Oh boy. You decide to do a dissertation on bossware, and the weirdest people in the world decide to mess with you by making it more literal and dystopian than you could have possibly imagined when you started

I've semi-seriously been referring to Bossism as our dominant political malady, and well

have you seen the terminal starring tom hanks? you're the terminal now

A super sharp piece on how the politics, culture, and practices of management undermine democracy. This is the guiding idea behind my own research into management-tech, and it's somewhat surprisingly under-theorized given how pervasive being subject to rule by bosses.

PEED ON THE FLOOR ok new game, what’s the wildest thing you’ve experienced at the symphony

(No one use “orgasm noise at the LA Phil,” I’m still scarred from being in the middle of that press cycle)

Might see if "Donald Trump wrote more than you today" works as a motivator

Though this is where I first encountered the Street Bump story: hbr.org/2013/04/the-...

This maybe? stanforddpl.org/papers/feige...

It's about academic writing not fiction, but every (soc sci/humanities) grad student in North America is assigned Paul Edwards's "How to Read a Book" which does something very similar

Regulate them like Warren G and Nate Dogg

Gotta wonder how many of these answers are code for "the moon is fake"

It's cool how every public image is now like a Highlights puzzle. Yes I can find the 10 things wrong with this picture, but why do I have to?

For the academic study of the history of science: the Scientific Revolution didn't happen, and the scientific method doesn't exist.

I think it's: he was my Dad's age, which did seem super old when I was nine! Now that I'm the age Dylan was in 1988, the situation seems a little different

I have been likewise infected by this plague. I advise sending this as vengeance: 368chickens.com

Jorge Ben was born in Rio de Janeiro on this day in 1939. He turns 87 today.

Canada’s super-rich are using foundations to funnel huge public sums to elite universities and Israel ⋆ The Breach Over half of the money hoarded in Canada’s private foundations should have been paid as taxes. Instead, it’s being funneled to wealthy institutions and organizations complicit in Israel’s military occ...

There’s $107 billion warehoused in the private foundations of Canada’s richest families. At least half of that should have been paid in taxes.

Instead, it’s funneled to billionaires’ vanity projects: well-endowed universities and Israeli institutions, write @lindamcquaig.bsky.social & Neil Brooks.

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

🎶Whiskey Friday, take my job🎶

(sorry)

Shakria: "I guess they thought I was Shakira?"

Interesting to see Cassuistry emerge in real time

I'm the other way round, but thank you for expressing this in a normal way

There's always Jimi Hendrix playing "Sgt Pepper's...." live a few days after the album came out

Chilling. The San Francisco Chronicle has received another letter from the man calling himself "The Woke Ginger," and cryptologists are reportedly no closer to cracking the cipher in his previous missive.

that tears it, I'm not doing any research now

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters.”
—Palantir CEO Alex Karp

newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

I am begging tech people to try "having friends" at least once in their lives before making this stuff

Managing to shoehorn pronouns into this was a tell

Amazing but horrible how urgently current it always sounds