Hell yeah, Aidan!

it’s still christmastide, so I’m an advocate of continuing to listen to christmas music. I noticed there are too few christmas songs that are huge bummers—but hey, it’s the feast of the holy innocents! so I made one. nomoresea.xyz

What a time to choose to be opposed to moral clarity...

Just my Lyft driver casually flossing while blasting a love life self-help book at bone rattling volume. Send help.

Please read this flyer in your best monster-truck-rally voice after first saying “Sunday! Sunday! Sunday”

No great insight, but strikes me that many things seen as repressive in China have been relatively normative in the US for quite some time: - state/media narratives dissonant to experience - inability to reconcile violence to that narrative - paranoid shut down of any mass action for "security"

McKinsey believing from its board of directors on down that the current state of AI is existential to its business says far more about McKinsey than it does about AI lol apple.news/A8FLn2BPeRP6...

10 tickets left in Chicago tonight with Cavalier and Rhys Langston www.tumblr.com/mikeeaglesti...

So, two guys in their 30s: One operates as shadow-president, starting concentration camps and establishing an enormous secretive second military. The other won a mayoral primary and wants to make public transit better. I think we all know who the dangerous radical is here.

My son got a book of baseball jokes as a gift. Me: Share a funny one! Him: There aren't any Me: Just pick one. Him: *reads nonsensical vaguely baseball related sentences* Me: *grabs book and flips through 50 pages of AI slop formatted into "jokes"* So glad for the future!

Turns out building an entire society on marketing was probably a mistake.

How I spend my summer Tuesdays...

Explaining this timeline to my 90s era self: "So you see, Teen Vogue, Wired Magazine and Rolling Stone are the only publications left in the fight to save democracy from Donald Trump and the richest man in the world, a wannabe-Nazi-tech-lord trying to populate Mars with his children."

Beyond raw force, power needs our imaginations to exist. Don't give it to them. Imagining a better world matters as much as anything.

I've spent a long time thinking about power and our imaginations. I was recently asked to sum up my academic work in 600 words (shared below). If even that needs a TLDR; power depends on imagination, making it the frontline of subversive possibility. davidvosburg.substack.com/p/subversive...

Mark certainly seems to have a lot of thoughts on what constitutes free speech these days! www.404media.co/facebook-del...

Been sitting with this essay by Henri Lefebvre. An evergreen critique (originally written in the 80s), but it seems particularly potent in the ideological craze for AI... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HCf...

The multiplicity of self-protecting power structures feels unending these days. Subverting that power is the only way forward. It's very risky to individuals, especially in the short term, but the long term consequences are far worse. We will need to do it together.