Keep forgetting to say the most important thing: These guys' fundamental glitch--whether we're talking abt Trump or the broligarchs or any of the intl rogue's gallery of celebs, CEOs & heads of state who appeared in the Panama Papers & other leaks--is that they can ONLY get off on transgression.

He keeps watch on the front door while I work.

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

What every new data point about the economy feels like

My parody of the repeal of New Zealand’s pay equity legislation - Salary Sticks - is out in The Listener (print first). It was fun to write – but the point is serious. Much economic reasoning in policy today still: → masks its politics → mocks its challengers → is gendered *all the way down*

maybe i am going insane

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

Fascinating!

A thread that reads as a kind of call and response about facing cancer, loss, and death

And I tell you this: I think our imaginal capacities are one of our most profound graces on this earth, and leaning into them, imagining a more sacred world, is perfectly fine to do at end of life belief - schmelief. Do mind-art if you don't do religion. It helps.

And it has indeed come to pass.

This was the look my high school girlfriend's grandma gave me when I told her how delicious her knishes were.

The second Biscuit Makers' Union poster follows the workers of biscuit making from "from field to tummy." This journey is depicted literally in the poster: starting with farm fields, through harvest, and production. A closer look at the bottom reveals a fleet of trucks ready to deliver biscuits...

You will pry my animal spirits from my cold dead hands

I can’t explain it but I think we’re ready for a new chanting monks pop album.

In a new post for the @lpeblog.bsky.social, @solomonctryls.bsky.social Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow Elle Rothermich reflects on the potential limits of antitrust law as a tool to improve health care for terminally ill patients. lpeproject.org/blog/hospice...

For anyone who cares, my current favorite whistle to 3d print is: makerworld.com/en/models/11...

This is bad.

Gig economy vigilantes

"By turning these standing forests into a protected asset, the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, as the new financial instrument is called, seeks to monetize their value as a global public good and give forested nations financial incentives to not destroy them."

I keep saying this but the reason members of congress want to stay in office until they die is they can't buy that kind of elder care anywhere else, even if they are rich

As federal funding for states shrink, people are taking back control, building public banks owned by communities. Join a national conversation with movement leaders + Senator Elizabeth Warren to reclaim local funds for housing, climate & more! Nov 19, 12 PM PT/3PM ET bit.ly/PBC2C

Haymarket Books are amazing, 80% off is such a bargain, please go browse

In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations. www.wired.com/story/welcom...

Not good. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

This is news to me, a Jew who doesn't feel like I have lost anything because of Zohran's victory. My goodness. Imagine showing everyone how much your brain is just absolutely pickled in fear and bigotry.

Oh no I'm hearing that NYC has fallen. Are the housewives okay? Is Tiffany's still standing? Has anyone even checked on Gramercy Tavern??

This is such a beautiful episode. It offers a way of thinking about healing that was new to me, one that finds repair in deep connection with community, rather than in the recuperation of the body.

People who use social media to try to get you to get a flu shot would be influenzencers.

This world needs Black midwives. And Winifred specifically Donate if you can

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

MAMDANI!!!!

Dems in ARRAY

This should be the biggest news story in the world right now

The WSJ piece notably omits that Palantir CEO Karp holds a PhD in philosophy/social theory from Goethe University—home of the Frankfurt School—mentioning only his Haverford BA and Stanford JD.

I feel bad for all those Canadians who have to go home to their healthcare and functioning democracy.

you would not believe the number of times I've seen a faculty member do this to a colleague

Our Gathered Meeting Project is growing slowly We are trying to create community spaces to decompress and find ground together in the midst of a maelstrom. Read below to learn more about meetings to attend, or to learn more about this structured community meeting model, or download a pdf here:

This is one of the most savage things I’ve ever seen god damn.

According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history. The leading cause of death? Covid-19 Reports @motherjones.com

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New preprint alert! 🚨 “Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”

This is extremely my kind of thing

Rude. Accurate, but rude. (cartoon by Sophie Lucido Johnson)

The racial contract is technopolitical, and you can see all apartheids from space. More rage about the depredations of racial capitalism in Residual Governance, available in OA. Tambien en español, acceso abierto: qillqa.ucn.cl/index.php/qi... Bientôt en français chez EHESS, aussi en accès ouvert

Martha Plimpton just said “I’m gonna have short hair my whole damn career.”

We are in the throws of a battle over who is going to survive the future. A future marked by scarcity and disaster. A future these people are accelerating. That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality. Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.

To be fair, in bird law you can retroactively go off record at any point as long as the counterparty doesn't immediately scream "no takebacksies"

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!