VsZ8Q > Over the 25 years I co-moderated this list, I wrote lots of memorials. It felt like a burden, and now it’s someone else’s — or maybe no one’s. For now, it’s enough to say that Keith’s voice was profoundly important for nettime, in ways that were never fully acknowledged. Like many people whose intellect drove wide-ranging lives, he could be difficult at times. But that often reveals how difficult...

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  We're almost there, and, anyway, a little extra never hurt anyone — so if you can pitch in, please do! https://tldr.nettime.org/@nettime_mod/115649227256364783

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  I’m *super* chuffed at this #neologism: “speed-run dialectics”

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  Here‘s my deep dive into the recent geostrategic history of #Greenland, from a week shy of a year ago. Lots of interesting twists and turns, not least that Tom Cotton was all about Greenland several years ago 🧐 🤨 🤔 https://counter.ink/blg/new/2025-01-12-trump-and-greenland-a-timeline

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  Chris Hables Gray has put together a useful spreadsheet (😹) laying out how “the 26 Top US Tech Lords​,” as he call them, measure up on various criteria: AI boomerism, capitalists fantasies, accelerationism, longevity / immortality, etc. Brief intro here https://chrishablesgray.substack.com/p/top-26-us-tech-lords-and-their-fantasie Spreadheet here https://chrishablesgray.com/26-top-tech-lords.html

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  If RFK Jr pulls this off, “big pharma” will respond strategically by moving *everything* related to vax R&D out of the US for good. Not temporarily, *permanently* — because our entire electoral system will become an existential risk to the corporations themselves. 1/2

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  🔥🚨🔥 #Epstein Helper lets you automatically search the DOJ's Epstein files library, download matching docs, extract text (w/ OCR for scanned pages), and run comprehensive analysis using a local Ollama LLM — all through a browser-based UI and a local LLM. 🔥🚨🔥 https://github.com/artmedlar/epstein-files-analyzer/tree/main

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  💅🏼 “forensic dystopianism” makes me, like, the Alysa Liu of neologisms 💅🏼

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  I see lots of liberal noise about how Trump’s actions are illegal, but beyond that everything seems like woolly ideas somewhere between Gnome Underpants Theory (1. collect underpants, 2. ???, 3 profit!!!) and the Magic of the State. I think we should call this South Parkio–Taussigian School of Jurisprudence.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/115388351918793362 This is a great thread

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  This, from Shang et al., Sci. Adv. 12, eadv1908, sets a new standard for WTAFness in informational imagery. 🎩 @404mediaco 👉🏼 https://www.404media.co/scientists-discover-giant-cavity-beyond-earth-that-isnt-supposed-to-exist/

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  I just got my copy of @tomjennings’s Homocore Anthology, and you can get one too! https://fluke.bigcartel.com//product/homocore

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  Short and sharp, as you’d expect https://rickperlstein.substack.com/p/hip-hinged-to-the-unhinged

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  Stunning essay on Gaza by Eyal Weizman in the current LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n07/eyal-weizman/all-they-will-find-is-sand

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  34-second 1971 anti-war short by Clergy & Laymen, excerpted from the 11'47" compilation “ Help Unsell the War — 13 TV Spots,” available on the Internet Archive http://archive.org/details/motionpict

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  Top-notch observation disguised as a meme. It's not new, but it's great.