Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

Our analysis shows that the measles virus seen in Utah as recently as May is very closely related to one that circulated in Texas a year ago. Given our findings, one expert said it’s going to be difficult for the U.S. to prove measles isn’t endemic: https://propub.li/3QAKxK1

I really worry we are moving towards a research landscape where actual interviews, in which a human talks to another human, are going to be seen as too expensive and slow to be worth doing. Chatbots are not interviewers, in no small part because the transcript is not the interview.

Really pleased to see this poem out in the English Journal—grateful for friends and colleagues continuing to do the work to resist the narrative of AI inevitability in education. publicationsncte.org/content/jour...

Two famously elastic categories of demand

Your regular reminder that the 'middle class' is a construct of structural and specific consumption patterns; a lexicon designed to keep working people who earn decent money from achieving class consciousness and to distance themselves morally from the poor.

We are living in a golden age of ostensible super powers shooting their own dicks off

gonna be a wild week

US getting absolutely dog walked

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

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Really neat to have some of my poetry rendered calligraphically and featured in this exhibition. Lovely work, @ergative-abs.bsky.social!

The rural petit bourgeoisie is not the working class. Like categorically those things are very different.

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

thinking we maybe should have been a little meaner to the confederacy after the war

I taught Andor as part of my seminar on authoritarianism this term. The aesthetics, the psychopolitics of the show are so perfect when read alongside, e.g., Adorno’s work on authoritarian personality

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

The thing is, I think these are all fundamentally correct & completely reconcilable political economies of the contemporary.

I feel like Cop City is up there with Gamergate in the number of canaries it killed in that coal mine.

Really pleased to see this poem out in the English Journal—grateful for friends and colleagues continuing to do the work to resist the narrative of AI inevitability in education. publicationsncte.org/content/jour...

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

This is straight up, Nazi "dual state" shit. If a naturalized citizen commits a crime, we have mechanisms in place to hold them accountable. It's called the legal system and it applies to all of us. This extra targeting of only *some* people accused of crimes is part of a broader, expulsive project.

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

Barragán on so-called traditional architecture and social totality

this is awful for many reasons, but IHE's framing suggests a frictionless market for academic labor where tenured faculty who dislike the terms of their job can leave for "bluer pastures" anytime. This recodes a functionally collapsed market for humanistic expertise in terms of free market fantasy

normalize premium vegetables sincerely believe that Rancho Gordo is doing some of the most effective climate work out there right now, and I don't know anything specific they're doing besides selling excellent beans

Perhaps the triumph of exchange value was not so foregone as we imagined. A small victory--still, amazing what is possible when we begin to imagine a world built for people and not for capital.

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate. Taxing billionaires is not radical. What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.

The US either entered into a negotiation in bad faith or, more embarrassingly, genuinely thought Iran would just abandon the allies it depends on to keep its greatest regional rival at bay.

In March, renewables produced more than a third of US electricity for the first time ever, even overtaking gas generation! Wind and solar combined reached over a quarter (26%) for the first time.

these are the stupidest people to ever live

Shameful

Based Pope

this is HILARIOUS therepublicjournal.com/essays/ai-an...

these are exactly the stakes! embracing trump’s view would be embracing the cramped vision of freedom and belonging that we fought a civil war to banish to the ash heap of history

Seems bad

If, after all the gnashing of teeth over their bona fides, Indivisible manages to pull off a May Day general strike, it will be very funny—and, to be clear, extremely cool and good.

At least we solved the problem of the Strait of Hormuz being open

Brb, shorting everything

Really love what yall have been doing here since the Antipode article; since then your perspective has been valuable to my work. Its also important to my own sentiment as a person who has never been keen with the arc of racial capitalism as a "watch word", (to use your compelling language!)

Really looking forward to teaching this next year

Atlanta native, flown into and out of ATL countless times—never seen anything like this.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

"Universal health coverage is not merely a technical goal to be achieved; it is primarily a moral imperative for societies that wish to call themselves just." —Pope Leo XIV

Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.