My head is actually spinning at how many current and future colleagues, both in the China field and beyond it, we are about to lose because of this

@superjoost.bsky.social and I dish on our students favorite game youtube.com/clip/UgkxEME...

I'm starting to get texts about this now so I guess I need to say something: There is a fundraiser going around about a "preservation disaster" raising money right now that I highly advise you to stay very far away from. A particular British tabloid is running with it unquestioningly. Thread:

come watch/listen as @superjoost.bsky.social and I unpack this semester's student gameplay survey, including this hilarious graph that says the kids are 100% done with VR

Data is the new spice

"for all of MAGA’s reverence for masculine self-determination, one of its central tenets is the blamelessness of its adherents. Whatever is going wrong in this country, it is not their fault."

Normally it’s one or the other: weak growth or rising inflation. But tariffs gave us both. Welcome to the economics of supply shocks and stagflation.

Fed statement makes it official: Stagflation is in the room. "Job gains have slowed, and the unemployment rate has edged up... Inflation has moved up and remains somewhat elevated. "

Natalie Nakase is a 5 foot, one-and-three-quarter inches GIANT.

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

Their gestapo gets run out of neighborhoods by angry citizens with cameras, they lose battles in court constantly, states have already taken steps to protect their citizens' rights. And they only get less popular. with more people aware and upset at them by the day.

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

Meanwhile Hakeem Jeffries is in a grocery store logging the price of pumpkin pie filling to cite in his next speech

They want to cancel Jimmy Kimmel and kill free speech? Time to hit them where it hurts—their pockets: - Cancel Disney+ - Cancel Hulu - Boycott ESPN - Boycott ABC Let them know why you’re canceling/boycotting. - ABC contact: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/art... - Nexstar contact: www.nexstar.tv/contact/

They should make a Marvel movie where all the superheroes bend the knee without a fight to align with Disney’s values

and thus ends the inaugural season. see you next season!

We're about to to discover that "formenting political violence" is going to have the loosest fucking definition possible but somehow only applies to people who think everyone should have healthcare

The only way forward is to inflict as much financial AND publicity damage on Disney as possible as swiftly as possible. Cancel streaming subscriptions, boycott products, picket, encourage politicians and entertainment figures to shout about this from the housetops. Demonstrate the cost of cowardice.

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

What's the term for a flock of sad dykes #wnba

Every time I see Spike Lee hug Clara Tsai Wu I want to whisper "no war but class war spike"

It’s coming fast and furious now. If you are going to read one thing about my book and my work, read this unbelievably rich piece in The 19th News. Jasmine Mithani gets this book, and my aims, on a cellular level. 19thnews.org/2025/09/how-...

"We're going to have to learn to live with [radical right wing demagoguery with all its associated violence]" is: - An abdication of responsibility. - An abandonment of hope. - A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

Not food-related, but important information! The National Toy Hall of Fame at the Strong Museum (in beautiful Rochester, NY) has just announced the 2025 players' choice nominees for induction into the HoF! Thoughts? See link in replies to cast your vote!

do you remember when new outlets would embed tweets in their stories online & people would change their twitter username or alter their content so that it pointed out how their post was used without consent or misrepresenting what they originally intended? do you have... screenshots. or examples

In 2016, I answered a Q from a DCCC staffer on how to revitalize the Dem Party with: train & fund ordinary ppl (students; under-employed; retired) to cover statehouse/local issues. She looked at me like I had 3 heads.

Rep. Ronny Jackson calls to forcefully mass institutionalize trans people and calls them a cancer. www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r...

A story no one is talking about - last week's high school shooting in Denver. 16-year-old white boy radicalized online and promoting white supremacist and anti-Semitic conspiracies, inspired by - and a fan of - terrorists who promoted replacement theory. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"Sotomayor offered a bleak assessment of the current state of affairs, saying 'adults have really messed' up the country." www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Cliffe Knechtle took up the itinerant preacher calling but left behind the traditional hellfire and brimstone message. Charlie Kirk adopted his campus champlain debate model and brought back the grim www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/clif...

This Liberty Season Can Always Get Grimmer via @defector.com defector.com/this-liberty...

It feels impossible to look at the level of sheer logical failures with regards to the free speech argument and other forms of mass polarization, and not conclude that we have entered a time of cultural mass hysteria. Folie a duex times millions, crawling across the entire social rhizome.

Good morning, another day of people in motion across the world. Join in!

and the Pulitzer Prize for sophistry goes to …

lol "let's be nice to people who are trying to kill us" actually no ❤️

@npr.org one-upping itself this morning by not only having Kirk’s personal friend on as a neutral expert on his “free speech” legacy, and also letting him gloss the “Professor Watchlist” as “holding a mirror up to academia,” not as a well-documented tool of harassment for speech. At least they asked

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

Worth mentioning that in Europe, Japan, and many other countries, firing someone for protected speech outside of work would be absolutely illegal and would expose the employer to all sorts of liabilities.

holy crap WaPo fired @karenattiah.bsky.social

Trying to imagine @schumer.senate.gov or @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social ever doing something like this instead of jack shit as per usual

This is the first time we estimate he has a negative approval rating among Texas voters: www.economist.com/interactive/...

This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Professor Nooney's book The Apple II Age is an outstanding review of the personal computer's early days and how the Apple ][ took on its leading role.

I've written previously about game companies leveraging the extra-legal force of police in the US, but this is a very interesting one unfolding in the UK. Wow. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This is a wild story, culminating in the plausible accusation that Sega knowingly leveraged British police to try and unlawfully reclaim its own former property Response from @sega-west.bsky.social leadership very much needed www.timeextension.com/news/2025/09...

I was listening to a story on NPR this morning about the precautions transit riders are taking in the wake of this murder, and yet millions of people engage in the highly risky activity of driving multiple times a day without a second thought.

it's the back-to-school pumpkin spice special 🍂🎃 THE APPLE II AGE audio book is currently 50% off! pls share with all my haters www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

The true origins of the loneliness epidemic, discovered at last: everyone is dead.