"We’ve been developing forgeries and fakes for years – in hieroglyphs and runes, letters and telegrams, faxes, emails, drawings, paintings, pictures, and tweets and posts. We’re attached to all of that, charlatans that we are." — @pbkauf.bsky.social Read on: mailchi.mp/mit/mitp-rea...

Kakapo everywhere.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history

DWeb Digest Issue 2: "The Architecture of Resilience" is live. With @pbkauf.bsky.social as guest editor. 8 essays on building decentralized infrastructure that lasts. Read it: ffdweb.org/digest/issue-2

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who is also a former Danish prime minister, said that Trump was using Greenland “as a weapon of mass distraction from the real threats” such as Russia’s war in Ukraine. “For me, it’s been a painful process. Since childhood, I have considered the United States as the natural

Passing along this idea I'll never get around to pulling off— Create an index of Trump-connected stocks and compare how it performs to traditional indices. Would include Trump Media, American Bitcoin, Alt5 and firms that have Jr. or Eric as advisors (Dominari, Grab a Gun, Unusual Machines, etc.).

Sure. Makes sense.

Interactive!

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered? GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now THOMPSON: What does that mean?

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

Ok everyone

Could footnotes soon point to videos instead of books? Read IWM Visiting Fellow @pbkauf.bsky.social's conversation with Russell Harper from the @chicagomanual.bsky.social about Peter B. Kaufman's new book, The Moving Image: cmosshoptalk.com/2025/11/25/p...

Must be nice to have a real supreme court

That doesn’t sound good.

A conversation with the unflappable Russell Harper @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Fie!

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.

Ew.

Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:

Chekhov’s earliest stories were “childishly comical”. During the translation process, says Rosamund Bartlett, “we would just collapse in fits of giggles”. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Stephen Fry has had a lifelong bond with Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Now, he is starring in the new West End production of the play. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Zx81Zq

You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Paramount held talks with Saudi wealth fund over potential Warner bid on.ft.com/43BEl7Y

Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.

Thank you. #Epstein #OpenAccess #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Thanks to the support of @iwm.at in 2025-2026, I'm writing a new book, and between meetings in Europe I'll have the good fortune to workshop it at Central European University next week: events.ceu.edu/2025-11-12/f... It's about why people think the zany things they do, and why open access matters!

"Capping his ascent"? What a fucking weird headline.

Yes but not astonishing

Not simply in Latin America. Also in the US, the UK, Europe and East Asia. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not good.

Just going to keep reposting this, because it is the way & the truth

COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”

Bribey.

Lindell TV? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Cool.

What a cover!

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3

Fair.

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

About 10,000 U.S. troops and dozens of military aircraft and ships are in the region. From NYT Politics: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

“America is now in a dangerous period, in which the president can order investigations and indictments against his enemies. Mr. Trump is criminalizing Americans’ ability to challenge their leaders.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

MIT President Kornbluth announced on Friday the university “cannot support” Trump’s compact, saying the university disagreed with a number of the principles laid out in the document, including policies that would limit freedom of expression and institutional independence.

MIT understands its mission and values. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u... @nytimes.com, tho That’s not all that we rejected. C’mon.

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Every targeted institution (my own very much included) should cut and paste this letter onto their letterhead.

The Genius Act.