I finally know what people mean when they talk about late-stage capitalism.

Been listening to two Prewn albums on loop—System (2025) and Through the Window (2023). Highly recommended! Current favorite: "Don't Be Scared" on System.

No one is more effective on television than Pete Buttigieg.

We further conceptualize ‘algorithmic bias’ as a novel form of implicit prejudice—in which human prejudices are 'laundered' via the opacity of AI—and introduce the idea of a computational level of prejudice that interacts with systemic and individual levels of analysis.

This aged as well as it’s possible for anything to age.

Now’s a good time to remind service members that they can be prosecuted for following illegal orders.

So excited to share this excerpt, which also contains the first identifiable book typo! What a year for me to make that one in particular too lolol (iykyk)

File under: saying the quiet part out loud

I understand there are political and ethical reasons to prefer Claude over ChatGPT. But there's also the fact that ChatGPT talks to me like I'm a little baby, whereas Claude gives me emoji-less prose like I'm a grown-ass adult.

Inshallah.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Funny how "learn to code" became "for the love of all that's holy, don't learn to code" basically overnight.

Ship of Theseus-ass post

To this I'll add www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6dN...

BREAKING: Fermi Paradox No Longer Paradoxical

I feel like I'm screaming into the void, but *right now* our president is saying "If Iran doesn't open a shipping lane, I'm going to commit the war crime of destroying that country's ability to produce energy for its population of 93 million" and people are like "huh that would suck."

Coercing a country into opening shipping lanes by destroying its ability to produce electricity almost certainly illegal under international law. I hope the @nytimes.com is working on a piece about how the President of the United States is threatening war crimes. Citations: 1/

"The Palantir guy studied under Jürgen Habermas" was not on my bingo card.

If war crimes still existed in any practical sense, this would be one.

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

Yes, Predator: Badlands was fun. But I cannot condone the blending of the Weyland-Yutani/Yautja universes. It's a slippery slope.

I just finished the HBO adaptation of Station Eleven. (Yeah, I'm five years behind.) Everybody involved in it—from the stars, directors, and writers to the key grip and gaffer— should be knighted at once.

This execrable clown has the gall to put words in the mouth of a grieving father. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Also, this would be a war crime.

JFC

Feeling some genuine uplift thanks to Toots right now. open.spotify.com/album/1aDfrU...

Trump and co. are behaving exactly like a bunch of bros who haven't read a single book between them.

Belatedly watching Station Eleven. Amazing. Lots of epiphanies about why humans make art. I haven't read the book, but I read Sea of Tranquility by St. James Mandel and loved it.

It's a joy to ride sidecar with a student who has the passion and tenacity to lead a project from conception to publication. Congrats, @mv1691.bsky.social—this is important work & you made it happen!! No es Nada del Otro Mundo: Dissecting the racial and motivational predictors of the “Latino Vote”

Outrageous. Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible. This decision must be overturned. Shame.

I also worry. The forced equivalence between Judaism and Israel is both historically & politically inaccurate & dangerous. When this war really goes south, the "our guy got hoodwinked by Bibi" excuse is going to be most eagerly consumed by exactly the segment most vulnerable to antisemitic agitprop.

Some (unasked-for) music criticism! 1—Kathleen Hanna: underappreciated as a vocalist. Her delivery is caustic, but she's always in total control. 2—Same with Shane MacGowan: his voice is weathered and gruff, but he's really got fine pitch. 3—Tom Waits? I've tried. I still think he's overrated.

Conferences are always on the lookout for cities to avoid (due to union disputes, etc.). Here’s a city we should seek out because it’s awesome. #PsycSci #SocialPsych

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on how organizations can help Minnesota defray the costs of Trump's ICE incursion: "Hold your next convention here." @spspsc.bsky.social should get a Minneapolis conference on the books! (after Philly?)

Truckers that listen to metal are the least lonely, and truckers that listen to electronic music experience the least road rage. FYI. www.jwsuretybonds.com/blog/ultimat...

conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity

I listened to this 2-hour interview with Platner and liked him. He - is a real working-class left-populist - is disarmingly frank about his PTSD & depression - didn't know his tattoo had N*zi connotations - is the kind of candidate Dems should be fielding in rural regions tinyurl.com/mpnh8d86

turns out that the goals of "get foreign populace to rise up at great personal risk against a legitimately oppressive and evil regime" and "lethalitymaxxing without regard for human life, civilian infrastructure, or that populace's cultural treasures" are not entirely congruent with one another

It's increasingly clear that the United States killed roughly 175 school children in Iran—and you can bet none of the ghouls who did this are going to lose sleep over it. I hate this timeline so much.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Anyone: Who will get Hunt's votes in the Cornyn-Paxton runoff?

Really seems like Trump and the FCC clinched it for Talarico!

I see you flipping through the pages Of books by millionaires Who found that Jesus Christ could guide them Into tripling their sales open.spotify.com/track/3FsMvC... @thehandsomefamily.bsky.social

When the U.S. lost troops ending the Afghan war, Republicans were apoplectic. Now that we've lost troops waging an idiotic war against the most powerful country in the Middle East, all we get is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I really hope there's a slice of MAGAworld that realizes how bad they got scammed.

Some absolutely amazing Streisand Effect happening here

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

I fucking love @thehandsomefamily.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/4FNTbp...