Chris Maliga
@chrismaliga.com
Photographer whose work explores themes of psychology and the passage of time.
https://www.chrismaliga.com
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I liked this blog post on the general way an ability to hold apparently contradictory thoughts (or, really, ideas in tension) together without crashing out is very important for sensible political analysis.
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Politics and DBT
I talk about the relevance of dialectical behavior therapy to politics, arguing that the reconciliation of seeming opposites (frequently judgments of something as both good and bad) is an important…
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December 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I liked this blog post on the general way an ability to hold apparently contradictory thoughts (or, really, ideas in tension) together without crashing out is very important for sensible political analysis.
aquarusa.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/p...
aquarusa.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/p...
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Flu numbers are high in most states and almost all cases are variants of H3N2 and the vaccine includes H3N2
Get your flu vax if you haven’t already! Even if you still get the flu, the symptoms will be easier to manage if you get vaccinated!
Get your flu vax if you haven’t already! Even if you still get the flu, the symptoms will be easier to manage if you get vaccinated!
December 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Flu numbers are high in most states and almost all cases are variants of H3N2 and the vaccine includes H3N2
Get your flu vax if you haven’t already! Even if you still get the flu, the symptoms will be easier to manage if you get vaccinated!
Get your flu vax if you haven’t already! Even if you still get the flu, the symptoms will be easier to manage if you get vaccinated!
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An absolutely wonderful, versatile, powerful and powerfully funny actor who enlivened everything he was in, and a huge loss. I'm not going to say the word, but we're all thinking it in his honor. RIP Isiah Whitlock. deadline.com/2025/12/isia...
Isiah Whitlock Jr. Dies: ‘The Wire’ Actor & Frequent Spike Lee Collaborator Was 71
Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr., known for his roles in The Wire, Veep, Your Honor and The Residence and a number of Spike Lee movies, passed away Dec. 30.
deadline.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
An absolutely wonderful, versatile, powerful and powerfully funny actor who enlivened everything he was in, and a huge loss. I'm not going to say the word, but we're all thinking it in his honor. RIP Isiah Whitlock. deadline.com/2025/12/isia...
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Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny
Critics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite.
www.motherjones.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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"There is no condition in which the university is under attack that the whole of U.S. educational infrastructure, public and private, from pre-K up, is not under attack. And there is no condition in which education is under attack in which civil society can remain unimperiled."
I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"There is no condition in which the university is under attack that the whole of U.S. educational infrastructure, public and private, from pre-K up, is not under attack. And there is no condition in which education is under attack in which civil society can remain unimperiled."
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delineate chaos bewitched
December 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
delineate chaos bewitched
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I wish we could explain to small children that some day, getting in bed and going to sleep will become the highlight of their lives.
December 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I wish we could explain to small children that some day, getting in bed and going to sleep will become the highlight of their lives.
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Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lyin… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
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December 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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In a just universe Odysseus would be played by Jason Statham
December 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
In a just universe Odysseus would be played by Jason Statham
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James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
December 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
One of the most upsetting and infuriating things I've read recently
Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled. - The Boston Globe
The incident highlights the nightmarish potential of AI deepfakes. They can, and do, upend children’s lives — at school, and at home.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
One of the most upsetting and infuriating things I've read recently
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The shorteste daye
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
December 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The shorteste daye
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
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I think it is often not appreciated that the legal systems in Mesopotamia went far beyond criminal law or setting out remedies for basic torts into dealing with many issues that arise today. The formalised methods of adoption are one. But there are many others such as shipping & inheritance.
This cracked clay tablet from the 1800s BCE preserves the moment a baby named Ili-awīli was adopted from his mother Ayartum and her husband by another couple.
People adopted for many reasons in ancient Mesopotamia — desire for a baby, need for an heir, adopting child from a previous marriage, etc.
People adopted for many reasons in ancient Mesopotamia — desire for a baby, need for an heir, adopting child from a previous marriage, etc.
December 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I think it is often not appreciated that the legal systems in Mesopotamia went far beyond criminal law or setting out remedies for basic torts into dealing with many issues that arise today. The formalised methods of adoption are one. But there are many others such as shipping & inheritance.
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It’s the 55th anniversary today of Elvis whacked-out-on-anything-he-could-get-his-‘doctor’-to-‘prescribe’ Presley meeting Richard ‘Honest’ Nixon in order to help in the latter’s anti-drug war, add to his police badge collection, and have a pop at the Beatles... 🧵
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It’s the 55th anniversary today of Elvis whacked-out-on-anything-he-could-get-his-‘doctor’-to-‘prescribe’ Presley meeting Richard ‘Honest’ Nixon in order to help in the latter’s anti-drug war, add to his police badge collection, and have a pop at the Beatles... 🧵
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Ah, the world! Oh, the world!
December 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Ah, the world! Oh, the world!
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“Stop stealing and start creating” is a real thing an “AI artist” said
December 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
“Stop stealing and start creating” is a real thing an “AI artist” said
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I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
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one of the best interviews of the year. this line really stands out.
"If presenting what I saw, unfiltered, is an attack, then what would you call it had I chosen to edit it and hide things about it, and make them look better than they look?"
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
"If presenting what I saw, unfiltered, is an attack, then what would you call it had I chosen to edit it and hide things about it, and make them look better than they look?"
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
The Vanity Fair photographer who disrupted Trumpworld’s polished image
Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump’s team at the White House for Vanity Fair, defends his unvarnished — and extreme — close-ups.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
one of the best interviews of the year. this line really stands out.
"If presenting what I saw, unfiltered, is an attack, then what would you call it had I chosen to edit it and hide things about it, and make them look better than they look?"
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
"If presenting what I saw, unfiltered, is an attack, then what would you call it had I chosen to edit it and hide things about it, and make them look better than they look?"
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
The Vanity Fair photos are sparking a lot of conversation about the intention of the photographer when making environmental portraits for publication. It reminds me of the famous portrait of Alfred Krupp made by Arnold Newman.
Story of Alfred Krupp's Portrait by Arnold Newman — about photography
Discover the powerful story behind Arnold Newman's controversial portrait of convicted Nazi war criminal Alfred Krupp, and how the photographer used the image as his "own little moment of revenge."
aboutphotography.blog
December 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Vanity Fair photos are sparking a lot of conversation about the intention of the photographer when making environmental portraits for publication. It reminds me of the famous portrait of Alfred Krupp made by Arnold Newman.