This phenomenon - this experience - is best articulated in @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's Paradise Built in Hell.
When you are there, and you see an entire city of goddamn heroes around you, it is nothing short of a transcendent experience.
This is an excellent single page infographic explaining the main political parties’ positions in Thailand’s upcoming elections.
like floating large-scale chaff
Our volume “The Digitalisation of Memory Practices in China: Contesting the Curating State” with fantastic chapters about the intersection of digital technologies & memory politics in China is freely accessible. It introduces new ways to study heritage and memory struggles in authoritarian states.
I've increasingly come to view cynicism as the seedbed of totalitarianism, both because it can paralyze the opposition and because it implicitly validates the might-makes-right ethic of the authoritarian.
If you exaggerate about the effects of tear gas or smoke, or just make up some nonsense, or take some pseudoscientific conclusions, or just play fast and loose with terms, you are helping ICE and their fascist tactics
Technical motorcycle
technical cart
Ukraine's on a technical scooter
Techninal alignment chart
Anything can be a technical if you try.
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Big @madeinchinajournal.com essay by @tristangbrown.bsky.social on China's "archeological state," in which the Party-state uses the excavation and display of artifacts to bolster its claims to civilizational and historical continuity.
This isnt a plan. Its three delusional kobolds in a sailors uniform pretending to be a plan.
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
"[T]he book poses these questions...: Why did Hongkongers decide to join a life-and-death struggle to defend their hometown? What motivated so many young people to engage in physical confrontations with the police? What encouraged law-abiding citizens to tolerate or even assist violent behaviour?"
There are 600 Minneapolis police officers. There are 3000 federal thugs in the Twin Cities.
There are probably 5000 people plugged into one of the nested rapid response networks FOR MY NEIGHBORHOOD ALONE. Across the region, the number is probably 50,000.
THAT'S how you beat them. Build that.
HK activist, organizer, and ex-lawmaker Eddie Chu released from prison after serving a 4.5 year sentence for participating in and advocating for democracy hongkongfp.com/2026/01/15/e...
It's hiring season at @iast.fr!
- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France
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This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions.
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
New essay just dropped! Free on Substack
It's about how HK's fiscal policy IS it's land policy.
open.substack.com/pub/comparat...
I read this in 2014 HK and kinda hate it for giving me false hope
The @economist.com on Europe’s task to preserve what’s left of the West. Remarkably strong words.
I’m going on record: Life first happened when an RNA fucked a metabolism.
This entire episode should go in a f'ing political museum as a perfect specimen of how Dems suck at politics.
You can whine about hypocrisy, whine about flip-flopping, whine about who did what, but the only thing millions of young voters are going to see is: Trump saved TikTok.
I’m just living for the moment that it finally dawns on Falun Gong that Trump isn’t going to save them from the CCP.
“On one hand, logging on here will make me mad while solving nothing and wasting valuable hours of my life I will never get back but on the other hand, that last skeet got 27 likes, so YOLO.” -my smooth cartoon brain
I once flew off an e-bike and caught myself with my hands and broke both my elbows. Went to a hospital 10 minutes away and it took 2 hours to explain to them that the other elbow was broken too. It wasn't a language issue.
Let me add to this that you will never see the same doctor twice, so you will need to repeatedly explain what’s wrong with you and what treatments you have received.
liberating men for the first time in a generation by calling women 'toots' and 'sweetcheeks' from my soapbox on the town square
As an example of this, the report cites advisors telling Trump about the "red mirage" effect where he might be ahead on election night before it got closer. Trump responded by saying he might declare victory earlier, which he ultimately did.
To state the obvious, if Alabama burned down and a Democratic Congress said they had to idk, learn to read or go 48 hours without saying a racial slur, it would be a national scandal.