Anxiously awaiting emails about permissions to reprint my own occasional pieces in my own (sole-author) book.

Cecilia Aldarondo's stellar documentary Landfall, which is about Puerto Rico, mutual aid, environmental collapse, the crypto industry, and much more, has been added to @criterionchannl.bsky.social as part of their Blackstar Film Festival Presents program. I highly recommend checking it out!

—of course New York Times opinion comes up with something divisive and dull for the end of Pride month. We get it already. You hate us. No need to keep proving it.

The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.

speaking generally, I think the no. 1 thing you can do as a cis ally is help a trans woman get a job

I wrote about it a few months ago. I'm still collecting a lot more data to tell this story but it's remarkable just how much money and effort went into this. All driven from the top by wealthy billionaires and their allies. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

It's really hard to convey just how massive the scale of legislation has been to target trans people. From a few dozen pieces of legislation in 2015 to over a thousand in 2025. It started with sports bans in 2020 and now we're here. it was never about sports.

we probably shouldn't even have a branch of the government that can revoke the civil rights of certain types of children

It’s important to understand that the Court is now just an arm of the oligarchy. This decision strips the people of the right to limit the role of money in politics. It gives billionaires special rights to buy our elections. A precondition of oligarchy.

Oh I could definitely pull a bigger audience in DC. Never done a show there, but I just know this tranny marxist is more of a draw than five cishet white ladies with identical dress sense.

Congratulations, Aarthi! WE THE PLATFORM is a landmark. If you want to understand how Web 2.0 has changed what it means to write literature, the very conditions for literature, read this book. Its rigorous account of copyleft and copyright is indispensable, and it's full of brilliant readings.

I could pull a bigger crowd than that in DC.

Trump threw America’s 250th birthday party and barely anyone came.

We need to talk about capitalism and the structural immorality of the rich. "It broke me to realize that in the Hamptons, plants are covered for the winter while people are left outside in the cold with nothing."

3. McKenzie Wark - Reverse Cowgirl My introduction to Autotheory. That's a genre where you mix biographical with theory. This one is a wonderful piece of queer literature and theory in my eyes. 4. Paul B. Preciado - countersexual manifesto He does queer theory very different than a lot of people.

Pride weekend is so life-affirming. Love seeing you all on various dance floors. As it turns out, it was giving me strength for the Monday rejection emails.

people complaining about gay guys at t4tluvnrg fail to understand they're a keystone species. although it may feel like dolls are gazelles getting crowded out by wildebeest at the watering hole, they help ward off our natural predators (chasers, feeld/house of yes het couples, nyu undergrads)

- dans un système de production que sur la base d'une prise de parti, d'un acte subjectif d'allégeance en vue des épreuves radicalement sélectives d'une guerre civile).

Dans lequel les intérêts d'une classe vectorielle (comme dit McKenzie Wark) cherchent et trouvent l'allégeance de masse d'une ci-devant "classe moyenne" (définissable ainsi à partir du fordisme et de ce qu'il en restait, mais qui se redéfinit moins à partir d'une position -

Sotomayor: "The Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."

Justice Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench. It reads in part: "Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time. Its conclusion is wrong."

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Anyone who went to a Palestinian solidarity rally on October 8, 2023 was morally correct to have done so. It was very obvious what was coming. But as history shows, you don't get rewarded for being on the right side of history; you get branded a "premature antifascist."

There’s far too many “drunk fiction” and “drunk poetry” reading series’ and I think we need to start one that’s “shockingly sober memoirists”

Summer is here! Read essays by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Luke A. Fidler, Tara Fickle, Alexander Freer, Hannah Cohen, Chris Reitz, Maurice Ebileeni, and critical responses from McKenzie Wark and Emily McAvan. criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/past_issues/...

I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.

#Slop is not exclusively a product of generative AI. It‘s maybe not even primarily an effect of social media. It‘s a mode of fascist worldbuilding

These establishment Dem complaints about DSA candidates winning… it’s hard to take it seriously. They really didn’t expect to get primaried. It’s like they are admitting they don’t know how to win anymore. Which is precisely why they were left behind. Maybe they’ll figure it out.

Once upon a time I had ambitions to become a distinguished professor, but these days cult writer is more #goals

Honey, look at her, she's everything 💎💙

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Quite obviously freaked about being called in front of a Democratic congress in 2027.

“Moderate” is not a statement about your beliefs, but about your position in relation to others. In a world of runaway authoritarianism that means being dragged rightward like a tin can on a string behind a car

The true leftist position on AI is to build and promote infrastructure for fully open and distributed training and inference, that resists epistemic capture by corporate or state interests. A good source for revolutionary theory in the age of AI is “A Hacker Manifesto” by @mckenziewark.bsky.social

In a recent email, the Scholars in Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine again call for a boycott of SCMS. I worry that they won't have the momentum that they had last year and I also would love to attend SCMS this year (I miss you folks!). But, I can't justify breaking a boycott.

NYC, today is Primary Day. Polls are open NOW and close at 9 PM tonight. Be sure to get your vote in before then. For your polling site and more information, go to vote.nyc. Make your voice heard, New York City.

Neo-fascism is not a materialist response to anything. It is a revolt of the privileged, so bored by their prosperity that they are reigniting world-historical ideological struggle just to feel something for once in their miserable, empty lives.

A lot of people on both the right and the left, for the sake of their own ideological confirmation biases, portray the neo-fascist wave as a surge of "forgotten men," the neglected working class and so on. But it is a revolution driven by car dealership owners and CEOs.

“I myself did have a notion about the eighth art, about the transcendence of art: I believed that the only real art was life itself.” ― Jean-Michel Mension, The Tribe (translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith)

These declarations are made out in the open, now with automatic translation. Western politicians and commentators who pretend not to notice these grotesque declarations by *the national security minister of a state which their countries arm and fund* are complicit in them.

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

Working on a long term project to answer just how much money was spent on anti-trans political ads between 2018-2025. The numbers on Meta are pretty staggering. Matt Walsh alone spent over $8 million on anti-trans ads followed by $3.5 million by the Daily Wire and $2.6 million by PragerU.

The Chronicle: "Is it possible for academia to get rid of all the research and the teaching but keep the elitism and snobbery?"

"English teachers have little latitude to prepare the next generation of citizens. Accordingly, as we've learned from conversations w/ dozens of teachers & from the responses to a nat'l survey we conducted in 2024, they are intensely dissatisfied w/ the state of the field" post45.org/2026/06/post...

No factual record, no legal standing, no legal harm, no person directly affected as party to the case. This is such a farce of a legal system. As bad as things are in the US, at least we have constitutional restraints such ss requiring standing and actual harm.

Always rocks to see an unheard knowledgeable source be proven 100% correct

On 19 June, 1900 CEST, Multimedia Institute in Zagreb will host a discussion about vectoralism, an economic system based on vector: the commodification of information, and how it is processed, transmitted & stored. What can hackers do to take back control? Sign up and join us at: luma.com/0z46lm2r

I am *thrilled* to share that we are hiring again! A tenure track job in early modern literature! I’ve found Wesleyan a terrific place to work—help us spread the word? wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

JD Vance basically saying working class ppl have no manners. To which I say, go fuck yourself you useless Yalie.