I'm speaking in general terms I'm sure you personally got a lot out of it, and godspeed to you In the aggregate, though? That's a lot of people going through college thinking that their favorite books hold "immortal truths" that always happen to be patriarchal

Preemptive post:

Not only does AI have terrible unit economics, those unit economics are getting *worse* over time: pluralistic.net/2026/05/26/t... 13/

"Gish Gallop" is a debating term for an opponent who makes so many claims that "it's impossible to address them in the time available" (it's named for Creationist Duane Gish): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_ga... I think about the Gish Gallop whenever I'm asked to comment on AI. 1/

No board of trustees - whether in academia, nonprofit arts, or for-profit business - is ever qualified to anoint itself with this type of power. They do not know better, they will never understand how to run the institution, and - this is absolutely crucial - this is not what boards are for.

First ever time checking out this podcast and halfway through I'm already so mad I'm wanting to throw my phone across the room In the midst of a discussion about the Open AI/Anthropic IPOs, the host was incredulous that anyone could be angry about these stocks suddenly turning up in our index funds

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”

Literary study is always political—or, to use a phrase that is guaranteed to annoy people with this mindset, it is always already political The decision to withhold an idea of politics from literary study is an immensely political one, and its beneficiaries are not the students

If anything, though, spot advertising was a reprieve Before that we would get an entire hour brought to you by the toilet paper brand, where the dancing rabbits might burst onstage at any moment, or the lead actor might turn to the camera, smile, and tell us that the rabbit's favorite TP is Charmin

These days the real critique to make about MAGA homoeroticism is not its hypocrisy, but rather the sense that MAGA misogyny is made more pure by an almost total fetishization of (white) masculinity above all else

Folks in Brooklyn, there is a concert of my percussion and electronics music tonight at So Percussion Labs (20 Grand Avenue, #205). 7:30 PM, $10 donation. Performed by Taylor Long and Michael Jones. Hope to see you there.

the thing that’s been painfully obvious for years is that unchecked capital accumulation paired with gutting the social safety net and public goods was going to lead to commerce without customers. an economy built on consumption when no one has money to consume.

"By nationality, I'm Venezuelan," Andry Hernandez Romero told me. "But in my heart, I'm American." He is the gay makeup artist Trump sent to the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador. Andry is in Spain now, rebuilding his life and haunted by his experience. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...

Corruption hates daylight. The names of every single donor and the “benefits” they received since donating need to be brought to light.

So this project is nowhere near ready to be shown off publicly, but you my wonderful bsky followers get a bit of preview. I'll probably share more about this as it develops. As might be obvious, it's meant to be a smaller, possibly "portable" piano, inspired by acoustic guitar. Puitar? Guiano? 🤷‍♂️

Not the main point here by a long shot, but in my one and only visit to a honky-tonk joint, they had a rapping cowboy Circulated through the line-dancing audience in stetson, leather boots, and remote microphone, rapping to the country hits Just sayin': it happens

Anthony Stewart Head will always be a real one for this. RIP www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

Still puzzling to me, on a strictly business level, why they no longer see a percentage in catering to the LGBTQ+ community Is performative bigotry really still that much more lucrative than performative wokeness?

Jadzia/Curzon, from DS9 The show's representation of queer/nonbinary/trans identity was in some sense well ahead of its representation of cisgender LGB identity

You’re a scholar in the behavioral science of AI. You presumably know something about this stuff. Is this really the best straw man you can come up with? You do realize people’s objections extend well beyond this, right?

@quinnslobodian.com makes a strong case for thinking about race as a function, rather than solely a matter of individual disposition

"My journey is one of transformation"

Olivia Rodrigo on ICE using her song “all-american b*tch” in a propaganda video: “It was so deeply disturbing… the fact it was my song in there made me feel even more enraged. What they’re doing is so awful and barbaric and cruel. I am really sad to be in a country that thinks that’s OK.”

Welp there’s no unseeing this

A year ago: We're building data centers everywhere to run you out of your job and double your power bill. It's so you can look at fake videos of talking dogs on your phone Now: Why are people so hostile about the data centers

I get that people don’t want to admit their political opponents were right and I *really* don’t want another centrist Dem in the Senate given Platner’s policy positions are quite good, but Platner is just not worth the trouble at this point. If he gets accused of sexual assault, he needs to go.

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

Rest In Power

Paul Ehrlich didn't just advocate for the One-Child Policy, he was horrified by its repeal in 2015, long after it was clear that its chief legacies were mass female infanticide and incalculable human misery.

Post an album you've listened to 100 times

My absolute most snobby, traditionalist-coded take is that this is absolutely horrifying and must not be allowed to happen Knock down the East Wing. Turn the Reflecting Pool into a wading pool. Hell, you can even put up your Caesars Palace triumphal arch. But please take this thing down

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

A great piece, which lays out quite lucidly why claims to the conscious sentience of LLMs are fatuous This bit is both hilarious and a harrowing thought experiment

democrats are catastrophically failing us

31% of Democrats polled said being transgender is "morally wrong". Five years ago it would have been a fraction of that. The propaganda is working, the silence from Democrats is deafening, & all of this is why every step backward can't go ignored for even a moment. news.gallup.com/poll/710810/...

It's a measure of where we're at that the Secretary of State, the leading public official for US foreign policy, announced yesterday that the war with Iran is over, and yet my timeline is utterly devoid of any evidence that this is the case The Sec of State now has all the credibility of this guy

THE FLORSHEIMS FIT FINE is the updated version of

Hard to know who to trust here, the veteran investigative journalist or the woman who quit the New York Times and acts like they fired her

It’s notable that even before the war the southern states literally did not believe in free speech, association, freedom from search & seizure, the right to bear arms, to a jury, to religion, etc etc as they touched on slavery, a reality glossed over by their later libertarian defenders

to my mind the most important biographical fact to know about samuel alito is that he was a member of a group that opposed the admission of women and minorities to princeton www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...

Yeah, there was just so much trust and respect in the room when she spiked the CECOT story

especially re: 2, one must ask, in what way is this court majority actually opposed to Plessy v. Ferguson?

This is excellent from @jamellebouie.net. The Trump administration is not conservative in any meaningful sense of the word. They are revolutionaries undermining the constitutional order. Any competent response from Democrats needs to face this reality squarely.

This is the kind of thing that has been rattling around my mind. The thing making people frustrated with Democratic response to the GOP is that it broadly lacks the level of vision—reconstruction, if you will—that extricating us from this mess requires. Couple paragraphs I really liked.

St. Louis taxpayers were still paying for the new stadium they built for the Rams until 2022… six years after the Rams moved to Los Angeles. Kudos to Gov. Pritzker for standing up to the Bears’ attempted extortion. These franchises should be building their own stadiums, not shaking down taxpayers.

Omg!!! She won! @juliaelliott.bsky.social won the Carol Shields prize! Such a great collection! www.npr.org/2026/06/02/n...

SCOOP: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned.

I see. "Creating a hostile work environment" now means any workplace dissent that puts management in a bad light Bari Weiss not exactly successfully navigating the rough-and-tumble world of broadcast journalism, is she?

a new funniest outcome from sext-gate has arrived