once again, it is great that the president is a klan-level racist
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoTrump: "I heard Hakeem Jeffries, a low IQ person. He's a very low IQ."
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Assistant Professor of Culture & Media @ The New School. Living at the crossroads of Media Theory, Black Horror / Zombie Movies, and AI / Digital Culture.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago
Liberal arts degrees have long paid the worst salaries—but Microsoft’s chief scientist says in the age of AI, they will be ‘really important’ for Gen Z | Fortune share.google/0qkr5LVqE1xy...
Liberal arts degrees have long paid the worst salaries—but Microsoft chief scientist says in the age of AI, they will be ‘really important’ for Gen Z | Fortune
Move over computer science, Microsoft exec says liberal-arts degrees now teach the skills Gen Z needs to land jobs in the AI era.
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things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
Trump has launched a war of “fury,” to “raze” and “annihilate,” that has already killed dozens of Iranian girls, reportedly cost the lives of U.S. servicemembers, and will kill many more of both. He is acting without authorization by Congress and flouting international law.
Just over 3 weeks in and this semester is already getting weird.
"Abolish the Police and then what?" while infantile and often asked in bad faith, is at least, on some levels, a real question "Ablish ICE and then what?" Is not a real question. Clearly if ICE didn't exist tomorrow society would just objectively be more peaceful and would not in any way fall apart
Can anyone recommend some good writing on the idea of recursion? Something in sound or image would be ideal, but math and computation is also more than welcome - I'm casting a wide net and looking to see what I find!
The linked Tik Tok pretty well sums up the current fascism.
Gareth Watkins@garethwatkins.bsky.social · 11mo agoDam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
A brilliant analysis of the state of higher education in the U.S. The crisis of the humanities has always been the tip of the spear of authoritarian governmentality taking aim at civil society and the entire apparatus of education www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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.
chronicle.com
A timely reminder about the importance of higher education from an institution being dismantled by neoliberalism. Full article here: jacobin.com/2025/12/new-...
Teaching Baudrillard's "The Precession of Simulacra" today, now that we're reaching the end of my Paranoid Aesthetics class. Every time I teach this text, I am always amazed at how prescient it is.
It's about cruelty. It's only about cruelty and an enforcement of extreme poverty.
People need to understand that Chicago is a preview, not a culmination.
Michael Wriston@mwriston.bsky.social · 9mo agoI have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
Starving the population rarely goes well for authoritarian regimes. Also, I would love to hear from the many so-called Christians in the Republican party about what their beliefs say about feeding the hungry. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
nytimes.com
A really harrowing visualization of just how rich Elon Musk is. Perhaps we should rethink the existence of billionaires? engaging-data.com/how-rich-is-...
How Rich is Elon Musk? - Visualization of Extreme Wealth - Engaging Data
This visualization shows how rich Elon Musk is by comparing his extreme wealth to other large quantities of money and showing them on the same scale.
engaging-data.com
Interesting. It would be fascinating to see MTG and others move away from the extreme Right, and showing them to be political opportunists and their Right-wing discourse as something rooted in bad-faith arguments.
Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · 9mo agoMarjorie Taylor Greene, Wes Streeting, and Richard Hanania making moves away from the far right are my evidence that it's a spent force. Opportunists sensing a change in the direction of the wind.
I can't even begin to say how pleased I am to have been a part of electing Zohran Mamdani as mayor of NYC!
Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9mo agoSo proud of my fellow New Yorkers! Mamdani wins! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Live Updates: Mamdani Wins N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race After Highest Turnout in Decades
nytimes.com
I can’t stress this enough. They want to do inside the US the kind of extrajudicial murders they’ve been doing internationally. This has always been about normalizing the ability of Trump to smite his personal enemies without suffering legal consequences. Trump’s testing for compliance & resistance.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo agoBondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."
Remember when Paul Krugman’s columns were soooo wonky. “It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman
The Hunger Games Begin
40 million Americans are about to lose food stamps
open.substack.com
Teaching the first episode of The X-Files in class tomorrow as we consider the role of government and sovereign authority in the construction of conspiracy. We've been talking a lot about UFOs in class, and it will be interesting to hear their perspective on such an iconic TV show.
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote. zohranfornyc.com/register
