virginia is for lovers. and apparently also haters

There was a goose on the field at Wrigley, they played on

Stowe’s Dred!

Image of the Verso edition of Toussaint Louverture’s writings

Incredible to teach with this edition. It has a fiery, excellent introduction by Aristide and the entirety of Louverture’s 1803 Memoirs, which he wrote in prison in France. Also dozens is other letters, docs, and proclamations, including the 1801 Constitution. (In English translation)

There’s nothing quite like going to the grocery store and purchasing Items

Please give this a listen and share, friends!

In the 2-part episode we cover the monumental life of c19 activist and lawyer, Robert Morris, and describe our ongoing efforts to uncover the hundreds, if not thousands of books he and his family left the Boston College libraries.

Even if I were not a Zone Books completist, I’d be pretty stoked about this one.

my combination intellectual history of right-wing economics, labor history of capitalism, and global history of work discipline is coming out in just over a month. pre-order the book elon musk and charles koch would probably hate if they could read

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picture of the 8th thesis. text reads: The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency, and this will improve our position in the struggle against Fascism. One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress its opponents treat it as a historical norm. The current amazement that the things we are experiencing are "still" possible in the twentieth century is not philosophical. This amazement is not the beginning of knowledge-unless it is the knowledge that the view of history which gives rise to it is untenable.

Benjamin wrote his "Theses on the Philosophy of History" in 1940, shortly before he died by suicide escaping the Nazis. Imagine, now, Hannah Arendt reading this aloud to fellow refugees fleeing the Third Reich on the ship that was smuggling them to the U.S.

I believe the quip John is thinking of, “All you need in this life Is Ignorance & Confidence; then Success is sure.”

Worth considering that at this time he said this (1889), Mark Twain was widely regarded as the most successful writer in the U.S. and possibly the Anglophone world.

AI wastes water, electricity, and human creativity. It’s also one more reason I’m relieved that I’m no longer teaching college courses.

Cover of “The Absolute Abolition” by Jesse Olsavsky

starting now i am going to start sharing the books i read. finished this volume this morning. it is terrific.

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if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

Y’all printing on this press is so immensely satisfying—I may never want to stop

Socialism After AI - The Ideas Letter Morozov argues that socialist attempts to harness AI have merely treated it like earlier tools of capitalist production—as a neutral instrument that can simply be redirected. In fact, he says,…

“More workplace democracy, more participatory technology assessment, more inclusive governance boards—all presuppose we know what we value. But when tech reshapes very capacities, self-concepts, desires, there is no stable vantage point from which to govern.”
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"Print is a rent strike."

Weiss’ Ratings Wipeout Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating...

Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...

dril tweet from 2018: "the crack of the bat. the scent of a verdant field. The excitement of the crowd. These are the things that piss base ball fans off the most"

The Long Nineteenth Century 1785-2026

Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “You can’t talent your way to writing. It’s built. It’s a built thing. It’s a made thing. So the real thing you got to do is you got to come back to that bad writing and you’ve got to revise.”

Like James Baldwin said, “I’m not a writer. I’m a re-writer.”

meanwhile, a lot of teenagers think Harriet Tubman, Anne Frank, and Helen Keller were hoaxes

Opinion | The Erasure of Black Studies A report from the undoing of a field.

An excellent analysis of the war on Black studies that also includes a deeply perceptive critique of the neoliberal logic of valuing disciplines based on # of undergrad majors: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Finishing up Ellison’s Invisible Man!

or as walter benjamin put it, "musics for distraction, rather than contemplation, musics that one lived with rather than musics that separated themslelves from daily life."

I’m sorry, that’s incredibly messed up. The student(s?) should be embarrassed…

No shot! Did you really get AI evals??

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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