3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

We would do well, I think, to learn a little from the ancient world. Hatred of injustice can be a form of virtue. Much as Aquinas wrote of hatred for God, in the face of unjust structures of power, it is at the very least superior to either indifference or disbelief. davidgraeber.org/articles/hat...

Generating content is not a self-evident good.

Yeah I gotta say if it turns out *this* is the thing that bothers us, rather than, say, what is done to the image of Christ found in the poor and dispossessed themselves, then all those Calvinist warnings about idolatry basically seem correct to me.

The discourse ab older professors not retiring is exactly the kind of resentment austerity capitalism is after.

🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now. More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive. Full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u... @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

But an honest accounting of what the tech is actually doing in the world and how it is being used, including who is doing what to who with it and how (because people *are* using it) would seem to be essential for any critical account rooted in materiality and social praxis.

My whole point is that it’s not about trust or individuals and their relationships. It’s about a kind of political debate that is non-toxic and can reach people (the comms battle) while we build real power on the ground for massive change (organizing!)

I'm quoted in this for signing & sharing a testimonial about an incident in which Vancouver Police edited their press release after I'd published an article about it to make it look like I had lied. Anyway, long live the Wayback Machine! www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/jour...

if i have to choose between shoes and ai, i pick shoes

Real wild to see NPR do a serious article version of a twitter thread of mine from five years ago (part of which i reposted here). (Seriously tho, i talk about this with every group of Philosophy in SFF students I get.)

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

Communist party recruitment video bsky.app/profile/bran...

There’s a basic messaging problem when the value proposition of your technology is human obsolescence.

Weeks: “To tell us that we should reconstitute ourselves seems a hard road to follow. What’s kinder is to say: We are who we are. What we want to do is to change the rules of the game so that we can become otherwise over time. It’s about embracing the politics that would destroy you as a subject.”

TODAY: Iranians are forming human chains around civilian infrastructure (bridges, power plants) as Trump threatens to kill them all

London (England) comrades! I’ll be in town giving a talk hosted by @lawsocialchange.bsky.social on Wedn, April 15, 4-6pm. S. Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, SOAS & online. Register: www.ticketsource.com/centre-for-l...

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

Sarah Jaffe interviewing Kathleen Weeks in Dissent last week: dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Georgia's GOP Hatched a New Plan to Win Elections in Metro Atlanta: Don't Let Voters Know Their Candidates Are Republicans. | The Republican-majority Georgia House on Friday gave final passage to a bill that would require nonpartisan elections in the five most populous counties in metro Atlanta.

One of the countries that relies on Cuban doctors, and which is therefore indirectly affected by the current US attack on Cuba, is Italy; specifically the southern region of Calabria, where my maternal grandfather is from. Non-paywalled link in comments. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ok, the OP is glib, but there is a dissertation to be written about how the "impact" criterion on research takes the potential world of uses, practices, artifacts, dynamics or values that knowledge might catalyse, and demands that researchers give a poorly motivated account of only the "good" ones

Iran’s demands before agreeing to end the war, via the WSJ: * Iran controls access to the Strait of Hormuz and collects transit fees * guarantees that the war would not restart * an end to Israeli attacks on Hezbollah. * the closure of US military bases in the Gulf and financial compensation

35/ @katemac.bsky.social and I will be out with @thepolycrisis.bsky.social essay next week saying this. "There seems to be a general sense of unreality about how bad this energy crisis could be. In markets, in political capitals, etc. It reminds me a great deal of the very start of Covid."

Civil court judges are testing a product, Learned Hand, to “rapidly distill hundreds of pages of legal motions and use samples of a jurist's writing style to help reach conclusions and even draft tentative rulings.”

I'm on the first page and I'm already dying. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

True alpha males make sure the pack is rested and well fed.

Want this feeling in the United States? Join your friendly local labor union. Get in contact with an organizer -- ahem -- and they'll walk you through the steps on getting a union in your workplace.

10/10 take. no notes

the reporter laughing is the icing on top

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

amichai.

one of the funniest things to keep coming out of the anthropic reporting is that the pentagon was trying to convince amodei by proposing elaborate hypothetical scenarios. buddy do you think an EFFECTIVE ALTRUIST has never considered a bizarrely specific and elaborate hypothetical scenario??

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in

me: @abigailhiggins.bsky.social: I don't understand how you can post so much on Bluesky and still...well, I was going to say 'keep your mental health', but then I didn't finish that sentence me: ... WIFE (sighing): yes, you can skeet that.

The rats have chosen a new pope.

"Traditional vaccines target specific pathogens, limiting their scope", write the authors, whereas their new results "reveal a class of `universal vaccines' against diverse respiratory threats", including coronaviruses, Staphylococcus aureus, bacteria, and allergens. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

I want to thank @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for writing "Except for the Miracles" and giving me and my students something really moving to read and discuss this week as we examine the multifaceted fight against imperial oppression. thebaffler.com/salvos/excep...

You know how anthropologists love finding interred skeletons with bones that have been broken and safely set, lbecause it shows that real humanity happened there? Old literature is like that too, if you read it.

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

The study found that children enrolled in Parton’s Imagination Library “were 5 times more likely to be interested in reading, 11 times more likely to be interested in books, and 15 times more likely to join in during shared reading, compared to children who aren't enrolled.”

The Alberta government appears to be secretly building drug jails beyond the two announced in Calgary and Edmonton. drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-gove...

Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.