It's not hyperbole that to this day someone's HIV+ status alone can be grounds for their partners to threaten & take legal action against them, and abusers absolutely leverage that implicit state violence to trap HIV+ partners

A lack of empathy is great for business! But have you thought about how this mode of thinking / operating extends to overlooking / ignoring long-term negative consequences that will eventually destroy any system designed without empathy?

I'll say it again -- I'm on my firm's AI committee: every canned demo has had brutal, malpractice-level errors, and every live trial has required more time and care to vet the output than to just do it, like working with an unteachably incompetent associate you'd need to sit down for a Hard Talk.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

"the essay sucks ass" is no doubt true, couldn't be bothered to read it, but consider that the essay may have been written to receive an F in order to instigate a campaign against the trans TA. in any case it's not a great dunk because this isn't about the essay, it's about purging trans ppl

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

In the constant ebb and flow of aggregating and disaggregating notions and contents, pulling out dismissible "sells drugs" instead of "does violence" or "threatens public health" relieves him of the presidential responsibility he fears with a natural counter to the whole premise of the war on drugs

As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good

One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain. "The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.

i think a motto can matter in a midterm if it is popular enough. however, face down ass up manifestly fails to meet the moment. because it's not for the base. it's merely the democratic party elite signaling there won't be consequences for oligarchs' actions.

I'm sure Noah just can't distinguish between loving America and saying you love America (January 6th was just patriotic nationalism ig) But there's a certain type of Republican that probably fills out his audience that knows Democrats are Republican-Lite and knows they win even with Dem leaders

mood

Through our very existence we demonstrate that not only do things not need to be this way, but that if you bring abolition into your own life it can be better, sexier, freer. Of course they want to destroy us. Im not apologizing or pretending what I want isn't the transing of everything

Attacking trans children is about attacking all children in the same way attacking trans autonomy is about attacking all bodily autonomy. Our actions are particularly powerful, autonomous and brave, and that means even well meaning ppl find us ideologically disturbing

In classic "good guy bad guy" form, the very idea of Public Health is a "bad guy" forever because elites weren't allowed to do anything they wanted for a few weeks They'll never forgive you for wanting to be alive; they'll systematically destroy anything that benefits the health of the public

my jaw is on the floor and yet im completely unsurprised. trump’s only political conviction is that he loves a handsome winner

Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?" My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.) The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope? Because Greta is right ..

Remember when the head of the Russia investigation was all "here's the evidence, I don't think it is in my purview to prosecute it but you probably should" and then everyone decided that meant there wasn't evidence and it had all been a hoax and/or hallucination

I agree but I think, as a dialectic, reform and revolution are distinct moments in a greater Whole Reform will not accomplish the revolutionary societal change we need, but revolutionary societal change can't happen in a political landscape that holds us down - reform is a prerequisite preparation

The idea that just because you can make it make sense means it's a valid interpretation of a series of facts, utterances, data points, is exactly why we have methods. Because cognition is powerful enough to spin any story, without constraints, one can infer anything from anything if they want to.

to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.

Holidays are coming up, a perfect time to remind your MAGA family members that Epstein is only part of the story, Trump has been importing foreign sex traffickers and giving them special protection. Then ask, "so did Trump bring the Tate brothers here as a replacement for Epstein's services?"

But that is not exclusive territory: you too can reinvent yourself. You can reject what has been pushed on you and claim womanhood on your own terms, on your own definitions. If you envy the joy you see us having as trans women, ask yourself how you too can enjoy it.

part of a Woman's Role in Patriarchy is to be the property of a Patriarch. When you stop centering men, you've already ejected yourself out of that structure. Now you're left in a place a lot of transfems find ourselves in early on: what does it mean to be a woman?

Literally the political divide in this country is "should we make things better or should we make them worse?" and the answer might surprise you

Buy less, spend less, have less is certainly a motto for republicans heading into the holidays. Not sure an entire nation whose identity is wrapped in consumption will like it!

like i say every *checks notes* week

To process those applications again is going to cost so much time and money. They are spending money to starve people. And given the level of corruption, I have no doubt that applications with names indicating certain backgrounds will be conveniently "misplaced" for weeks if not months or years.

You can't do cruel and unusual PUNISHMENT, but I guess you CAN do cruel and unusual just a thing we are doing so that you suffer. Not really a punishment, just more that we hate you

everyone needs to get way more esoteric right now

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

the neurodivergent urge to wonder if you are performing Friendliness correctly. if your Friendliness has been appropriately calibrated to the situation at hand.😮‍💨

Order and Disorder are both fundamental, in nature and in our relationships to ourselves and to each other, and they build off each other dialectically Art explores these relationships, and Technology formalizes them, allowing us to do new exploration with new artforms. Love love love to see this!

my most woke belief is that most of the world's suffering stems from systems of inequity enforced with violence at the sadistic behest of an incurious & frightened elite; liberal democratic governments believe their responsibility is to provide them with labourers, and we can change it all today.

A timeline cleanser: My recent newsletter is about rise of "repair cafes" around the world, where communities come together to fix each other's beloved things. The goal: reduce consumer waste, and maybe make some buddies in the process 🔧👭 insideclimatenews.org/news/1111202...

Plenty of good radical policy prescriptions going around but my wokest opinion is that existence is made of Change, not Truth Trying to "conserve" or pin down a "right" way to be negates the most fundamental freedoms we have to self-determination and authenticity in our relationships

it’s now “woke moralism” to say pedophiles should be punished

Given the scale of the operation, the fact that no-one has been charged can be seen both as a grotesque mismanagement of resources and a desire to focus on creating images of military domination.

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

A convicted felon who had also been found liable for sexual assault and committed additional crimes in plain sight was close with a notorious child sex trafficker and likely participated in some of those crimes too got elected with much of that known and spent his presidency railing against “crime.”

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy

I think there's a lot of willingness among Dems to hear out moderates and see how their strategy plays out in the long term, which was fine during the relatively "stable" neoliberal period But now we're here at the end of that experiment and the result is fascism and it's time to try something else

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

Rhetorical pleas against infighting are always begging the question about who's actually on the same side as you.

Heh. I actually do "experience pleasure," just like any normal person. I have pleasurable experiences every day. I read books, of course, and watch movies. Even the odd television show. I consume food and experience the same pleasure as everybody else. I enjoy things. I am capable of enjoying things

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

“Listen, we have to get past these internal recriminations.” - me when my boss asks why I haven’t gotten anything done in 7 weeks