Ever since my daughter got excited about "supporting" Taylor Swift by buying "Taylor's Version" albums, I've wanted to write something like what @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social did so brilliantly here. Spot on. Swift is the embodiment of capitalist realism.

My daughter's school instituted a no-phone policy this year—she loves it. However, the students are on their school-issued iPads all day long. And those iPads deliver push notifications anytime they receive a grade: homework, tests, papers, etc. This stresses her the F out.

Today I discovered @ceaubin.bsky.social’s pod This Guy Sucked because of a mention on @annehelen.bsky.social’s Culture Study pod. Put all the millennial scholar podcasts straight into my veins. (Guessing on gen… but you catch my drift!)

"I am someone who does what I do pretty well, and does very little else willingly." = My Whole Vibe Also @katemanne.bsky.social admitting she'd "rather experience growth as a beginner than regression as a more expert practitioner": SAME.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Went looking for the research (I think?) on how playing in a fenced-in area can actually get kids to explore/roam more than in an open area... and the search results for my query were... disheartening 🤣

"Traditional economic theory assumes information flows serve resource allocation. But increasingly, resource allocation serves attention flows. We've moved from an economy where attention supports other forms of value creation to one where attention is the value creation." - @kyla.bsky.social

My god.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Teaching people how to use LLMs is not "upskilling", it's the opposite.

It is a BURDEN

The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.

In honor of this week's Maintenance Phase episode on ultra-processed food, I must highly recommend the Ritz Crisp & Thin original chips. They kinda look like diet food... but I don't think they are? Anyhow, they're freaking wonderful.

Listen to @melissafebos.bsky.social on The Feminist Present with @adriandaub.bsky.social and Laura Goode this morning and PHWOOF (in the best way). Brilliant conversation, recommended it immediately to my husband, AND it unlocked part of an essay I was in the middle of! episodes.fm/1517251918/e...

Disturbing. Fascinating. And I’m absolutely hung up on the AI’s use of the word “lie.” I’ll be thinking about that for the rest of the day, thankuverymuch.

“The one thing that today ought to define ‘the left’ is the impulse to denounce the radical insufficiency of managing the given.” — Yves Citton, Mythocracy

‘The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.’ —Adrienne Rich

Let's be clear: Republicans don't want more 'parents' at home. They want more *women* at home. If you think this isn't about eradicating women from the public sphere, you haven't been paying attention

An attempt to cast consumers as feminized and hence contemptable …. not like those manly producers.

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

Joe Mungo Reed's new novel, Terrestrial History, is the first book containing time travel that I had zero issues with. It leaves holes in exactly the right places. Recommend!

Never thought we'd do this but... Use discount code ALGORE for 30% off titles from Theodor Adorno

After my husband related a bonkers work story, I told him, "I have so many thoughts and not enough time to think them." If I had more time to think about that thought, I'd explain. But, yeah.

Louder for the sacks of shit in the back!

A lot of people seem to be under the belief that the post-war factory jobs their parents and grandparents had were good jobs because they were masculine and tough instead of, say, protected by a union under a progressive tax rate and a massive surplus

My "day job" is audio/video production for a wildly popular kids' lit podcast. I also get to make audiobooks & videobooks for their publishing imprint. Their latest book just landed, and it's about the woman who illustrated Narnia & made the maps for LOTR. The graphic & sound design were SO fun.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

Let's talk visas this morning. People don't know what they are and that is resulting in very imprecise language (glaring at you, Rubio) when we should all be on the same page. Longer version of prior complaint follows. 1/

Given yesterday's group chat debacle, the end of today's @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social was especially on the nose... 😂

Highly recommend!!!

Mostly agree with this analysis of the newsletter bubble from The Rebooting. It made me wonder whether the best analysis for the flood of new, tiny media businesses is actually as a symptom of an industry-wide "union"-busting effort...

What a fascinating analysis! (And not just because @taramcmullin.com talks about my work.) This examination of "temporal bandwidth," and how it effects our level of engagement with the world and life, gives an important perspective on our digital age's forced fractional focus.

In which I meditate on @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social's Steerswoman series, Alan Jacobs's Breaking Bread with the Dead, and a bit of @timothysnyder.bsky.social's On Freedom for good measure

One annoying thing about the "run the government like a business" guys is that they also are terrible at running businesses. I run my podcast "like a business" in the sense that things are made to a high quality and shipped on time, but it seems their only version of "good business" is "layoffs"

While certainly not the biggest consequence of our current crises, it's a weird time to be an autistic person who consumes news analysis. Talking about Musk & his minions often involves highlighting traits/behaviors that are autistically coded (this was also true during the SBF/FTX saga).

Who what when where why not be our Valentine? Send these to someone you’re headline over heels for. 💌

This @michellegoldberg.bsky.social column is a great companion to what I wrote yesterday. The attack on higher ed is an attack on class (with it, women/queer/BIPOC/etc) AND an attack on knowledge/ways of knowing. They don't like what's taught—but they REALLY don't like the wrong people learning it.

That's just drawing attention to their cruelty (and stupidity). (Not the NPS—the people forcing the changes.)

Has no one suggesting this kind of thing ever used an AI chat bot?? What a miserable and worthless experience.

He who controls the pop-ups has the power. I wrote about our current wave of epistemic violence and how one small act of resistance is doubling down on sharing our unique experiences and hard-won knowledge.

I was cited in someone's dissertation, and it might be coolest thing that's ever happened to me. #NerdGoals

a recipe for a revolution: close off all remaining hope of upward mobility for ambitious people from poor and marginalized groups, revoke all forms of symbolic recognition, reveal the illegitimacy of the state, shred the remaining welfare provisions, degrade state capacity, start a financial crisis

I baked King Arthur's Almond Croissant Milk Bread this weekend—and it was a balm for the soul. Excellent project bake. Highly recommend.

There is an ongoing and escalating attack on upward mobility—both in material reality and in the collective imaginary. The attack on higher ed (including the refusal to address the student loan crisis) is part of that assault.

Had my pick of "What the hell is going on in DC with [ gestures wildly ]!?" podcast episodes this morning. Choose this one. Glad I did—the Vergecast crew offered some excellent framing from a tech perspective.

Super niche request: Any linguists out there who have studied the excessive use of gerunds in therapy-speak?

Ah, What Works is back! A great discussion on spaces in general, and crafting a digital home specifically. I often feel like I might be cheating myself out of opportunities by not playing by the social media rules... but I do it anyway because it feels so much better!

I've been consolidating (and pruning) 15+ yrs of work online for the past couple of months. In the process, I started to ask myself: What even IS a website today? And also, why does this project feel so... existential?!

I think @taramcmullin.com is one of the sharpest thinkers online. I'm proud that she hosts her podcast on @transistor.fm! whatworks.fyi/podcast You should also subscribe to her newsletter; it's probably the best-written newsletter I receive.