43-years into the word processor's life cycle seems like a weird time to change how arrow keys and shift/select works.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

my husband just sent me this

I'm listening to a table ponder new PCs, and thinking non-revolutionary thoughts about how GM world-building is all set design. How sets are nonfunctional---you can't live in a sitcom house, you can't pilot the Enterprise---but skilled actors bring it to life.

Being a powerful, wealthy person "unwilling" to speak the truth publicly and going further to actively lie is pretty much the definition of "not a good person."

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Metaverse.

The context is 16th century anatomy, but it's honestly wild at this point in my academic career to be reading a book about how having pictures in books is very important.

Also worth noting, as we do in the post, that we're running a 50% off sale to celebrate our two-year anniversary. Every dollar helps us claw back the cultural perch that was stolen from literary criticism. www.typebarmagazine.com#/portal/sign...

The higher ed thinkfluencer-industrial complex churned out thousands of pieces just like this one

Finally watching The Slits documentary… I always forget that the original British punk scene were all babies.

The 3 genders

Your age in punk years is 60 minus the number of bands at Warped that make you say "I've heard of them but I haven't listened to them."

i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need

So it turns out Americans don’t love widespread cruelty. 50% of voters have now embraced "Abolish ICE," including a surprising 25% of Republicans. Keep pushing. All gas, no brakes. My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

One began his first tour in the Pacific a few days before WWII ended then worked in the hangar for Ozark Air. The other did QA at McDonnell-Douglas.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

it’s not a day to be online, but a day to pick up tools and build the world you would rather see

Begging this footnote to survive peer review.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

This stunt where ICE releases people far from home with no proper clothing and no way home should be treated as attempted homicide. In this case, actual homicide. These cases are not accidental or based on misunderstandings. They are deliberate attempts to inflict bodily harm.

btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind

This is very good and I don't have anything to add, except that I started imagining TV-brained Virginia Woolf. "Clarissa Dalloway walked into the London flower shop. 'I'm having a party tonight,' she said, standing very upright. The florist smiled and arched her eyebrows."

Today I'm sitting with not having done more as an instructor to lead discussions on how learning can be uncomfortable. I went to bed feeling like I'd never understand a particular philosopher and woke up ready to dive back in. I wish I'd taught that experience as much as the course content.

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

Leto II contemplating the Golden Path

Honestly, these guys have given me a greater appreciation for my own mind and what it can do, both the useful things and the useless things. Sort of like a reverse grad school.

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Randomly remembering the therapist who suggested I cut loose on guitar someday and play without overthinking. I expect they imagined I'd find true avant-garde freedom, but my guy, that's just how you get the most sterile Bb blues.

"Nazis were just regular people" is not a statement meant to evoke empathy or to excuse their crimes. It is a statement of warning. The capacity to be part of and perpetrate atrocities is not limited to "monsters," it is wholly human. It is what we must always be aware of.

I don't buy into phantom time conspiracies, but "L.E.S. Artistes" came out 10 years ago and you won't change my mind with your so-called facts.

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

online arguments aren’t about convincing the other party. they’re about establishing a psychosexual dominance over them that will burden them every time they see your posts from that point forward.

We picked Blade Runner as tonight’s movie, and instantly I remembered it has one of the worst kiss scenes ever. Yet I’d forgotten how gorgeous every scene looks. Even the model flyovers.

Roses are red Read this thread curiously Colorless green ideas Are sleeping furiously

My first impression of Wuthering Heights: The Movie: The Album is that the strings work unsurprisingly well but I wish there’d been more harmonic adventurousness in the arrangement.

MAGA Influencer: We need more quaint small towns like the one in this picture I found when I Googled “quaint small town.” *Picture is of a town in Vermont that Bernie Sanders wins by 58 points. Lesbian couples own every store.*

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

People online will assume you're a gazillionaire with a movie deal and a direct line to the president for being mildly popular in The Sims fandom.

This was a delight to wake up to, and I'm eagerly awaiting this essay from Opitz-Belakhal. This self-indigenizing aspect of modern paganism and witchcraft has been mentioned occasionally, but I haven't seen a full treatment of the trend as a means of absolution from the contemporary scene.

The last month has truly underscored how little we’ve internalized or institutionalized the idea of “believe women.” We’re still so convinced, as a public, that nothing is as real as an abuser’s own words.

“It’s unfair of you to expect me to have had a moral compass long before I was ever forced by a PR crisis to feign one.”

I believe that there are characteristics of structural change and AI, as yet, does not have them. I also believe that refusal opens up smart people to conceive of what *is* happening and not what capital *wants* to happen.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.