Gaucho Marx

In the 1962 Twilight Zone episode I Sing the Body Electric, a widowed father gets a robot grandmother to help care for his children. Skeptical and resentful at first, the oldest daughter is convinced when she realizes that not only does the robot truly love her,

boy it sure seems like the main threat to democracy everywhere across the globe is right wing media and certain social media companies

The problems are the same or at least similar everywhere and yet all the diagnoses are local. Clearly it serves a political purpose but there are very few correctives. A real failure to think globally

Turns out the answer was no

They're calling it the most correct and verbose Oakland voting guide in the history of Oakland voting guides? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/voting-guide...

Get that bag before El Niño claims it

A+ spite-project

Arundhati Roy on AI. Sublime, as ever. 'Those of us who have already lived our lives in a different kind of world know what we are losing. But what of the generation that is about to come of age? Will it have its own language, its own thoughts, its own grief?' www.equator.org/articles/aru...

Gavin Jacobson of Equator in conversation with political philosopher Michel Feher and anthropologist Chowra Makaremi about the events in France. Essential reading for those who want to understand the meaning of October 17 — then (1961) and now (2026). www.equator.org/articles/fra...

This is really good

Will always repost

“The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar!” -Marx

👀 www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ri...

Reflections on the Ongoing High School Movement in France www.endnotes.org.uk/palabre/leav...

Liberalism continues to fail in the face of catastrophic climate change, ecological overshoot, and mass extinction

I ain’t a rich asshole with a home on the beach

During the week, I work like a football team knowing it has fourth down (the weekend) to get a first down (another opportunity to work the following weekend)

‘The dubious achievement of prediction markets is to have found a new way to exacerbate and exploit the simultaneously frantic and passive experience of the world that is a defining aspect of our age.’ @geoffmann.bsky.social in the new issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is so righteous and good

Nationalism is a scourge

The one time a year the Italian-American Trade Unionists of America will mention his name.

I couldn’t give two shits about the White House but this disregard for life is so reprehensible. God damn these assholes

You will watch this to the end

Has anyone watched this? I’m so curious how others have thought about this film in recent times

This article can only be written by someone who does not believe that the Biden administration could plausibly be held responsible for the genocide of Palestinians

Academics who show up here only to self promote are a fucking drag

Yeah...