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mara brock akil’s “forever” (netflix) is one of the best modern works of love and tenderness. in this young adult story, love, family, and the whims of youth are given dimension currently missing from television.

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

You are going to see an obituary that I wrote a few months ago for Pope Francis. I really had the toughest time writing it. He was a complicated Pope. We are never going to see another Jesuit Pope in this lifetime, and maybe never again in the Catholic church.

Sinners was incredible

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Foreign leaders are indeed calling to White House to figure out how to get tariffs removed, but the White House is not responding to the calls. And meanwhile they have little idea what to even offer Trump as "concessions" because he has no idea what he wants www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Spent the entire White Lotus finale screaming “Don’t do it!! Don’t do it!!!” over and over at nearly everyone.

millennials going through their fourth once in a lifetime economic recession #WhiteLotus #TheWhiteLotus

the real moral of the story here is never speak about yourself cryptically in the third person #TheWhiteLotus #WhiteLotus

So much political discourse right now in the US is boiling down to "I didn't believe the bleeding person who told me the wolf at the door was dangerous to me. Because I thought the wolves only hunted them." And I don't know what people think can happen as long as that is still the conversation.

Will the Trump Shock prove as momentous as the Nixon Shock? BBC tv interview & UNHERD op-ed www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/04/03/w...

Guardian newspaper, yes most French know (but that not your audience I guess) that removing Lepen won't curb the rise of the far right. It's not actually the type of gloating you think it is.

Like… at some point you'll believe those of us who tell you that silicon valley's values are inextricably interwoven with eugenics, and that this isn't a new development, but merely a louder one. newrepublic.com/article/1804...

Drake also stepped back from his beef with Kendrick after “Not Like Us” dropped. Did that stop Kendrick? No, he took his hating all the way to the Super Bowl. Don’t be fooled. Be like Kendrick.

To think that cities like Nairobi don’t even have enough side walks, in a county where most people walk home due to income inequality. Must be nice.

A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵

This is also why school phone bans are a blunt and ineffective fix for whatever ills you ascribe to them. As the parent of two high achieving 'youth', and with my medical and education background, let me tell you- it's not the phones. It's the way we construct (and control) our environments.

When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'

Tonight’s White Lotus in a nutshell:

🇹🇩 Useful summary of contemporary politics in #Chad africasacountry.com/2025/02/chad...

My feed is increasingly looking like the pre-credit montage of headlines in a post apocalyptic action movie.

Adolescence on Netflix. Holy shit. Devastating. Brilliant.

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Somehow missed this 2022 UK paper exploring responses to radical right parties (RRP) and whether accommodation - i.e. "beat" them by repeating a version of their tale actually worked electorally. Short version: Nope. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What I’ve found over time is: what is practical, is not necessarily what is desirable by the various stakeholders commanding “authority” over Africa’s digital development landscape, writ large. The technological is political…

"The fact is, the battle over “DEI” has always been a fight about labor, work, and who has access to the jobs and political institutions that build and protect wealth. If we ever forgot that, we’re learning it again now." me for @slate.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

“There are no jobs on a dead planet” Kumi Naidoo, former Director, Greenpeace.

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The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history. We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.

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I have a piece titled "Centring Justice" in the new issue of the wonderful @wasafirimag.bsky.social. Colleagues/students, I have some gift links that I can share if you don't have access. Drop me a line and I'll send it over. Sneak peek of my piece here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Some thoughts from Brussels. Europe is awoken and believes America is all but gone. As such huge efforts on defense funding from EU, Germany, and others. This is real. BUT... Europe is still not reckoning yet with its major structural security problem: No one does European defense. 1/

Also, although all the majors are routinely won by African runners, there are no marathon majors in Africa. Three are in the US (New York, Boston and Chicago) two in Europe (London and Berlin) and two in Asia (Tokyo and new kid on the block, Sydney).

This is a gift link, we will continue to update this article as more Thiel names emerge:

Thanks to @pierredevos.bsky.social who was kind enough to speak to me on such short notice this week. South Africa’s ConCourt will likely confirm that men in the country should be allowed to take their wives’ surnames. Also spare a thought for North Americans and the SAVE Act.

South Sudan is slipping toward renewed conflict & political upheaval. Risks merging with war in Sudan. African heads of state with influence, esp Kenya, Ethiopia & South Africa should step in & calm alarming situation before hostilities escalate.  www.crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-...

The sobering new state of feminism | Opinion https://www.ft.com/content/04f00a13-b59b-45b1-82da-af76fdbfcb4f

moral panics re "woke," "political correctness," etc were designed to make: 1. counter-cultural commitments to relational egalitarianism & mutual consideration seem like stodgy, censorious conformism; 2. degenerate commitments to bigotry & complacency seem like high-minded tolerance & defiance

This argument comes up regularly, and it has nothing to do with how progressives are talking to young men. It has a lot to do with the way misogyny is normalized in homes and schools and churches.

genuinely curious, what exactly is "anti-AI movement"? if it's critically examining AI, pushing back against "AI" that fails to meet its promises & work that's trying to keep big tech, AI developers/vendors accountable for the shitty tools they choose to release into the world, then count me in

"The mythology of founders and Silicon Valley too often obscures the indispensable role of American taxpayers in the innovation economy"—my recent remarks to @bloomberg.com about the critical importance of federally funded research. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Greetings from SXSW. Just saw Meredith Whittaker (Signal CEO) gave a great talk on why everyone needs privacy even if you don’t think you do. And how being a nonprofit removes the temptation to “further monetize” information you have on your users

The manosphere needs doms. I'm convinced a platoon of dominatrices could fix this country

this argument about left scolding sounds initially plausible but does not survive contact with hearing how these manosphere people talk to young men

A doctor has been serving one of Baltimore’s poorest neighborhoods for decades — and if his patients can’t pay, that’s OK with him. So when he was diagnosed with cancer, his community rallied to raise $100,000 for his treatments.