I think it would be a good bit for local small business people to act like our worst oligarchs. Your plumber walking around your house like this for an hour before he makes a bunch of promises about the next frontier for your toilet and leaves without fixing it

I can't speak to other cultures, but for every English-speaking culture on Earth as of 2026, "are we the baddies?" is essential to understanding the moment. It's not just that there are baddies; there are genuinely millions of people who can barely comprehend what they support and why.

What a piece of shit. Not a new insight, I realize, but it can't be said enough. He is an oozing carbuncle, a putrid stain, vile, and rank.

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

No joke, there must be 15,000 op-eds with this exact take.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself! And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

I want a "conference" where every academic cooks a dish for everyone and we all talk about our work casually while cooking. People can sous chef for each other. We eat and talk about our work in progress. You submit an abstract and a recipe.

Your regular reminder that "viewpoint diversity" (all sides!) is the rhetorical smokescreen used to platform race science, white supremacists, misogynists, and climate change deniers on college campuses. Far right trojan horse -- that Harvard donors will happily push right in through the gates.

"for unknown reasons, my mortal enemies appear to be concerned with the core essence of humanity in a way that my allies are not. oh well, better not think about it too hard."

what do you even fucking do with this, man? the president is beefing with the pope while posting AI sop pictures of himself as jesus and the catholic vice-president is telling the pope he is doing theology wrong. i am not and have never been religious and this shit shocks and bothers me.

White people invented racism and then immediately got jealous

The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers

Speculative Financial Capitalism is always part of the equation.

ALL experiences that could be classified as economic are mediated by socially conditioned expectations, assumptions, & aspirations. All experiences period, really, but especially something as complex & culturally freighted as the category "economic." There are no "direct," unmediated experiences ...

I really don't think people understand how DEEPLY out of hand the normalization of Nazi talking points has gotten. Like you post a challah recipe and people say that everyone you know should go "back to Poland" (which has approximately the same Jewish pop as Rhode Island) and that Hitler was right.

Republicans are all trying to stand like Trump now lol. They all look so uncomfortable, it’s pathetic

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

You're like "those pervert glasses might be useful for augmented reality in plumbing, or-" and he's like "what do you mean, look at me wearing them. Check this out, you can meet me in the Metaverse in a boardroom for a business meeting. You can talk to my digital twin. Behold my works, ye mighty,"

It's so fucking weird that literally all of Zuckerberg's company is now just marketed directly at him, *he* is the person they are marketing at. All his products are a mirror he can look in and see himself, and he can't understand why he would want to make things other people want.

Going back in time to tell 2015 me that Trump will get elected which brings about a new plague and then he'll get re-elected for a second term after attempting to overthrow the government and his biggest political foe in 2026 is the Pope who is from Chicago

transphobia is a luxury belief, which is why it’s so prevalent among beltway types who don’t have real problems

it feels trite to say at this point but that would be murder & illegal & i'm pretty sure advocating for it is also illegal

"we must fight for the middle class" is basically the 14 Words for capitalist party duopoly

Hungarian Voters Increasingly Out Of Touch With Heartland America---Will This "Danubian Elitism" Prove To Be A Mistake?

academics should also be sharing these things and not accommodating bad faith narratives.

Nations don’t have “rights to exist.” WTF does that mean anyway? People have a right to exist. The people of Lebanon, the people of Congo, the people of Palestine—those are people and they have a right to exist. Explain to me these state “rights of existence.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Every few months or so, a prominent economist writes an article like this full of sweeping claims about globalization & geopolitics & how it’s all different now, which mostly suggests they haven’t read <50 years of international political economy research, & I really just don’t know anymore.

if they start using "papist" as a slur again well I'm sorry to say I'm not strong enough to resist relapsing on catholicism

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

After being caught flat-footed by El-Sayed in the video below, Olivia Reingold of the Free Press now seems to be implying that Abdul doesn't understand the issue because he's a Muslim

Games like darts, billiards, bowling and chess completely give away what's going on. The ONLY reason to segregate these sports by sex in the first place is because men cannot emotionally handle losing to women. The ONLY reason to lock out trans people is bigotry.

Better your thumbnail look like shit but that someone made it on purpose. This is becoming a legit signal of authenticity, which actually still does matter as a social media marketing goal.

Called my rep and you can too. They are if nothing else a list of people it is absolutely 100% okay— responsible!— to lash out at

Vance is a charmless freak who nobody likes. He’s not some fucking mastermind waiting in the wings who will rise to power and be more terrible than any of us can imagine. I don’t want him to be president but Trump is the glue and Trump needs to go before anything else.

the world never screeches to a halt for anything, it never has, this is both tragic and hopeful, you still have to get up and put on your pants and go live everyday, and that’s been the case since your pants were handmade from deerskin

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

the way people have absolutely zero principles genuinely disturbs me. they believe nothing and will say anything that brings them their next paycheck. this is no way to live. it’s disgusting. i do not understand how this isn’t a bot and an actual real human being

Microsoft, to its billions of customers: You must use this product to be hired or promoted. It is the future. We are spending billions per day, choking the rest of the economy. You cannot avoid it. You cannot uninstall it. It is risky. Do not rely on it for anything important. It is a toy.

the swag in this video is unreal

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

“Is this the time I try a taco trade?” I think, before putting my phone down and forgetting forever

Made a little video about the metaverse, adapted from the part of my dissertation I had to write twice last week because the cat deleted it youtu.be/aWRzvOiqc-s?...

Again - BlueSky was originally Jack Dorsey’s pet project to make a Web3 social media / NFT trading post until a bunch of trans furries got ahold of invite codes and started mass-proliferating them to other trans furries and then suddenly BlueSky was 90% queers and annoying leftists and Jack fled.

It always cracks me up that this is the only product that users are supposed to shoulder the burden of growing. Apple doesn't call me once a week like "Bad news sir the quarter's not looking good"

Why do people call it "making biscuits" when that kind of motion cats do would absolutely ruin a biscuit?