Thinking about this fucking guy today for some reason en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm...

Bring back the iPod
- without video
- with a 3.5mm headphone jack
- high-quality internal DAC
- 1 TB ssd and sd card slot for expansion
- make it easy to repair
- sell it for $100

Just fixed one small thing.

Ooh man, there could be a section on filmmakers who hate their audiences, too. Haneke, Von Trier, the No Wave movement, late Peckinpah, Harmony Korine, Tony Kaye, Oliver Stone, Sacha Baron Cohen, Tom Six, etc

A Journey to the End of Taste View image Their hearts will go on, even if they're all wet. Who says there's no accounting for taste?¹ Maybe there is. New Yorker music critic and Alex Ross (whose brilliant book "The Rest is Noise" ...

Carl Wilson’s “Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste” would be a great text for the class and some of the responses to that text are good, too. And I’m sure it could be paired with something about hate-watching Titanic (a formative hate-watch for me) www.rogerebert.com/scanners/a-j...

You’d have to unpack different kinds of “hate,” too. The makers of the Disaster Artist don’t “hate” The Room, but they certainly treat it as an object of derision and its makers as fools.

“Decolonization Is Not a Renovation”

Was it prompted by something from class? I wanna know how to get high schoolers to want to read Machiavelli!

A zoomed in picture of a wooden sign painted orange with the black outline of a butterfly and the date “16-OCT-2025”, the signed is screwed onto a wooden utility pole.

A zoomed in picture of a wooden sign painted orange with the black outline of a butterfly and the date “26-OCT-2025”, the signed is screwed onto a wooden utility pole.

These have gone up all over our area. A heartbreaking memorial to those people stolen from our community.

More spot-on work from by The Department of Unsubtle Metaphors

Underflows: Queer Tran Ecologies and River Justice by Cleo Wölfle Hazard (University of Washington Press, 2022)

Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise by Jessica Teisch (UNC Press, 2011)

The Decline of Western Civilization: Part II (dir. Penelope Spheeris, 1989)

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (dir. Stephen Herek, 1989)

More zeitgeisty iteration

(Both of these were made to be seen in a movie theater)

(One of) the first double feature(s) at my movie theater

Mário (dir. Billy Woodberry, 2024)

thefilmverdict.com/mario/

More higher ed discourse like this please

This is more theoretical than empirical (and I, too, would love to see empirical research on this group) but is interesting and perhaps relevant regardless. www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Smell of feces, vomit fills crowded ICE facility, detainee's wife says Conditions at the ICE facility in central Phoenix mirror the conditions at a Mesa facility, where people were being treated worse than "animals," lawmakers said.

Many, many brave people are fighting to stop this, and also—our collective failure to stop it from getting this far will haunt us for the rest of our lives.

We gotta figure out more models for convening classes like this completely separate from university infrastructure. This is a cool class.

I’ll take the under for that over/under…

Hampshire College to close permanently after fall 2026 semester Emma McCorkindale

While Hampshire’s case is in some ways unique, it is amazing to think that in a single lifetime - about 70 years - the US founded the greatest public and liberal arts college system in the world and then destroyed it, to build prisons, give tax cuts to the rich, and own the libs

yes. in LA the "would need to be remediated" landscape seems like it's more default than aberration

Boiling Frogbooks: Education's Past and Future

Reposted to go along with the devastating news that Hampshire College is closing (and will actually be part of the past).

www.unemployednegativity.com/2019/03/boil...

Done and done ✅ ✅

Basketball team?

I wish I had this handy when I was arguing with someone about “what the economic data says” yesterday. Very clearly articulated.

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“Triumph of the Will” alongside Capra’s “Why We Fight”

The question of Capra’s politics could also be useful to explore.

“Birth of a Nation” (1915) seems like a must