Doctora Malka Older

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nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS •

and yet

just got this today

Thinking about how many years I've been using Skype: for staying in contact with friends and family, for work, for international calls. Thinking about it not because of the stupid chatbot I don't want (fig.1), not because of the unsolicited bitcoin scam message (fig. 2), but because...

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Doctora Malka Older

posting the screenshot because the way the text ignores the quote is appalling. I noticed this in the recent Sarah MacLachlan piece too: it felt like the quotes and anecdotes were scattered in with no real engagement.

It's an honor to be nominated for a Nebula. But it wasn't until the announcement, when I learned the names of the nominated works, that I was able to calibrate that. Awards are cool, but it's being included in this group of works and authors that makes me feel humbled, happy, excited, proud.

anyway here's the story I wrote for the "world without nuclear weapons exhibit: farfutures.horizon2045.org/flying-cars-...

From Porter, Theodore M.. Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Quote apparently from: Navier, C.L.M.H., “De l’exécution des travaux, et particulièrement des concessions,” Annales des Ponts et Chaussées, 3 (1832), 1–31

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Doctora Malka Older

[insert from the present: I'm doing further reading on quantification now and that article led me to Porter, Theodore M.. Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995 and it goes hard:

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan

I like this theoretically but it occurs to me now that the section on the 1810 French (attempt at) census might be more relevant to you

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Doctora Malka Older

I like this (from Berman, Elizabeth Popp & Daniel Hirschman “The Sociology of Quantification: Where Are We Now?” Contemporary Sociology, 47.3 2018) b/c we do forget about the work that goes into numbers, which contributes to their perception as neutral @epopppp.bsky.social

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darth™️

"you should trim most of this first page" "yes, yes, why didn't you mention that while I was writing it?" (to be clear, I'm talking to myself here)

oh look, another useless annoying thing

been ghosting bing so long they changed its name

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Doctora Malka Older

This is what I mean when I say we're looking at the problem at least partially in the wrong way. We're going to have to deal with huge disruption, & instead of thinking about how to cushion people through that, techbros and govts keep looking for ✨technology✨ to solve everything with no effort

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Vajra Chandrasekera

got this today and immediately deleted out of sheer eye pain

où sont les slashes d'antan?

it's a brilliant article

I learned about fanfic from an ACADEMIC article about K/S (Constance Penley, Cultural Studies, Routledge 1992!!!) that was included in a college syllabus (with! illustrations!). there are receipts.

kind of amazed by this (such a gorgeous cover, too) subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

"We can’t trust the job to feckless college presidents who are willing to watch their students get slammed to the ground to save their jobs. Will somebody please call the philosophy department?" Must read @willbunch.bsky.social column. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Storming colleges with riot cops to keep them ‘safe’ should scare America about what’s nextwww.inquirer.com A violent coast-to-coast, riot-cop crackdown on campus protests threatens the right for all dissent on the eve of the presidential election.

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Doctora Malka Older

I reread most of the sherlock holmes oeuvre while I was working on tmoks and

Letters from an American, @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletter, is always worth reading, but today's is particularly thought-provoking.

April 13, 2024heathercoxrichardson.substack.com There are really two major Republican political stories dominating the news these days. The more obvious of the two is the attempt by former president Donald Trump and his followers to destroy America...

anyone know what these are called? I think they don't always...look like that? which I realize is probably true of almost any plant picture you could take....

seriously can anyone explain "legitimate interest" because what you get when you click the little question mark next to it is gibberish