The Gleichschaltung will continue until the center implodes.

American journalism and the American legal establishment are very similar actually; both demand all the rewards and accolades of fulfilling an important role in society while violently rejecting any of the obligations. Both defined by fawning sycophancy that they've defined as courage.

I would prefer not to.

Having a billionaire heiress run one of the largest urban police forces is one of those things that maybe all too obviously gestures at the way our kleptocracy squanders public funds on a violent, militarized police force at the expense of welfare to reinforce class hierarchies

Once again, in order to provide a sense of scale, the Berlin Wall border regime resulted in 140 deaths in 28 years. This program to supposedly defend the US border from drugs has resulted in the targeted killing of more than 200 since September 2025.

Viewpoint diversity means giving the TimeCube guy an endowed chair in physics

one might ask why a free speech org is scrutinizing the small dollar political donations of private citizens

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Another repost in the lead up to Wednesdays Paolo Virno panel with Red May. Virno is one of the people who have helped rescue Sohn-Rethel from obscurity. www.unemployednegativity.com/2009/11/abst...

W. J. T. Mitchell on academia, where the "struggle to maintain the commitment to the humanities begins to look like a quiet place to contemplate the prospect of human extinction." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/academy-art-architecture-neoliberalization-plato-university-chicago-florence/

One again, Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool." www.amacad.org/publication/...

Good. There should be zero tolerance in this environment for traitors and cowards who wield power in the Democratic Party, and it’s not enough just to threaten to primary them. Party members have to pull every lever there is to shame and punish them

I was just talking about this. AI in a robust social safety net is very different than AI in a scam economy without one.

"Turn of the ___ century" truly one of the most vexing phrases of the English language

Finally, a book that asks the hard questions like "did the Rockefeller Foundation and the CIA use the Frankfurt School to destroy true Marxism as practiced in the glorious USSR?" dissentmagazine.org/article/cult...

Important to recognize she's not an idiot, she knows the data centers being built are AI-specific and that the extreme power and cooling demands arise specifically from GPUs, not data storage or transmission. She's repeating lies that lobbyists told her to say to confuse the public.

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

The list of terrible Dem governors is long, but Spanberger is quickly racing to the top

A very interesting and important new piece from Dave Pozen and Daniel Hemel! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“Weiss’s three-part, 1,000-page novel, published between 1975 and 1981, follows the trajectories of people working across the broad spectrum of the left to overturn that era’s fascist regimes.” www.bookforum.com/print/3104/f...

I was vaguely familiar with the history of Douglas MacArthur being relieved from duty for threatening to drop a nuclear bomb on China, but I didn’t realize that the decision was ultimately outsourced to a computer that was fed data deemed adequate to render a „rational decision“

I translated this incredible book by Gonglao 工劳, out this fall with @versobooks.bsky.social

turns out it was a bit of a whoopsie to focus on low level j6 rioters rather than throwing the ring leaders in jail immediately and tossing the keys. oh well, better luck next time!

Why do they keep inviting people that don't respect the nature of knowledge and the process of learning to speak at institutions that were founded in the service of those goals? Don't answer, I know. The root is that the institutions have been corrupted from their mission in the first place.

Very eager to see this www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/fatherl...

College at all levels costs too much. But the biggest issue (and where govt has the most leverage) is that excellent public universities cost 20k-60k which should cost 0-20k. And the answer is more subsidies. You can’t stop private schools from charging absurd amounts but it affects very few people

Starting July 19th: D.C. → Madrid → Marseille → Arles → Nîmes → Orange → Lyon → Strasbourg → Berlin

Neuerscheinung! Papierbuch (15 €): www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383536085... Gratis PDF: www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383536085... Gerne reposten und weitersagen! #LitWiss

I wish this were not such an on-the-nose description of my employer.

I’m looking forward to Ishmael Reed‘s Silicon Valley novel

Long live the new flesh

The AfD's greatest innovation has been to cloak fascism behind the aesthetics of bourgeois politics to evade the constitutional court. In this it draws on the same strategy of mimicry as the Nazi party but adapts it to a context in which blatant fascism is both taboo and, at least nominally, illegal

A media literacy of the 21st century is needed, for both students and professors, pupils and teachers, old and young.

Great essay from @interfluidity.com drafts.interfluidity.com/2026/05/13/t...

Just caught up with the series finale of The Comeback. That might be this year's comedy Emmy.

It’s great that someone who ran for local office as a MAGA Republican is tasked with selecting our next university president. I’m sure that will go well

An essay I wrote. "On the Jewish Question." sinykin.substack.com/p/on-the-jew...

The way things are going we are going to need a second reconstruction, one that puts an end to herronvolk democracy, a second enlightenment, to deal with conspiracy theories and health grifters, and a third thing where we come to recognize that we are but one living thing on a finite planet.

This is a good joke post re: the oyster guy HOWEVER figuring out how to punitively tax the GOP coalition is something we should be dedicating a lot of time to. One of my personal favorites is a tax on LNG loadings (note: not LNG exports).

Losers

Attempt at recreating a white bean dish enjoyed several years ago in Ischia. Very good, but still not quite right. Mayocoba beans from Rancho Gordo with guanciale and Italian olive oil. Not pictured: dandelion greens sautéed in garlic and anchovy, burrata, roasted zucchini, sourdough.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

We don't ordinarily publish posts at [checks watch] 8:51 PM on a Friday night, but state constitutional law expert Quinn @yeargain.bsky.social has an outside-the-box idea for reversing the VA Supreme Court that is very much worth taking seriously: Dems can simply lower the retirement age.

Don Scott is a bootlicking loser who deserves to be voted out of office immediately.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling