Yeah, this one really squares my boobs as a sociologist. Arlie Russell Hochschild made one of the most important contributions to the sociology of labour ever, updating the Marxist concept of alienation for the late 20th century and it got sludged into "I don't want to call my mom."

these articles all make a ton more sense the moment you realise when they say "the economy" they actually mean "the owner and his friends"

people were on here pre-coping about the Lakers schedule logistics and Luka is just out here putting another top-10 defense in a sarcophagus

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

I’ve come to think of it as a risk response. People want no risk. Perversely, tech systems introduce almost infinitely new forms and degrees of risk into everyday infestations but the text also makes people more binary about risk. Crash course with anxiety.

i love that burger has come full circle back to being basically a synonym for capitalist/greedy scum

I love looking at my phone and exclaiming HOLY SHIT with no context, really keeps the household on high alert

With how bad things are, it’s worth knowing @haymarketbooks.org is publishing a narrative history project, Heat The Ground Up, on Starbucks Workers United. It’s a powerful story of how everyday Americans can take back control of their lives from the class of people who brought us to this point

The point of all this isn't to turn a profit or come out ahead. The point is to establish that capital can never be invaded, that wealth belongs exclusively in private hands and its expenditure decided by private interests, that the state and its people have no right to it or say in its use.

It's still smart for Brin. He's worth $240 billion; this tax could theoretically cost him $12 billion. This is a fraction of that. But *even if the math didn't work for him*, he'd still do it. He'd spend $20 billion to save $1 billion of it came to that, because the numbers aren't the point.

petty nba is good nba

You cannot have a democracy if you have billionaires. You cannot have a democracy when you have an economic system predicated on empowering the few to exploit the many for the pure acquisition of wealth. Eradicate the billionaires. Democratize the economy.

TIRED: Timothée Chalamet's heel-turn stunt promotional tour for Marty Supreme backfired by convincing the public to start rooting against him WIRED: Timothée Chalamet's heel-turn stunt promotional tour for Marty Supreme paid off by convincing the public to start rooting against Paul Atreides

raaahhhhh 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 time to get blitzed and weep

LA Lakers best defense in the league, Mahcus Smaht late game sniper

This is such ugly basketball i love it

Watching this fourth quarter, first lakers ball i’ve watched in months - so this is obviously a top 5 defense bottom 5 offense

It is so, so far from the most important thing right now, but god damn does our ruling class have absolutely dogshit taste

If the lakers beat the rockets tonight im buying the hype train at full market price

Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms

La Brea Tar Pits. Sure it’s a nice natural history museum to keep the nerds happy, but it’s also a sprawling park tailor made for zombie tag

Justin Fields once he learns the Reid offense

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

Marx is extremely good, much more so than internet communists would have you believe, an becuase of our times being like his, the old excuse of “well the more recent Marxists supplant him” doesn’t even apply. Read the Preface, read the 18th Brumaire, read the Working Day chapter of Capital I.

I'm actually super fascinated by how the US idea of branding at international events at this point is to become the exact sort of caricature of a national team that Vince Vaughn defeats in the 2nd hour of Dodge Ball

luka good

Mahcus smaht vs aaron gordon, the shooting match we all came to see

Pouring a moderate amount of malt liquor on the kerb for one of the all-time great Basically Pleasant Bureaucrats.

RIP Jurgen Habermas

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To square the circle of “no taxes below X income” nonsense, I vote we have a 0% income tax below $75k and a 100% income tax above $75k. Also a 100% estate tax. Done and done.

Every time

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"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

American Jews aren't responsible for the actions of a state they aren't member to and I think it's bad that the ADL wants people to think so.

I am old enough to remember the vitriol directed at random humanities scholars' work complaining about the totalizing tendencies of capitalism to corrupt, colonize, or co-opt everything. I also lived long enough to read long term coverage of the literal attempt to privatize thinking in the newspaper

This is why theory matters. This is why policy details matter. This is why reason matters. Emotion gets you these kinds of voters once, twice, maybe three times max. In the time that they tie you, you need to make them into a different kind of voter, or make new voters that outnumber them.

"antisemitism is class politics for idiots" strikes again

I get that this has been almost entirely theater but I actually think it's quite bad if the people of DC become habituated to the presence of military personnel in the streets, for a whole host of reasons

Feels like we're lurching our way to a new equilibrium on reality if that makes sense. OOH, it's never been easier to fabricate video, audio, text, etc, which takes us further away from the real. OTOH, the collapse of global security, public health, and ecology, etc. makes the news "real" again.

Someone just posted about how they don't care if their students use AI as long as the text conveys the ideas the students meant to convey. The thing is, you don't know exactly what you think until you write it. And if some prefab thing pops up, you're liable to decide that was what you thought.

“Bam Adebayo sets NBA scoring record” is the kind of thing that would pass by in the chyron under an Onion video

He doesn’t even average 20 ppg

When we said it would be socialism or barbarism some thought we exaggerated or were being figurative

What even is the endpoint of the current labor market free fall? Basically everyone I know is in a years-long job search / underemployed / stuck in a job they'd prefer to leave