Congress is about to vote on renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Originally meant to monitor foreigners overseas, it’s been abused to surveil Americans. This is a chance to finally protect Americans’ privacy. bit.ly/4tASUmW
Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!
Unlimited Editions: Drowned By Locals
To accompany his article on Drowned By Locals in The Wire 506, @miloshroch.bsky.social compiles an annotated playlist of tracks from the Jordan based label
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...
Giason
You're really selling me on this book!
I found this post because I saw a screenshot of your Threads post that made me want to read more, but I'm not on Threads. Do you have this posted anywhere else?
Picture of the character Malicious from the animated Halloween special Witch's Night Out
Who else remembers Catherine O'Hara's greatest role?
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
I have so appreciated your optimism throughout these troubling times.
(Sorry, I forgot the alt text on that one. This is a series of photos of Violet Crawley side by side with photos of Lucille Bluth.)
I can't explain why, but I find it very therapeutic to make these and I will definitely be making more.
I wish! Miss you guys!
Oh my god I am so sorry that happened to you.
I LOVE CAPITALISM (is what I loudly proclaim online in hopes that the authoritarian capitalist regime won't execute me then deepfake me into tacky swimwear)
I do not think that the president's secret immigration police should be allowed to kill people any more than I believe that the regular police should be allowed to kill people, which is not at all.
The "one weird trick" of Republicans since Reagan has been to market aristocratic policies using vulgarian language. It's body-snatched populism.
Actual populism is about material conditions and solidarity. Fake populism is saying "uninformed prejudices are more valid than well-researched views."
Screenshot of an article in Slate from 2014 in which the author, Matthew Yglesias, predicts that by 2026, we will be living in a utopian society thanks to autonomous cars.
Good morning, Utopian Society!
For the third year in a row, we've gathered an ensemble of cosmic improvisers for a night of sounds conducive to dreams and other nocturnal visions. If you happen to be in the Bay, come join us! momence.com/Berkeley-Ale...
So so pleased to see this!
Chloe deserves all the plaudits for this incredible album, such a honour to help put it out
Huge thanks to @emilypothast.bsky.social and @thewiremagazine.bsky.social 🙏🩷
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
My piece in Jacobin published today on Peter Thiel's apocalyptic geopolitics w/ Rory Rowan (just 17 years after we agreed to write something together on the End!) jacobin.com/2025/11/pete...
If you happen to be in the Town o' Beans for #SBLAAR, I'm presenting on the Antichrist today at 9 am sharp.
@davigoli.bsky.social showed me this this morning. It's incredibly tempting!
A warning over a highway near Interstate 5 in Los Angeles that reads “live weapons over freeway”
We just live in a john carpenter movie now.
Meme of anime character looking at a butterfly with the caption "Is this theodicy?"
Oldish news at this point, but I'm hono(u)red to have interviewed Natural Information Society for the 500th issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social
For libertarian types, "freedom" generally means freedom from regulation.
