Eric Weinberger
@ericweinberger.bsky.social
Writing, etc. No guru, no method, once teacher. Cambridge, Mass. to The Hague, the Alps, and back to Cambridge ericweinberger.substack.com
Once again, as with Google, Facebook etc., we are at the mercy of young men devising the tech we will all use and depend on.
C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE@casmudde.bsky.social · 7h ago“In other words: generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants.” @katemanne.bsky.social is provocative and insightful, as ever, with this feminist approach to AI.
Haha! Dutch partners: always there for you for a bit of constructive feedback. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Once again, as with Google, Facebook etc., we are at the mercy of young men devising the tech we will all use and depend on.
C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE@casmudde.bsky.social · 7h ago“In other words: generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants.” @katemanne.bsky.social is provocative and insightful, as ever, with this feminist approach to AI.
From those I’ve spoken to in political science who have studied this more closely, the strategy they recommend is concentrating on mobilizing non far right voters and maximizing demoralization of far right constituencies who are most prone to return to non-voting.
Moving on from bad portraits of soldiers maimed in his wars to bad New England landscapes.
George W. Bush paintings of Kennebunkport to go on display at fund-raiser in Maine - The Boston Globe
More than 40 paintings of the seaside town by the former president will be on exhibit to raise money for the preservation of St. Ann's Episcopal Church.
bostonglobe.com
Coming to the ART in Cambridge this month with Paul Giamatti and John Turturro
Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 2d agoundefeated cover
Where are Trump's white Afrikaner "refugees" settling? 100 of them in Vermont, assisted by the director of the Brattleboro Ethiopian Community Development Council. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...
More than 100 white South Africans to resettle in Vermont, as door remains closed for other refugees
The Afrikaners are expected to settle in Vermont before the end of September as a result of an executive order signed last year by President Donald Trump.
vermontpublic.org
Coming to the ART in Cambridge this month with Paul Giamatti and John Turturro
Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 2d agoundefeated cover
It was always the MAGA not quite FIFA World Cup. So indeed it should end with a loyal lieutenant cut loose while the boss carries on.
Alex Shephard@alexshephard.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump hanging Infantino out to dry would be the perfect end to the long 2026 World Cup nypost.com/2026/08/03/b...
Trump can keep up. That's what's remarkable. You think he'd say, "That's it, that's enough, I'm bored, I don't need to do more of this, I can't even keep track." He never does.
Jan-Werner Mueller@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 5d agoOne scandal in four years can mean political death; four in a day means no-one can keep up. Unless an opposition party focuses minds on one that symbolizes the corruption as a whole, the way the pedophilia scandal did for Orbán.
Where are Trump's white Afrikaner "refugees" settling? 100 of them in Vermont, assisted by the director of the Brattleboro Ethiopian Community Development Council. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...
More than 100 white South Africans to resettle in Vermont, as door remains closed for other refugees
The Afrikaners are expected to settle in Vermont before the end of September as a result of an executive order signed last year by President Donald Trump.
vermontpublic.org
Yes, it's just like saying he won the 2020 election when everyone has demonstrated he didn't
Steve Benen@stevebenen.com · 4d agoSome might see this and assume it’s fake, but Trump actually published it. The White House perpetrated a fraud on the public, and after the DOJ was forced to abandon a baseless prosecution, Trump doubled down on the self-satisfying fiction he prefers to reality and threw Pirro under the bus.
Trump can keep up. That's what's remarkable. You think he'd say, "That's it, that's enough, I'm bored, I don't need to do more of this, I can't even keep track." He never does.
Jan-Werner Mueller@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 5d agoOne scandal in four years can mean political death; four in a day means no-one can keep up. Unless an opposition party focuses minds on one that symbolizes the corruption as a whole, the way the pedophilia scandal did for Orbán.
Learned last night that my great-uncle Harvey was taught Russian by the US Army and eventually stationed in Austria to arrange handovers of Soviet POWs. He told my cousin they had to walk over a bridge from the US to Soviet checkpoints, and many jumped halfway.
Charles Moore, struggling to understand AI, reads a book; and he is not wrong.
Charles Moore, struggling to understand AI, reads a book; and he is not wrong.
Maybe this will help me understand the country in which I grew up, when I was too young (and foreign) to understand.
Merijn Oudenampsen@merijnoudenampsen.org · 6d agoToday my book on the Dutch neoliberal turn is officially out with Verso Books! Thanks for the wonderful blurbs from @quinnslobodian.com, @mkonings.bsky.social, Stephanie Mudge, Niklas Olsen and @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social. Will be presenting the book in september. More info below
Richard Blair, George Orwell's son, is still alive and only 82.
Thread. I think most people, Americans especially, do not understand that the Netherlands, still coasting on an old reputation, is a right-wing country.
C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE@casmudde.bsky.social · last wk.The Netherlands in 2026 🤯 Police officers casually stroll among a crowd of racist thugs who throw fire bombs at an asylum seeker center and shout openly antisemitic and racist slogans. 🤷♂️ Both are illegal in the Netherlands.
In closing, the op-ed names each Yale trustee, which not only helps with future online searches but adds to the matter of individual accountability
Ryan Enos@ryanenos.bsky.social · last wk."As the United States has struggled to deal with its own authoritarian breakthrough, the opposition has often focused on institutions. Accountability, however, can attach only to individuals." @arneduncan.bsky.social is right: our personal legacies are at stake in this moment. wapo.st/3RW4HPo