EIL

I‘ve been alarmed at how many smart, well-educated professional women in my network are pro-AI and I hope they all see this message

screenshot of three consecutive posts on Bluesky: Greg Pak thunder in brooklyn Susan Rinkunas thunder so loud in brooklyn that my cat just scurried so fast across the wood floor it sounded like tap shoes CHOAM: Spaceknight people are so mad Zohran Mamdani's wife is hot

Look the feed made a poem

“The reality in the strait has left diplomatic counterparts, former US economic and energy officials and industry executives who spoke with CNN in a state of confusion and disbelief.”

As well it should.

The list of reasons why there isn't more visible student organizing in the US today is long. But the shortest, simplest answer is this:

Liberal politicians and institutions systematically undermined it for decades, then brutally crushed it when it miraculously rose from the dead.

Seems to me that if you're upset that there's not more of a student movement fighting fascism in 2026, the first place to direct your anger is the people who crushed the wave of student organizing that crested in the months immediately preceding the fascists' rise to power.

Students ate silent because no one had their back anyone. No single Democrat with power, especially not Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), is willing to protect students facing disappearance into a concentration camp system. Getting beaten by a cop, arrested, and expelled will do that.

College students were a pillar of US democracy. No matter how broken or imperialist or racist, students stood up. They self-organized. They revolutionized politics. They made conservatives mad with jealousy. They reordered the world. Now, they are beaten down.

I cannot stress enough just how ghoulish and violent everyone was. Every college president save like 1 or 2. Every board of governors. Every governor. Both presidents. Lawmakers, cops, journalists, the general public. Furiously violent, the lot of them.

They broke the students. Every leader with power from 2023 to now worked overtime and spared no expense to absolutely destroy a student movement that had been active and vibrant since the 1930s. They tortured they beat they imprisoned they dissappeared they expelled. They made politics too costly.

its so cool that "affordability" has just immediately become a meaningless buzzword

And I can't tell you how much I love white "urbanist" dudes using unnamed, possibly imaginary disabled folks and primary caretakers to strawman me over something they imagine me saying.

It's almost as if they can't actually engage with the substance of my argument or my lived experience

Cannot possibly stress how little I'm looking forward to the next wave of discussion on survey measurement of antisemitism and conspiratorial thinking and, particularly, the intersection w/ potential opt-in sample quality issues, but...probably we should have that discussion.

Actual section numbering in a brief I'm reading:
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This is the reality of what AI companies want for the future: where EVERYONE is unable to function without relying on them for "intelligence as a utility."

In order for them to sell this to us, they need to convince us our brains are never creative, interesting, able enough.

Trump has tremendous difficulty with principled people (even if as with the Iranian regime, the principles are bad). He assumes everyone is a transactional fraud like him. Works well with rich Americans and poorly with idealists of any stripe

She wasn’t attracted to the right by the romanticized aesthetic of “traditional America” — big beautiful houses and bread-making and families with half a dozen children. Rather, she says, “I was in love with the frisson of transgression.” The online right had begun to engage more explicitly with forbidden subjects: nativism, race science, and gender essentialism drawn from evolutionary psychology. “There was an element of gnosticism to it,” she says, “the sense that you know secret things that other people don’t know.” After college, in the waning years of Trump’s first term, Anna wrote for popular right-wing outlets, worked for conservative institutions, and attended movement conferences. She fell in socially with the young firebrands of the New Right; she remembers it as partially happenstance. “You kind of meet people and proceed on and then suddenly you find yourself being a part of this thing,” she tells me. A portion of her early writing was about feminism and gender: “I was doing the typical right-wing female thing where all these men will kind of pat you on your head for saying the edgy thing — about women, as a woman — and they need you to be their mouthpiece.”

Usually, she silently endured her peers’ soliloquies on women’s deviance and the urgent need to curtail their rights. When she did manage a retort, it was not well received. On one occasion, at a professional dinner, a male acquaintance spewed out some “really gross” things about women (she declines to share details for fear of being identified), and she gently pushed back. “He freaked out,” she says. “He was banging on the table, screaming at me, saying, ‘Nobody cares what you think, woman’ — using the word woman as an invective.” She worried he would become violent. No one at the table came to her defense, men or women. “You almost don’t realize what’s happening until five years later,” Anna says, “when you look back and you’re like, Oh gosh, I was being used.” She also blames herself: “I was too frivolous with ideas.”

More seriously: when you get people who speak honestly -- as I do think this person is doing -- what you see is that a lot of the people who get involved with this stuff really do so for basically frivolous reasons. it's a game, then it's a livelihood, then suddenly it's Real and not funny anymore

effective, clear and culturally appropriate messaging

This, to me, is the root of it: the left is always going to be more stuffy, constrained and dogmatic because *the left believes that oppression exists and matters.* This is a turnoff to a certain sort of person who does not wish to believe this. But reality wins eventually.

I'm hearing this now for the first time

that twitter billionaire's dumbass grok image proposing oil transfer by land through what looks like oman and uae, both currently in range of iranian drones and missiles. the trucks have been replaced by a giant slip n' slide running between the ships and a caption that reads "Pour Oil into Giant Slip n' Slide"

Can this be a solution?

We’re now on year 10 of fawning articles about fucking idiots sticking forks in electrical outlets and saying “wha happun?” the moment it hurts

Absolutely valid points!

Yep. The number of times I see four or five cars blast through an intersection well after the light is red like... There's your problem guys!

This is not a brag. I'm not a perfect driver but any means. Just skeptical about the prevalence of dozens of tickets a month that was promised by multiple friends when we moved.

We drive all over the city for work and other appointments, as well as Maryland and VA burbs and have never gotten a ticket 🤷‍♀️

I was warned by like 5 different people that I needed a line item in my budget for camera tickets when I moved to DC and we've been here almost a decade and haven't gotten one???

its only been like a week and this is already one of the stupidest things anyone's ever posted

The US is in the market for friends again.

nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Folks, listen to me.

Don't go looking up what blocklists you're on or who blocks you, down that path lies madness, poster's madness! Don't do it! People will block you for any reason, or no reason at all, just ignore it. I always assume that if I'm blocked it's probably because I was annoying.