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#DIYMethods24 is out online! So many beautiful methods zines, in many inventive formats and directions, are now available to read, cite, and enjoy!

This semester I've been giving my students extra credit if they submit an 'academic fit check' detailing how they do academic work in whatever way works for them. The results have been cool! Check out my students' sweet candle ambiance, color-coding excellence, + digital comments

This is incredible. So many zines!

I'm playing a gig! Normal Human Amount combines Kelly Egan's facility with film projectors + my love of synths, noise, and the mess that is digital/analog circuits. We'll be joined by Garbageface and Horseman, Pass By. Come one, come all! ticketscene.ca/events/49518/

i wrote a (short) thing!!! check it out-- it has it all: rhetoric, affect, data centers, sound, community, haunting. go read "affective footprints" in Heliotrope (edited by @mel_hogan): heliotropejournal.net/helio/affectiv…

If you run Windows 10 or 11, you got copilot (shitty AI privacy disaster software) automatically installed with Wen's update. I recommend yeeting it into the sun via O&O ShutUp++, along with various unhelpful ad and bloatware you may have accrued. oo-software.com/en/shutup10

I was harvesting all my runner beans last evening to beat the frost, and I found a half eaten croissant tangled in the top of the vines. Birds!!!!!

I am having a lovely time working out a set up for my noise music gig

I'm giving a short online talk in Feb on why so-called AI sucks + why we should fight against its uncritical expansion: trentu.libcal.com/event/3847946?… (My library asked me to contribute to a 'both sides have points and are very serious' lecture series. I am bringing only pessimism)

Happy Halloween everyone 🎃

I've donated some riso prints to our lovely local artist-run centre's fundraiser. All this could be yours for 30 small Canadian dollars (plus shipping)! artspaceptbo.ca/shop/p/artist-…

When you've been told safety is a shared responsibility after being hit by a driver.

I think I'm winding down my time on this free website. You can find me on mastodon (@[email protected]) and blue sky aundria pasek.bsky.social) ✌️

I love the tires, plastic, hay, and boot pic chosen for my talk on AI. Let me see if I can work that in somehow!

In the new issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication, Anne Pasek and Darren Fleet examine the 2019 "energy war room" initiative in #Alberta, and its role in defending the #OilAndGas sector from online critics. Read more: bit.ly/CJC494b Trent University Simon Fraser University