"Sexual matador" is a very strange term.

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

One of the prizes for best translation went to Liang Sun-Chieh for a highly localized rendering of Finnegans Wake mixing Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hakka as well as several other Indigenous and East Asian languages (took him 12 years!) Wish I had the linguistic dexterity in all of the above to enjoy it

Human-readable economics is a good and radical practice. "The “labor market” is not a textbook market, in which the quantity sold depends on both supply and demand. The quantity of employment depends solely on demand...."

The neat thing about the ultra-viral Czech beaver dam story is that it’s just a particularly vivid example of what legions of unsung beavers do every day — help us solve our environmental problems without our gratitude or acknowledgment, and in spite of our attempts to kill them! Beavers gonna beav.

Genoa dockworkers. Video shared by Nehemiah Stark on Instagram:

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

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Is hostility to immigration something that people develop spontaneously based on their own experiences, or is it deliberately cultivated by politicians and the press? The authors of this FT don’t say so, but it’s hard not to see this figure as evidence for the latter. www.ft.com/content/43da...

"..what made Lincoln great was that he understood that, in the end, there would be no establishment of the rule of law until justice had been served and slavery abolished. There could be no refusal of violence that would stick..." excellent short piece by Corey Robin: jacobin.com/2025/09/linc...

This is a boomer and millennial complaint at least in the US. It started with 'Candid Camera' and bloomed like mold into "Cops". If you're American you'd might never know it but some countries have strict privacy laws, including re taking photos or videos of people w/out their consent (e.g. Spain).

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I am not normally pro-carceral, but I make exceptions for politicians. More political leaders should go to prison.

Another mooc/genAI parallel is using these "status" partnerships to persuade other institutions to sign up for contracts too - for a fee of course. The ivory tower is great for reputation-rinsing genAI in HE, even as it erodes the tower's foundations 🥶

Fukuyama and Find Out

He said he would and he done it

Amazing some honesty from Donald Trump here. "How do we fix this country?" Donald Trump, "I couldn't care less."

So so good:

Dear Democratic voters: yr party leaders are on Trump's side. Whoops! So, impossible to beat Trump+GOP w/out replacing Schumer, Jeffries et. al. They're standing guard not against the GOP but against *you*. Hard to be more cynical than GOP, but Dems found a way. But it's their problem not ours

The smell of the air at dawn (on a good day) Watching movies in bed with my wife The mother's milk of everyday human kindness Vermút soaked watermelon The first cigarette of the day that I will never have again but will always remember with fondness.

NYT editors for the past century:

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

Attiah was fired for simply posting an accurate, typical, blatantly racist statement by Saint Charlie - anti-black racism is the very substrate of MAGA. I have to wonder what ppl like Bezos think it will be like when the pendulum swings back. They have money but can't be a part of society.

Both interviews are excellent, but the first, about the bizarre delusions, I mean philosophy, of our digital overlords, i.e transhumanism etc., is *mind blowing*. These people's potato been bakin' a little too long. It's Whitey On the Moon to the nth, humorless degree.

on today's episode of racial capitalism

This is so under appreciated. The first big trans story in the US was in the 1950s (Jorgenson). The coverage was benign. It continued to be a non issue until very recently. Pointless deadly hysteria

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

From today 🦋 #Butterflies

Palestine, 2025. english.palinfo.com/news/2025/04...

Reactionary centrists have always annoyed me, but their radical dishonesty since the 2022 red wave that never happened (but they pretended did) followed by the “Woke Harris” campaign fabricated in their group chats to now “David Duke-lite practiced politics the right way” is too much to bear.

So … Donald Trump had dinner with Nick Fuentes who inspired Tyler Robinson who shot Charlie Kirk who supported Donald Trump. Bloody lefties.

More great news

V much agree w/this, and would add that it's also a battle for what we are allowed to acknowledge is real and what we aren't. Starting with a 2 year long US sponsored genocide, but things in the US too. When we aren't free to say what we all know to be true, that is not very home-of-the-brave/free.

This vision of liberalism requires Black people to accept their humanity will always be a matter of “debate.”

Christian is always good with a take

"You must publicly mourn the death of a man who repeatedly called for your death or we'll all want you dead even though we already do."

I don't think he's over here, so it's worth sharing this from James Livingston - it's succinct. "re: Charlie Kirk's assassination, I would point out that (1) No one on the Left has ever suggested that deaths by gun violence are the price we must pay to protect the right to bear arms.....

Anyway, there's a truly horrifying number of Palestinians telling me they're on the streets in the south now. No tents, no food. Nothing. I feel that should be very high up in the news mix.

Do you see what I mean when I say that you cannot lift one rock near British institutions without a roaring gusher of corruption leaping one hundred feet into the air, spraying more or less the entire media/political class with liquid filth? And this has happened again and again, over and over.

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the guy talked into microphones for hours every single day and none of his supporters are honoring his memory by posting anything he ever said.