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*Palantir execs trying to explain their glorious vision so we’ll invite them inside*

If you haven't talked with your grad students yet about how they are using AI, you might want to start.

welcome to my unboxing video for @jbethiejean.bsky.social's NEW BOOK published by @haymarketbooks.org + blurbed by Dr. Angela Y. Davis, Kim Kelly, Robin D. G. Kelley et al I am so freaking proud of my friend, comrade + conspirator for this, the first of what I hope will be MANY books ❤️‍🔥

Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️‍🔥 Pre-orders are open!

TODAY!!!

Exactly one year ago today:

Data centers are a physical manifestation of AI infrastructure and they've become a flashpoint precisely because they're tractable. They exist in specific places, consume specific resources, can be seen and pointed to. I spoke with @lorenaoneil.com @rollingstone.com about our urgent AI reckoning.

I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II

And he never had the moral capacity

"The image of luxury towers constructed above mass graves . . . embodies the logic of 21st-century genocide. The Israeli government now hopes, in the words of the former minister Ron Dermer, that what ‘two years of war did not accomplish will be done by market forces’."

honestly it’s hilarious that he’s trying to fight the pope and the pope is like “I don’t think about you at all”

The toothy grin makes it.

This is an excellent workshop, I can't recommend it enough.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Very useful comparative oil shock data viz.

It was great to have this as a Ralph Miliband lecture at the LSE a few weeks ago, where @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, @mathewlawrence.bsky.social and me spoke about the possibilities for economic democracy

We are living through the golden age of the grift

Vance trying to correct the Pope on theology may be my favorite dunning that ever krugered.

My favorite sociology joke is from @briankapusta.bsky.social, who endured many long nights of drunken grad students passionately debating theory . . . Bourdieu? Bored *me.*

A+ headline. defector.com/president-ex...

Let JD cook. All he needs is 94 more theses.

Watch here and follow along as @whatashrinkthinks.com dream collection (over 3000 dreams of Donald Trump from 2017) takes re-emerges in new forms, with new information encouraging some respect for our collective intuitive and unconscious responses to collective threats.

The real question: which book about dominant currencies will be the dominant currency book?

We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

Rothko chicken!

"Why aren't people happy anymore?"

If there were any ethics at all in the industry chatbots would post regular warnings and reminders that they cannot give psychological, spiritual, emotional or relationship advice.

They are practically demonic in their seductiveness, so affirming and sycophantic and helpful initially, people start relying on them and deferring to them.

No one listens to me but this shit, these obsequious language calculators- are not ever for therapy. Really.

All the cool popes are weak on crime

Me, reading a really great manuscript written by one of my grad students.

Please please, do not hesitate to summon your wrath, a form of hate that is loyal to love and truth, discernment and protection We should hate all forces that work against the health and balance of creation Wrath confronts the imbalanced scales of justice Summon your wrath and protect each other

Hey you all, I've scheduled a summer session of The Group-Group which was recently discussed in this Boston Globe article 4 sessions, Wed eves, by donation: More info in the post below this one:

Da Pope, cracking his knuckles, “So, I heard you got a problem with the meek.”

I’m not a we are fucked person I’ve surprisingly survived a lot of “I’m totally fucked” moments by the hairs of my chinny-chin-chin, and by the kindness of strangers, and randomized coincidences I had to surrender to the idea that life is always surprising.

Our new episode explores how journalists adapt to hostile conditions. @baykurt.bsky.social and I talk to Matt Powers, who with @ozanmask.bsky.social examined Turkish newsrooms. Editors suppressing critical reporting. Convinced they were protecting journalism. open.substack.com/pub/itallhap...

The Delta CEO won't commit to lowering ticket prices if jet fuel prices go down. When asked if his company would lower prices if fuel costs dropped, he instead said that lower fuel costs would "certainly help us boost our margins this year and clearly into next year as well.”

Faculty friends, have you spoken with your grad students about how they are using AI outside of the classroom? Do you have policies for grad student use of AI for comps, research, and writing?

I have a few short essays in this banger anthology of new writing about the language of design! (And I was part of the think tank, which was incredible. They took us on a field trip to Fallingwater.) www.artbook.com/978088039075...

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Sometimes I think I couldn't get any angrier, and then . . .

I think the Trump dreams people shared in 2017 are pertinent today: I had a dream in which I was criticizing Trump with my best friend, then a giant-sized Trump appeared and started chasing me in a building. He was much taller than the ceiling and he literally made the sound of a crying toddler.

When we all Get to Heaven has a Peabody nomination!! Congrats to @thislynne.bsky.social, @sjcolom.bsky.social, and Ariana Nedelman!

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Happy Easter from Finance and Society team! Here is our special easter egg for all of you: a fresh Call for Papers for this year's Finance and Society conference happening again at CBS Copenhagen! Deadline: May 1st Hoping to see many of you there!

Co-sign It is likely that your local Quakers / American Friends Service Committee are having vigils this week. Sometimes being together in silence in affirmation of nonviolence with others can be extraordinarily powerful yet restorative