One of Maurizio Lazzarato's best books is finally coming out in English. www.dukeupress.edu/revolutions-....

I wrote about the two dystopian movies based on books by Stephen King we got last year. www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/02/unti...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

The original Planet of the Apes premiered fifty eight years ago today. www.unemployednegativity.com/2011/08/ape-...

My superbowl

I wrote about ICE's concentration camps and the tech bros' data centers as key elements of the economic infrastructure of fascism. And how politicians need to take the public's lead in opposing both.

Reposted on the eleventh anniversary of the first episode of Better Call Saul www.unemployednegativity.com/2022/08/unbe...

The bad news is that the organizers of the pro-billionaire march were serious, the good news is that more people showed up to mock the march than to march in it. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Nice use of a little free library (description in alt text)

Reposted because I would rather be at the big Paolo Virno memorial conference in Rome. www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/11/the-...

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

This is my Winter Olympics

That yesterday was the anniversary of Bad Brains first cassette is good enough reason to wear one of my favorite shirts

Trump Defends Racist Video As Racist

It is Maria Mies' birthday. www.bloomsbury.com/us/patriarch...

Has anyone on the right embraced Pluribus as a show about rescuing individuality from the "woke mind virus"?

Remains true

This image comes to mind every time I learn about some new AI tech. Globalization, and the global inequality, is just the real world version of a green screen.

I have no clue if or what skeletons may be hiding in his closet, but Zohran just strikes me as a genuine dude that actually enjoys being a genuine dude

My brother covered my favorite Nirvana song. thewiggins.bandcamp.com/album/best-i...

1. deregulate everything and destroy all regulators so nothing functions in the public interest under the pretense this "aids innovation" and "empowers entrepreneurs" 2. blame poor people and minorities when nothing works

During Trump's first campaign there was this idea that he would say the N-word and that would be the end of it: now I fear that he has so desensitized everyone that when he does no one will be surprised, and the pundit class will be ready with their code words of "racially charged" discourse.

It is Bob Marley's birthday. Time to post one of my favorite stories from The Onion. theonion.com/bob-marley-r...

Will be interesting to see the posture that people take around this today. For my part, I'm glad to see that the white supremacists continue to make it clear how anti-Black and racist they are. It goes to the very top. This is what their weaponization of "woke" was always about.

Reposted for William S. Burrough's birthday, perhaps one of my best strips done for SUNY Purchase's Load.

To the Marxist imperative “always historicize” the neoliberal imperative can perhaps be understood as “always anthropologize,” always understand the differences that exist within society to be a difference between humans as humans, to be an expression of human nature.

I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic

Ultimate Frisbee

Reposted to go with my yearly Fargo rewatch. www.unemployednegativity.com/2016/03/the-...

The Washington Post 2017: "Democracy Dies in Darkness." Jeff Bezos 2026: "It's me; I am the Darkness."

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

I stayed up late watching The Last Dragon and wrote about it here. www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/02/the-...

starting to feel like we’re gonna need an updated edition

It is George Romero's birthday. In honor of the occasion I am reposting the time that a blog post I wrote about the lessons his movies offered to making sense of the pandemic ended up on Inside Edition. www.unemployednegativity.com/2020/03/rome...

1/ READY TO STRIKE: More than 80% of our members signed a pledge saying we are prepared to strike unless @propublica.org agrees to a fair contract. www.propublicaguild.org/updates/the-...

The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post is firing 1/3 of their reporters today. That’s in addition to those already fired over the past year and a half. Devastating. Bezos is manipulating the flow of information pretty obviously now. Spending money that might have supported the Post on pro-Trump propaganda.

Bento and me

It is also Simone Weil's birthday www.unemployednegativity.com/2019/02/clas...

“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.” - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932

At a certain point how a technology is used is what it is. AI is more about disinformation and spreading racist myths than it is some bold new world of learning and creativity. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

Reposted for Stuart Hall's Birthday www.unemployednegativity.com/2023/06/flor...

Hey everyone! Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today! But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold. I just resorted our list to put those on the top. Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!