@andreagrimes.com writes about the intersection of loneliness, betting markets, and fascism:
"We aren’t meant to live this way—weirdly distanced from our people, even as we sit shoulder-to-shoulder at the bar, avoiding eye contact out of abject fear of being perceived."
“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”
My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.
The Southern Poverty Law Center says it's the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department and faces possible charges over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.
www.mississippifreepress.org/southern-pov...
Art of War Guys get bored when they try to actually read The Art of War so they don't internalize "soldiers need food and not to be throwing up all the time"
Senate GOP leaders formally declared Tuesday that they will attempt to circumvent Democrats in the months-long stalemate over Department of Homeland Security funding and deliver as much as $70 billion for immigration enforcement on their own. https://cnn.it/48cV6st
eugenics is the official policy of the U.S. government (and it was under Biden too with his let it rip strategy for covid)
the surveillance aspects of this are also stunning
This reminds me of a “multistakeholder convening” I was invited to years ago, intended the solve the problem of “lack of trust in tech.” When I suggested the real problem was that the tech industry wasn’t trustworthy, the bros looked at me like I had three heads.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This is really vital, especially now, on a personal and community level.
We're told so much oppression is inevitable, that the only options we have are slight variations of servility, that this dying empire is just "the way it is."
No.
Defiant refusal is a lot more powerful than we've been told.
As an Asian, cabbage is very good. As an American, I know when the media starts talking about how cabbage is very good it means we’re about to get real poor
Al lyricism: José González co-wrote song with ChatGPT on new album In an interview with Far Out, González explained his approach to Al, and said that he is "curious about this new technology".
i’m now curious about never playing his music in the bookstore again
Transmasculinity is radically expanding the definitions of what masculinity is and can be. This is revolutionary and healing work. ❤️🔥
Peridot enamel earrings.
Gold over sterling with huge peridot in an immaculate enamel pair of a vintage earrings.
I cannot even begin to tell you.
How fast you will move to the top of my ballot.
If you publicly antagonize AI.
Elon Musk basically accused Trump of being a pedophile and then got dinner with him again a few months later. Joe Rogan acted shocked and dismayed about ICE and Iran and now he’s standing behind Trump in the Oval Office. These guys only care about holding onto power through any means necessary
The concerns I expressed about unanswered questions proved to be unfortunately prophetic.
This week gave us yet another example of the pattern of good news while markets are open, followed by the real news coming as soon as they're closed.
My latest.
I’ve been watching the media coverage of the murders of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer.
One way media can fight back against male violence:
If you kill your wife, you don’t get to be called a “husband” any more.
You’re her killer.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
bringing back shame and social sanction for being a bigoted asshole is good, actually
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer expanded a state of emergency to Eaton, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Mecosta, and Muskegon counties, as well as the cities of Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo after extreme weather that included severe rainfall and tornadoes leading to flooding and damaged roads.
From @kdailey.bsky.social
Rebecca Solnit argues for understanding change over more than the last few years – in "The Beginning Comes After the End" – and on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4ctYUqu @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
Regarding AI, again & again, I think of the Robin Kelley line: revolution is not a series of clever maneuvers but a process that can and must transform us.
Read to be transformed; write to be transformed; make art to be transformed.
BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.
Meanwhile in the #BadEconomy and the racket that is #PublishOrPerish in #academia and #HigherEd.
#writing
Pope Leo XIV has presided over his largest Mass during his trip to Africa, with more than 100,000 people turning out for a liturgy in Douala, Cameroon. https://cnn.it/4tScyLd
To clarify, not ALL the posts you see like that used WBM, but many/most do. But there are exceptions.
@nytdiff.bsky.social appears to archive copies themselves, for example (let me know if I'm wrong).
The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.
That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.
(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).
Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...