it seems as though I will not be able to retrieve whatever digital music I purchased from this site way back when en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Univ...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

is the epistemic game worth the epistemic candle?

Autistic people are brilliant. Pregnant people are incredible. Bullshit is bullshit.

@jfruh.bsky.social for Rosh Hashanah, Pluggers promotes tzedakah by showcasing a member of Jewish Voice for Peace seriously how is this possible archivinggenocide.com/jewish-voice...

There has never been a reckoning over a small group of analytic philosophers constantly publishing slop dressed up in neutral-sounding academese to push their right-wing political projects. They circumvent peer review, ride off of the prestige of their job titles, and act way outside their AOE

My autistic kid is awesome.

Fascinating thread dealing with one of my longtime bugbears: how The Economist doesn't provide bylines for articles, to foster the impression you're reading some wizened British guy writing from his cork-lined study, instead of the true author, Jesse Singal, popping zits and farting on his couch

money: that notorious natural kind that is uncontroversially not socially constructed

...knowing Jəsse's the author (& that gender-affirming care practitioners are well aware of his biases & tactics) utterly changes the meaning of the last paragraph. without attribution, it makes it sound like the authors are suspiciously dodging the question. in actuality they know he's a bad actor!

Some public school teachers are courageously protecting kids rights to access all material, despite threats and retaliation. Thank you to @palan57.bsky.social at @forbes.com for shining a light on their remarkable stories. More than ever, we need heroes to be visible.

picture this. you're a respected academic, an expert in your field (not one relevant to this case but still). a colleague emails to ask you to sign your name to their brief. you read it, and you see 'arguments' like this. and you think, goddamn i hate trans people so much i must sign my name to this

my other thought for Rosh HaShanah is that I feel profoundly alienated by the way that the majority of the institutions of my religion have given themselves over to wickedness and inhumanity

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

wait the trumpeter in Going Back To Cali is *Frank London*? and this is documented basically only by TMBG having got him back in to replay that part for Birdhouse In Your Soul, so they didn't have to clear a sample? This seems like an appropriate thought for Rosh Hashahah. tmbw.net/wiki/Birdhou...

it would be political suicide to do it but like 60% of the developed world very badly needs a poltician willing to talk to them like adults and say “listen, you can let in Rahul to work and pay taxes, you can pay more taxes, or your pension can be cut. those are the options. you need to pick one.”

The Hitler-loving president who keeps hiring Nazis and makes antisemitic comments whenever is he is in a room with more than one Jewish person does not actually care about antisemtism, and people are smart enough to notice. www.npr.org/2025/09/17/n...

Holy shit

it's actually a marketing campaign for the 40th anniversary of The Fall's This Nation's saving grace

dudes rock

the fact that in multiple cases the Supreme Court has worked to legalize bribery in the United States is a major corrosion of our civil order

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

If Donald Trump were anyone but the president, his third random killing would have been bigger news than his second and the fourth would have been bigger news still

Good morning. Immigration is good. Trade is good. There are nuances but they are narrow enough that free and open movement of people and goods should be the default.

Yarvin is one of world’s most influential racists right now. Yet, here we are.

remembering how a few people made some political remarks at Paul Wellstone's memorial and the media treated it as a huge scandal that dominated the end of the campaign for his senate seat, which the Republican won by 2.2 points

essentially every business he has ever been involved in is fraudulent. he preferentially does business with dictators. he sent thugs to threaten to kill a baby. pete hegseth stole money from veterans. he lies about being involved in war crimes. he's a serial rapist and domestic abuser.

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

hadn't heard the term "New Brooklyn Complexity" before. sounds like a good term for what in my head I call "math jazz" which is like math rock but jazz www.freejazzblog.org/2025/09/matt...

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

Worthwhile piece but there's a bit that sticks in my craw and, IMO, a radical but inescapable moral (1/5)

new law, on pain of fifty lashes with a wet noodle: all pasta manufacturers are required to put suggested cooking times in large numbers, on the back of the package, against a high-contrast background look at this bullshit

he is at war with America

Ah, but have they thought about it harder than the author of “The Dynamics of Nonbeing”?

This to me is highly suggestive that most parents and medical teams are taking it pretty cautiously most of the time. People who aren't in the thick of it, and I very much include myself here, have to accept that the people who are have thought about this harder than we ever will.

elite centrist/lib transphobia is one of those classic contrarian things where they’ve built up a huge pile of facially convincing “evidence” that collapses immediately if you put it under serious scrutiny

It's notable that when AOC compared Trump's family separation facilities at the US southern border to concentration camps in 2019, the ADL criticized her for supposedly trivializing the Shoah. My guess is they will not speak up against this. Holocaust comparisons for me, not for thee.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

I think that's not surprising given that the main objective of X's owner was defeating Biden, and then Harris. If you are a leftist who was also interested in defeating them (or indifferent to the possibility) you would've been less affected by the skewed algorithm.

Rule Number One of successful publishing: never cut out the actual ghostwriter

handing the microphone to a Nazi incurs moral taint

I think I have a slightly different angle: we need some people who voted for Trump to feel _shame_. It should be reintegrative shame (they are people who are capable of good, but did a bad thing that needs to be accounted for, and remedied), and not disintegrating. But we don’t need flattery.

Trump wants to portray himself as an all-powerful dictator, but an all-powerful dictator does not beg and threaten his AG to prosecute his enemies in public.

very serious quote investigation from @ewhowe.com about Ani Ma'amin ("I believe in the sun even when it is dark," not the Maimonides Ani Ma'Amin) though I don't speak either language, Nächstenliebe" = charity/brotherly love etc. sounds very like "Tzedakah" humanistseminarian.com/2021/04/04/i...

looking through my quotevestigation archives, I immodestly think that "translummarized" was a great coinage

apropos of nothing, I read the Peter Principle* book when I was a teen, largely because I liked the funny illustrations the cheat code to the book is that the original funny captions to the cartoons are in the back *that competent people get promoted till they stop being competent at the new job

unilateral polarization of the right is in fact the big problem facing the democratic world but unfortunately you cannot stop it by lying about why it is happening

everything else aside why the fuck is the bot cooling the potatoes for 24h+

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Here’s last night’s Fieldwork album release concert at Roulette (starts about 15’ in). Enjoy! www.youtube.com/live/jGBzIOg...