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Reading the Times, the Atlantic, etc, you have to start noticing how much they influence the permission structure for neoliberals, centrists, and technocrats. It's all working out the neurosis of accepting fascistic capitalism an inch at a time and framing it as reasonable and inevitable.

" I know that, earlier in this essay, I suggested we should “regulate with extreme prejudice”. But what I really want to say about those AI companies is this: terminate with extreme prejudice." Couldn't agree more.

The world right now feels like when I went down to LA to deal with my childhood bedroom after the earthquake. Everything formerly meaningful is in a pile on the floor and it's, OK, what's neither shameful nor broken beyond repair, and worth taking into the future, except it's every institution.

But for years Ds did not want to see that police were lining up behind Trump, that he was recruiting them with white supremacy and grievance. And that police were much more concerned about their own political power than any other ideals.

Marco made returning to X about himself. That’s a good thing.: https://lexontech.org/marco-made-it-about-himself-good

If Democrats actually win big because people want a check on Trump corruption I expect every move to do so will be covered in the corporate media as being risky to their 2028 position.

*when a dem is in power* The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants *when a republican is in power* criticizing the government is treason actually

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This Rumpole of the Bailey reboot sucks.

📝 Reading & learning about the history of nuclear weapons started as a niche interest seemingly divorced from everything work-related. But now that history feels tied more and more to the current moment. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/skip-re...

People I know seem to be taking refuge in tangible, material, physical activities...cooking, climbing, dancing, making things, gardening. No one wants some arid digital life where all the profits flow up and we must struggle with idiotic AI agents at every turn www.porchpartynews.com/p/voters-bet...

It sounds like hyperbole to suggest the current administration WANTS measles to become common again but I can’t think of much they’d be doing differently if they didn’t want that. (I think some of them really are eugenicists who legit prefer disease spread to prevention; others just don’t care)

it's cool that you can send "STOP" to instantly block an automated political fundraising text message so they have to text you from a different number five minutes later

On Nov. 11 come to Porter Square Books and see @dmoren.com interviewed… by me! in person!… as a part of the launch of his new book, ETERNITY'S TOMB. It will probably have some strong Six Colors energy, but about books.

You have to love Bluesky for labelling this as Adult Content.

I hate when I'm talking to somebody and I say "how are you?" and they say "can't complain". bitch yes you can! I do it all the time! watch, I'll do it right now

ots of people have heard of Google's wildly unsuccessful motto "Don't be evil," but far fewer are familiar with Google's wildly *successful* mission statement, "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

James Carville, Please Go Away, a column by me: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I continue to think that originalists like Justice Alito have gotten off waaay too easily for uplifting a legal method that literally emerged as a backlash to * Brown v. Board * Like what are we doing here? (A: being racist, pretending that's being objective) ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

New interview! “All these horrific global crises — Epstein, Trump’s illicit ties to Russia, Netanyahu’s War on Iran — can be traced to the 1980s and to transnational criminal actors linked to Iran-Contra. The only big change is digital tech and oligarchs like Musk." www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lLW...

There's a reason why this "totally unpredictable" alignment is coming into place after many of us were screaming it would happen for years. It's a traceable, understandable, predictable thing. Anyone saying otherwise either isn't paying attention or they're getting paid to do it.

Thank you for listening and for your support. If you're interested in learning more, you can preorder my book if you haven't already done so. www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai...

Tourists flock to it from all over. Most Angelenos avoid it at all costs. This week on L.A. World, we’re taking a tour of Hollywood Boulevard, from the costumed characters on the Walk of Fame to the street’s unique origin story. Watch the full episode: buff.ly/aZA33Iv

For you youngs who weren't alive for this: Understand that the Chicks were an early rollout of the far right intimidation that we see targeting judges, members of Congress, and ICE protestors now.

The idea in here that business schools inherently train people to devalue labor reminds me that the same critique was made when the first business schools in America were started, which I mention here: www.elizabethspiers.com/the-anti-int...

Don't lose hope when you read about more VC-backed garbage that purports to people shortcut the creative process. The novelty of using any of that shit is going to burn itself out. Humans yearn to do meaningful things that take effort, and practice, given the right conditions

you can be technically correct and an asshole at the same time. this is not, historically, a great organizing strategy

after two whole years, I have finally updated my website 💀 now all that's left to look into is making a blog somehow kim-hu.com

Yesterday I provided my immune system with the latest enemy intel and let me tell you it is working VERY hard on those cellular combat drills right now 🫠

Oh I know, but sometimes I enjoy watching the trolly reply guys step on their own dicks in public. I think of it as a deterrent to other trolly reply guys.

Retrospectively I can see that *Call of Duty* and *Barney and Friends* were both early expressions of a homegrown form of wealth inequality that was beginning to shape and color Greek life...

I have an essay in the November issue of The Nation about the Dem establishment class war on the youths, and by extension DSA and young progressives in general: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I'm sure this one won't make anyone angry.

i will never care if bluesky is popular! i did Odyssey of the Mind! i took robotics in high school (and sucked at it!) i was on a Harold team at iO West! NOT iO. iO *WEST.* i am immune to popularity!!

This column captures the outrage so many of us feel about the US press corps’ failure to rise to the moment. It’s as if they see a 5-alarm fire and are instead covering it as a cat-stuck-in-a-tree. #NoFascistUSA

started a thoughts dump blog last night fridge-cigarettes.pckt.blog/ai-thought-d...

In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.

My MAGA focus group felt betrayed by tariffs, high gas prices, and inflation. I asked if there was any way Republicans could win back their support, and they replied only if they could prove that the pain had fallen harder on Black people.