who teaches American commentators to speak this way about football? nothing about what's happening strategically, space that's being contested, structure and formation, etc., just "name, name, name, NAAAAME!!" just humiliating stuff.

when It Happens we’re going to need an autopsy, you just know the inside of his skull looks like a decorative gourd

Two people got murdered in broad daylight by their own government and more and more Minnesotans kept showing up on the streets to protect their neighbors. When you don’t have any moral principles, it’s hard to understand other people who do.

Capital, Vol. 1, Ch. 10, Sec. 3, on the adulteration of bread

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

in keeping with the journalistic convention that the answer to any interrogative headline is "No," not only should you not feel guilty, it is actually your moral duty to root against the US. sorry boys, maybe next quadrennium we'll be doing Big Green Socialism and the answer will be different.

There is no future. There is no past. Do you see?

This article by @colindickey.com in @oaklandreviewofbooks.org is not only the best existing review of Backrooms, but it's one of my favorite pieces on tech and Silicon Valley this year. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/bay-area-hor...

a good illustration of what Graeber called “baseline communism”

A long post (partly) about carbon offsets and AI. Carbon traders love AI, because it's rapidly expanding and very polluting. Sure, it's making the climate crisis worse. But it creates demand for carbon credits. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/climate-de...

AI is climate arson

"I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards".

on the other hand, soon Auburn students will be able to major in Convict Leasing, Phrenology, Youth Gender Verification, and other fields that shared governance was holding back

It remains absurd that a major international sports tournament is being hosted by a country that launched a war against one of the participants

Well, THAT’S fucking gross! Do better USMNT supporters. 👎

yeah the people he’s contributing to whipping up have hated Poles specifically for a long time, the level of open anti-Polish sentiment among the nativist right in the UK is well documented

across multiple fronts, the World Cup is becoming a showcase of just how broken American society is. Image via: www.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/...

mass private AV ownership would be a nuclear bomb of induced demand and preventing it should be one of the highest transportation policy priorities

furthermore, using voting patterns as a proxy for "ideology" is beyond frivolous. faculty work in the field of education. one party has openly declared that educated people are their political enemies and that the learning involved in becoming educated is meaningless or even un-American.

Excited to have contributed to this great work with Emmett Hopkins and @lucyblock.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social on fast and free buses as a strategy to address the twin climate and affordability crisis in cities and regions across the US!

"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026" New IEA report confirms this isn't a normal industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.

I'm just a simple country doctor, but I don't understand how the editor of the Chronicle Review can write an essay on what he sees as the excessive "political enthusiasms" in higher ed over the last decade and not mention, say, anti-CRT hysteria, state legislatures' rewriting of curricula... (1/5)

This is completely deranged: Iran is required to play games in the US but ISN’T ALLOWED TO STAY IN THE COUNTRY OVERNIGHT. They will instead have to fly back to Mexico. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

This is evil collective punishment.

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

projection exactly like the “paid protestors” narrative: they whine disingenuously about frivolities they know are meaningless because they assume that’s what their political adversaries on the left are doing and they can’t imagine people actually having beliefs

Coming tomorrow to Canvas, if your university subscribes at the Canvas Next tier (IDK what that is either) and your IT department enables "Ignite AI." community.instructure.com/en/discussio...

say what you will about X, but digitally recreating the experience of being trapped in a Chili’s with a massive carbon monoxide leak is an impressive feat

Mad libs headlines

“For the good of society, your son will work in the trades. Oh, my son? My son will be a titan of politics and industry. For the good of society, your daughter will be a tradwife. Oh, my daughter? My daughter will host a lucrative rightwing podcast.”

the horse dewormer people are like John Rambo in First Blood, forever damaged by the idea that the libs wouldn't let them win

Full Self-Driving but only for the wheels

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

lol "scheduled maintenance"

there's simply no adequate political response to this that isn't based on fully destroying the people and party responsible for it

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

getting a sense that the 700 quadrillion articles in the UK press calling Jeremy Corbyn basically a neo-Nazi were not entirely in good faith

“political actors” certainly understates it, the Roberts bloc are regime footsoldiers

I find fandom a little sus in general but I do want to take advantage of everyone talking about Star Wars to repost this all time NLR-style essay mobunited.wordpress.com/2016/12/28/l...

really stands out against the rank cowardice of higher education leadership over the past few years

corollary to Nietzsche's Paradox

absolutely incredible thing for bret stephens to say out loud

inability to recognize the petit bourgeoisie is truly the most pervasive mind disease in American journalism

The right are so obsessed with the idea that leftist agitiators on are secretly being paid is simply because their movement is being secretly financed. They also can't imagine why you would take a position that you weren't being paid to take, since they have no actual principles beyond self-interest

Raleigh says Fund Schools, Not Wars. #MayDay

I was getting so disenchanted with campus organizing before becoming involved with my AAUP chapter. I highly recommend it if you're also feeling burnt out!

One part of town got all the inner-city lane mileage in Charlotte. The other got [nearly] none. This should answer the question of need and desirability.