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I need a psychoanalyst to understand Macedo and Lee's invocation of the "laptop class" but they clearly feel that other members of the class traduced a shared interest in uninterrupted rockin-in-the-free-world bourgeois subjectivity by making pandemic policy based on real-life population structure

They speak in the intensely irritating language of the free speech liberal, but they actually hate science because it's a deliberative and transparent process. For them, the purpose of expert knowledge is to manage those populations that need to be managed (the poor) and to leave them the hell alone

The thing to know about the authors of the post-pandemic consensus (Emily Oster, Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee) -- that we failed at the COVID response because experts are too woke and we weren't nice enough to Martin Kulldorff -- is that it reflects an extremely anti-democratic worldview

and if you would like to commission me for anything, i would actually welcome that because it's easier to do writing at my preferred pace when there's some kind of externally imposed goal or structure. even though i have got a lot on my plate right now due to external circumstances

if you liked me at my "anti-oedipus to talk about MAHA" you'll love me at my "a thousand plateaus to talk about institutional public health"

I am working on a newsletter piece that is going to be really good but alas, life has been getting increasingly hectic and overwhelming over the last two months, so if I owe you anything -- writing, correspondence, a kind word, a followup -- I sincerely apologize because I am actually struggling lol

been focused on learning more songs on the piano and starting to learn mandarin. 大家好!

have been finding it quite difficult to write anything lately but i have got a short newsletter post coming soon and then a slightly longer one about social murder shortly thereafter. assembling fragments

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

my hot take on the proteini is that the espresso + dry rub combination could actually be good. but putting protein powder in a martini is diabolical

ahem buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...

thank you sean 🙏

Casey Means nomination Can we please talk about how vindicated I am by this Public Citizen report? At long last, a comprehensive and structured look at the conflicts of interest...

Taking absolutely no pleasure or joy in writing lately (it feels like pulling teeth honestly) but I wrote about Casey Means buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...

we need a "male fantasies" about IOF soldiers' tiktoks as the primary texts

who is allowed to live in the world they want to create

if you like my writing at all you can subscribe to my fr33 newsletter www.buttondown.com/abbycartus ZERO affiliate links ZERO sponsors NO protein powder EVER that's the Closed Form Promise

Casey Means nomination Can we please talk about how vindicated I am by this Public Citizen report? At long last, a comprehensive and structured look at the conflicts of interest...

Taking absolutely no pleasure or joy in writing lately (it feels like pulling teeth honestly) but I wrote about Casey Means buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...

Closed Form welcome! this is an experimental zone for writing and co-writing with my friend and collaborator nate holdren (buttondown.email/nateholdren). the archive of all issues of this newsletter can be found...

I'm back just warming the car up because I am writing a big thing about Casey Means that I'll share when it's done. Subscribe to my newsletter, I have no affiliate partnerships and will never promote, e.g., plant-based protein crumbles that give you acute liver failure buttondown.com/abbycartus

eating hamantaschen for iftar gonna make so many people red and mad online i love it

I’m gonna deactivate again tomorrow but I invite you to sub to my newsletter if you like it, the link is in my bio, it’s free just for the love of the game (writing my weird little screeds)

heck yeah thank you

many thanks for reading :)

as a public health professional, i sometimes forget (and sometimes worry) that not everyone thinks as much as i do about poop and pee

ok this talk sounds great though, is it available to watch/read anywhere?

omg thank you for reading, i feel a little sheepish at a serious person reading my long meditation on poop but i really appreciate it!!

Copropolitics On the same day that the USDA unveiled a new food pyramid, an inversion of the old one (which was actually retired in 2011 and replaced with “MyPlate”), I...

I also wrote about MAHA's politics of shit buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...