The only free rent in California is the space it takes up in rightwingers heads.

There is, of course, a long history of the deskilling of labor under capitalism— through both the application of machinery and breaking apart of tasks.

chad black@chadblack.bsky.social · 3d ago

One of the more depressing aspects of the use of AI in higher education is watching smart people with advanced degrees enthusiastically participate in their own cognitive deskilling.

One of the more depressing aspects of the use of AI in higher education is watching smart people with advanced degrees enthusiastically participate in their own cognitive deskilling.

If you snap your fingers while wearing this, you decolonise the Americas

Don’t you love it when the university’s mandatory annual HR code of conduct and compliance training includes completely fake quotes like this one?

At this point, if you publish in The Atlantic, your whole thing is suspect.

Plan a horror festival using only your first name.... Latin American edition. Cronos Huesera Alucarda Día de la Bestia

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Plan a horror fest using only your first name. Mine is for people who, like me, are easily scared. Sinners Aliens Rosemary’s Baby American Psycho High Anxiety

Make a band bigger: Counting Murders

David Higgins@davidhiggins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Make a band bigger: The Cure-All

Nothing like sitting in an aisle seat during boarding to document how spatially challenged people are.

It's a tragedy that we continue to individualize bearing the risk of mobility, largely in response to the irrational and emotional place of the automobile in American life.

I like the idea that the shows I like all happen in the same universe. It's rewarding to see that Brianna Barksdale not only ended up in witness protection, but got a medical degree and became a hospital administrator in Pittsburgh. Those gangster/administrator skills definitely overlap.

This is quite absurd, of course. And unsurprising for an economist in a law school. But, it's also the same mentality that in 2017 gave us historians saying, "the confederate statutes weren't even put up until the 1920s," as if that fact, put in the right order, changed their meaning.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

Fuck you Microsoft Word. I don't want to be more concise.

Police and thieves in the streets. Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunition.

It really sucks to discover a typo in an article that has been out for a year.

And for some reason, Criterion Channel has stopped working on MacOS Safari for me. The trailers stream, but full films don't. I haven't changed anything. Just, you know, more impossible internet.

chad black@chadblack.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Everyday, it seems more difficult to get normal websites to work on standard browsers. The internet just seems more and more maddeningly impossible to use.

There is no such thing as an “authentic” historical film.

*These* are the higher education stories that matter, not some half-assed report farted out by a group of faculty cranks at ivy and ivy-adjacent universities

Texas Conference of the AAUP@texasaaup.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Two courses for the fall of 2026 were canceled outright, while several more had to alter their syllabi to comply. Professors teaching those courses told The Chronicle they weren’t provided with any rationale for why their “exception requests” were partially or fully denied.”

"This film set in the past isn't authentic" is the lowest form of historical film criticism.

I guess this is what happens when your best player is a part-timer in the MLS who stands still 63% of every game.

Everyday, it seems more difficult to get normal websites to work on standard browsers. The internet just seems more and more maddeningly impossible to use.

Lots of talk about Lindsey Graham this week but here’s an obit worthy of our attention. A life of service vs Lindsey’s life of self serving. chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...

Mary Morello, Libertyville native, activist and mother of Rage Against the Machine's guitarist, dies at 102

In 1990, Ms. Morello founded Parents for Rock and Rap, a group that sought to protect the free speech of musicians in the face of a censorship movement.

chicago.suntimes.com

Goya's capricho No. 6, "Nadie se conoce," has that excellent ambivalence of meaning both "No one knows themselves" and "No one knows each other." The masquerade performs the way that the monstrousness of the neighbor mirrors the monstrousness of the self, and the other way around.

I want to teach a seminar built around Karatani's History and Repetition, Santer's The Royal Remains, and Marx's 18th Brumaire.

Fascism is the recreation and repetition by Capital of the conditions of its own emergence. When social reproduction starts to fail, Capital returns to, repeats its original crisis.

Watching all the bird drama in our yard in San Diego kind of makes me want a Watership Down except its birds instead of rabbits.

800,000 dead. @jackohman.bsky.social on Elon Musk’s USAID cuts. Make a former trillionaire cry. Share this cartoon everywhere.

Football. The disappointing game.

It's a hard time to be writing, what with the World Cup, Tour de France, and Silverstone over the last few days.

The FIFA fix.