can i just say that grok tried to convince me this was jerome powell in the box 😜 merry xmas everybody!

this was a great episode!

my love for natalia's writing knows no bounds

"if AI models can be misused for cyberattacks at this scale, why continue to develop and release them? The answer is that the very abilities that allow Claude to be used in these attacks also make it crucial for cyber defense." jfc this old story again?! 🤨 www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...

it never ends 🤨

25 years of official but false cover for glyphosate and Roundup. Criminal and tragic. usrtk.org/pesticides/l...

Let’s go!

"With the neoliberal consensus fracturing, we may be able to think beyond its constraints, to envision new ways of organizing our economic life. ...we can ask ourselves new questions: How can we organize an economy that lets all Americans flourish?" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

“a moral compass in a world increasingly driven by profit and spectacle.” www.thenation.com/article/worl...

First plate back after the pilgrimage. Asters in Alchemy. 8x10 Tintype #chemicalphotography

from today's walk

A draft version of the assessment was made public last year and drew objections from an industry trade group.

What happens when you get to the end of things? Physicist John Wheeler devoted his life to this question, in the end leaving behind not an answer, but an idea more profound than the thought that sparked it. www.quantamagazine.org/john-wheeler...

let's do this

Matt FTW! Let’s go! www.patreon.com/posts/137050...

this was a great episode!

good job everybody! www.njoag.gov/ag-platkin-d...

"Everyone seems to think they can dictate the future of Palestine without Palestinians. But we will be the ones to determine the manner in which we seek liberation and what we do with that freedom." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

"The massacre of 7 October did, however, lay bare the illusion that Israel could continue to subjugate the Palestinians without provoking a response – the illusion that lay at the heart of the never-ending ‘peace process’." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

after you read sam knowlton's thread on the work of soil microbiologist Robert Kremer, listen to this www.kcrw.com/culture/show...

"The very genetic modifications meant to improve crops were disrupting ancient plant-microbe partnerships essential for sustainable agriculture." x.com/samdknowlton...

"If Mamdani’s victory feels like something new, it is. But it is also a return. A return to a politics that sees dignity as non-negotiable, solidarity as a strategy, and leadership as a tool for the many."

A beautifully written and fascinating essay!

UPDATE — At least *37* members of Congress have now signed on to efforts against the Trump-Vance administration's moves towards war on Iran. +5 since yesterday. A new Economist/YouGov poll shows Americans strongly disapprove of US involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran: 16-60

As for so many across this country, Bernie Sanders has been the single most influential political figure in my life. As Mayor, I will strive to live up to his example by fighting for the working class every day and hopefully make Brooklyn’s own proud.

...allowing corporations to both own the infrastructure and run the services that depend on it sets up an untenable conflict of interest at the heart of our society. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

University of Michigan hiring private, undercover investigators to surveil anti-genocide campus groups, including trailing them on & off campus, secretly recording them & eavesdropping on their conversations. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

it's about time www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/s...

Auchincloss’s accusation that the left is in the pocket of big tech is a political tactic to undermine Demand Progress’s poll and dismiss populist arguments that threaten his "Abundance" agenda. demandprogress.org/rep-auchincl...

how does it happen? you make a phone call after lining their pockets duh 🤨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHhU...

"Characterizing quantum state-space with a single quantum measurement" by @heyredhat.bsky.social published in journals.aps.org/pra/abstract... Physical Review A. Congratulations Matt!

capitalism is a death cult

capitalism is a death cult: “Over the centuries,” Cassidy writes, “the central indictment of capitalism has remained remarkably consistent: that it is soulless, exploitative, inequitable, unstable and destructive, yet also all-conquering and overwhelming.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/b...

The title to be one of the joint owners of the earth and its products and the inheritance of collective human labour does not rest on any question of inheritance or purchase; the only title required is that one is alive on this planet. tribunemag.co.uk/2023/05/sylv...

FDA Plans to Eliminate Artificial Food Dyes By End of 2026 Read more form the Food Policy Tracker. ➡️ buff.ly/sL4In9Q

In 2015, we republished Pope Francis's second encyclical, in which he takes aim at the heart of the world’s problems: capitalism. It has been, and will remain, free to download.

On his last page [Vermes] makes a civil bow to Jesus the teacher, ‘the real Jesus’. ... Homage is due to the Jewish teacher even when the judge has dismissed the case for his resurrection. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Wonderful essay by Simon Schama on David Hockney on.ft.com/4ihV44O

...we will need to build an unruly open-hearted movement of the Earth-loving faithful: faithful to this planet, its people, its creatures and to the possibility of a livable future for us all. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"If we want to build to productive ends, building power to take down finance and monopoly is the best way to make that happen." prospect.org/infrastructu...

"Symbolic acts matter, they endure. And if we somehow manage to outlive our own idiocy and make it out of the climate crisis with a functioning, non-toxic society, maybe we’ll see Just Stop Oil’s acts of brothy barbarity in the same light." artreview.com/so-long-just...

The conflict at the heart of physics... iai.tv/articles/ein...

"The playbook behind all these declarations is brutally simple: re-align the tech intelligentsia with old-money power by cleansing their ranks of subversive thought." www.theideasletter.org/essay/silico...

Empires have always created vivid and disturbingly violent images of tribal life on their frontiers, placing in a different, paternalistic light the violence at the heart of their own political projects. aeon.co/essays/an-ar...

Melinda Cooper: Trump‘s and Musk‘s project “doesn’t actually liberate anyone from the state. It simply destroys the last remnants of the social state, installing in its place an intensely autocratic, patrimonial form of rule, in which personal subordination is enforced at every level of society”

Since when do universities serve the state? "Columbia University exists to serve the United States..." president.columbia.edu/news/leading...

Are you listening Canada & Mexico? "With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It" Thanks Cory Doctorow! vimeo.com/1059798497