Creating baby geniuses to thwart the AI threat? (Yes, really.) The new wave of Silicon Valley–backed gene-editing startups is straight out of “Brave New World.”

Creating baby geniuses to thwart the AI threat? (Yes, really.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202... - smart people being really stupid about intelligence

"...it becomes evident that imperialism played a pivotal role in informing anarchist ideas about war, the state, and international solidarity. While traditional narratives of European anarchism have largely neglected the topic of imperialism..."

Jordan Bardella and Princess Maria Carolina de Bourbon Deux Siciles

So much news about the far-right turn of French elites these days that I'm making a thread... 👇🧵

#1: Jordan Bardella (Marine Le Pen's sub if she can't run in 2027) is dating Louis XVI's heiress, Princess Maria de Bourbon Deux-Siciles. Rassemblement National officials call it a 'modern fairytale'...

There's growing disquiet in the military. The Iran war made it worse Since Trump began his second term, his administration's use of the armed forces has left a growing number in the military unsettled, according to NPR interviews with service members and advocates.

“Since Trump began his second term, his administration's use of the armed forces has left a growing number in the military unsettled, according to NPR interviews with service members and advocates.”

www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

steam vehicle with various gadgets and people sitting or standing on it

An anti-technology letter to the editor of Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism, way back in 1901.

“…one may fairly say today we have more work under machinery than ever we had before its advent.”

Steam, the Tyrant, by Philo Palhomo

historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2026/04...

Abolish endnotes.

The Red May 2026 schedule is up, congratulations for ten years of annual vacation from capitalism.
www.redmayseattle.org/2026-schedule

Good morning comrades. Our radical bookshop fund is now at 40%! But we still have a long way to go so please do donate if you mean to. And if you're unable to donate, please share it with any friends who might.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Kennedy is a eugenicist.
His words and choices to date provide ample evidence of his deep hatred for disabled ‘weaker’ people. All his ‘policy’ is driven by one goal: make the population ‘fitter’ by ‘weeding out the unfit.’
Speak of him as the open, rank eugenicist he is.

For those pretending it's still ok to publish with Unherd

"Marshall founded the Unherd website in 2017 and became the major shareholder of GB News in 2021 before taking over the Spectator and bidding unsuccessfully for the Telegraph"

He's also an investor in Palantir...

many women participated in the revolutionary movement... joined underground networks, manufactured explosives, and participated in acts of political violence, however, remain largely absent from both public memory and archival records.

I relate so much (to the loneliness, covid...). Take care of yourself; you seem like such a wonderful person 💚

it's officially out! :)

The Missing Guidebook to Neurodiversity Studies (and Why We Wrote It) Introducing a Very Short Introduction

I've written a brief post about our new book, why its important to me, and what we hope to achieve with it.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

Out Aug 11

www.versobooks.com/products/340...

"In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such..."

If you think tens of thousands of Iranians risked their lives - and thousands were literally slaughtered - just because of Israel, you're fucking racist actually. Same if you think they want their country to be bombed

the fantasy that the democratic party isnt part of this regime, the fantasy that the capitalist class isnt onboard with the annihilation of Iran, the fantasy that people willing to sacrifice the entire globe's future for profit have a problem with murdering anyone not in their immediate vicinity

Yellow and green book on a desk next to a houseplant.

Very happy to say that Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction, written by @suereviews.bsky.social and myself, is out now! It was a lot of fun trying to condense neurodiversity theory, research, practice, and politics into a single, brief book. Available in all the usual places!

Gabriel Rockhill is (proudly) in the tradition of Marxist tankie conservatives and conspiracists like Michael Parenti.
Any valid points (that were already known btw, so it's not even an original contribution) are completely delegitimised by his bullshit stalinist apologism and worldview.

Jonah Goldberg, Darwin and Unnatural Capitalism Jonah Goldberg’s new book betrays a deep ignorance of Darwinism.

I might have been a little obsessed with Jonah's book when it came out. I wrote a lot of word about how bad it was. Catharsis is real thing, it turns out. altrightorigins.com/2018/05/11/g...

The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?

I’m thrilled that the Guardian Saturday magazine has excerpted one of my favourite chapters from THE ASSET CLASS this weekend: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

New book review -- @nickgottlieb.bsky.social on "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" by @alybatt.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/category/boo... @princetonupress.bsky.social

Rappel également qu'à ce jour il y a des camarades antifascistes lyonnais qui dorment en prison. C'est un complet scandale d’État, et on est sans doute pas au bout de nos surprises.

I describe it as such as a historian of disability because I want to remind scientists and the world that the history of science IS the history of eugenics, scientific racism and medical racism, and more.
I’m not comforting them with the idea that it was a ‘pseudoscience.’
This is your history.

It really isn't that long ago that scholars across the scientific – and political – spectrum were treating eugenics as a valid and important science. We can easily go back there and dismissing it as 'pseudo-science' and ignoring that history will not stop that from happening.

Iranians didn't lay down their lives in the THOUSANDS during these protests for Western leftists to say it was merely 'manipulated by Israel to start a war'
The most you can say is Israel took the opportunity of the IRI govt facing an internal uprising to attack them. Saying that it's them who

Hey everyone, a collective I'm part of is starting a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle, a city where the last radical bookshop closed around 40 years ago. We've just launched our crowdfunder. Please take a look a share widely!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Le problème de ces auteurs c'est que leur point de vue est presque exclusivement basé sur la production, alors que les technologies les plus importantes des 30 dernières années agissent sur la circulation. Je renvoie à cet article qui aborde la question : brill.com/display/book...

Hundreds of teenagers report for duty as Croatia reinstates conscription Training will cover everything from traditional skills through to drone control and cyberwarfare techniques and countermeasures.

"The uncomfortable proximity of the war in Ukraine prompted Croatia's move to reinstate compulsory military service."