3D-printing was supposed to revolutionize prosthetics. Now the hype has passed we're seeing where it's really worthwhile, and the challenges that remain.

About 10 years ago, people started asking me when I will 3D print my own arm, convinced from the media that the era of expensive prosthetics was over and a machine in a garage could whip me up something better. I looked into the current state of 3D printed arms, and it's not as rosy as it may seem.

I just want to say I am in favor of an extremely aggressive climate change action strategy that mobilizes the entire US military, every scientific resource available, and all gov’t agencies to transform the electrical grid, buy back gas cars, & protect coastal communities, wetlands, and forests.

Richest nation in human history

Ppl say both Musk & Trump are narcissists I think there’s a key difference. Musk is an insecure narcissist—thinks he’s god, knows deep down that ppl hate him, desperately needs approval. Trump is a secure narcissist—doesn’t need anyone’s approval, he’s more delusional, but is also more exploitable.

This isn’t true. It’s actually the Trump Administration’s brave, forward-thinking new climate policy.

I told a group of 60 undergrads that I decided to keep teaching this year because I love DEI and they broke into an applause. Imagine saying that kind of stuff, but to like, voters.

Americans have spoken and they demand wokeness

Six people have died from eating pasta. Six. Pasta. No political reckoning, no firings, no investigations into the big supermarket chains, just 'hey, sometimes pasta be deadly, oh well.' www.npr.org/2025/11/04/n...

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Trump, like most clinical narcissists, is just an interior designer at heart.

Penn's Alumni newsletters were hacked by right-wing losers, and that's probably a good thing to piss these children off. If Penn keeps it up, I might even consider donating.

Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.

IT HAS HAPPENED -- an event has appeared on @coyotemedia.org, @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @bayareacurrent.bsky.social calendars. The bay area indie calendar EGOT. What event is it? Well you will have to read all three calendars to find out. Yes I am a social media genius thank you.

A lot of people ask me what I will "do with" my geography PhD and I'm always like, "I'm /doing/ all sorts of things with it. It made my brain good."

Read me.

Read my essay on biohacking and learn how you too can become a llama girl. thebaffler.com/latest/the-j...

Get in loser, we're going biohacking. Because we don't have doctors.

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

Everyone is "biohacking" these days, and by that I mean taking obscure supplements or trying out intermittent fasting. Biohacking was once radical & experimental. Find out how billionaires made biohacking mainstream in my latest for The Baffler. thebaffler.com/latest/the-j...

Okay I'll bite, what's a salesforce?

Not my usual content but powerlifting is so fun. Follow for the writing, stay for some chaotic lifting videos. Also yes, I am an adaptive lifter.

The most beautiful thing you will hear today. Probably all month, too.

He's like a stupid Bruno Latour.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Weird that the number #1 self help book in America is called Let Them about the freeing power of letting go of trying to control other ppl & obsessing over what other ppl are doing and thinking---and the country is being overrun by a far right cultural movement obsessed with controlling people

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

the skeleton key to understanding these people is that they genuinely think you are a drone who will do what you’re told if the TV says it

"As I took a bus from work to the 9/11 Truth Film Festival at the Grand Lake Theater on Thursday, I privately coached myself into adopting an open mind, or at least an open heart." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-assume-wel...

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Fighting back works. If your university, workplace etc capitulates, it's not because they think they'll lose, it's because they don't care to fight.

I think a huge problem with the internet & social media is that it gives you a deeply disorganized, piecemeal, contradictory "education." You get thrown into it too young, w/o any critical thinking ability, you don't end up w/ a coherent worldview or politics--it's just chaotic & violent.

I'll say this again: They want you stupid, talent-less, de-skilled, and with zero self-respect so that you rely on their tech for the rest of your life.

Today is a really good day to play a Nancy Drew PC game from 2012.

I'd love to get in on some of that hopium or whatever all the boomers are getting from tuning into Ezra Klein. I *want* to believe. I *want* to give my brain a break and say this man is right and just stop thinking. But wow holy shit what a stupid man.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Why is every single one of those birthday cards like "You're my best pedo friend, the one I go to when I want to do pedophilia. I love you, my pedo buddy."

the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

Re: ending vaccine mandates. In places where vaccines are for the wealthy, you get diseases like tuberculosis circulating, which anyone can get, even the vaccinated. In Ethiopia, the wealthy screen for vaccinated housekeepers. It creates a *deeply* segregated society.

Told my students that the primary goal of LLMs is to make you disrespect yourself so deeply, that you never apply yourself to learn anything because the chat can do it for you, rendering you skill-less, boring, and utterly dependent on it. It's not a tool. It's a soul sucker.

Again, I have some mild concerns about universities paying for unrestricted access to this technology to every single undergraduate on campus!

They can whine about "crime" (when it has actually decreased substantially) because they were never talking about /crime/...they're talking about visible poverty, which has indeed increased. BEING poor *is* a crime to them.

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

The nausea of simultaneously experiencing personal good news and looking at some of the most grotesquely dictatorial shit in months. Feel happiness for myself for a second, then throw up.

Florida, here are your tax dollars at work. Law enforcement are being tasked with monitoring a crosswalk to ensure it's not restored with rainbow colors after the state government painted it over a second time over the objections of the local government and community.

I hope this helps someone: Regardless of your intention when using AI, it doesn't change the processes involved in using it, which include excessive consumption of water & other finite energy sources and data centers that are placed in vulnerable communities, polluting both people and land.

Reflecting today on the incredible diversity and richness of human experience and the contradictory desire by some humans to deny, suppress, obliterate, and flatten all that richness. It's a technique of domination. But there's so much to gain from just...letting things bloom.

They say AI is gonna take your job, but they also want you to /use/ AI, so that you’re deskilled, less valuable, less interesting, less intelligent…so that AI can take your job.

No, I don't think there is any need for you, me or anyone to have access to ChatGPT or CoPilot just to help you plan your kid's birthday party, or find nearby restaurants, or plan your holiday for you, or do your homework for you, or write your book review for you, all to see the world burn.

It’s like the federal/private sector revolving door thing except it’s the same guys and the revolving door only goes one place.