AOC has had enough of RFK jr.'s shit

how your email finds me:

In would get fired in several states for today's "Trumpism and the attempt to reimpose white racial dictatorship" lecture.

Ring Wraith

“‘The negative sentiment around AI has been growing steadily, and what’s changed is that the public has developed both the vocabulary and the lived experience to name what’s bothering them,’ @alondra.bsky.social says.”🧪

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Sauron. For people who don't understand that, yes, they are the Baddies. Palantir, etc, None of these guys understand that the Hobbits are the actual Heroes. These guys are ALL Ring Wraiths.

And fascists.

221. Chief Justice Roberts and the Clean Power Plan Remarkable reporting from the New York Times provides a peek behind the curtain of the February 2016 rulings that ushered in the modern emergency docket. And what it reveals is pretty discouraging.

"In the first major case in which the Court granted emergency relief as a means of shaping nationwide policy, it turns out that the justice who led the charge was the one who was doing quite a bit more than calling balls and strikes."

Me on Saturday's @nytimes.com scoop in today's "One First":

They so love that non-response.

The amount of mystification that occurs around the Supreme Court is amazing and completely out of alignment with what really happens.

Pay attention to the (mostly) men behind the curtain (and in the robes). Thy mythology is a useful lie for them; it fucks us.

Racecraft and Wars on (Certain Type of People Who Use Certain Classes of) Drugs.

Gonna be a fun class when combining that with color-blind racism!

The Big Short (2015) - Selena Gomez Teaches CDOs Scene (8/10) | Movieclips YouTube video by Movieclips

Showing this in class today, and it struck me that the "I love Selena Gomez; I bet she wins" line is EXACTLY what the investors in Tesla/SpaceX are doing.

Talking about Altheide and the news construction of crime as an ongoing problem and delighted that the top story in today's morning roundup is a guy getting stabbed once in the leg.

Top story.

We all know this is fascism.

When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941) - Protest song against Hitler (Live Take) YouTube video by Lizzy & the Triggermen

No Kings!

A society that does not study itself cannot know itself.

Megan Thee Stallion & Nickelback - Pickle’s Back [Official Music Video] YouTube video by Cheetos

Thee Culture Industry

Migraines suck.

Springsteen says recent Minneapolis show was his most meaningful ever The Boss returns for a rally this weekend, and again on March 31 to kick off a tour with the E Street Band.

Bruce Springsteen said the live premiere of “Streets of Minneapolis” at First Avenue was among the most meaningful performances he’s ever given in a career spanning more than 3,600 gigs over nearly 60 years.

The book Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot The book has a LOT of sticky note tabs sticking out of it. It has been read often.

Used some of Peck's "Exterminate All the Brutes" in class today. Always good to re-visit one of my favorite books.

SQUEEEE!

Finally got my vhs tape of Couple in the Cage transferred to a digital format.

Office Space - Printer Scene (UNCENSORED) YouTube video by RP

The end of Sora

Horrifying

I try to be positive. Humans survive. It’s what we do. There will be a dawn. It’s just been difficult recently. So I’m focusing on the fact that I refuse to let these fucks take away all the good things in this world. All men are created equal, and I want that to be true out of spite.

The old world is not just dying- we were all fundamentally wrong about the world. Even if you never trusted the system, you probably didn’t believe that the CIA would just let themselves be gutted or capital would be willing to destroy the world economy but here we are. And it broke us.

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On YouTube video by SuperWhoopass

Song of the week:

This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

Yeah, this one really squares my boobs as a sociologist. Arlie Russell Hochschild made one of the most important contributions to the sociology of labour ever, updating the Marxist concept of alienation for the late 20th century and it got sludged into "I don't want to call my mom."

"Discrimination isn't rational because it limits profits" ignores that social relationship. Accepting lowered profits via discrimination is part of the social relationship of domination, and the domination and inequality are the point of the relationship.

Reification is a hell of a drug.