Thank you! I'm loving it here so far. I've been trying to get involved with Chicago DSA, so I've been relying on them as a political guide, but I'll definitely look for those other endorsements, as well. Girl I Guess is incredible! Solidarity.
Thanks for this! I just moved to Chicago to take a faculty position at SXU and am still learning the political landscape. I'll be at the polls.
“This should be the function of the so-called writer, to mirror back the beauty of the people, to urge and nourish their vital expression and their social vision.”
–Meridel le Sueur
Things You Can Make ChatGPT Write for You - Hayley DeRoche Your last words But before them What to murmur to a lover in bed What to say in the group chat when someone's Sister mother brother is dead and The apology you could never quite get right for a friend And hell why not make the robot compose your proposal Your wedding toast, too Your best friend's birthday roast You could ask it to write a custom lullaby For the baby snuffling at your breast. You can cradle to grave away Every warm human word You could ever have said And when they chisel your gravestone For your final rest We can ask ChatGPT Because it knew you best
Love it 🙌
Oh and also the realization that the most socially beneficial jobs are often the least compensated while totally useless and even harmful jobs are the most well compensated. A child can understand that a society that allocates value this way is sick
"What radicalized you?"
Realizing people could work as service labor for a community where they couldn't afford to live. A small but profound insight at a young age about the fundamental reality of exploitation in a capitalist society
Incredible!
Today's classroom takeaway, via Willa Cather's My Antonia: ChatGPT can't read literature allusively. After asking it to identify the influence of WWI, the Russian Revolution, and the Homestead Act on the novel's themes, it couldn't provide any passages that weren't direct historical references.
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
Admittedly I'm a big LeBron fan, but the "Mickey Mouse Ring" thesis has never made sense. Removing home court advantage arguably creates a more even competition, and winning while in isolation took an extraordinary amount of psychological toughness. That chip is legit, and they earned it.
a place to start
go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
It's an honor to be included!
"Who most clearly saw the real crux of the conflict, most definitely knew his own convictions and was readiest at the crisis for decisive action, was a man whose leadership lay not in his office, wealth, or influence, but in the white flame of his utter devotion to an ideal." Du Bois on John Brown
This Juneteenth, I'm reading W.E.B. Du Bois's excellent biography of John Brown. ✊
"In truth always thinkers who do not work have tried to unite workers who do not think. Only working thinkers can unite thinking workers." –W.E.B. Du Bois, "Dark Princess" (1929)
If anyone tells you that the US isn't a class society/class conscious society, advise them to try to get approved for an apartment in a big city. This is brutal
Agreed!
"The cultural production of radical left-wing movements ultimately should struggle not over space on the terrain, but over the authority of the marketplace in people’s cultural and political lives." Jacqui Germain in @journalspectre.bsky.social
spectrejournal.com/on-this-land...
Incredibly proud and awed by the talent of my wife, @madisonjblanc.bsky.social, who dropped a killer EP last week. If diaristic alt-pop is your jam, I recommend this
open.spotify.com/album/1HqiX5...
Hard to tell if the centrist profiles following me lately are bots or if neoliberal consensus thinking just has a bot-like quality to it
"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)
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Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.
Whole thread is spot on
On Monday, March 31, 2025 we learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded.
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Thrilled that my favorite article so far is up on @jacobinmag.bsky.social today. Place and region matter when talking to people about socialism, and Missouri’s Anvil magazine spoke to rural/Midwestern workers eloquently and intimately in the 1930s. jacobin.com/2025/02/anvi...
Nancy Fraser, "Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do about It."
Was thrilled to participate in a record-breaking #douglassday! "If there is no struggle, there is no progress"