1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix.
Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection.
They knew how to treat her. There was one issue … 🧵
Was listening to Brian Eno's Apollo. As soon as Silver Morning started playing, I thought the playlist had skipped to @apthomson.bsky.social 's Titanium Court OST. I feel like I could use a long shower.
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We gaan de authentieke belgische frietkotcultuur terugbrengen door het invoeren van een nieuwe friet-franchise (binnen 4 jaar minstens 20 nieuwe vestigingen) die we met de nog overblijvende traditionele frietbarak zullen laten concurreren. Ja ja, belgitude.
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🎉𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 "𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐭𝐬" 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚 2 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐲 SIDN fonds!🎉
We'll be investigating how media organisations can adopt open-source LLMs to reclaim control over their distribution & audience relationships.
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My thoughts on Mixtape: The movie was better
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Greatly enjoyed the political philosophy of @jamespatton.bsky.social ‘s Duskpunk. Drawing from Mbembe’s Necropolitics, in this blogpost I explain why the game’s resource of plasm is such a great narrative mechanic. Check out the game on steam! codedmass.com/2026/04/04/d...
Starting the year with a bang 🚨 Correcting proofs on my forthcoming article on agonistic workplace democracy for Review of Social Economy.
I argue for an agonistic approach to workplace democracy against the mainstream assumption that democracy is about rational and consensual deliberation.
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In his 2003 essay “Necropolitics”, the Cameroonian historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe posits that the “ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, …