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It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

Again I say, the scam economy is consuming the political will to fight authoritarianism.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

This comports well with my hypothesis that people don't think the economy is bad so much as evil

I feel seen

Fascinating piece about a scam most academic authors in now face on the regular

This story

Dear all the college kids, Get your flu shot. Sincerely, All your professors

Seizing the passport, phones, and computer of an opposition lawmaker is straight-up authoritarianism. There is no other way to describe it. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I must say, “so-and-so led with contempt instead of curiosity” at least twice a week to explain why I don’t work with someone or like someone or trust someone. It’s vital.

We watch a lot of applshop documentaries over here. One night we paused Harlan County USA to grapple with the miners’ vocabulary being larger and more precise than some of today’s educated people.

it's always so nice when people come over here from other websites to tell us that our website is dead who is your target audience, champ? ghosts? you believe in ghosts? does the thought of happy ghosts enjoying each other's company without you make you cry? do you need your mommy, living boy?

please never say sticky biological reality to me

I was born into a 25 cent oyster world and by god I want to die in one again

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.

Suited up, weapons ready. Kneed a child in the face

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

Death of a handyman: ICE cited “convictions for driving with expired vehicle registration” and an unspecified judgment against him in favor of the Maryland comptroller. The 47-year-old Curo-Churata "had volunteered to leave the country on his own, but a judge denied the request."

City chambers shut down as #Memphis residents fight back against tech-fascist Elon Musk's data center. "...protesters chanted inside City Hall, police cleared the chamber and a fight broke out in the lobby." www.foxnews.com/politics/mem...

Our worker-owner Tre' wrote this week's newsletter, about why he started giving out free fries to a few kids from the neighborhood, and what happened next.... mailchi.mp/redemmas/the...

Love that the rise of social media transformed culture into something akin to copper wire to be pulled out of street lamps.

the Cornell case should make us question prosecutors and police all the time: the same DA offices discounting college students’ sexual assault cases (the lacking investigations, the disbelief) are happy to jail countless women for far less, day in and day out, when most people aren’t watching

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

no humanities except for grok

I participated in some public library ai courses. I’m telling you that the state of literacies and the complexity of lives deeply enmeshed in the bowels of late stage capitalism cannot find a use case for an agent & if they could, people don’t have the scaffolding to imagine one that could be useful

In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.

What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.

Real baddies don’t use AI

Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...

On The Climate Brink: The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record. Aug. 2026 probably had more water vapor in the atmosphere than any month in the last few thousand years, if not a 100,000 years. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-atmosp...

‘Y’all Have the Wrong Person!’: Black Mom Begs Baltimore Cops to Let Her Son Go After They Detain Him at Gunpoint, Then Officers Realize Their Mistake atlantablackstar.com/2026/09/04/b... #LEO

In Germany Stolpersteine (memorial plaques) are placed for people who killed themselves because they knew they were about to be deported