And they rely on us to live, not the other way around.

I encourage you to read books that you *want* to read and to quit reading books that you don’t enjoy.

“Where’s the robot to pat you on the back?”

Ahem, on that note let me take this moment to plug my latest work ischool.sjsu.edu/showcase/aga...

At this point I would not leave my children unsupervised around anyone who wears this hat, no exceptions

Amb of Somalia to UN to Representative of Israel, at the UNSC: “To come to this place and lecture us on humanity, genocide, human rights, independence, and democracy—when we know what you are doing on a daily basis—is just an insult.”

We Live in a country of fucking goldfish. Yesterday I stumbled into a conversation about how the far right is injecting words into mainstream cultures in an effort to change them from the bottom up, and people were shocked, shocked! That this is happening. "Why doesn't anybody talk about this?"

incidentally if you have an AI-generated image as your online avatar my baseline assumption is we disgree about labor and art and worker's rights and probably a constellation of other issues. Oh you asked a computer to fart out a cartoon selfie, cool, I bet you put the same effort into everything

So many of the commercial artists whose work became cultural mainstays were effectively divorced from their politics within cultural memory. See also Alphonse Mucha who died after interrogation by the gestapo.

I have wanted to write more about black and white corruption narratives—white corruption was often institutionalized, or made legal, and thus not seen as such. This is an interesting expansion because there are many actionable, documented ethics violations alone, but: NO corruption. whatsoever.

404 Media is making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and the ways people are resisting this technology. www.404media.co/404-media-is...

This is MTG'w bill. She personally authored. It's happening now, not in the past. Spare me her redemption arc.

I don’t know man if capitalism has just resulted in a small network of pedophiles destroying all life on earth then perhaps we should consider that it is a complete and utter failure as a system

Goin’ into 2026 like

I feel once again compelled to emphasis the digitizing in the literal scanning sense is fairly unimportant if it is not accompanied with metadata providing context for discovery. Both humans and AI will make things up when they don't know what they are looking at.

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

NO ONE WANTS TO GO TO SPACE TO WORK FOR BILLIONAIRES. ALIEN IS NOT ASPIRATIONAL.

Hate to break it to the pearl clutchers, professional hockey players already KNOW there’s porn written about them on the Internet. RPFers helped to grow the popularity of the sport. They’ll take the market share and league revenues in exchange for some awkward fanfic, believe me.

It’s wild so many people are willing to go to bat for prisons as a reserve for rural jobs when universities are better in every aspect for such a role.

Having now read a bunch of the mid-century economists considered responsible for this end-state where government services must prove value through profit generation, I tell you this profession has so much blood and suffering on its hands.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Can’t have these people around when you’re lying out your ass all day long!

The point was never to save money. That was only ever a convenient justification for an effort to decimate the public sector and dismantle the US social safety net.

Just pointing out that historically when people report struggle in a "solid economy" it's an early warning indicator, not that they've suddenly all lost their minds and don't understand that their lives are great actually.

I get that we’re gonna get a few cycles of backlash against the criticism of the plagiarists, much of it in good faith, but ‘angry people lack the linguistic specificity to dismantle the intentionally labyrinthian terminology of thieves’ isn’t a particularly interesting take, to me

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People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.

i could've sworn i read a post or watched a video where someone observed that car congestion fees and all this stuff are always unpopular right up until they go into effect, at which point it flips and becomes overwhelmingly popular. i'd love to see a compilation of polling flips from various cities

"These capital-intensive sectors are doing amazing!" Oh word? Weird how the labor-intensive sectors all feel like we're drowning! We're only like 40% of the labor force, heavily dominated by women, people of color, and queers. Can't imagine why you'd discount us!

to the "economy is doing great actually" folks: macro indicators do not disprove that cultural and educational workers currently experience higher costs, more debt, and less security. And we're allowed to be fucking mad at you for trying to tell us our own lived experience is wrong.

Haven’t watched a 60 Minutes segment in years until yesterday.

The US government has deported a US citizen with a Maryland birth certificate they claim is fake. This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.

Except that we won’t. The social Darwinism and eugenics are a huge part of MAHA. After all, a key idea behind the antivax movement is that vaccine-preventable diseases can’t harm you if you’re healthy and that if you’re not healthy it’s your fault.

Seeing how major "enterprise" computing companies work from the inside shows why things like "vibe coding" become popular. Things like "does any customer want this?" or "does this work?" are not actual considerations.

This week in US health policy: a dozen underwear companies have to register as medical device manufacturers now, but a different group deliberately increasing measles cases is protected advocacy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Amid soaring starvation in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, one young mother of two said she had considered taking her own life to save her children, “because I heard the U.N. takes care of the kids when the parents are gone.”

it's my birthday today! here's some art i'm pretty fond of from this year ◡̈

If you really must read shortened summaries of an academic text, there are likely endless review articles written about it!

“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of

Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI. I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

this is the most "Get a Job, Stay Away From Her" I've ever felt

reminder:

AI image/video generators should be required to label provenance in the file metadata. The fact that they all didn’t just do this from the beginning kinda gives the game away.

Hi Folks, we're about $2K shy from the halfway mark. Can you help us get there?

Just thinking about that other technology forced upon such an unwilling populous—cars—and the way that’s been fucking disastrous for our social fabric, the environment, both built and natural. We should just let capital walk us off another cliff when it serves nothing but a profit line?

matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong. at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...