ted byfield
tb@tldr.nettime.org
<p>Recovering (w)academic, ex-artist, untethered researcher/editor/writer (EU research network grants esp), co-founder/booster for Open Syllabus (opensyllabus.org), nettime co-mod for 25 yrs. I was "working at the intersection of" back when that sounded like a red-light districts not a venn diagram. Un/timely nanorants and against-the-grain comments on <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/dataviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dataviz</span></a>, debris from writing a cultural history of WTF people think “information” looks like. I bounce between the Deep North and the Deep South.</p>
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Post #3150925
RIP Keith Hart &lt; https://johnkeithhart.muchloved.com/?brid=zNuPwEY7u-01h6x57VsZ8Q &gt; 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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Post #3150922
We&#39;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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Post #3150920
I’m *super* chuffed at this #neologism: “speed-run dialectics”
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Post #3150914
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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Post #3150910
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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Post #3150908
If RFK Jr pulls this off, “big pharma” will respond strategically by moving *everything* related to vax R&amp;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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Post #3150905
🔥🚨🔥 #Epstein Helper lets you automatically search the DOJ&#39;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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Post #3150903
💅🏼 “forensic dystopianism” makes me, like, the Alysa Liu of neologisms 💅🏼
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Post #3150902
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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Post #3150901
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/115388351918793362 This is a great thread
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Post #3150900
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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Post #3150899
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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Post #3150898
Short and sharp, as you’d expect https://rickperlstein.substack.com/p/hip-hinged-to-the-unhinged
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Post #3150896
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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Post #3150893
34-second 1971 anti-war short by Clergy &amp; Laymen, excerpted from the 11&#39;47&quot; compilation “ Help Unsell the War — 13 TV Spots,” available on the Internet Archive http://archive.org/details/motionpict
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Post #1505708
Top-notch observation disguised as a meme. It&#39;s not new, but it&#39;s great.