The thing is, there *is* something revolutionary happening. But too many don’t realize they are the ones currently deciding what that something will result in.

Rupert, who is not a fascist, sends greetings

Rupert, who is not a fascist, sends greetings

OK if true this is very cool

Not now, dear cephalopods

This was much more enlightening than I expected, although I suspect not in the way Klein hoped. He comes across as flailing, philosophically and intellectually, because he has never had to understand adversity in the way Coates has. 1/3

Wait

Bring back mechanical buttons. More of this 👇 www.wired.com/story/why-ca...

He was both a force of nature and very kind. RIP

Freshly cone-free

It is wild to me that even people like Ezra Klein - who makes a living from convincing people his views are correct - refuse to understand that politics is also about convincing people, not just trying to follow the popular mood.

How did I not know this was happening??

Close the universities and send down the students to labor on the farms. What could go wrong?

It me

Annoyed but still regal

I just have to laugh at nonsense like this: “One of the reasons opposition to Donald Trump’s executive overreach and harmful policies has been weak in his second term in office is that progressive writers are hanging out on Bluesky trying (and failing) to cancel Matt Yglesias and Nate Silver.”

Well, he’s not wrong

Taps @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s sign:

Oh to be as stoned as this guy amidst all the discourse

The only take I truly needed today

Well if WWIII starts tonight at least my puppy is miserable?

Public health officials broadly speaking in fact discouraged protests strongly

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The thing is, there *is* something revolutionary happening. But too many don’t realize they are the ones currently deciding what that something will result in.

China has been trying to do this for years now, to little success

Repainting a room in my condo and identical products have increased in price from this time last year by 50%?!

Someone needed lots of attention this morning

Author concludes with: “a Secret Service agent showed up to my parents’ door, explaining that West Point had reported me for…asking people to speak with the president. This wasn’t true…But it felt like a poetic charge in light of my reportorial focus on the military’s stifling of academic inquiry.”

the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education 1/

I would read a longform piece on the genesis and impact of Sharper Image

This should go well for them in Asia

A quick search reveals it is extremely easy to find “replica” ICE badges for $50 online

This happens all the time and I feel like I am losing my mind

I know no one does the reading anymore but come on, we can’t think of a single other authoritarian regime that has been uninterested in real economic data?

The China comparison is inapt here. In many ways, China’s leadership continues to realize that they, internally at least, need the best data they can get and have built systems to get it even as they tightly control what the public knows. That is not what is happening in the US, so far as I can tell

Fun how this particular trauma response hasn’t gone away for me, despite not having taught for two years at this point

“State capitalism is an all-of-society affair in China, directed from Beijing via millions of cadres in local governments and company boardrooms. In the U.S., it consists largely of Oval Office announcements lacking any policy or institutional framework.”

Careful supervision of my writing

Dogs are the best and also I was not prepared for this growth rate

A periodic reminder that true ideologues don’t make good policy, almost by definition

Friday afternoon vibes

Was having a conversation earlier this year about a possible upcoming renaissance of (unclassified) “OSINT” techniques and was more skeptical then than I am now. Kremlinology, writ broadly, continues to have its place for very good reasons

For no particular reason, thinking about how early-80s Sesame Street (aired on CPB-funded PBS) was so educationally effective that it helped teach me to read before I got to kindergarten. Some of those videos live rent-free in my head to this day

I am so, so tired of constantly being lied to. Lately it has been city officials in addition to every single corporation I am forced to interact with.

Love modern air travel, delayed 13+ hours due to tsunami (!) and United expects me to sleep at the closed terminal I guess?

This strikes me as a pandemic-specific hangover in a way most of the other priorities of the administration are not