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yeah sorry you don't get to do blood and soil bullshit and pretend you're a liberal
still poleaxed by the idea that you could oppose birthright citizenship and still think of yourself as a liberal in any sense of the term.
December 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
yeah sorry you don't get to do blood and soil bullshit and pretend you're a liberal
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New post: a week of hectic back and forth with fire officials and city council over Berkeley street festivals brings out into the open a conflict in city halls across USA. Fire depts opposition to traffic calming and safety measures. Is there a solution?
darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-fire-d...
darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-fire-d...
The Fire Department vs. Traffic Safety Advocates
Street safety advocates are butting heads with fire officials. Swift fire response does not have to come at the cost of lives on the roadway.
darrellowens.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
New post: a week of hectic back and forth with fire officials and city council over Berkeley street festivals brings out into the open a conflict in city halls across USA. Fire depts opposition to traffic calming and safety measures. Is there a solution?
darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-fire-d...
darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-fire-d...
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Flyer by John Giorno published by Visual AIDS in 1993 for Day Without Art.
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Flyer by John Giorno published by Visual AIDS in 1993 for Day Without Art.
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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
you should support liberal currents!
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The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
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We've got a cover for Lost Worlds, folks - coming May 5th, 2026. Preorder it here: www.harpercollins.com/products/los...
November 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
We've got a cover for Lost Worlds, folks - coming May 5th, 2026. Preorder it here: www.harpercollins.com/products/los...
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The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
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A correct read on these deltas is that we already lost lol
In the global electrification race China is marching ahead.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A correct read on these deltas is that we already lost lol
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Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end
I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Jim Ryan letter
www.documentcloud.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end
I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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With sequencing of Hitler's DNA making headlines, time for a reminder: analysing a polygenic score from a dead historically-significant figure won't give new insights into that person's behaviour. In a brief paper last year, we used Beethoven's genome to directly illustrate the fallacies involved.🧪👇
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven
with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
www.cell.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
With sequencing of Hitler's DNA making headlines, time for a reminder: analysing a polygenic score from a dead historically-significant figure won't give new insights into that person's behaviour. In a brief paper last year, we used Beethoven's genome to directly illustrate the fallacies involved.🧪👇
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It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom
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this really captures the specific set of cached/unconfronted assumptions that underlie a lot of discourse, especially here (from @andymasley.bsky.social)
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
this really captures the specific set of cached/unconfronted assumptions that underlie a lot of discourse, especially here (from @andymasley.bsky.social)
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Some good-ish climate news.
10 Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Here's Where We Are
Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Some good-ish climate news.
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The bigger problem is that there was never a mass constituency in the North for any kind of comprehensive and lengthy Reconstruction.
There used to be a consensus in the alternate history community that any "harsh" punishment of defeated Confederates would have led to an endless guerrilla war agaisnt the US in the south and meh I was never convinced it was ever that plausible.
We should have punished the Confederates.
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The bigger problem is that there was never a mass constituency in the North for any kind of comprehensive and lengthy Reconstruction.
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Some see the mass appeal of today's rightwing politics in status anxiety, as formerly dominant groups resent their relative decline. It's illuminating to extend Du Bois's "psychological wage" to capture how right populists generate both demand for this wage & give themselves a monopoly to supply it.
October 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Some see the mass appeal of today's rightwing politics in status anxiety, as formerly dominant groups resent their relative decline. It's illuminating to extend Du Bois's "psychological wage" to capture how right populists generate both demand for this wage & give themselves a monopoly to supply it.
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Work-from-home increases birth rates, but firms seem to hate it. So despite a pro-fertility coalition growing in US politics, no politicians openly supports work from home
www.nber.org/papers/w30569
via Mike Konczal
www.nber.org/papers/w30569
via Mike Konczal
The Covid-19 Baby Bump: The Unexpected Increase in U.S. Fertility Rates in Response to the Pandemic
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
October 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Work-from-home increases birth rates, but firms seem to hate it. So despite a pro-fertility coalition growing in US politics, no politicians openly supports work from home
www.nber.org/papers/w30569
via Mike Konczal
www.nber.org/papers/w30569
via Mike Konczal
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One of the big things I’ve learned from all of this (cries) is that far and away the biggest consumers (and whether intended or not, targets) of political propaganda are political and economic elites, not average voters. Been wild (derogatory) to watch.
October 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
One of the big things I’ve learned from all of this (cries) is that far and away the biggest consumers (and whether intended or not, targets) of political propaganda are political and economic elites, not average voters. Been wild (derogatory) to watch.
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France eager to remind us they did it first on having a guy who got elected president and then decided to crown himself a monarch before his regime collapsed in buffoonish incompetence.
October 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
France eager to remind us they did it first on having a guy who got elected president and then decided to crown himself a monarch before his regime collapsed in buffoonish incompetence.
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Extra question: did hegseth and miller demand that the admiral overseeing this mass murder campaign resign for picking up survivors. Seems like kind of a big deal
October 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Extra question: did hegseth and miller demand that the admiral overseeing this mass murder campaign resign for picking up survivors. Seems like kind of a big deal
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let me note that one of the actual tests here is going to be 'what do people pushing these ideas want for their own children' and I will bet you a lot of money that the answer is 'the elite university model of Harvard et al' not 'learning through AI slop'
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
let me note that one of the actual tests here is going to be 'what do people pushing these ideas want for their own children' and I will bet you a lot of money that the answer is 'the elite university model of Harvard et al' not 'learning through AI slop'
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Big news, friends: on December 3rd, I'll be launching a brand-new history show, "Past Lives." Every episode focuses on the life of a real person from history and tries to make sense of their experiences and their world. There will be weekly scripted episodes and tons of bonus content on Patreon.
October 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Big news, friends: on December 3rd, I'll be launching a brand-new history show, "Past Lives." Every episode focuses on the life of a real person from history and tries to make sense of their experiences and their world. There will be weekly scripted episodes and tons of bonus content on Patreon.
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Absolute banger from @deadcarl.bsky.social
Clausewitz on Hegseth and the "Lethality" Obsession
The "Absolute Destruction" of America's Military
www.deadcarl.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Absolute banger from @deadcarl.bsky.social
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What a perfect formulation:
“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
What a perfect formulation:
“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
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i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
i wrote about atproto and why it matters
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If you’ve taught for a few years you’ve had a wildly disruptive grad student show up from an irrelevant department and troll every discussion. In the last few years, it’s become far more dangerous; that troll is trying to get you fired and your administration isn’t guaranteed to back you up.
Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
www.thenation.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
If you’ve taught for a few years you’ve had a wildly disruptive grad student show up from an irrelevant department and troll every discussion. In the last few years, it’s become far more dangerous; that troll is trying to get you fired and your administration isn’t guaranteed to back you up.