In case you haven’t heard we are all boycotting REI until they respect the union. Please spread the word.

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

You can stick a tape in your VCR and it just plays what you wanted it to play. It doesn't spy on you. A streaming service isn't editing it. Or removing it. You don't have to pay a subscription to keep using it. It's something tangible you own. Once you have, it's yours. Same with CDs, vinyl, etc.

Right wing propagandist outlets should be viewed less as money losing endeavors than investments that pay dividends in other ways.

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Three years ago today I was walking around downtown Jackson doing some photography and ran into James Meredith. We exchanged hotty toddys then he told me to “come get in this picture with me. This the most important sign in Mississippi.” I mean, what was I gonna say? No?

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They believe in nothing

Even saying that Musk is posting "about race" is softening what is happening here, which is that the world's wealthiest person is committing himself to spreading overt Nazi propaganda.

my capitalist daughter asked me to prove the labor theory of value. what do i tell her? she is 5

"The reality is that the AI oligarchs do not want to just replace specific jobs. They want to replace workers." www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-...

anybody wanna guess what Elon 'it was a Roman salute' Musk means by "universal"?

I had the privilege of working with Ahmed Shihab-Eldin at HuffPost. Such a warm, sweet human being. We don't know what he posted that led to Kuwait detaining him, unseen now for six weeks. He's posted against Israel's war on Iran. Kuwait is against it too. None of this makes sense. #FreeAhmed

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Reminder: All the amazing high quality video you’re seeing from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters youtu.be/GvJtVOmFs5Q?...

“Their usage raises broader questions about the value of human journalists altogether.” No it doesn’t. www.wired.com/story/tech-r...

NEW on Wonkhe: Universities serve purposes beyond market demands. Jim Dickinson asks if the pendulum between planning and markets is about to swing back - and what that should mean to protect student interests bit.ly/3XDc1z6

"ai is inevitable" except for all the ways people and organizations can reject it

The vast majority of research about diversity from the last 30 years shows, unambiguously, that diverse organizations outperform non-diverse ones. DEI policies are not some weird leftwing social engineering project; they are what happens when you follow the data on organizational performance.

🤖 Interesting study about relying on increased automation. Beyond cognitive offloading, *cognitive surrender* involves thinking system output is basically your own thought…analytical skills degrading all the while. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Self-own of the decade: BuzzFeed pivots toward AI slop, loses everything. futurism.com/artificial-i...

This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

Free them all Abolish ice

DOD political purges and newfound disdain for education. For those who don’t know, Schake’s writing has a deservedly good reputation on the merits, she works with AEI and DPBAC, and was a McCain 2008 foreign policy advisor. If they’re disinviting her, they oppose anyone who isn’t a MAGA sycophant.

Yes, we’ve been sounding the alarm about this. newsguy.substack.com/p/betting-an...

Mark my words--- Polymarket and other predictive market schemes have the potential to become a serious threat to press freedom/journalists.

Removing the olive branch from the new 250th anniversary dime is something that most people won’t notice, but speaks volumes. The currency of a nation reflects its values and history. The idea of peace, however tenuous it may be, is a noble one. Our money now reflects the blood we so readily seek.

how is he good at everything

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DOGE deposition videos in Depositions for MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit About the NEH on the Internet Archive. (Until they're pulled. So download'em now.) 16 videos totaling almost 25 hours. URL: archive.org/details/Doge...

The radar installation in Qatar that was destroyed by Iran was a strategic level asset. You're probably picturing a big radar dish. The AN/FPS-132 is more of a massive, multistory concrete building that looks like a cut pyramid. A major civil engineering project. There was ONE in the Middle East.

Betting on warfare. Insider betting no less. Absolutely soulless.

"My opponent did a good thing but he didn't need me to do it" is strategically stupid and morally vacuous

If we take him at his word (I know, I know), this is strange. He is saying that DoD agreed to same things Beta Pete melted down over with Anthropic. Am I misreading? PS I had to look it up, so maybe helpful 4others: FDE = Forward Deployed Engineer. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/forward-de...

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

We should be talking a lot more about how the San Francisco tech scene is populated by a strange cult of doom acceleration nerds who fantasize about using computers to destroy humanity. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

hatred of unhoused people is genuinely a pipeline to fascism. if the wealthy can get you to dehumanize your own neighbors, then they can get you to do it to anyone.

Pay CLOSE attention to the wording in any DHS statements. DHS will say "armed suspect" DHS will say "approached officers with a gun" These are copaganda phrases to make it SOUND like the victim was holding or brandishing the weapon. He was not.

I think the LLMs get the tech bros so hard because it more effectively hides the Mechanical Turk nature of all capitalist technology, but its also why its value is purely speculative: just trying to resell and reprocess already multiply depleted labour power

A network of Chinese influencers projects wealth by pooling funds for common Gucci stockings and fancy hotel rooms ("consumerist coop"?). Then comes the tragedy of the commons: the stockings aren't laundered and several get a fungal infection. www.instagram.com/reel/DHoBUw-... ht @dsp.bsky.social

In case you were wondering, the solution to all this is NOT more neoliberalism, abundance bros, mass incarceration, meeting Nazis in the middle, deporting people, coddling billionaires, or throwing trans people under the bus.

In the kidnapping video I posted above, the young kid in the blue Walmart vest getting roughed up by ICE, is 20-year-old Adrian Martinez, a US citizen who was taken hostage by ICE for speaking up for his kidnapped coworker.

Detainees knocked out an interior wall that led to an exterior one and from there were able to escape to a parking lot. A different news report says that members of Congress who inspected the facility today reported the wall they knocked down was made of drywall and wire mesh.

NYT found the “big beautiful bill” would be the largest transfer from the poor to the rich in a single law since at least 1990. In fact, it would be the largest transfer *ever.* Reagan’s low-income cuts were MUCH smaller - and his tax cuts were done separately. And before him, nothing comes close.

the question after that is why this scrutiny is directed at protestors rather than cops - who have every conceivable advantage on exactly this score (set personnel, formal responsibilities and hierarchies, etc) and who as a matter of public record consistently fail by exactly this standard

how this point interacts with the norms of commentary on protests: if it's true that *any* destruction and disruption will attract a disproportionate amount of attention, then fingerwaggers labeling protests and protestors basedon these scenes are in effect demanding blanket, total discipline

Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime. This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇

This is exactly what I mean when I say that it is impossible to reduce friction, only to move it around. The text-making-up machine dropped the friction of "research" to zero, but every single person downstream of that "research" who has to act upon it now shoulders a double workload.