TIL that ten minutes on IG depresses even Madonna.

America should be building homes NOT data centers

currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

The reason Obama used water from the river for the reflecting pool and not city water is because city water is treated with orthophosphates, which is food for algae, causing massive blooms that produce cyanotoxins that kill wildlife.

I chided a younger friend for being fascinated by numerology, and he shot back: “yeah, ChatGPT has warned me about it too.”

RIP to a brilliant and socially committed artist. He made beautiful music; African Magic is one of my all time favorite albums youtu.be/sHYAsY6p7zE?...

The ultimate writing constraint: do not use artificial intelligence.

I talk to a lot of folks in real life about data centers. I have never run into even one who supports them, aside from the folks sent to our towns to sell them to us. Dems should lean into this. The Rs are generally in favor of letting corporations steal our water and power and quality of life.

Unfortunately still just as true today as when Oscar Wilde wrote it in 1890.

Not the Knicks making basketball 🏀 history on my birthday 😁

Asking Bari Weiss to run CBS News is like asking me to pilot a 747 - Scott Pelley has a way of getting his point across!

In the paper today, sky-high oil prices caused by illegal war is discussed by profiteers as “demand destruction.” Not human or lifeworld destruction; demand.

And then Carrie began to wonder … was everyone using AI except her?

Profiles in courage

Hands off our healthcare

No lies detected : “Artificial Intelligence now demands to be disarmed, freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion and death.”

The Pride section T-shirts at the mall store here in Providence are saucy as 🔥!

ChatGPT, tell me what else the US could have done with $25 billion to invest in people instead of death and destruction.

Many things could be done to improve the world and the repeal of Citizen’s United is one of them.

‘Scientification,’ a new jargon term to wrestle with. On the one hand — the appeal to authority can purloin matters from the public sphere. On the other, it’s not as if scientific truth claims are spurious …

The Madonna revival of 2026 and what it portends.

My first tweet on twitter, if memory serves, asked whether the platform could be used for communicative reason, à la Habermas.

Could BlueSky be a place? Could it be non-addictive social media?

Palestinians voted on Saturday in the first elections held in part of Gaza in more than two decades, while tens of thousands of Palestinians cast ballots in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. https://to.pbs.org/3OKJ3fh

Ask a silly question…

The ghost note bene.

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A student presentation today shocked me: there are anti-trans laws or bills is 49 states. And Puerto Rico. That is more states than have an income tax.

Luminous evening with Jonathan Howard and M NourbeSe Phillip on “The Blueness of Blackness.”

“War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.” - George Orwell

Hope for humankind

An image that will go down in infamy.

Now that the US president has issued a genocidal threat to a sovereign nation amidst an undeclared illegal war, why not dive into this rich archive of anti-fascist writing, courtesy of the Yale Review? yalereview.org/fall-of-free...

I do not regret to inform you that we're gonna win

America is re-segregating right before my eyes. More and more places I go, I’m the only black person. This wasn’t always the case.

Just learned the post-New York story of Libby Howes at an event to launch Marc Robinson’s book about 1976: a year in the emergence of the American theatrical avant-garde.

Art as “second responder” — excellent editorial in the Chicago Tribune. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/23/o...

It’s been ages since I’ve felt impelled to live tweet an event, but the vibe at Omar Offendum takeover at BAM fisher is too good not to share with the universe.

The Wall Street Journal just found a gay neocon to deplore the word “queer”? What is this, 1993?

Someone from the Democratic Party just sent me a text saying they need $1 million by midnight lol what world are we living in and why is this happening to me?

On this BREAKFAST CLUB detention day anniversary, I want you to know I am still mad about this makeover after decades :) John Hughes, what did you have against cool goth girls?!

The Oscars weren’t on my radar until I heard the live hosts promise not to censor any live political speech from the stage, naming Gaza, Iran, and elsewhere. Now I’m all 👂

I emerge, out of nowhere, to tell all my (currently 0) followers that I HAVE PUBLISHED A BOOK! It's beautiful, it's amazing, and I love it! It's called Abnormal Peripheries and it's about performance in the former Czechoslovakia that emerged under political pressures. GO READ IT and share this post

This is everything

The AI arms race is akin to the Lord of Rings: everyone is trying to find “one ring to rule them all.”