They're calling this dish "fragger's delight"

They say Eric Adams is the Eric Adams of Albania

No matter how you feel about asbestos, its use is growing more widespread and it's important that educators understand how they could integrate it as a tool in their classrooms

I don't think there are many such people in the world, to be clear, but I do think every single one of them is on Bluesky

Funniest reaction on this website specifically is the people who hate Piker for weird Zionist/liberal imperialist reasons, but also hate Charen for being a transphobe, and so end up stuck with "why hasn't the Bulwark denounced Graham Platner" as their go to take

"Democrats must denounce this Twitch streamer or risk alienating Nancy Reagan's speechwriter" is NY Times Pitchbot level dumb joke and also a thing people are seriously trying to argue

A thing I once heard Stanley Aronowitz say that stuck with me, is to the effect that the ultimate purpose of social theory is to craft good concepts

Unfortunately, due to the actions of the Trump administration and the AI industry, hamburgers and video games will be prohibitively expensive for the foreseeable future, so it's all Japanese banks for you

Though the more accurate analysis is that for most of these people--certainly this is true of Hanania--IQ is just a placeholder for "whatever metric makes it so that white people are better"

This kind of nonsense creates a paradox for me, because I don't believe in general intelligence as a concept, but whenever someone unironically treats IQ as a measure of it I want to call them stupid

My dad, a legal academic, loves to tell the story of some law & economics goon he saw give a talk about how there can't be systemic racism because it's economically irrational. To which his response as a decent enough white guy who grew up in Virginia in the 1950s was more or less "lol, lmao even".

I think that in the US context, this conflation is partly because the most prominent political organization that can plausibly be called "tankie", PSL, has a politics that does in fact originate in a split over Hungary '56.

I get that this all feels very weird and contradictory, but that's dialectics, bro

3. One of our tasks as Americans, in supporting both 1 and 2, is to participate in a popular front that encompasses everyone from anarchists to Bill Kristol

2. In the short run, saving the world depends upon the Islamic Republic of Iran imposing defeat on the USA and Israel as quickly as possible, irrespective of our opinions of the Iranian state

1. Protests and elections aren't a substitute for the long term project of base-building and proletarian reorganization that knits together networks of solidarity in workplaces, among tenants, in neighborhoods

On the occasion of No Kings Day, three things can be true:

Use petroleum to make fertilizer --> use the fertilizer to grow corn --> turn the corn into an inferior substitute for gasoline.

This policy was always a stupid giveaway to big agriculture, but doing it to address a war that's causing a global fertilizer shortage really takes the cake.

My first experience with the Internet, in the early 90s, was playing Multi-User Dungeons, which were multiplayer fantasy games played via a command line, like a text-only precursor to World of Warcraft.

Thank you for your attention to this MUDder

Rare inside look at the innovative methods used by horrible sociopathic billionaires to raise even more horrible and sociopathic billionaire children

Marc Andersen: You're a 15 second sliding context window with the working memory of a goldfish, your long term memory is mainly fake, and it's a minor miracle you can get out of the door in the morning. also: @pmarca •5h TLDR There is no inner self, you're chasing an imaginary concept, the end.

To be fair to ol' conehead here, he's spent most of his life as what Marxists would call the bearer or personification of the capital relation, the vessel through which money flows and returns back to itself as accumulation, M-C-M'. Easy to lose all sense of one's humanity under such conditions.

Let's go Venezuela!

My new vice in these dismal times is enjoying anti-Trump neoconservatives having a bad time. Watching Bill Kristol and Bob Kagan commiserate about the self-immolation of their whole project is a small source of joy and comfort.

As I've said ever since I became a homeowner myself: owning your own house is the absolute worst way to house yourself in this country, except for all of the others. Give me a reasonable alternative and I'm there.

However, I did once try to figure out how you would write a version of "Idiocracy" that kept the interesting ideas but wasn't incredibly racist, and widespread societal adoption of LLM tools would be a great plot device for that

When I was spinning up speculations about a post-capitalist rentier economy, I didn't have the vision to think of human consciousness itself being enclosed, commodified and sold back to us as a monthly subscription. Mostly because that doesn't even make sense as a science fiction conceit, but still.

I think I first learned the term "anti-fan" from Korean online culture, and I find it very useful

TRUMP SAYS SOME WORDS: President Trump used a phrase that some good presidents said, that makes him a statesman or a general or whatever

Of course for a lot of Zionists this is a feature rather than a bug. It's a lot easier to equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism if the only anti-Zionists people hear from are in fact antisemites!

Say what you will about the @demsocialists.bsky.social electoral apparatus, I have to commend us for mostly successfully filtering out the weird viral influencer type candidates with like, nazi tattoos or a passion for US military intervention or whatever