nostalgia for past nostalgias; nostalgia not for the purported reality of any concrete period but for the utopian longing contained within nostalgia itself

well yes, given the common phrase "oh shit, it's the lawyer." given that.

in the past few days I've seen exhortations to use libraries and to patronize bookstores that were framed as condemnations of 'piracy'. do people understand that participating in file-sharing doesn't actually preclude using either libraries or bookstores

I won't dismiss the possibility that Karoline didn't know this would happen, but the careful wording around the son makes me concerned ice did her and her brother a solid and got rid of the kid's mom.

did a double take

quite a lot of pop psychology boils down to "here's why being self-centered is morally correct"

I'm sure many others have made this point before, but it occurs to me that one reason 'radical' feminists so easily fall into alliances with religious conservatives is that they both proceed from the premise that men are inherently sinful, so women must be protected from them as a class

Reminder that according to growth forecasts by serious people (2.6x per year), training frontier AI models will equal the entire peak demand of the US power grid (759,000 MW) by 2035. By 2048, that means it will equal more than all the solar energy hitting the earth continuously (173,000 terawatts)

The judge who authorised the ICC's arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant is now shut out from modern life as a result of US sanctions. He has been blacklisted by financial systems and technologies (Visa, Apple, Google, etc) Paywall bypass: archive.ph/d8NmT www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

ah yes,, materialism

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Larry Summers being shitty can really pop up anywhere

This is the lady who wrote Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high" speech

realized there's likely to be a depressing side effect of AI summaries in Google search drastically cutting down on web traffic and attendant ad revenues: podcasts and short form video becoming even more predominant forms because they're the last place advertisers believe they actually get attention

saw this photo my grandfather took in Alaska sometime in the mid-1950s. found the lighting and composition very striking

NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public www.404media.co/contractor-p...

Harvard's endowment now has almost $443 million invested in BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF

You are not prepared for this, and yes, it is who you're thinking of www.popjustice.com/briefing/tha...

the Biden administration saw world-historical levels of new fossil fuel production in the United States. and now of course everyone is enjoying low, low energy prices

someone tagged an album 'harsch noise', which for whatever reason I am finding extremely cute

Mamdani's success in filtering his whole agenda through the lens of 'affordability' really demonstrats the poverty of 'Abundance' as a political program. Why would anyone care about the fact that a whole bunch of stuff is being produced if they can't actually access it?

he's just a little guy

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Northern Lights Cleveland, ND

Sarah Kenzidor? The hypobolic journalist?

this morning I discovered that James Talarico follows Danny Brown and Tokimonsta on Instagram

It's kind of our thing actually...

Yeah I know he’s technically Frankenstein’s monster, that’s why I called him “a” Frankenstein, like how the Mona Lisa is a Da Vinci

is it just me or has the quality and reliability of video conferencing platforms noticeably declined in the past half year or so?

Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765 www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

As far as we know, these are not yet death camps, but they follow the camp's logics. Zones of exception, where the Law is equally unapplicable to the detainees or the sovereigns who organize the terror. Where political beings are transformed into bodies of bare life.

"In total, the Gates Foundation (formerly known as the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) has donated $3,519,491 to Lomborg’s think tank. The most recent tax filing on record includes a 2022 donation to the Copenhagen Consensus Center worth $1.25 million" - @rtakver.bsky.social, @desmog.com

can any electoral wonks explain how it came to be that residents of Staten Island cast votes in New York City elections even though they obviously live in New Jersey? I've never been able to make sense of that

Real progressive of you ignoring the desires of the rural workers of the Staten Island semi-periphery

Night of the Joyful Hater

can't deny my heart melted a bit seeing Mira Nair and Mahmood Mamdani up there

while getting ~%50 of the vote isn't the utter shellacking of Cuomo one might hope for, it seems like Mamdani could be on track to be the first NY mayor to receive over a million votes since John Lindsay in 1969

I made the mistake of going to the USDA website to see what that agency's online Hatch Act violation looks like, and hooo boy

Right-wing abundance-bros operate in an ecosystem of ultra-low-information, mostly on a combination of X and substack, with the big accounts just spewing out vaguely correct-sounding chunks of text that crumble at the slightest interrogation. This has ~1.2k RTs on X, and it's just....made up

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

many years ago, someone gave this copy of Silver Jews' Tanglewood Numbers the genre tag "bob costas-level mad flava groove"

a surprising number of people last night immediately clocked my Tyler Robinson costume

THERAPIST: Cornish Eames House isn't real, it can't hurt you. CORNISH EAMES HOUSE:

The pleasure people are getting from imagining pain inflicted on their enemies is more psychically potent than the pain they get from the policies of the people they support or the ostracizatiom they receive from their loved ones. Simple as.

The Trump sycophant enjoys *through* Trump and relies on being his instrument for enjoyment.

since this is Helen Andrews, the truth she is worried female-majority academic departments are incapable of pursuing is "Black people are incapable of self-government"

the reason the Monty Hall Problem is so confusing is that probability is not something that exists in the world