From the very early 2000s

Do I enjoy the Chicago pope coming for Trump? Of course I do. I'm not made of stone. But I also keep in my heart that our landscape is complicated and messy, and there are very few clean hands on the board. We should always know our allies for who they are, and for when they aren't.

I find it all infuriating. An end to oppression would mean so much more time for embroidery and Hallmark channel Holiday movies.

They explicitly don't believe that principles should be applied equally to all people because the center of their ideology is a hierarchy they believe is natural and "common sense:" white supremacy, patriarchy, the class hierarchies of capitalism, et al.

African thinking never contemplates something like “the end of the world.” That is not how we understand time. It cannot be. We understand catastrophe. We live with it. We die from it. A few survive it. We do not call it the end of the world.

You don't get to pick which is part of the fun. You wait patiently by the mailbox and this envelope of delightful surprises shows up. He has themes like: weddings dogs birthdays landscapes Christmas creepy and photos with full names noted on them. Go check it out! www.etsy.com/shop/Curiotype

also the way we perceive what id call antimovements (intent on harm) as new or interim events with natural endpoints is the flip side of same understanding like there is truly no way to withstand/counter antimvmnts without clocking that they're lifetimes+centuries deep too

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

Students consistently recognize teacher efforts to learn about them but also communicate how little it impacts instruction & assessment. Ts typically do a lot of info gathering & relationship building at the beginning but at some point the curriculum takes over and it's business-as-usual.

"the point of journalism (or science) is the output, bringing facts to light, not the process" is definitely something to say.

“Studies suggest youths are more empathetic and less narcissistic than in the past, as well as more open-minded and inclusive. Drug use is down, youth violence has dropped and teen pregnancies have declined.” It’s almost like panic abt kids’ wellbeing serve existing adult demands for control.

"I can not believe America has becom--" bitch, we have Andrew Jackson on our money. our default money. the only money the bank robot knows how to hand out.

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

U.S. citizenship isn’t always a good thing, actually. Historically, Indigenous nations and other colonized people fought to not be U.S. citizens. This might seem confusing at first, but they had their reasons.

Curfews do not create safety. They criminalize young people, particularly Black youth, for simply existing in their community & city. Curfews push young people out of public spaces, increase unnecessary contact with the police, & ignore the real conditions that lead to harm in the first place. 3/8

Since people seem to be extremely into the horse-cake photo...here are his 30th and 31st birthday cakes, and a before-and-after of him eating a slice. There was always singing and sometimes balloons. He died just short of his 34th birthday, a good, long life for a horse. Give the horse cake!

Our horse In the middle of our street Our horse It is cake he wants to eat

can’t count the number of times I’ve arrived at a conclusion much better than I originally intended simply by writing. having the hazy outline of an idea and then foisting the rest onto a machine means you never get there. worse, you never develop the instincts or faculties necessary to get there

Someone teaching about rhetoric and/or current events could easily use one of these as a warm-up discussion for every class

If the wealthy can get you thinking about who deserves basic needs and who doesn't, they win. They don't care if you think wealthy people are the ones who don't deserve; establishing that it must be earned is the key. With that done, they can just keep expanding the definition of "undeserving."

Big fan of the wets.

Why women? Because neoliberalism and sexism go hand-in-hand. Essentially, the only way for the federal government to spend ~$0 taking care of people (the neoliberal dream) is to create a class of people who can be compelled to care for free (and sexist logic/structures establish women as that class)

Why? Because billionaires and big corporations don't want to pay the taxes needed to build and sustain a federal childcare system. And because limiting childcare traps moms in a state of precarity, making their paid and unpaid labor easier for billionaires and big corporations to exploit. 4/

While this finding might have surprised the researchers, it makes sense to me that the men who view women as inherently inferior would also be the ones most able to justify exploiting women's unpaid labor for their own pleasure, power, and personal gain.

*laughs in getting back to normal after Columbine* *laughs in getting back to normal after 9-11* *laughs in getting back to normal after Covid* *laughs in getting back to normal after tons of other stuff between and before all that*

It hurts my heart to think about what we could have done with all the time, energy, and funding that has gone into creating and maintaining these bots

Why does the media continue to use the word "Millennial" as code for "young person"? That's not what it means. It's literally in the name. A Millennial is someone at least a thousand years old.

"For decades, every female Olympic athlete was screened. In all those years of testing, it never caught a single person deliberately misrepresenting their sex. What it did do was destroy the careers&lives of women with intersex conditions they didn’t know they had." open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

Basically, insulting anyone's "intelligence" serves eugenicist aims, even when the intentions are good.

Imagine trust in polling being at an all time low and then doing “polls” where a quarter of respondents are AI agents hallucinating answers based on exit polling.

One reason the Nordic Model remains attractive is that it offers a symbolic resolution to structural problems. It suggests exploitation can be addressed through targeted punishment, without confronting broader issues such as poverty, housing insecurity, immigration enforcement, or healthcare access

I’ve had this debate in class with STEM students before. They NEED to believe that eugenics and scientific racism etc are things of the past and are ‘pseudosciences’ because ‘science is objective’ and the ‘scientific method defends from bias.’ It’s a dangerous way to think.

Audre Lorde wrote in her journal, “My feelings are real but not always right.” Again, knowing who to be mad at is part of the work.

Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality” - James Baldwin

I also forgot that Spanish flu epidemic happened during WWI, which was also first time chemical weapons were deployed; then the US banned alcohol and everyone was dying from wood alcohol poisoning. It felt like the end of the world. And it always is, of course: end of one world, beginning of next

I wish those folks would be honest about how they fell for it and look to people who called it out. Black folks were reporting elons mess when Tesla had lawsuit after lawsuit where Black workers reported harassment including racial slurs www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

They talk openly in theor circles about how they have to be pretending to be stupid or joking so dumb libs can feel smart or try to waste time educating them

always going to take the side of teenagers over you losers.

2. "Knowledge should be public" is a fine slogan but not all knowledge is of a kind, and public can mean a lot of things here. Discussions that treat all academic work as "data" or "facts" -- rather than, say, interpretations and theorizations -- make it easier to imagine away the stakes involved.

Every time I see a headline revision I wish I was teaching about rhetoric again.

It's like when tech billionaires invoke sci-fi stories, and people say, "he doesn't even understand that story's dystopian," but yes, they do get that! They simply embrace the dystopia, market it as inevitable, and want you to understand yourself as a winner or loser in that context—on their terms.

But filtering that information through Claude's flattery and summarization it is claimed as absolute fact and rendered entirely inaccurate!

atp, it actually feels like a part of the voter suppression tactic itself. writing everybody off instead of figuring out what you can do to remedy disconnects in our communities. that instinct is not serving the people.

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

Fascism is not the product of life being too easy. People do not become fairer or more just in their politics because their lives are hard, or because they live in a state of precarity. Come tf on.

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

Oh, yeah? Would a dying empire do THIS?!

"in order to understand media consolidation, one must consider that it's not about what kind of media people want, it's about the worst they can tolerate," i say wisely while scrolling through the third reel of someone eating a gochujang melona popsicle

The entire premise of all dystopian fiction in a single skeet.