John is absolutely right to see the “infinite patience” for Khan’s failed EdTech creative destruction & the closure of Hampshire as linked.
EdTech has always been dependent on using grades as the foundation for A/B testing, behavioral modification (which they pretend is learning), & tokenization.
Capitalism and all that.
these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.
the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism
Seriously, @mayor.nyc.gov, imagine what we could do then! 🙏
How about an annual tax on second homes in New York City that are worth $1 million or more?
It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
I am not interested in prison. Throwing a few creeps in prison until the next fascist pardons them does nothing to destroy their power.
I want the financial and political power of these individuals and corporations to be utterly destroyed.
Take literally all of their money.
Every billionaire who's conspired to violate the law and the Constitution with this regime -- their businesses get nationalized, their assets seized. They lose everything. Literally the rings off their fingers and the watches off their wrists get taken away.
All of his businesses and property should be nationalized and dissolved and he should be stripped of literally every single asset and dollar. Put him in public housing and let him live off of whatever UBI the next Congress passes.
Wealth inequality is an emergent property of imperialism. The facade of ideology employed by the ruling class changes, the pyramid remains.
The internet has given the working class access to a broad historic perspective AND a place to organize.
Big tech is trying to kill what it has unleashed.
I am a highly educated and technically proficient person, but passkeys are the first new ubiquitous web technology that regularly make me think I am just a stupid big baby man
If they hadn’t been cremated, my parents would be rolling over in their graves 😔
I just think you should cover the statements of a known prolific liar differently than the statements of an honest person. Call me crazy.
Businesses looking for more and more of that sweet, sweet rentier income make everything worse
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Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.
The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.
That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.
(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).
NYT headline that says “Mamdani Endorses Lindsey Boylan, Who Accused Cuomo of Sexual Harassment.” The lede says “the endorsement, in a special election for a city council seat on Manhattan’s West Side, comes as the mayor seeks to build influence within the Council"
First & foremost, @lindseyboylan.bsky.social is more than deserving of this endorsement.
Second & just as important, fuck this headline. Lindsey didn’t accuse Cuomo of harassment. Cuomo harassed Lindsey. Period. She is not an accusor. She is a survivor-advocate. Show some respect. Report the truth.
as someone with an anxiety disorder who gets bad brain fog during very anxious periods, choosing software engineering and then writing as careers was certainly a series of decisions
Refund? What’s that? 😩
Startup vultures.
An orange dog with semi-rigid ears and a wedge-shaped face, in profile, standing near a street lamp and a salt marsh in New York City at dusk. Open mouth, bright eyes, smiling.
Not sure if it’s the best, but here’s a recent one, straight out of camera (er, phone)
The infinite growth model is one of the worst things to happen to journalism/media. At some point you reach the ceiling of people who want to read your magazine! You can just make enough money to pay people well and publish things and not grow forever!
Minnesotans do not play.
I'm a professional type designer and I just got back from an international type design conference in Berlin and everyone there loves fonts and has devoted their working lives to fonts and I'm pretty sure every last one of us would agree they're weirdo shit.
My Allbirds shoes telling me to kill myself
Dammit it’s already happening
People with a well-documented track record of such behavior should not be in fiduciary roles, leadership roles, governance roles, roles where they are making decisions for others… I know, crazy take, right? 🙄
Nothing says "America is Back Baby!" like "Allbirds became an AI hardware middleman because they wanted to pump their stock instead of going into bankruptcy, so they said they will find some computer chips somewhere, but can no longer sell shoes."
There is a threshold at which wealth becomes entirely, completely divorced from reality, it becomes a mathematical object the human mind is not equipped to perceive for too long.
It really is the closest thing to a cosmic horror we have.