Tiktok LLM
Tiktok's opaque censorship protocol has led to the development of euphemisms adopted offline too, but the language acquisition users are modeling has precedent.
London, Underground
...in a city that has achieved worldwide fame for being perpetually on the edge of sinking into its own filth. Lots of people have tried to clean up this city,...
Margot, Not at the Wedding
...plot, and tried to annul her dangerous sexuality by reconstituting it as love of the first man, La Mole, who really tempted her. (See also, among others: Princess Di.) The...
Un(der)known Writers: Diane di Prima
...our own music From Revolutionary Letters. Diane di Prima celebrated her 80th birthday this April, and her newest book of poetry, The Poetry Deal, was just released in September....
Waiting For
...live in a culture that can make murderous white men with guns a lot faster than they are—occasionally, rarely, almost never—sent to prison. You don’t get justice by occasionally, rarely,...
Sunday Reading: August 20, 2023
...Communism. The panel will focus on peer-led work, links between the trans and disability justice movements, feedback loops between empire and debility, and liberatory harm reduction. “The Palo Alto System”...
Sunday Reading
...Rights "the memory of a revolution reaches much further back than the memory of its protagonists" Coming Home: Queer South Asians and the Politics of Family Music's New Genre: ISIS...
Teenage Screams
...As if he can’t even bop around in his room without a lens present, Marc puts on music and dances alone in front of his laptop. His expression shifts from...
Reviving Cabiria
...familiar institutions of Italian culture, all of which seem to have lost some majesty after the war. He skewers the Catholic Church when Cabiria and a caravan of prostitutes journey...
Encounters With Lindsay
...cradling it away from him, with that familiar glare. When he left, she told everyone, clasping her hands around her neck, “HE TRIED TO CHOKE ME ONCE.” She then took...
The Year the Pandemic "Ended" (Part III)
...acceptable? Some Biden officials tried to guess .” From the piece: Biden officials in recent months privately discussed how many daily Covid-19 deaths it would take to declare the virus...
The Myth of Meritocracy in Academic Publishing
...built. Publication pathways taken by men and women in the same field is one area where researchers have tried to pinpoint gender bias in academic publishing. In theory, there are...
The Streets of Spain
...it hits, is not nearly as light-hearted as these kids were. I saw about 10 discharged while hiding behind a newspaper kiosk as I tried to traverse the square. By...
Deerly Held Beliefs: Feminist biology and white-tailed deer population control
...long-term immunocontraception vaccine, has also been experimentally used. Local municipalities with overabundant deer have tried tubal ligation and surgically removing ovaries, techniques that cost tens of thousands of dollars per...
‘At Last, We Are Alive’
...that the State tried to smash with the hooves of São Paulo police, is that, at last, we are alive.” Brum slammed this against dismissals of the mass grievances as...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.26.12
...in Proctor &, and the inventor of Ivory Soap. The city of Cincinnati had tried to stop its demolition due to the house's historic significance. And in happier historic preservation...