There‘s a corollary among Marxian thinking that the problem was fully diagnosed in 1867 and the only reason capitalism is still around is an insufficient acceptance of that theory, never that capitalists familiarized themselves with it and planned its responses to it.
flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.
I have seen people discuss but I think it's still understated how barren the tech venture capital world was getting pre-AI. After decades of Silicon Valley printing money for investors, there are just titanic levels of VC cash chasing the next tech thing, and AI is the *only* game right now.
If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.
So AI failing is an existential threat to the entire VC system that has driven tech (and huge portions of the US private economy) for a quarter of a century. I realize the politician in question here is in the UK but I think it's the same dynamic.
I have seen people discuss but I think it's still understated how barren the tech venture capital world was getting pre-AI. After decades of Silicon Valley printing money for investors, there are just titanic levels of VC cash chasing the next tech thing, and AI is the *only* game right now.
yeah, i think the AI push is more deranged than past tech pushes in large part because it's just backed by so much more money and governmental support than was the case even in 2009.
The one thing you might say is a reasonable claim is that rising costs have "eroded trust" in higher education. And sure. But here at public universities, we cannot solve that problem on our own. There is a solution, but it's not one we can implement ourselves. It requires the politicians:
The national media is eating up this report as justification for perpetuating the lie that universities themselves - as opposed to decades of attacks from the far right authoritarian party - are responsible for eroding trust in higher education. You can almost hear them salivating at the chance.
Disney is building an absolutely bonkers master planned development in my neck of the woods. New renderings imagines what I think 19th century poppy addicts saw when they looked into an impressionistic painting.
www.storylivingbydisney.com/asteria/
We did DisneyWorld this year and going through Tomorrowland, the earliest "future" community model whacked together by Walt, was seriously trippy as a planning scholar.
(I do have to admit the little "French Quarter" resort thing that we stayed in was pretty sweet.)
screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."
I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -
POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad
VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??
POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there
Best I can figure, given the intra-Catholic fight between the "tradcaths" and, well, everyone else, Team Tradcath went on a recruitment binge to get as many rich and important right wing assholes they could to come over and join the team.
No questions asked or answered up front, it seems.
Chart showing Lead in blood count is highest for Gen X
I think about this chart a lot
A serial-numbers-filed-off version of the Succession theme playing in the background is a very nice touch.
Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.
Most of our peers grew up internalizing that Reagan was a heroic figure, the pinnacle of American political possibility.
That seriously fucked some people up and here it is right here.
I blame Reagan for everything.
And that's why personally, unless the candidate in question is Woker than Woke, I don't really need a Gen X president. From any demographic.
The feral culture that neglectful adults back then raised us in was too social Darwinist to be the best ground to cultivate the President we need. That's all.
This is why I started reading Strauss and Howe:
After undergrad, I began teaching at my former K-8 school. I was the class crybaby. 1983 to 1987. Kids would mocked you if you cried. That was just life.
Friends, I remember when the first kid cried in MY class. The kids COMFORTED him...it was 1999.
Pope Leo is no angel.
He jumped a couple hours later.
Seeing Pritzker saying good things again.
I'll say again, to get my vote in a primary, he needs to get rid of about $2.7B of his wealth. There is no good excuse for being a billionaire. There are all kinds of ways to get rid of that money, but you've got to do it.
$900M is enough to scrape by on.
A weather forecast for Monday 3/23 (high 80 low 39) and Tuesday 3/24 (high 55 low 36)
Durham's forecast for today and tomorrow.
despite being concentrated in ameria’s
largest cities, america’s media is terminally car-brained
I can confirm that people who are already exhausted and scared of going through TSA and flying right now, people who have just been told to wait in a line for 4+ hours, are absolutely furious to see ICE agents—a stark reminder of who exactly is to blame for this situation
I sometimes feel embarrassed posting, "I invested a lot of my career learning skills that would lead to employment in the tech and academic sectors, and now those are drying up," feeling like it's admitting I got played for a sucker.
So I gotta say I honestly can't imagine posting this in public.
There are going to be a LOT of new faces in the leges come January, and establishing relationships with the newbs early is the kind of tactic that can bear fruit for literal decades.