Aaron Bady
@zunguzungu.bsky.social
Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
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Come on down to Local Economy for the Oakland review of books holiday party! www.thelocaleconomy.com/events/oakla...
Oakland Review of Books Holiday Party (and Secret Santa) — Local Economy
Oakland Review of Books is a new publication featuring writing about, for, and from Oakland. Join the editorial team for a holiday party where they'll introduce themselves, tell you about their whole ...
www.thelocaleconomy.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Come on down to Local Economy for the Oakland review of books holiday party! www.thelocaleconomy.com/events/oakla...
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The FBI’s Oakland corruption case relies heavily on the word of one man with a "checkered past."
When we closely examined Mario Juarez's long history of legal disputes and criminal investigations into his businesses, patterns started to emerge.
oaklandside.org/2025/12/01/m...
When we closely examined Mario Juarez's long history of legal disputes and criminal investigations into his businesses, patterns started to emerge.
oaklandside.org/2025/12/01/m...
The FBI’s Oakland corruption case relies heavily on the word of one man with a ‘checkered past’
For decades, Juarez has been at the center of bitter legal disputes — and the subject of criminal investigations — all while maintaining high-level political connections.
oaklandside.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The FBI’s Oakland corruption case relies heavily on the word of one man with a "checkered past."
When we closely examined Mario Juarez's long history of legal disputes and criminal investigations into his businesses, patterns started to emerge.
oaklandside.org/2025/12/01/m...
When we closely examined Mario Juarez's long history of legal disputes and criminal investigations into his businesses, patterns started to emerge.
oaklandside.org/2025/12/01/m...
Man, well THIS is a story oaklandside.org/2025/12/01/m...
The FBI’s Oakland corruption case relies heavily on the word of one man with a ‘checkered past’
For decades, Juarez has been at the center of bitter legal disputes — and the subject of criminal investigations — all while maintaining high-level political connections.
oaklandside.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Man, well THIS is a story oaklandside.org/2025/12/01/m...
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One point that may have been lost: I’ve never seen this ad before.
It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.
Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.
Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
Listening to Mexican folk music on Youtube and they're running this horrible ad urging people to self-deport.
Fuck you Kristi Noem, and fuck you Google for taking her money.
Fuck you Kristi Noem, and fuck you Google for taking her money.
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
One point that may have been lost: I’ve never seen this ad before.
It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.
Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.
Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
N and C love Mary Poppins, so to them, all coins are "tuppance" and when their grandmother gave them some little piggy banks, they demanded that I give them lots of tuppances to put in the banks
November 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
N and C love Mary Poppins, so to them, all coins are "tuppance" and when their grandmother gave them some little piggy banks, they demanded that I give them lots of tuppances to put in the banks
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Welcome to a new occasional series, “Would I date that Denver building?”
We begin with 655 N. Broadway.
Hesitant yes.
He’s seen some stuff. (Deals with it through steady tobacco use.) Looks great in a white t-shirt and jeans. Generous in bed. My parents have questions, but also sorta get it.
We begin with 655 N. Broadway.
Hesitant yes.
He’s seen some stuff. (Deals with it through steady tobacco use.) Looks great in a white t-shirt and jeans. Generous in bed. My parents have questions, but also sorta get it.
November 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Welcome to a new occasional series, “Would I date that Denver building?”
We begin with 655 N. Broadway.
Hesitant yes.
He’s seen some stuff. (Deals with it through steady tobacco use.) Looks great in a white t-shirt and jeans. Generous in bed. My parents have questions, but also sorta get it.
We begin with 655 N. Broadway.
Hesitant yes.
He’s seen some stuff. (Deals with it through steady tobacco use.) Looks great in a white t-shirt and jeans. Generous in bed. My parents have questions, but also sorta get it.
while US democrats want to fuck around with "strong floor, no ceiling" nonsense, Brazil exempted a lot of poor people from paying taxes while hiking taxes for the rich bsky.app/profile/carc...
Brazil enacts tax reform with new exemptions, minimum rate for top earners
The new law removes up to 16 million taxpayers from the rolls and sets a 10% minimum effective rate for high-earners. courthousenews.com/brazil-enact...
The new law removes up to 16 million taxpayers from the rolls and sets a 10% minimum effective rate for high-earners. courthousenews.com/brazil-enact...
Brazil enacts tax reform with new exemptions, minimum rate for top earners
The new law removes up to 16 million taxpayers from the rolls and sets a 10% minimum effective rate for high-earners.
courthousenews.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
while US democrats want to fuck around with "strong floor, no ceiling" nonsense, Brazil exempted a lot of poor people from paying taxes while hiking taxes for the rich bsky.app/profile/carc...
"Begin by emptying your bladder. Tighten the muscles and hold for a count of 10. Relax the muscles completely for a count of 10. Do 10 repetitions, 3 to 5 times a day (morning, afternoon, and night)."
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"Begin by emptying your bladder. Tighten the muscles and hold for a count of 10. Relax the muscles completely for a count of 10. Do 10 repetitions, 3 to 5 times a day (morning, afternoon, and night)."
in a sense, we HAVE TO use AI for the same reason we can't be allowed to transition away from fossil fuels: there are stranded assets that MUST be made profitable and, if they are not, will wreck the economy
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
in a sense, we HAVE TO use AI for the same reason we can't be allowed to transition away from fossil fuels: there are stranded assets that MUST be made profitable and, if they are not, will wreck the economy
(reading the printout from the hot-take machine) "Yeah, it calls it the "most extreme form of intellectual neoliberal blame-the-individual-ism,' I mean, c'mon, people are just tweeting that you should promote your own book."
November 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
(reading the printout from the hot-take machine) "Yeah, it calls it the "most extreme form of intellectual neoliberal blame-the-individual-ism,' I mean, c'mon, people are just tweeting that you should promote your own book."
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This quote from the Atlantic is right & true! One odd thing is how these points, which have been obvious for several years to anyone who spent five minutes considering how LLMs work & what education is, are finally coalescing into the standard take from the center of middlebrow opinion—why only now?
“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.”
“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“
November 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This quote from the Atlantic is right & true! One odd thing is how these points, which have been obvious for several years to anyone who spent five minutes considering how LLMs work & what education is, are finally coalescing into the standard take from the center of middlebrow opinion—why only now?
real inverse correlation to actually doing work sort of thing going on here
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
real inverse correlation to actually doing work sort of thing going on here
a propos of nothing, a funny thing on Battlestar Galactica is that esp at the beginning, Baltar is a scientist who gets treated like the only person on the show who has access to Science, which in functional terms might as well be a mystical Being whose powers he can channel
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
a propos of nothing, a funny thing on Battlestar Galactica is that esp at the beginning, Baltar is a scientist who gets treated like the only person on the show who has access to Science, which in functional terms might as well be a mystical Being whose powers he can channel
I considered engaging in the wrong kinds of consumption, but instead (cleverly) decided to do the good kinds
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I considered engaging in the wrong kinds of consumption, but instead (cleverly) decided to do the good kinds
me, eating potatoes: "I acknowledge that this vegetable is unceded indigenous cuisine"
November 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
me, eating potatoes: "I acknowledge that this vegetable is unceded indigenous cuisine"
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"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."
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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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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
my preferred reading is that he thought cows was pronounced "kay-oss" but that he was still talking about cows
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
my preferred reading is that he thought cows was pronounced "kay-oss" but that he was still talking about cows
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It's almost six years old and the book designer's choice of typeface was widely praised www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
It's almost six years old and the book designer's choice of typeface was widely praised www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Obviously yes! Most Americans speak Spanish, Portuguese, or other languages and don't live in the US so it'd be weird to call them that
If your argument involves referring to Americans as “USians” it doesn’t matter how cogent the rest of your point may be tbh
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Obviously yes! Most Americans speak Spanish, Portuguese, or other languages and don't live in the US so it'd be weird to call them that
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I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
I just saw someone say something really rage-inducing but I'm not going to tell you who they are or really what they said or in what context because that might potentially interrupt the flow of rage and the RAGE MUST FLOW
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I just saw someone say something really rage-inducing but I'm not going to tell you who they are or really what they said or in what context because that might potentially interrupt the flow of rage and the RAGE MUST FLOW
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
some might suggest this is a good way to think about the phrase "just build more housing" (not me, because I don't court controversy)
It's been common knowledge for years that "Drill, baby, drill" is a political soundbite with no meaningful connection to the market forces that actually determine oil companies' drilling decisions.
Trump Vowed Fewer Regulations and Lots More Oil. He’s Delivered on One.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
some might suggest this is a good way to think about the phrase "just build more housing" (not me, because I don't court controversy)