Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club! You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Shocked. Shocked, I say, to find that Abundance is, in fact, a smuggle for tech fascism. Courtesy @levernews.com

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Unionize your workplace so you can call the president a pedophile in the national spotlight and keep your job

Want to learn to embroider? I’ll teach on Saturday. Zoom. Pay-what-you-can www.eventbrite.com/e/1980879834...

We won't let this go. The UK cracked down on access to gender affirming care and trans youth suicides then the government covered it up. This also came amidst a massive push for anti trans policies more broadly among British political parties. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-yout...

TODAY at 3 p.m. ET:

"Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium." - Ted Chiang

Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷

lol we’re all having fun you weird loser

Bunroe Doctrine

In communism there will be a dialectical materialism bowl

This is pathetic. Would have killed as satire, but...

I mean come on we aren't even reading enough that's written by humans atm but sure why not. 😭

There's a ChatGPT ad about a family farm where the owner says her family has been doing this for a hundred years and she doesn't want to be the one to screw it up and that's why she's getting advice from ChatGPT and, my God, can you people hear yourselves?

Lemme tell you, getting unmarked ziploc bags of 200 whistles in my mailbox made me feel like I was a freaking spy.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson lays out how his city is fighting back against Trump's campaign of terror against immigrants and citizens alike.

The ‘You Don’t Have to Apologize for Being White Anymore’ guys have now made it against the law to use the word Black at college.

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

My latest @newscientist.com column for subscribers and library patrons is about Elon Musk’s attempts to co-opt Star Trek and how Mars is actually a hostile planet 🧪🔭 www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard BLOCKED an NSA report of a call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump. I will sit down with the whistleblower lawyer TOMORROW at 12 PM PT on @meidastouch.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

"The deputy marshal’s action was not done with malice,” they wrote in a statement. “It was a last-resort, split-second action taken by a law enforcement officer to control the environment." trib.al/159jxEj

They looked for “Don T” in the Epstein files and redacted all instances, which means they also redacted a lot of “don’t”

It doesn’t get any more disgusting than this.

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year. Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering. https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d

The boring work of procurement and the need for public scrutiny of proposed contracts with tech companies are essential safeguards against the uncritical adoption of GenAI in K-12 schools. As a parent and educator, if my district leaders did something like this, I would be furious.

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

this may be the single most insufferable thing about the radical centrist caucus - not just extending good faith to obviously bad faith people but demanding everyone else do the same and chiding them when they don’t

Charles Murray, famous racist, is very mad that Lupita Nyong’o is going to play Helen of Troy. www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...

Humans mastered the art of creating fire 400,000 years ago, almost 350,000 years earlier than previously known, according to a groundbreaking discovery in a field in Suffolk in the UK. buff.ly/1miYEUJ #ShareGoodNewsToo

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

go off jack white

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Quote of the Day: “It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.” (Gilles Deleuze)

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

Spent five mins on LinkedIn and it's full of education consultants parroting corporate AI hype about "our responsibility to prepare students for the future" and I'm pretty sure these folks *just* pivoted from saying the same thing about the metaverse.

"we cannot begin to talk about freedom and justice in any culture if we are not talking about mass based literacy movements." bell hooks 1997 we cannot begin to talk about freedom+justice in any culture now if we are not talking about mass de-literacy cognitive-incapacitating industries.

TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)

the Trump admin has spent the first week of Black History Month erasing public acknowledgments of slavery, whitewashing Medger Evers' murder, and posting the kind of vile imagery that would fit right in to the outro montage in Bamboozled

How many reactionary centrists painted blatant racism as "economic anxiety." The media whitewashed all of this for a decade. The greatest sin in their eyes was calling MAGA racist. It wasn't about economic anxiety just as much as targeting trans people isn't about concerns for women's rights.

Interesting that DeSantis is testing out the anti-AI lane. This is going to be huge in the next two election cycles. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.

No lies detected.

Watching commentators still refusing to see the white nationalism of this administration and arguingTrump is targeting Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit because they are blue cities is just, it’s got to be intentional at this point. There are a ton of blue cities. These are majority Black cities.

Effective altruism is pro-life for atheists: they can advocate for people who exist hypothetically and don’t have to listen to the needs of the living.

Things fall apart; the husk cannot hold; Coconuts are loosed upon the world, The orange tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Part four in my series on the rise of techno-authoritarianism: Edtech, the assault on progressive ed+democracy via the push for AI chatbots, with help from Dewey, Freire, and Giroux. End with the awful and regressive Alpha Schools and their "2hr Learning" model. ✨🤢 jdpirtle.com/techno-autho...