I'm not an expert or anything but I feel like if Democratic infighting, racism, and backstabbing prevents them from winning big in the next election it will functionally end the party as a viable political organization, even if it collects big donor cash and runs candidates for years to come

People forget how racist Hilary’s 2008 campaign against Obama was because Obama decided not to make a big deal out of it in the name of party unity but this rot is very old

Power Map@powermap.bsky.social · 14h ago

Centrist Democrats are building a SuperPAC-funded flood of racist attacks, and making it their main tool against left candidates like Zohran Mamdani, Melat Kiros, and Abdul El-Sayed. @blimpjuice.bsky.social tracks this strategy's rise, and how to fight back. powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-democr...

In this paper there is also a mea culpa- I haven't really prioritised this thinking myself until recently (when others were on it, like Bethany Nowviskie back in 2014!). But as this summer has raged across the world, we can't deny the effect the climate has on human society and its records anymore.

And "what should we digitise" rapidly turns into thinking about how we can decentralise our records, if institutions may not be around forever. We need networks of people & institutions stewarding the worlds cultures - or much won't survive. Cheery, huh? But we have to get our act together.

There is room for intervention in both digitizing heritage that may be imminently lost, AND sourcing data for climate science. The institutions that steward heritage don't have as much time as they think, given the mass-displacement of people, things, and records of human society that is upon us.

My argument is that digitisation selection - the last part of the digitisation process that isn't standardised - hasn't been using the climate crisis as a lens to focus choices we make on what enters the data pipeline. But we need to start focussing our activities, given upcoming societal upheavals

New solo-authored paper from me - first in a while. "Digitization, Conflict, and Crisis: Institutional Urgency and Digital Cultural Heritage". Jan 26 I sat and wrote about the relationship between heritage digitisation and climate crisis. Then watched the world burn. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

As we (hopefully) hit an upswing out of this housing crisis, I think we will see more home builders bringing in color and character, rather than building white boxes. I think we will see attempts to deal with the literacy crisis at scale. Learning will become “cool”. Art will proliferate.

Hot Take Saturday: I think we are on the cusp of a MASSIVE humanities revival. I’m talking handmade, craftsmanship, maximalism, art collection for everyday folks, rich music, unfettered written masterpieces, deep thought experiments…all in rejection of AI and our corporate overlords.

So trump’s response to “affordability” was to bring back mad cow disease, annex Venezuela, and mega tariffs?

The real tragedy is that most of you will never know what it's like to shop at a Market Basket in Massachusetts where they also make pizza, burgers and sandwiches in store, with tons of reduced produce. Sublime Grocery Experience

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · last wk.

This is interesting. A brand openly announcing it will only be available in Republican-led states.

I've seen this as well. Turns out humans, too, are good at pattern recognition

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · last wk.

Note to anyone sending in an application, paper, or any other document where one person reads many submissions: yes, they can tell. It is obvious in most cases that you are using AI, even if the language is changed, as the ideas & concepts start to rhyme as you read lots of them in a row.

The ambient background violence and injustice of our carceral system is such that ICE can make themselves a media non-story merely by not gunning down innocent people in the street on a regular basis

Eh this is the worst line in the piece. It’s true that nobody talked smack about her and that she wouldn’t say who she was voting for, but the writer goes on to say she was intentionally and publicly kind to trans and gay folks. She ought to be more generally understood as the heir to Woody Guthrie.

CNN@cnn.com · last wk.

"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis

A fun detail in this story is that no one in government, the tech industry, or the PR field wants to take on the thankless and probably fruitless job of trying to market the HyperDystopia ResourceDrain MegaComplexes to the public

David Darmofal@daviddarmofal.bsky.social · last wk.

Data centers’ ‘oh s--t’ moment Some industry leaders fear voter backlash is turning into a lasting political crisis.

This nicely sums up Singal's whole deal: strip out all relevant context, reframe some chosen facts in a way that suits your purposes, make sure it's in the purpose of defending bigotry, and hit send

jaspermaxxing@hoovybaby.bsky.social · 2w ago

Imagine my shock,

Those letters from Natalie Harp to DT are Presidential records. I’ll keep saying it…

Journalists often don't appreciate how much right-wing and fascist ideology-washing goes on in donor-funded elite academic circles; especially for eugenics as it's been exclusively the domain of shills and cranks since the 50s

professor tools for commensality (red scare edition)@inquiline.myatproto.social · 2w ago

"compared to the situation of critical disability theorists, eugenic philosophers enjoy far more publicity, institutional support, and financial security. Now we have a better understanding of *why* these hateful bigots have been so successful..." biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/08/20/h...

One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.

everyone is missing the boat on this harp thing fwiw. it's not an affair and she is not a nurse. it's way worse: she's elder abusing him. tale as old as time a psychotic weirdo striver has attached herself to an elderly dotard and is wormtonguing him. our american rasputin

It's really weird to be a member of the group targeted for the next manufactured health panic, to see it coming and grow in strength, and know it's complete bollocks but will probably devastate lives anyhow.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

The Great ADHD Myth? review – the most controversial show of the year is here

Fun fact: all those printouts Natalie sharp gives to trump between his diaper changes are Presidential records, and should go to NARA when It Happens

ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.

The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP

Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026

forever-wars.com

Zuck and the Meta investors are all in on disgusting perverts harassing your children www.universalhub.com/crime/2026/c...

Convicted sex offender charged as Meta-perv for using camera glasses to photograph children at the Frog Pond

Boston Police report arresting a Brockton man with past child-porn convictions on charges he used camera-enabled glasses to photograph children at the Frog Pond - including some getting changed behind...

universalhub.com

How dare someone insinuate a powerful married man has an inappropriate relationship with one of his staffers

What if we kissed at the—

One thing I've learned from almost 30 years adjacent to academia is that very smart white people are perfectly happy to acknowledge the arts, culture, and research created by Black people but almost never actually read, watch, listen to, or otherwise engage with it.

I can’t speak to Jason Arday but I’ve worked closely with a few Black academics and what they have to deal with has always been unreal and got even worse over the last 10 years. The feds are literally trying to purge them from higher ed so Rufo’s Race Realism Rangers can take it over

A corollary to this brutal truth is "every grant dollar that went towards digitization and Digital Humanities was, it turns out, a subsidy for AI training data"