These fuckin chuds

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

America’s True Fascist Architectural Legacy It’s not the kitschy White House ballroom—it’s logistics warehouses converted to ICE detention centers.

wrote about the most important architectural legacy of the Trump administration: the conversion of logistics warehouses into detention centers www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!"

But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"

Related to this, I feel
like Cool Rock Kids under-index how many post-punk bands played with horns.

Fugazi Live At Lafayette Square, Washington DC, 1991-01-12 YouTube video by MickMod

You could write an entire dissertation on the '91 show from Lafayette Square.
youtu.be/I0gs_FaNOD4?...

If you wonder why students protested loudly under Biden but aren’t as visible under Trump, it’s because they thought they had some margin of safety to speak on campus then. Even before Trump 2.0, they learned administrators and political leaders were willing to harm them instead. So here we are.

The reason that the US President has the exclusive authority to order the use of nuclear weapons is because Truman set up the system along those lines after WWII. This is often depicted as either a power grab, or because in the nuclear age such decisions "must" be made quickly. This is false.

Of course that’s true on its face. My point is that the agency of this “aristocracy” in the face of imperial power is uneven and deeply compromised.

Wait till you hear about the electoral college. A cowboy in Wyoming’s vote is worth 3.6 times that of a voter in NY state. That’s like enfranchising the hat and boots along with their wearer.

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

This. This is my jam.

So so good.

Was the demand enough that they could offer one?

In both cases, the risks of simply disappearing into an ether are vaster with time. Let's say you had a band in, say, 2005. Industry contraction was huge, but you have tracks on Myspace, made a little bit of a splash, but could only maybe do one or two formal releases... (5/x)

oil prices are about to make polyester a noble fiber

Hot take: If you're an Orioles fan but have never actually spent time in Baltimore City outside of Camden Yards, you really ought to change that

Needless to say, all the good stuff was, I'm guessing, in the Air Force safe...

Anything important: laptop

Browsing and shitposting: phone

We use a lot of words for Foucault’s Boomerang, but it’s simpler - it will all get used against you by people who are more powerful than you.

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—th...

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its articles for reference.

This is what's happening online with the @archive.org

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

I worked on this on the Library of Congress project for about five years, and CBS was not interested in preserving their history!

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

The martini is a delivery system for olives and brine

Did not ever expect to see Lenin in such a hat, and on U.S. currency no less

In honor of Habermas, a meme I made

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

Did not ever expect to see Lenin in such a hat, and on U.S. currency no less

This is so fucked up. Great time to tear apart the one university in America specifically set up to fight fascism.

"I don't know what weapons the next war will be fought with, but the one after that will be with sticks."
"Because of nukes, right?"
"No, because we decided logistics was woke."