That sinking feeling when you finally get up to date with an ongoing SFF series.

The thing is Hamnet just sounds like a 90s Geocities site hosting a message board where people discussed their favourite cured meat.

My walking around music for the next few weeks.

If only everything in life could be as reliably excellent as a new Converge album.

"everyone has to get back to the office because the important thing about business is human interaction" is dying, but "white collar jobs will be replaced by AI agents within 18 months" cannot yet be born; in this interregnum a variety of morbid symptoms appear.

En français!

“But but but my physical journal needs to have page limits” stop it—we’re in the era of zero marginal cost of distribution, act like it!!

you want to read this and share it everywhere. it is very good.

OK, *ongoing* thread of books to read on Palestine. Some recent, some not at all so recent.

Either McSweeney has something really big on Starmer or Starmer is the worst politician AND judge of character that has ever set foot on this planet Hard to find another option apart from even wilder conspiracies at this stage

In today’s episode, @nhold.bsky.social returns to discuss how deportation is unjustifiable state violence no matter one’s immigration status or citizenship, and how that violence is naturalized when demands are framed around who or what is “legal” on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...

Since there's been some conversation about historical analogies for the present stuff with ICE, I figured I'd share this. In it I argue the similarity between (opposition to) border enforcement and (the effort to abolish) slavery. buttondown.com/nateholdren/...

too argumentative to be at peace, not argumentative enough to enjoy it, harrumph. harrumph!

There's a fascinating passage in Black Reconstruction before Du Bois launches into a discussion of black military participation in the civil war. He notes that as more of the men were called off to war, often slaves were operating essentially unguarded on plantations with only women and children...

I don’t think I can say this forcefully enough: hundreds of thousands of Haitians will lose status tomorrow with racist ending of their TPS & are spending today refreshing their feeds for a court order that could literally save thier lives. This is nothing short of psychosocial torture.

There *is* a danger that we end up thinking - in these vulgar times - that this is the *necessary* way in which all this stuff works. Like the thing with the - tired and boring - Miliband/Poulantzas fake-debate, is that obviously the most vulgar form of Milibandism could be empicially true ...

the real conspiracy is the one to convince us that the most vulgar, caricatured version of Milibandite state theory is true.

OMG this gives "actor-network theory" a whole new dimension

ngl i almost had a heart attack

To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mine’s book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened

Not surprising though. Perfect character mask for capital

Today, we share an open letter from seventy-two University of Minnesota Law faculty addressing the federal government’s ongoing campaign of fear, intimidation, and violence against Minnesotans.

since talk of general strikes has come back (a good thing imo!), re-upping this piece on some of why the law is an obstacle to those and fosters a labor movement less inclined to those organizing.work/2023/08/the-...

Or really any other Gramsci. Even just the rest of the ‘time of monsters’ paragraph at this point.

Out now! I've edited a special issue of New Political Economy on 'Centring exploitation in global political economy'. Link to the intro: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Other articles (all brilliant!) and a short summary 👇 1/

A brilliant analysis of how sanctions have transformed the Iranian government into a Chicago School regime of austerity that benefits those attached to the regime, creates precarious labour, and rolls back all the redistributive and social measures of the past: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

This photo is from an anti-ICE protest. Very worth noticing the language of "unobstructive protest activity." There aren't many examples of successful justice movements succeeding via "unobstructive protest" but even if we say for the sake of argument that it will definitely succeed against ICE, the

Something I keep thinking about: I don't want anyone to endure what ICE is doing to people, at the same time, talk of ICE being indiscriminate, no one's safe, etc, worries me because if ICE becomes more finely tuned, so to speak, so that they're laser focused exclusively on undocumented people while

new lows in blogging! new heights in self-indulgence! what a time to be alive (so I'm told) buttondown.com/nateholdren/...

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

First public event of the Toronto Tempest Organizing Collective. On Socialism from Below at York University Thursday, January 15, 4pm.

The emerging conservative vision of social media is a complete black-out until you hit your 16th birthday, after which you get to exercise 'free speech' by creating deep fake child porn

If the govt bans x, what happens to all the centrists who've found themselves with 'reasonable concerns' about trans people? Do they just go back to forgetting about us because it's not in their face every day?

Central bank independence and financial market reaction appear to be two more supposed liberal bulwarks against fascism which have, shockingly, failed.

As we said ten years ago: there is no Just Right point on the racism and xenophobia Laffer Curve, a place you can pitch the crackdowns and flag-fucking and please reactionaries. They weren’t reasoned into these fears, so they can’t be reasoned out of them www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

If border studies as an academic discipline has shown anything over the last three decades, it’s that the border is wherever the sovereign authority says it is, and encompass whatever the sovereign authority wants it to.

the right to expropriate and the fight over compensation are key terrains of geopolitical conflict and will be even more so in future struggles over land and climate

This is actually a pro-ICE message that if taken seriously will lead to the agency being expanded even more than Obama, Biden, and Trump have already expanded it. Pseudo-opposition at best.

A bombshell new video shows that Good was not actually blocking ICE; instead, she waved for the agents to “go around” her vehicle after dropping someone off. However, the agents swarmed, pulling on the doors and demanding she “get out of the fucking car!” trib.al/StJkKeI

When you are the incumbent government, your re-election strategy is downstream of your governing record, which is what you should be preoccupied with now.

I think this is definitely worth re-upping as well: twailr.com/twail-review...

re-upping this Rob Knox essay re: how little is actually accomplished by going 'b-b-but that's ILLEGAL' salvage.zone/the-right-ag...

so IL is like that guy you’re in love with at 21 who’s just not that into you & lies and hooks up random people & then some people are like I deserve better (communism) and some people are like what do you think it means that he saw my message seventeen hours ago and the posted three stories

IL discourse as Taylor Swift songs this law is good this law is bad this law is alive back from the dead oh oh oh

Good news everyone, a quant employed by a business school assures me there are no ethical issues with AI. Problem solved!

Preliminary proofs are in......

It's important to understand that Greenland is not just part of Denmark, but has it's own domestic politics. The current crisis have meant that the Greenlandic government, Naalakkersuisut, have gained greater autonomy and room for maneuver. This mapping of the GL elite is a good place to start