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- Hear hear, great points. I think it’s super important in these awful bot-ridden times for educators to reclaim education as not “knowing things” as an end—it’s learning, and it’s recursive: questioning, answering, applying, reminding, debating, connecting, FOREVER—if you do it right.
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- Comments in Mefi are funny—ironically, most miss that these are college English majors, not casual readers nor a random sample. It’s very BAD they can’t read Dickens! Is there something about social media that makes people auto-reduce to the LCD/themselves? (Could be they don’t read enough novels)
- All I want for my birthday
- FT Alphaville is undefeated. The disdain for Altman is palpable and deserved.
- What I appreciate here is that the FT scored a video interview with Sam Altman (a high profile get!) for a conceit where he makes lunch and then another FT writer just ruthlessly savages his kitchen appliances and cooking techniques. www.ft.com/content/b180...
- TMK should do an episode that riffs on the cookery delusions of tech bros
- I love this whole thing and not just because it quotes me. extremely catty in a way I think is magnificent, especially this bit about how much the internet hates Sam Altman's coffee machine
- Alphaville x Weekend FT on.ft.com/3H2aWLC
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- He had this guy come over to write about him while he made lunch. He didn’t have to! So if he looks like a poseur, that’s a result of his poor judgment, up to and including his belief that he’d look cool. Many men who can’t cook think they’re great at it, *or* they decide it’s “trivial”.
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- Vanessa Wills, Marx’s Ethical Vision global.oup.com/academic/pro...
- Elon Musk has recently taken to calling empathy a threat to Western civilization. Where does that idea come from? This week @joolia.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss the Christian right’s war on empathy and the terrible politics it enables. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/275_...
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- If you pay dues to DSA, you can sign to support this fine resolution! Socialist humanism for the win, FOREVER! 🌹 📚 ✨
- I wish I were making this up: Republicans added an amendment to the Antisemitism Awareness Act aimed at protecting the right to preach that the Jews killed Jesus — one of the oldest forms of antisemitism. forward.com/fast-forward... via @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social
- It’s cool to deport students for engaging in peaceful protest against a foreign country’s political and military policies, but collective libel that has historically incited racist mob violence is what the first amendment was designed to protect. Yuuuup
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- Love to be a miasma coasting through time and space, just like everyone else I know
- FWIW: This is a new thing. Young folks in DC have always tended to cluster somewhat by political affiliation, but working for the Bush admin in the early aughts didn't automatically make you a social leper. People were friends and dated across party & ideology. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
- I think a big part of it must be that even the average GOP intern who did a poli sci degree and wants to go to law school works for his rep bc he has at least a trace of civic dedication and public-mindedness, even if misguided . These people really, really do not, that is not part of the play
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- Thank you!
- Wonder how many of the 51% who think they should mean it as “politicians should focus on protecting trans people” — was that at all measured?
- This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
- Isn’t this just an analysis that puts together some stuff he’s hinted at? It’s not new news
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- Why is Danielle Allen, failed gubernatorial candidate, such an attention suck Alternate title
- I can see why this guy drives everyone nuts. I assume he is making people curious about Marxism, so that’s good! If you’re new, may I suggest Erik Olin Wright. Here’s an interview he did right before he passed that explains why people like Mr Stancil are just silly jacobin.com/2015/12/soci...
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- Cool idea, wonder where it came from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_o...
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- That stone relief nest and everything…they’re gargowls
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- I am always surprised by this kind of gotcha…they have one task, which is to get reelected. What if they did it in a fabulous AND morally impressive way for once? Sneaky!
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- This reminds me when I went to a public stand up thing, expressed that a joke that was “what are the Amish, am I rite” was not funny, and was called a bitch. Look, you aren’t funny. Being funny isn’t predictable, and it isn’t a right. It’s a social mood. Live with it. But, the Amish…riiiite??
- i can't believe this is real but it is
- Real “a new life awaits you” vibes 😬
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- I expect that if this is measured by voters, anyone that age who votes is going to care a lot about the candidate. Biden and Harris were widely loathed by the young who were voting for the first time, because of Gaza and frankly being shit to the young. Simple as
- Isn’t exile to a foreign country that has even worse prisons than us a violation of the 8th am? I can’t figure out if anyone is bringing that claim or if this is just about innocence/mistake but the intent is to warehouse people w/o regard for rights they’d have in detention *here*, few as they are
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- One thing the Frankfurt School and critical theory is known for is everyone agreeing with me, forever —Adorno, right before dying of a heart attack caused by his students telling him he’s full of shit
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- Turns around, writes a deluded, poorly researched book to make himself feel better, turns back around, rinse and repeat
- rfk jr wants you dead
- “According to an email obtained by The New York Times, H.H.S. intends to revise its web pages to include statements like ‘The decision to vaccinate is a personal one’ and ‘People should also be informed about the potential adverse events associated with vaccines’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/h...
- So I guess all this is also supposed to function as a warning to cities and states not to exercise their power to pass compulsory vaccination laws if we get another pandemic, or penalize anyone for violating current ones? Jacobson v MA is still the law but I’m guessing that’s woke now
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- Gotta get a new dress for my sister’s wedding and just can’t WAIT to see what Kathy’s Krafts up on Main can do with some good American-made burlap and the floss from under my sink from the last 5 years of dentists visits Oooops Kathy’s klosed due to woke
[This user deactivated their account]- who have never known the fear of being beaten within an inch of their life YET
- While it’s true I bled to death on the sidewalk, most of my blood stayed in my body
- The story of how French-colonized Madagascar became Vanilla-ville is fascinating. It's an American plant. Trade wars, environmental degradation due to oil drilling, and vanillin caused the Mexican vanilla industry to wilt on the vine, pun intended www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mad...
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- This was written by the kid who, in my first-year writing class, refused to do the writing exercise I designed and said “this is pointless, so I’m going to do this instead.” I kicked him out of the class. Cuz a woke
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- Wow the last year has AGED that young son of the right, hasn’t it
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- I have heard this
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- The Apprentice is Art
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- If Rod Dreher is saying it then we are in serious da fuq territory
- What can I do to please God so much that he allows me to never hear from these people again
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- Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway. A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Mrs Dalloway.
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- Bet he was like “signal is what antifa uses, and we can’t catch them. This is the most secure comms channel in existence”
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- Isn’t this what Queen Victoria did? Same politics tbh
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- Is that supposed to look like Trump crossed with a young Clint Eastwood
- Or Jon Voight
- Irony alert -- if faculty in higher ed grasped *we are workers* and had formed fighting unions decades ago, we might have stronger muscles to push back collectively against our bosses throwing us and our students under the bus. Shared governance was always a crock; this has broken the crock.
- NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
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View full threadThe full story is here, and it includes multiple other cases of people, including other people who entered at ports of entry (not illegally) who were clearly detained and shipped to El Salvador solely on the basis of their tattoo and nothing more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- It’s clear the right is sick and tired of their kids showing up to family dinners with new tattoos
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- I do not see why anyone is surprised by this! These white shoe firms live and die by capital, and right now, capital is consolidating under Trump. Pro bono was never a core part of the big law model. It exists to make firm lawyers feel a little less existentially awful all the time
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- Can’t wait for “trigger based” to turn up in zoomer speak
- US exceptionalism is the ability to ignore/repress/buy off critics, remaining the exception to all other rogue nations bc the US was the most powerful. Schmitt at scale. The key was to pretend like it was with the best intentions, so everyone else could participate in the lie. So that's over
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- Joke’s on him! Turns out you need your peer nations to believe you when you say “when we do this, it’s good; no one else try it, though.” I don’t think Trump believes his lines, though. He doesn’t care about the country. I think he thinks it’s a means to an end, his own valorization.
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- So where can I get a decal of Calvin peeing on a Tesla or is that considered like, ISIS-level documentation Claire Danes finds in a culvert
- In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- can't wait til the EO that cancels Signal for wokely confusing national security. "you know, you can't trust open source. it's woke! Michael Waltz, great guy, he's not to blame. it's the pirates who make these things, these blue things"
