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Elder, midwesterner, lifelong socialist, passable Indian cook. Former literary critic and software developer, interested now in genealogy and small-scale social history. Free Palestine
is it possible to be both pro-labor and anti-racist, asks someone who is neither
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
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December 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
is it possible to be both pro-labor and anti-racist, asks someone who is neither
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on the fork of Calibre without AI, set up with attention to actual governance rather than trusting in one guy
blog.rereading.space/rereading-be...
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rereading: because books are art, and art is labor
For almost twenty years, the Calibre project has provided people with a way to manage their e-books, building personal libraries, transfe...
blog.rereading.space
December 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
on the fork of Calibre without AI, set up with attention to actual governance rather than trusting in one guy
blog.rereading.space/rereading-be...
blog.rereading.space/rereading-be...
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learn.
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Correct. Obama was indeed nicknamed deporter in chief for good reason by immigrants and activists way back:
December 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
learn.
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Well I have more followers on this account, but let it be known that @bsky.app and @aaron.bsky.team suspended a wife who lashed out at this current administration after her husband was kidnapped by ICE. I don’t regret a single thing that I said, in fact I STILL mean it.
Guys I need all the help I can get right now
@bitocrosszer.bsky.social my husband was picked up by ICE
We have a 4 year old daughter together
I need all the fucking help I can get right now
@bitocrosszer.bsky.social my husband was picked up by ICE
We have a 4 year old daughter together
I need all the fucking help I can get right now
December 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Well I have more followers on this account, but let it be known that @bsky.app and @aaron.bsky.team suspended a wife who lashed out at this current administration after her husband was kidnapped by ICE. I don’t regret a single thing that I said, in fact I STILL mean it.
the st. paul sandwich pokes its head around the corner
we need a new "popeyes chicken sandwich" for everyone to flip out about. it doesn't need to be made by popeye's but it needs a similar huge cultural moment attached to it. i think a chicken fried steak sandwich could do it but perhaps the next sandwich to capture the zeitgeist is unknowable
December 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
the st. paul sandwich pokes its head around the corner
iow if your critique of nostalgia is that any attachment to the past is a form of false consciousness, you don't have a critique of nostalgia and you need to sit your ass down and read some Benjamin
there's the phony nostalgia of "everything in my childhood was wonderful," but there's also the redemptive nostalgia of "this good thing I remember from my earlier life has been lost," and if you can't or won't see the difference then I suspect you of being some kind of authoritarian
December 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
iow if your critique of nostalgia is that any attachment to the past is a form of false consciousness, you don't have a critique of nostalgia and you need to sit your ass down and read some Benjamin
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I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
I Am All Mouth, And I Must Scream
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I Am All Mouth, And I Must Scream
if it were me, I would simply become greatly enlightened
Buddhist lama who ends all his koans with "wyd in that situation?"
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
if it were me, I would simply become greatly enlightened
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"If You Suffer from Urgent Normal Syndrome, Ask for Help"
Published: 26 June 2023
Urgent normal syndrome is defined by:
🔸Unhealthy attraction to crowded indoor spaces
🔸Anxiety at the sight of masks or air purifiers
🔸An urge to downplay threats
🔸Avoidance of “bad news"
Source: archive.md/EVlwU
Published: 26 June 2023
Urgent normal syndrome is defined by:
🔸Unhealthy attraction to crowded indoor spaces
🔸Anxiety at the sight of masks or air purifiers
🔸An urge to downplay threats
🔸Avoidance of “bad news"
Source: archive.md/EVlwU
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
"If You Suffer from Urgent Normal Syndrome, Ask for Help"
Published: 26 June 2023
Urgent normal syndrome is defined by:
🔸Unhealthy attraction to crowded indoor spaces
🔸Anxiety at the sight of masks or air purifiers
🔸An urge to downplay threats
🔸Avoidance of “bad news"
Source: archive.md/EVlwU
Published: 26 June 2023
Urgent normal syndrome is defined by:
🔸Unhealthy attraction to crowded indoor spaces
🔸Anxiety at the sight of masks or air purifiers
🔸An urge to downplay threats
🔸Avoidance of “bad news"
Source: archive.md/EVlwU
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By definition, AI algorithmic engines repackage an aggregated, mathematically averaged version of what has already been thought & said. This means they are best seen as ideology machines: mechanisms built to recirculate the common sense of a social formation back to itself as though it is knowledge
📸 New research just out revealing disturbing problems with AI image captioning. AI models can now analyse both texts and images, and are trained on vast collections of human-created content spanning centuries. Some claims these models could soon help human historians interpret and explain the past.
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
By definition, AI algorithmic engines repackage an aggregated, mathematically averaged version of what has already been thought & said. This means they are best seen as ideology machines: mechanisms built to recirculate the common sense of a social formation back to itself as though it is knowledge
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
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According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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🧵 Awful awful massacre in Brazil
Gente, é o maior massacre no Brasil desde o Araguaia. Entendo quem quer puxar pra Canudos ou Contestado ou etc, mas não podemos livrar a ditadura de 64 só porque ela escondia melhor seus corpos.
Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
October 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
there's the phony nostalgia of "everything in my childhood was wonderful," but there's also the redemptive nostalgia of "this good thing I remember from my earlier life has been lost," and if you can't or won't see the difference then I suspect you of being some kind of authoritarian
October 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
there's the phony nostalgia of "everything in my childhood was wonderful," but there's also the redemptive nostalgia of "this good thing I remember from my earlier life has been lost," and if you can't or won't see the difference then I suspect you of being some kind of authoritarian
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as tech execs demand the adoption of a.i. and force their employees to dogfood their own a.i. agents in the name of increased productivity, the actual quality of software has plummeted
The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.
techtrenches.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
as tech execs demand the adoption of a.i. and force their employees to dogfood their own a.i. agents in the name of increased productivity, the actual quality of software has plummeted
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Love my neighborhood.
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400 Rogers Park Neighbors Rally After ICE Arrests 4, Including Tamale Vendor
Neighbors lined Clark Street on Saturday as a show of support after multiple immigration arrests. "We've seen that when we have large numbers of volunteers out here, they target us less," a neighbor s...
blockclubchicago.org
October 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Love my neighborhood.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/12/4...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/12/4...
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.
October 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.
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reminder that xAI claims it's running the world's biggest supercomputer to do this shit www.404media.co/grok-exposes...
Grok Exposes Underlying Prompts for Its AI Personas: ‘EVEN PUTTING THINGS IN YOUR ASS’
The website for Elon Musk's Grok is exposing prompts for its anime girl, therapist, and conspiracy theory AI personas.
www.404media.co
August 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
reminder that xAI claims it's running the world's biggest supercomputer to do this shit www.404media.co/grok-exposes...
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This is the eleventh anniversary of Mike Brown's murder. Still for his family and our community, no justice has been had.
August 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is the eleventh anniversary of Mike Brown's murder. Still for his family and our community, no justice has been had.
White Noise, Libra, Underworld
New game: Read, Research, Recycle
(One you read for fun, one you research for years, one you put out with the old paper)
Bleak House, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend
(One you read for fun, one you research for years, one you put out with the old paper)
Bleak House, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend
August 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
White Noise, Libra, Underworld