“The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.”

Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from schoolteachers to metalworkers, called for a 24-hour general strike in both public and private sectors, including public transportation, trains, schools and ports.

He absolutely studies films of Nazis giving speeches.

I drive past half a dozen churches (most some version of evangelical) and they seemed to be way busier than a normal Monday. Worried they are buying into the rapture ‘prediction’ (it’s all over tiktok) cause folks do bad things after their savior doesn’t come.

This is the og ‘quiet firing’ in academia.

Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

again, hysteria, but the prevalent delusion americans in particular have is the very hyperconsumerist notion that you can determine your fate by what you put in your body, while making the worst possible choices about that

Skype a Scientist does not allow kids to email scientists directly bc it's obviously risky, so it's verboten. It shocks me how often I get emails from middle/HS kids asking me to meet bc of an assignment. It's good to trust scientists in GENERAL, but not like this! We are internet strangers!

Iconic

Is anyone keeping track of the full list of college and university professors who have been fired for social media posts over the last two weesks?

If having a felony conviction on your record doesn’t disqualify someone from being the President, it shouldn’t disqualify someone from voting. People with felony convictions should be able to vote.

Same in the arts (art historian here). From publications to conference travel, all is required for my job but not (or only minimally) funded by my job. It’s bad even for folks with ‘secure’ employment (whatever that means under fascism). Even worse for contingent faculty.

The mountain Taranaki Maunga on New Zealand’s North Island was granted legal personhood in January after unanimous parliamentary vote. By treating it as a living legal entity, it now holds rights to protection, preservation, and the ability to initiate legal action. buff.ly/5xnPDqm #ShareGoodNewsToo

“Vote blue, unless your corporate sponsors go ‘boohoo’”

Bad news for higher ed: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The graphic makes it look the breaking story is a about Trump and RFK having autism

Andy Warhol was right. I hope my fame clock really only lasts 15 minutes. 🕒 news.artnet.com/art-world/fl...

Saying any academic discipline can be ‘apolitical’ is disingenuous at best. It’s like when a family member was ‘shocked’ one of my book chapters talked about race. People make art. People are political entities. Saying that art isn’t political is 🤡 shit, even if the content isn’t‘political’.

The Trump-Vance admin is freezing $300 million in grants for programs that help older Americans find jobs. It’s baseless, unlawful, and causing real harm to thousands – so we're going to court to reverse it.

All the super straight, Christian, MAGA warriors broke down Grindr, the gay dating/sex app, yet again. The last time it broke down...the RNC in Wisconsin.

None of us have all the answers but each of us hold part of its utterance and for that reason alone fatalism ain’t worth entertaining.

Tylenol does not cause autism, but also realize that the anxiety and fear about autism is fundamentally a type of ableism. It's okay for people to be autistic!

using my 1st amendment right to keep needling the current president 🫡 lni.media/p/why-i-will...

my hot take is that solar is probably gonna get a lot more popular among homeowners near data centers because the cost of electricity is going to shoot up to accommodate these subsidized tech companies and their voracious facilities. maybe well water also, idk

Seriously folks we have become the Whig party! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

jelly fish shall inherit the earth

The ethics of extra-judicial killing aside--a phrase I never thought I would write--if these boats are really carrying drugs, why not capture one and unravel the entire drug network rather than killing the crew and destroying all the evidence?

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

It’s finally raining in west Ky and, maybe it’s just the fascism, but it doesn’t feel like the relief it usually does. At least my fall seeds will be set up well (planted more peas, dill, and cress).

4th deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the others: -in area US military operates freely -arrest low risk -no legal rationale -violates international law -no evidence of who US hit If really traffickers—very much an if—the move is interdiction. Would get evidence and intelligence.

“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses." And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Yup. It’s not about winning over republicans; it’s about defeating the left

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

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One thing I am realizing about this administration-- not just Trump, but his underlings-- is that they all think running the country is functionally the same as being able to have everything they want, all at once, immediately. There is no strategy, just naked expectation of instant gratification.

Remember when Obama left office and racist people said “finally there’s class back in the White House?” Lmao

So they’re entirely untrustworthy, then

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

It's like they made a clone of Goebbels but somehow the volume got stuck on "screeching banshee"

Power to the people

A Kentucky organization is looking to help anyone in need of free menstrual products through a network of pantries it plans to set up across the Commonwealth.

How it started How it's going

You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.

Google's new slogan: Be evil. theintercept.com/2025/09/16/g...