This article offers half a dozen reasons why people have stopped having friends and family over, but it ignores the fact that the women who planned parties and kept homes tidy enough for unplanned guests are now working for pay full-time (usually more than 9-5). www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The dreadful decline of hosting at home: ‘I feel shame any time a friend comes over’

It used to be quite normal to pop next door for a coffee or invite friends over for dinner. But not any more. What’s behind this change – and just how damaging is it?

theguardian.com

Again, the platform must be institutional reform, not just Democrats winning every election forever & Doing an Abundance of Moderate Popularism.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last yr.

- DC/PR/USVI statehood - Enlarging the House - MMDs - New VRA - Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop... - Automatic universal voter registration - Rewriting <all> the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop... - Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop... Etc.

HOW DARE

Brandon Sheffield@brandon.insertcredit.com · 10mo ago

You know the battle is truly lost when even Jeopardy decides to use comprise incorrectly. @kenjennings.bsky.social I know you don't write the questions, but if you have any influence there, please let them know ;_;

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons for more walkable streets.

50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets

From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.

fastcompany.com

In my Gender and Jim Crow class, we have a whole session on lynching images. I don’t show the victims, I show the crowds. We zero in on the faces in the crowds, their expressions, the children, the mothers, the picnics, the jubilation…all of it.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21h ago

Ive been thinking about lynching postcards a lot this year both because of the increasing evidence that this dark desire to witness and take joy in the suffering of the other has gone nowhere, but also, because Im teaching Pain and the Humanities again

Taxes are the direct means by which we communally fund our most precious public goods. I wish politicians of every stripe would stop pledging to cut the very taxes we depend upon to build our shared institutions.

Obviously isn't going to happen before unified Dem government, but the time to push for it is now and soon - Dems should be making DC statehood (and PR if they want it) a key plank in the democracy agenda and a litmus test for presidential candidates.

geoffrey 💀 (scary now)@parsnip.bsky.social · yesterday

dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

Saw this in Foggy Bottom this week.

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝@sundaedivine.lol · 2d ago

This is apparently happening in multiple areas in the capital. The DC board of elections has been made aware of it and have been in touch with the National Guard to address it. It’s no accident.

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

City governments are going to have to be both creative and bold when it comes to resisting ICE and the most obvious place to start here is pulling all, all, all NYPD cooperation, even incidental, with ICE. Let them do their own crowd control and traffic management.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2d ago

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

The project was spurred by this conversation: Journalist: So, I want to ask about what I guess you would call our ‘demographic crisis’ A: I would not call it that. Q: Right, but I mean everyone else seems to call it that. A: Not academic demographers. Q: Oh, okay… So, I hope it helps!

Is America in a demographic crisis? Demographers don’t think so. I conducted a survey of U.S. demographers, and this is what I found: 3%: “The low birth rate is a demographic crisis” 25%: "serious concern” 53%: "should be monitored, but no intervention necessary” 20% :“not a problem at all.”

one reason I'm running out of hard drive space is Windows keeps downloading AI bullshit and AI bullshit is also the reason I can't afford more hard drive space

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 3d ago

Running out of hard drive space & just looked up the price of external hard drives right now & the same one I got several years ago is double the price it was when it got it so yeah man I’m pretty fuckin’ far from OK

Anne Carson.

Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 3d ago

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

In Minnesota (18 years now), there’s never been a benchmark to meet. It’s not conditional. This is ALREADY great. You just need to join in.

As completely deranged and fucked up and wrong as he is, I gotta say it is stressful to have the damn president of the United States constantly attacking my state of Minnesota, sending violence, calling for violence, putting all lives at risk, killing our neighbors. Like it really takes a toll.

Brad Reed@bwreed.bsky.social · 2d ago

The president of the United States is inciting a fucking pogrom.

Don't buy me a Claude subscription. Buy me a round seminar table around which 15 students can sit for a sustained conversation!

Derek Miller@visualizingbroadway.com · 3d ago

I'm in The Crimson today asking Harvard to "reboot" our relationship with AI by: matching investments in AI with investments in reading and writing; (re)constructing "analog" education infrastructure; and developing regulations from the bottom up (incl. departments and faculty committees).

It's weird to live in a society where people say "we can't abolish prisons because then rapists would be walking free" but also "we can't send rapists to prison, that would ruin their lives"

This. If we see writing as a way to "assess" students, blue books may seem like a solution. But if the "problem" that writing was solving was helping students think through a problem or question, weigh evidence, read widely, figure out what they think, then blue books don't work and students lose.

Demókrator@demokrator.bsky.social · 3d ago

As a college teacher, I can attest firsthand that AI has been terrible for education. I’ve gone back to blue books and in-class exams. I can no longer assign take-home exams or even term papers. Students are losing out on their education. 

Looking for a place to start? Read her Autobiography of Red. #uoft #nobelprize #canada

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 3d ago

Anne Carson wins the Nobel Prize! Anne Carson wins the Nobel Prize!! Yes!!!! 💯💯💯👏👏👏👏

Yes!!

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 3d ago

Anne Carson wins the Nobel Prize! Anne Carson wins the Nobel Prize!! Yes!!!! 💯💯💯👏👏👏👏

Not the odds, but the stakes. That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in election coverage. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for American democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes. Sep. 11, 2023

It’s certainly got me figured out.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d ago

Launched in May, “the page uses data from customers’ activity to generate details about them in categories like Product Preferences, Interests & Hobbies, and Home & Family, which Amazon then uses to personalize users’ product experiences.”

Picking up the phone or navigating a friction-filled website is a cost. The cost screens. Remove the cost and you have to replace it

The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 4d ago

The actual endgame of “AIs making reservations” is a $50 reservation deposit

Feels like there are even more helicopters than usual yesterday and today in already extremely over-helicoptered DC.

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

No matter how much we futz with the clock, the ultimate problem is that there just isn’t enough sun like November to April. The whole “daylight savings” argument was manufactured to keep us from asking the real question: why has science not figured out how to make the days longer year-round?

I think this and housing costs (and how they affect available space) have a whole lot to do with it.

Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · 4d ago

I have a new theory called the Babysitting Theory that posits that plans with friends did not go away because of phones or COVID but because babysitters are no longer a common thing

no i don’t want to go to bed, i want to SLEEP IN, it’s different