ritchey
@mariannaritchey.bsky.social
enunciating the catastrophe
re: university admin, this would be a sound policy not only bc it would limit the # of lizard people but also bc it would free up so much money to use for stuff we actually need. Once you calculate how much $$ you’d have if you capped upper admin positions & salaries you get radicalized pretty fast
I am starting to form a belief that organizational hierarchies (not just in terms of private companies) should have an upper limit in terms of number of people because once you cross a certain size the leaders turn into lizard people even if they were once human
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
re: university admin, this would be a sound policy not only bc it would limit the # of lizard people but also bc it would free up so much money to use for stuff we actually need. Once you calculate how much $$ you’d have if you capped upper admin positions & salaries you get radicalized pretty fast
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Point is that transphobia and anti-Arab bigotry, both incredibly popular among liberal elites, are at odds with liberal principles and corrode a liberal's capacity to enforce their value set vis a vis policy and behavior.
Let’s blame rank transphobia on the real culprit: liberalism
there are a lot of brain-rotting ideologies that can twist a liberal without moral guide-lines into a vicious, miserable reactionary but transphobia and zionism really are something else in the social media age
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Point is that transphobia and anti-Arab bigotry, both incredibly popular among liberal elites, are at odds with liberal principles and corrode a liberal's capacity to enforce their value set vis a vis policy and behavior.
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i'm writing to wish you a happy thanksgiving! also, to inquire about the status of my manuscript
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
i'm writing to wish you a happy thanksgiving! also, to inquire about the status of my manuscript
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
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Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them.
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
How to Read an "AI" Press Release — Sonja Drimmer
Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text in Times New Roman font, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest...
sonjadrimmer.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them.
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
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@brendannyhan.bsky.social is right: young people are reluctant to come to the defense of institutions that have excluded them, ignored them, and crushed their movements
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
@brendannyhan.bsky.social is right: young people are reluctant to come to the defense of institutions that have excluded them, ignored them, and crushed their movements
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
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I wrote a book about US media’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. It's available for pre-order. It’s a data-driven and, I hope, thorough account of how center-left media sold the American public on mass death in Gaza.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
How to Sell a Genocide - Pluto Press
A gripping exposé of how the corporate media fuelled genocide in Gaza
www.plutobooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I wrote a book about US media’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. It's available for pre-order. It’s a data-driven and, I hope, thorough account of how center-left media sold the American public on mass death in Gaza.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
literally what are people even talking about anymore
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
literally what are people even talking about anymore
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Communists are always framed as pessimists for saying “we can do better than this”
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Communists are always framed as pessimists for saying “we can do better than this”
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Israel’s National Security Minister Ben-Gvir ordered that a performance by children in the Palestinian National Theatre be raided and closed down just before the children were due to perform.
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Israel’s National Security Minister Ben-Gvir ordered that a performance by children in the Palestinian National Theatre be raided and closed down just before the children were due to perform.
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I think that people are so beat down right not, that they would be very happy with a few crumbs.
Oh, you’re giving us universal healthcare? Sure! I’ll give up the fight. It’s exactly how the New Deal worked.
Oh, you’re giving us universal healthcare? Sure! I’ll give up the fight. It’s exactly how the New Deal worked.
You see how easily reformists take over a movement and neutralize it because many of the dominant voices are actually secret reformists absolutely fine with a couple social democrats coming into power and kicking the can of capitalism further down the road condemning future gens to this hell
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I think that people are so beat down right not, that they would be very happy with a few crumbs.
Oh, you’re giving us universal healthcare? Sure! I’ll give up the fight. It’s exactly how the New Deal worked.
Oh, you’re giving us universal healthcare? Sure! I’ll give up the fight. It’s exactly how the New Deal worked.
my dog had the perfect temperament for academia (socially awkward and gratified by pitifully small rewards) but they said it wasn't allowed
imagine a dog trying to handle, like, 5% of the business i got to deal with in a day. would absolutely collapse. unimpressive
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
my dog had the perfect temperament for academia (socially awkward and gratified by pitifully small rewards) but they said it wasn't allowed
I regret to report that the new Running Man adaption is Good
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I regret to report that the new Running Man adaption is Good
you have to work hard to resist becoming a cop. you cannot let them turn you into a cop
Since this article and its perspectives are generating a bit of buzz, I'd like to dig into what I find distasteful and, frankly, disingenous about it, particularly the ethical values it proclaims. 1/8
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
you have to work hard to resist becoming a cop. you cannot let them turn you into a cop
It's weird how many bad political opinions smart people are capable of holding. Not me though
November 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It's weird how many bad political opinions smart people are capable of holding. Not me though
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TRUMP: This guy was pretty interesting, though. He's actually figured out the laws that dictate, well, everything — history,
sociology, politics, morality, everything! It's all in a book called "Kapital."
EDDIE MANNIX, CAPITOL PICTURES: That right.
TRUMP: Uh-huh! With a "K."
sociology, politics, morality, everything! It's all in a book called "Kapital."
EDDIE MANNIX, CAPITOL PICTURES: That right.
TRUMP: Uh-huh! With a "K."
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
TRUMP: This guy was pretty interesting, though. He's actually figured out the laws that dictate, well, everything — history,
sociology, politics, morality, everything! It's all in a book called "Kapital."
EDDIE MANNIX, CAPITOL PICTURES: That right.
TRUMP: Uh-huh! With a "K."
sociology, politics, morality, everything! It's all in a book called "Kapital."
EDDIE MANNIX, CAPITOL PICTURES: That right.
TRUMP: Uh-huh! With a "K."
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
I agree it's wrong to equate Duchamp and Cattelan but I don't think this critique characterizes D's intervention correctly. He wasn't telling us there are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see. He was a troll! A different kind than Cattelan, but a troll nonetheless, and god bless him
Maurizio Cattelan Is No Duchamp
One elevated the prosaic. The other merely gilded the familiar.
hyperallergic.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I agree it's wrong to equate Duchamp and Cattelan but I don't think this critique characterizes D's intervention correctly. He wasn't telling us there are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see. He was a troll! A different kind than Cattelan, but a troll nonetheless, and god bless him
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"In 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the global South, across all skill levels and sectors. The wage value of this labour was equivalent to €16.9 trillion in Northern prices." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy - Nature Communications
Hickel and colleagues find that, in 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the global South, across all skill levels and sectors. Unequal ex...
www.nature.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"In 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the global South, across all skill levels and sectors. The wage value of this labour was equivalent to €16.9 trillion in Northern prices." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Higher-Ed Publication Announces Exciting New Initiative For These Uncertain Times
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Higher-Ed Publication Announces Exciting New Initiative For These Uncertain Times
I really think if I ever got eight hours of sleep, even one time, my entire life would be radically transformed in some deep way I can’t currently imagine
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I really think if I ever got eight hours of sleep, even one time, my entire life would be radically transformed in some deep way I can’t currently imagine
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Whenever people discuss if ChatGPT should be used in education, it should be noted that OpenAI's board includes a a professor who sought advice from a pedophile on how to manipulate one of his mentees into having sex with him, and in those conversations they substituted her name with a racial slur.
OpenAI is among the handful of the most powerful non-governmental institutions in the world.
Larry Summers could get fully jettisoned from Harvard (hasn't yet happened!) and yet still be fine so long as he is helping determine the future of AI.
Larry Summers could get fully jettisoned from Harvard (hasn't yet happened!) and yet still be fine so long as he is helping determine the future of AI.
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Whenever people discuss if ChatGPT should be used in education, it should be noted that OpenAI's board includes a a professor who sought advice from a pedophile on how to manipulate one of his mentees into having sex with him, and in those conversations they substituted her name with a racial slur.
Very succinct and accurate
the main character from zelda is named zelda and he is a girl. the story of zelda is "a guy showed up. deal with it"
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Very succinct and accurate