Am Freitag beendete die schwarz-rote Koalition die sogenannte „Turbo-Einbürgerung“. Am Montag führte sie die „Aktivrente“ ein. Was denken junge Deutsche, neu-Ausländer und arme Rentnern dieser Verschankung von Jobs, Steuergeld und Zukunftschancen an die reiche CDU-Babyboomer Klientel? #Aktivrent

How do you behave when interacting with AI? Does it influence the way we engage with real people? And will it eventually influence the ways in which AI treats us? open.substack.com/pub/accordin... #AI #Technology

Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

Trump's America is a total police state. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Paramount/CBS cancels Colbert's Late Show only days after he criticized the parent company's bribe-like "settlement payout" to Trump... BOYCOTT CBS, Paramount, and skydance). Just don't watch any of it (except the Late Show... make them feel it in the ratings.) apnews.com/article/step...

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

"the antidote to our overlapping crises is not just better data or smarter technologies—it is expansive imagination. And that imagination is cultivated not in labs or spreadsheets, but through the critical, creative, and interpretive work of the humanities." wonkhe.com/blogs/our-fu...

A brooder's gotta brood. Check out my most recent roundup and recommendations! accordinglee.substack.com/p/brooders-r...

Great read: "...friction has become a class experience. Wealth has always helped smooth over bumps - but when the physical world is such a mess and the digital world is so easy, it’s simple to curate the digital into the physical if you have money." kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...

I teach a class on podcasting and politics. While I’m focused on explaining theories and elaborating concepts, my students are hyper-fixated on what works. And that’s valuable. Here are some quick-and-dirty lessons we’ve learned together. open.substack.com/pub/accordin...

"How do you get a bunch of Democratic Lisa Simpons to all the sudden wile out, because Nelson is now the president." Hasan Minhaj interviews "Dark Ezra." www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUNS...

It's not tough folks. I'm teaching a podcasting politics class rn. The finding over and over is: be "authentic" and go where folks actually are (online & irl). We don't need a Rogan of the left, just candidates who put themselves out there and don't act like sterile, CNN-friendly bots of themselves.

Sometimes the Guardian publishes really good stuff. Want to change minds? Build relationships and lead with action, not words! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI technologies rely upon data sets harvested from the unpaid work we perform anytime we do anything online. It gets turned back on us to manipulate our perceptions and behavoir. Any benefits accrued are captured by techno-oligarchs. Can we reclaim agency? open.substack.com/pub/accordin...

"Curriculum.. taken out of schools and universities, and “supporting faculty” would be removed. Social media would be purged... Institutions would lose public funding. Foreign students who pushed for Palestinian rights would have their visas revoked, or be deported." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

Career self-selection explains the political leanings of the professoriate. Students don’t experience “indoctrination,” but rather moderate their views over time. In this light, there’s only one way to describe MAGA’s “viewpoint diversity” demands: as a power play. open.substack.com/pub/accordin...

It's. The. Damned. Phones. substack.com/home/post/p-...

"Until we learn to wield attention and influence culture, we’ll be adrift." TL;DR: Dems need a media strategy that gets with the (new media) times. I've been saying this for awhile. Glad it finally hit the NYTimes opinion pages... a little (too) late, I'd say. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

Put these headlines under the nose of every person you know today. But especially Republicans. "2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u... "Wisconsin Judge Arrested, Accused of Shielding Immigrant" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Is this how people cope with democratic disintegration and economic catastrophe in a totally consumerist society? I'm deeply concerned; consumer therapy won't save you from the gestapo, friends. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...

If you read nothing else today, I suggest you read this. kyla.substack.com/p/compliance...

Please sign and please repost. This is a big opportunity for us.

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Little Sunday night econ lesson for y'all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6I_...

"What happens when people lose the ability to reason or render good judgments? Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Donald Trump’s tariff policy." Don't forget to close the apps sometimes and go read a book. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...

Hurrah! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Cowards. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

"most of the people who make a living off their financial acumen had less understanding of Trump’s priorities than a casual viewer of MSNBC." The fact that these supposedly "smart" people run our economies (innevitably, into the ground) is the the deeper problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

Department of grift and evasion.

In Trump's America, tiny screw screws you! Doh!

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Digital subscriptions/paywalls act as "informational tollbooths"-gatekeeping accurate information. This funds newspapers, but drives polarization and social division. But what's all that got to do with coffee shops??? medium.com/@leeflamand/... #paywalls #digital #information #loneliness #isolation

No one is safe.

I've been a brooding maniac this week. Check it out. open.substack.com/pub/accordin...

Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei puts a glossy spin on AI in his popular blog post "Machines of Loving Grace." Should we buy the hype? AI is acculturating us to a an often cruel aesthetic of glossy mediocrity. open.substack.com/pub/accordin... #AI #Poltiics #Technology #DigitalMedia #Culture #literature

ICE is continuing to illegally detain and/or deport graduate students with valid US visas, supposedly because they "create a ruckus." So much for free speech and the USA's reputation as a world leader in Higher Ed and research. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u... #politics #immigration #USA #HigherEd

Often, American left-liberalism feels like a host of nebulous, competing ideas. We need a new grand narrative capable of making them cohere into a winning proposal, as well as concrete action points for delivering on them. open.substack.com/pub/accordin... #Politics #USA #Left #Democrats

You know shit is getting real, and real bad, when nice buttoned up respectable nytimes pundits and journalists are dropping F bombs left and right all over their podcast interviews. This is the attitude we've needed.

Here's a radical thought. Hey rich people who actually prefer short-term pain to long-term pain: boycott the US stock market. Move your money into safer havens until Trump & Co back off. Support economies like Canada or Mexico or Europe or anywhere else. Put your money where your mouths are.

MAGA is using new media to poison the information environment even as Trump is threatening to pull the plug on professional journalism. I have some quick-and-dirty ideas on how to battle MAGA misinformation in daily life. Do you have ideas too? Tell me! accordinglee.substack.com/p/what-can-w...

I've been thinking of writing a follow-up to this one. How have you all been dealing with strife from intra-family political divisions these days?

Democratic voters are, to put it mildly, f*cking pissed at the Party. It seems currently incapable of writing a coherent playbook, so I did it for them in 15 quick-and-dirty points. open.substack.com/pub/accordin...

DOGE: Dept. of Grift and Evasion. www.icij.org/inside-icij/...

I don't like the word "rule" youtu.be/r58dhBQNzOI?...

Isn't this what all the tech oligarchs have been doing the whole time? They are just such bad readers that they don't realize that most of those films are cautionary tales, not blueprints for product concepts.

Your boi has been brooding again: AI analyzes my old fiction, hot girl club economies, robot artworks, polarized tastes, and Germany's chance to overtake the USA in science. Here's some of what's been on my mind lately. accordinglee.substack.com/p/roundup-3?...

Well apparently someone @spiegel.de agrees with me... www.spiegel.de/ausland/wirt...

Democratic message number 1 needs to be: get big money out of politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

Just a friendly reminder for those who are feeling exhausted by it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_vQ...

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