Maybe, just maybe, the financialization of everything is socially corrosive.

The business of "A.i." is based on a lack of consent. The corporations pushing it don't ask if anyone wants it; they force it on us. They use it to surveil. They offer it to creeps to create nudes of others without permission. It's a business run by creeps with the ethics of creeps.

The Inherited Platform (Nepotus lecturus) HABITAT: Fourth-generation family-owned newspaper editorial board. CALL: “I once met [NAME OF A SCOTUS NOMINEE] at a fancy cocktail party, and he is perfectly lovely and rational. No need to be hysterical about your rights, ladies.”

A Field Guide to Legacy Media Pundits in the United States

The Family Values Pundit (Divorcio moralisticus) HABITAT: New York Times bestseller list and a weekly column. DISTINCTIVE CALL: “As a man with a deeply unhap...

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I'm starting to suspect that my tax dollars are going to munitions I'll never use, either

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

So, state governments and private foundations that give a shit about broad based, accessible arts and humanities education -- and the survival of those fields in US higher ed until this jackass finally leaves office -- time to start funding things.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

So, any chance the faculty senates at the institutions whose presidents collaborated with Trump on this latest ridiculousness are going to get their shit together and vote no confidence?

Again, a fundamental issue with trying to cover the anti-trans movement is that explaining that they are habitually insincere and so routinely chose transphobia over women's rights does make you sound conspiratiorial, and yet...

@andmcc.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't know about topping, but there is a a very good followup

Especially at this juncture we don’t need any more ontological debates about gender, but a politics. “Trans Rights Without a Theory of Gender” from 2017. digitalcommons.law.utulsa.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Well-Pleaded Complaints@timorous.cishet.net · 3d ago

lots of thoughts swirling in my head but I’ve kind of always been compelled by @paisleycurrah.com’s article all those years ago about trans rights without a theory of gender. a neat way to cut the gordian knot

It is pretty sad that so few people actually believe in open borders

“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4d ago

Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.

This is the way.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Sophie Cunningham is getting booed every time she touches the ball here in Minneapolis

This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve

unsurprisingly to yet again expend this level of agita and venom about fauci, early reactions to COVID online, etc, rather than ever mourn or really confront how we live in a society that can and will easily normalize preventable mass death in the name of efficiency and profit

I genuinely cannot follow Lab Leak discourse, even when I've tried, and who am I to decide between these bewildering reports, diagrams, charts, fights among experts? but all that furor over who's "ultimately" responsible for COVID's origins seems to sidestep accountability for all that happened next

“I will say straightforwardly—we should have put more pressure on Israel to take a different approach,” Jake Sullivan, Biden’s former national-security adviser, said. Well, you didn't.

It's weird, when you look back on the coverage of Jackie Robinson integrating Major League Baseball, there weren't a lot of these sympathetic pieces about the fans practicing their rights of freedom of speech by screaming the N-word at him. Progress!

The Athletic@theathletic.com · 4d ago

Speaking for the first time since ralliers began assembling in support of her stance against transgender participation in women’s sports, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said this was an opportunity for the WNBA to uphold its values of diversity and inclusion. nyti.ms/4fHr4Qn

it's about 20 years late to start worrying about this if we're being generous, 40 if we're not lol

Raw Story@rawstory.com · 5d ago

Concern is mounting among high-ranking Republicans that the next generation of conservatives consists primarily of "rabid" "idiot" Nazis, according to a new report.

Academia is a bit like high school except social capital accrues to the people who are the best at making nerdy arguments rather than the captain of the football team. It gets used for bullying and domination in analogous ways

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d ago

I don't think there's ever been much of an intellectual justification for this kind of culture, to me the aggro Q&A is pretty transparently service to inert nerd masculinity and serves no other function

So the WNBA, in its ongoing quest to burn all the goodwill it's developed, decides to side with the transphobes. Is that about it?

www.amnesty.org.uk/contact-us/ Amnesty UK threw trans people under the bus. Let 'em know how you feel.

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Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 6d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026

Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.

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"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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It's not hypocrisy; the people who run "liberal" media in the US by-and-large agree with the gutter-racists at the Manhattan Institute and think that you are beneath contempt. They're very sincere about this.

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · last wk.

Seeing how many respectable liberals, and even leftists, in New York media continued to speak warmly of Reihan Salam is what made me first realize that some journalists have no criteria for moral judgment other than whether someone is personally nice to them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/n...

A Democrat saying "Black people shouldn't have healthcare" or "Jews aren't biological people" or "immigrants shouldn't be allowed to play sports" would be ostracized and condemned from coast to coast, so why should we accept these repulsive beliefs when it comes to trans people?

Is everyone still friends on here in the aftermath of the great Odyssey debates of 2026? If so we have done two amazing things. Had an elevated debate about the ongoing role of both critique and classical texts AND decided to agree to disagree about a movie on the internet. An angel gets its wings.

This right here! "The way that America’s version of capitalism proves its utility is by adding up all of the profits created by the privatization of public goods *without subtracting the value that has been destroyed* by the same activity. "

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · last wk.

It is kind of amazing that we have settled on a version of capitalism that leads us into a trash can due to a decision not to price in the public costs of private profits. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/enshittifi...

When the speech regime in this country abandoned “protecting people’s inalienable right to protest” — that right is functionally dead from permitting demands, decayed labor laws, “free speech zones”, and similar nonsense — it abandoned a fundamental principle driving the First Amendment.

Can someone explain to me why we don't talk about generative engine optimization more? Is it not terrifyingly obvious that once AI has become normalized as the everything answer bot, our entire information environment is going to become a battlefield for stuff like this?

David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

I am open to having my mind changed, but it really seems like transphobes are the definition of cry-bullies