New paper out suggests there are a LOT more species of insects in the world. Their estimate: 20.3 million species, of which we have described 5% 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

at long last I have achieved my dream of creating a Tetris-like video game for learning the Arabic letters

this was such a wonderful episode of @afikra.bsky.social who was it that said that the more time goes on, the more the ads in magazines become more interesting than their articles? www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEF_...

looking at my e-mail getting ready for PTO next week

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

low-information voters love violence and appeals to toughness and law and order because they are *acting out* in the Lacanian sense: a staged appeal that says "look at me, see what I am driven to."

looks like "Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time Britain visits we get a lecture" guy still ends up getting the same bill

read theory www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/35o94...

is there no bottom to how miserable things can get in Turkey? jacobin.com/2026/06/turk...

what a pathetic and soulless world the ruling class has created

he who wins at comms rules the realm

I'm not being lazy, I'm practicing what is referred to in Sanskrit as Śūnyavṛtti (शून्यवृत्ति) “pure unoccupied being.” śūnya = empty, void vṛtti = activity, mental movement, occupation

something I have learned a few years ago, which makes me feel hopeful, is how quickly evolution can work

the Italian idiom for "phoning it in" is "tirare i remi in barca" (pull the oars into the boat)

national suicide, wheeeeeeeeee time.com/article/2026...

just when I think she can't do anything to make her my favorite world leader any more, Claudia goes and does something like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTiO...

I loved this reflective article about archival research, authorship, and the 1970s wages for housework movement www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/ess...

saw this movie in theaters last night and can confirm: it rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kYH...

"She is a writer who can write into the darkness, who sometimes feels like a friend, and who always meets your eye." Isabella Hammad on Etel Adnan.

just complete fucking useless garbage. AI is Sartre's nightmare of a technology that avoids one to live in complete passivity from ever having to make a decision

friendly reminder that Erik Olin Wright’s class theory explains that the Pitt is a working-class show because its central characters lack ownership of productive assets and sell their labor within a hierarchical institution.

Today marks 4 years since Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot & killed by the IDF while reporting in the West Bank. Both the Trump & Biden admins have failed to get justice for her killing. [1/2]

guitar players in the 90s got to see both the privatization and enshittification of the internet before most by seeing all of our crowd-sourced tabs walled off behind the most useless gimmicky garbage, I just want to know what chords to play on this Sheryl Crow song, I don't need an AI coach, STFU

Texas eliminated 5 Democratic seats with no voter approval. Louisiana suspended election with no voter approval. Tennessee erased last majority-Black district with no voter approval. But VA Supreme Court blocks redistricting map approved by 3 million voters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Tormented animals 💔Not enough living space. Not even enough fresh air to breathe. Deprived of anything that is natural for them. #Egg laying hens have miserable lives and are killed at 18 months. You don’t need #eggs they should not be abused for you. #LiveVegan stop your abuse 🙏

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I like how in the forward KSR casually drops the best definition of the dialectic I’ve ever read “ that endless cranking of reconsideration”

new! The Future of Totality Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory @dukepress.bsky.social has the intro available for download in advance of publication thanks as ever to the wonderful @roberttally.bsky.social ! www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o...

Ted Turner has passed away. I would like to ask for a moment of silence for all of his beautiful land in New Mexico that will now be turned over to the rapacious indifference of those who inherit it.

New book alert: My book, _Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism_, will be out with Verso in July. Available for preorder.

Frank Lloyd Wright compared the Sonoran landscape to the sea bed, all flat bottom and rocky relief, the cactus as diverse and monumental as coral... and bro was cooking

From our Campus Politics Issue: "The Capture of Turkey's Universities Under the AKP" Ayça Alemdaroğlu @makrevis.bsky.social on how the AKP's takeover of the Turkish university system has been key tactic in its attempts to weaken and suppress opposition.

my pushback to this article is that at least hospitals are providing an actual service unlike insurance companies www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/o...

the best education to make a person 'literate' in 'ai' would be a comprehensive liberal arts education :)

For an editorial statement for a new magazine this is pretty fine: www.equator.org/articles/gho...

I will make this neighborhood easier to be a bug in so help me God.

I have reviewed the researchers footage and I can now empirically confirm: very fluffy

man, what many people have said to me is right. They really are the world's most unfriendly people.

NOT ENOUGH TIME TO READ!!!!

Well here’s hoping those 6 shitheads on the Supreme Court don’t side with death and poison www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/29/r...

the u.s. is shooting itself in the foot with a tactical nuke american universities are *so* good and it's a virtuous cycle: smart and ambitious people attend, elevating the whole enterprise. if we alienate the world, it becomes a vicious cycle headed in the opposite direction

death to the reactionary bulwark of the car dealership class

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters