this is straight out of "curb your enthusiasm"

this passage from marx's "capital" seems relevant as we enter the era of trillionaires

man, i paid 27 dollars for 25 ounces of olive oil today, what the fuck

them showing montages of lovable celebrities on celebrity row but the camera then accidentally panning to the worst human beings on the planet in the background as players shoot freethrows or jump into the stands for the ball

feel like you could make a good SNL skit around the inanity of what get shared with mic'd up players. the skit would just be a guy yelling "yeah!" and "woooooo!" in reaction to everything

funniest part about everyone calling that tiktok woman an idiot is them then following it up with stuff like, "everyone knows that humans suffered from caloric deficiencies which is what led them to invent agriculture!" which is orders of magnitude more idiotic a take than anything in that video

she is basically summarizing james c. scott's "against the grain." not sure why everyone is throwing a hissy fit about it

with la masia consistently producing perennial balon d'or talent and the basque region/northern spain consistently churning out the world's greatest coaches, it's hard to argue against the idea that spain is the greatest footballing nation in the world

James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell

one way to frame my critique of current anti-racist ideology is that it continues to treat race as a commodity and merely attempts to alter its valuation.

Is Graham Platner a Nazi? No, but he's not not a Nazi, either. substack.com/home/post/p-...

It’s bad that the vice president of the United States of America is a nazi

ladies and gentlemen, the peace president

what i am getting out of the first couple of chapters of capital is that, beyond the minutia over labor theory of value, at the heart of what marx is arguing is that everything boils down to the social, to humans interacting with one another as social animals and creating things together

doja understands jihad against the mods

the 1999 spurs!

if the knicks win, zohran becomes president and david holt should be our current president

sometimes i think that the things i want to do and be when i am high or drunk are the things that are most important to me; those are usually the times when i am drunk or high

i just counted and i currently have over 30 books that i have collected from free libraries on my book shelf. and i can't stop myself, i continue to look and grab. it's an addiction

Waymo is also burning something like $2 billion every year so a lot of things are going to have to change if they're gonna make it, including (especially?) this level of deadheading

One dog did this in two minutes. Original post

Me reading this:

According to this Harvard study, Elon Musk's cuts to USAID through DOGE are responsible for an estimated 400,000 preventable deaths of children in Africa. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Slavery’s Constitution by @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social David argues that slavery was central to the writing and ratification of the Constitution, and that it shaped America’s political and legal framework. If you start somewhere, this is a great place.

expanding gad's post makes it clearer he's talking about specific races

I am completely shocked by this tragic news. I really can't believe it. Raúl Pacheco-Vega was an outstanding scholar who did so much to promote good scholarship. Utterly devastating news.

maybe a dumb question about ch. 1 of "capital": if human labor is the common denominator that allows two qualitatively different things to be commensurable in the form of exchange value, how is exchange value possible between two qualitatively different things that aren't the result of human labor?

Nobody thought the oil market could draw down its stocks this long (plus some demand reshuffling), allowing oil use to continue with elevated but not catastrophic price rises. Truly an unprecedented event, which has largely insulated Trump from the immediate consequences such rises would precipitate

i love providing information to a group of preschoolers and then asking them if they have any questions because it immediately turns into an academic conference Q&A where everyone has more of an unrelated comment rather than a relevant question

mel gibson and clint eastwood?

My favorite part of this was Adam Tooze suggesting that “abundance” was a reference to polyamory.

Allowing myself to steal a hot one

the ones you win with real madrid should only count for half

THE RAW EMOTION 🥹 THE MOMENT THE SPURS CLINCHED THEIR SPOT IN THE 2026 NBA FINALS IN OKLAHOMA CITY!

craziest (and, really, the most impressive) thing about arteta is he came up through la masia, played under wenger, was an asistant to guardiola, and THIS is the way his team plays

you will not believe how fucking stupid the discourse on conquistadors and colonialism is in spain right now

posting this shit without adjusting for inflation is insane

books like "brave new world" would have been way better and more prescient if they had given a more prominent role to corporations in these dystopian future states

no way he opens himself up to this level of booing

I love this TV show so much and this is a rich text right here exactly as you would expect from @annaleen.bsky.social

still shocked by how bad hollywood depictions of pregnancy, childbirth and caring for an infant are. to this day! even movies/shows with stories that are *centered* around these events are so far off the mark it makes me question whether anyone involved has ever been around a new parent...

counter-argument: elon deepened postmodernism

the abundance guys should just rebrand as socialists, if you ask me

i don't think the goal of super-confiscatory schemes against the super rich should be to replace a broad tax base

i am sorry, can someone explain to me how oil prices are still under $100? i was told we'd start seeing demand destroying prices by this point

Goddammit. The GOAT. RIP, you absolute fucking legend

very funny that malthus's proposed solution to the problem of "overpopulation" was moral restraint and religious piety, when the reality ended up being the complete opposite

this is brutal

I think you can believe both that porn isn't bad in itself but that a society can have an unhealthy relationship to porn