Everyone keeps trying to appease the nazis by being more like the nazis and all that happens is you get more nazis if only there were some sort of historical precedent for understanding this process

people could respond to this framing around reporting deaths—"had significant underlying health conditions"—with more confidence if we weren't also living through a pandemic in which we have been told only people who have "underlying health issues" are "vulnerable" or "at risk"

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

I have friends dealing with chronic health issues from long covid, loved ones who lost family members to COVID, and immunocompromised friends who have to be very careful still to not get sick and die. Sorry if posting about COVID is annoying but it's not over and I wish people took it seriously.

In light of what’s happening in Congress today, it’s worth reiterating - Masks work and masks mandates work even better: the scientific evidence is undeniable. Anyone who insists otherwise is either willfully ignorant or is misleading you. www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-c...

ANSWERED: Can COVID-19 Be Prevented?

A Collection of Peer-Reviewed Scientific Research (40+ Studies)

panaccindex.info

The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.

"The quiet normalization of COVID-19 in our society has come at the great expense of school-age children and adolescents." thesicktimes.org/2026/07/24/t...

Why Bernie Sanders is wrong - and nationalizing AI is a bad idea "AI is, above all else, a weapon of class war from above. Whether it’s the state that wields it or corporations does little to change that fact."

The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI

AI is not a neutral technology whose benefits need to be redistributed. It is a weapon of class war from above, designed to cheapen labor and concentrate power. Nationalizing it does nothing to change...

jacobin.com

the reason we dont have medicare for all is bc corporations need employer based healthcare to keep you chained to your desk in a job you hate that doesnt pay you what youre worth

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E

ALIEN (Scott, 1979)

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2w ago

OPENAI AND HUGGING FACE PARTNER TO ADDRESS A CYBERSECURITY INCIDENT DURING MODEL EVALUATION.

My favorite musical discovery so far this year - luscious psych-folk, big recommendation if you're a fan of Weyes Blood / Jessica Pratt / Angel Olsen

Infinity Baby, by Baby Cool

11 track album

babycool.bandcamp.com

one of the saddest things I've realized over the past year of my life is that in our society, if you're experiencing deep hardships and struggles, most people, instead of moving closer to support you, actually distance themselves or even abandon you altogether

Love to see Argentina get completely dominated end to end, Spain with an absolute tour de force through the whole tournament, a well-deserved win with some beautiful football

quick question: what the fuck is this

Spain: we’re here to play the beautiful game at the highest level Argentina: if at first you don’t succeed, foul, foul again

ok the second half has been way more entertaining 😂

France at the forefront of poststructural innovation once again, this time on the football field

Okay. Officially my fave character in Widow’s Bay. Because that’s how you handle that situation.

"But a genuine assessment of the world’s climate predicament needs to...be grounded in a critique of really-existing-capitalism. The central problem is not the pace at which renewables are being added, but the social and economic system that determines trajectories of global energy use."

Renewables, ‘Electrostates’, and other Myths of the Green Transition

The start of this month marked the publication of the 75th edition of the Energy Institute’s 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, the flagship publicly available dataset on global energy productio...

versobooks.com

Le Guin and Butler and Hobb and Bear and Pierce did not die so we could pretend saccharine happily ever after baby food is what women need

Molly Templeton@mollytempleton.com · 3w ago

:deep sigh: I see we are again doing "[romantasy] gives women an access point to fantasy, a traditionally male-heavy genre, both in authorship and fandom," as if there have not been women reading and writing fantasy for literal decades

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

Why did our ruling class not invest in decarbonising faster to avoid this acceleration in deadly heatwaves that scientists warned would come? Because of the capitalist law of value.

Climate socialism

I am writing this message to the millions of people who have been involved in the climate movement over the past several years.

jasonhickel.substack.com

beginning to suspect building society atop "what's in it for me?" was a misstep

For all the replies saying "but public transit is terrible, I have to wait an hour for the bus"... comrade, what you are suffering from is the *absence* of public transit.

A plainly unsustainable country, sustained by workers who can't afford to live in it.

Study says 5 minimum wage workers needed to rent 1-bedroom apartment in Atlanta

Rent by myself? In this economy? A new study says you'll need four friends with you to rent a one-bedroom apartment.

wsbtv.com

The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.

SlacktivistFred@slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Luddites were “clinging to horses and carts” because it was the early 19th century and cars hadn’t been invented yet.

"Your horror has been stolen from you" really defines the conditions we're in

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 3w ago

You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.

Lindsey Graham died as he lived: inexplicably

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.