2025 in a nutshell: we're kicking ourselves in the [redacted] with robot AI, and rather than show us care or even sympathy, the AI robot is claiming that it's the one in pain

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

The cops shot and killed an activist during STOP COP CITY and then the state criminalized the protesters for indicting over 60 people on RICO charges... THAT IS STILL HAPPENING NOW. Those charges have not been dismissed. The first trials are underway.

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

It’s so funny when rich people are like ‘if you do this minor socialism we will move away!’ buddy we are telling you we would live in a utopia if you simply died

[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care

Republicans motivate their core voters to show up every cycle and they do. Democrats just assume their equivalent will do the same and spend the entire cycle pursuing swing voters, meanwhile depressing core turnout. Then they blame those core voters when they lose. The cycle must be broken.

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

As Hannah Arendt put it: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." Undermining that distinction will be a lasting legacy of generative AI.

We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.

Reminded of the leaked slide deck someone showed me where a fund's main criteria for investment was "Does this target people with poor impulse control?"

A lot of discourse around “why doesn’t the academy engage with conservative intellectuals” is that a lot of modern conservative thought boils down to rationalising an instinctive racism and therefore isn’t interesting To study.

out of the box and without providing any additional context, microsoft says you should learn more about trump, nick fuentes, and karoline leavitt. that's pretty fucked up

Y’all. It’s wrong to call someone the “c word.”

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

I see the Panthers are being invoked. I like to remind people about what the U.S. government and local police forces did to the BPP. This recent book is useful. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Anyway the single best check on your espoused prescriptions for social change is whether you yourself are doing what you say others need to do. It's extremely clarifying and usually very humbling.

one of the major problems with our political system is that in liberal world u need four Harvard degrees to even so much as touch a campaign trail meanwhile in right wing world it basically takes less than nothing for a simple lumpen-grifter to ascend to chud Valhalla

I feel this way about "van life" and "tiny houses." Capitalism trying to transform the broken promises made to Millennials and younger into hip, fun lifestyles, instead of acknowledging *their* parents were homeowners at 25 and something terrible has changed that trajectory.

campaigns are masculine and about war and battle plans and important things, mutual aid is about taking care of people which is less important, feminine and polluted like tampons

so this is the Antichrist, right

Now I may be a rube and non-politics knower, but if a politician came to my neighborhood with health supplies or a fat Christmas goose for all I would think they seemed alright.

We need to otherize weird right wing billionaires like the smear campaigns they fund against minorities do. Musk leads a baby breeding cult and Thiel wants to suck up the blood of young people. They’re fucking weird and more people need to know.

Public discourse on this subject has utterly failed to direct citizens' attention to the actual problem, which is that a commercial industry is assaulting education. So every week we get another thoughtless op-ed on blue books or the death of the college essay, etc etc.

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

Yes, this!: "this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning" I'm finding that I don't have just to change assignments. I have to **abandon my entire teaching strategy**, which has always been built around scaffolded independent projects across the semester.

Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This post is awesome it’s like a magic spell. Link this to any person smugly telling you we just don’t know how to make Medicare for all/universal health care happen and suddenly they shut up. It’s like they can’t hear or see you at all, a true Christmas miracle. Finally. A way to make them stop.

tech bros trying to convince everyone epstein is cool is so telling and interesting

Even this non-academic noticed that when Excel tries to auto-fill cells, it just inputs garbage that looks a *little* bit like what I was doing. Saving 10 minutes of data entry, then spending 30 minutes fixing it is math that isn't mathing for me.

Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.

Dependency is often described as convenience. If AI helps people “manage feelings,” this is framed as progress. It is worth asking who gains from this arrangement and what happens when emotional life becomes entangled with commercial products. 7/*

When AI is described as a partner for emotional regulation, something important is left out: a machine can perform conversation, but it cannot share history, accountability, or mutual vulnerability. What AI offers is not replacement, it is a simulation shaped by design goals and incentives. 4/*

No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.

Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans

This is what every institution he threatens with frivolous defamation suits should be doing

A perfect encapsulation of the “male loneliness crisis”

they misspelled christmas on the title card lmao

remember when the democrats decided to tactically stop pointing out that these people are weird freaks no one likes

genuine progressives would dismantle the system that funnels wealth into a few ultra-rich pockets, so nothing. expect zero help on that front

Republicans want to kill the post office and the media is there for it, which is why you have never seen a news story about how the police department has never turned a profit and is a waste

A lotta people gonna be like "why didnt Biden release this info?!?" It's an understandable response but you gotta get thru that comforting outrage response to insist: same reason they didn't prosecute the man in a quick or effective manner. They didnt want to.

Mark Cuban may well have once been a well meaning person, I have no idea, but the simple fact is that being a billionaire makes you stupid and evil. There is no avoiding this. That amount of money empties out your head and soul. The only cure is to not be a billionaire anymore.

everyone on here is 38 years old and loves star trek deep space 9

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?