“don’t worry about NIH or NSF. our machines will do the science now and it will be amazing.” they really believe this shit, some of them. you have to admonish yourself (i have to admonish myself) you can’t wish cancer on anyone, that kind of thing is bad for the soul.
Vanilla Ice was a strangely prescient name and lip-syncing seems now such a quaint kind of scandal.
from “Children of the Days”, by Eduardo Galeano. bookshop.org/ebooks/quote...
Text: It seems strange, this notion that nature has rights as if it were a person. But in the United States it seems perfectly normal that big companies have human rights.They do, ever since a Supreme Court decision in 1886. If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.
even when a course correction is urgently required, it may not make sense to blow up the plane.
1990s — X Files 2020s — Epstein Files
i don’t follow NYC politics all that closely, but i like that sometimes when i’m quickly skimming Mamdani parses as “Madman”.
"both men start from the presumption that the U.S. government is an entirely corrupt enterprise, with the president in a position to hand out personal favors or engage in personal acts of vengeance." @pkrugman.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/wake-up-an...
Wake Up and Smell the Corruption
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we are so fortunate to have two stable geniuses.
“the only country that has both the resources and the capacity to make credible commitments regarding academic freedom is Norway.” @rajivsethi.bsky.social rajivsethi.substack.com/p/body-blows...
maybe someone should found a university that — i know this is novel — would be governed by its faculty.
a great, short account of why anti-NIMBY-ism is likely always to be an inadequate solution to the scarcity of desirable housing, by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social.
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do the “deep research”, “agentic” AI tools know how to avoid AI slop?
i prefer not to be anything pilled.
if Cecil Rhodes was “responsible for the deaths of as many as 20,000 Africans” his successor has now very easily outdone him. (despite trying so hard, the author of this terrible piece cannot help but confess little good and enduring came of Rhodes’ “energetic”s. but somehow we should hope for Musk)
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“A key to the pathology of the radical right it offers both a powerful sense of aristocratic elevation and a deep sense of wounded victimization. While in many senses contradictory, this combined sense of being better and being wronged is exceptionally attractive.”
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cc @poetryforsupper.bsky.social it’s interesting to contrast the hostility to Christianity in these thinkers, as a fountainhead of universalism and therefore democracy, liberalism, socialism, versus the role of evangelicalism today.
credit rating agencies, but for how much we should credit public figures' utterances.
we’re all gonna be rich!
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when the world’s biggest nuclear power has its nuclear weapons infrastructure bombed, it’d please me if leading world governments had diplomats trained in diplomacy rather than trolling.
they may come off as innocuous, but poets have very deep connections to organized rhyme.
“Constitutionally, Congress is a superior branch of government to the presidency, and it is explicitly designed to check the president.” @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o... // yes.
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