enjoying returning to concrete poetry that completely rejects semantic content and, for the first time, thinking about it in relation to first order cybernetics notion of information: if a book or even just a page is a communication channel, what is its information capacity? (Lisa Kokin below)
a sincere answer to "is there a technology the left is excited about" is, what are the technologies that are most amenable to democratic control for the public good; and/or how do we assert democratic control for the public good over a given technological system
(the end, you're welcome)
how was your day? me? Oh I got in a fight with my cat this morning. He escaped to try to go and murder bunnies and I wouldn’t let him. We’re all good now and you know what they say - catrriage is hard! It takes work!
Today, the AAUP released the Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2025–26.
It is sobering.
Full-time faculty salaries are down about 0.4% in real, inflation-adjusted terms. Average full-time faculty salaries remain 9.5% below fall 2019 & about 5.8% below fall 2008.
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