Read: Full Spectrum Resistance 🏴🍉🌹
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I started Don Quixote today, and in the first 18 pages I have chuckled and smiled more than I have in other entire novels. I always heard how brilliant and form-breaking it is and...holy shit! 🤩 My only regret is not having started it sooner, but I suspect this is exactly when I'm supposed to be 😍
no amnesty
unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 5h agoNew: Before Renée and Alex, ICE fatally shot Mexican immigrant Silverio Villegas González last fall outside Chicago in suburban Franklin Park. One year later, @domguan.bsky.social spent some time with the group of local women tending to his memorial. His family is still demanding answers:
My distinct impression of HigherEd in 2026 is WE ARE NO LONGER FUCKING AROUND. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
"It is a technofeudal fantasy of frontier developers like Sam Altman and Elon Musk to enclose the general intelligence of humanity in a statistical model, accessible only by chatbot, and censorable by them personally."
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · yesterday“The contraction of used book stock & the inflation of used book prices is happening simultaneous with the reduction of library collections, the defunding of physical archives, & the enshittification of digital archives, & all are at least partially caused by pressures from frontier developers.”
💯 I have been saying this about podcasts and video essays as forms for *a while* now (my pinned tweet back in the day was a massive thread of podcast shows). I think both mediums have genuinely revolutionary potential, in different but important ways. 💁♂️
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 21h agoPodcasting is an art. Painfully few podcasters & podcast listeners have really embraced that yet. We’re barely past the filming-trains-and-crowded-streetcorners novelty phase for this medium. But podcast modernism is coming.
Over the last couple years reading, and especially collective modes of reading, have come to mean ever more to me. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s challenge from earlier this week helped me see why. I’m going to double down on building community around books. I hope you will too.
Neuroplasticity As A Praxis
We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy
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Oh man, I just had the most depressing solipsistic thought: I'm the only actually existing being in an AI simulation...for whatever reason. If that turns out to be the case, this game sucks 😒
This isn't a solution my guy...this is called kicking the can and relocating the fucking problem rather than addressing it to begin with 🙄
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2d agoTHERE ARE SOLUTIONS… While America fights over where to put the next massive AI data center, China already has them under the ocean. Samsung is developing floating AI data centers that could move massive computing workloads offshore.
Oh come on, next you'll be telling me there's feces in the meat!? Sorry, what's that? Upton Sinclair? Never heard of him...
Maya Media@mayamedia.bsky.social · yesterdayArsenic in rice investigation urges FDA limits after Consumer Reports tests 52 products youtu.be/CrHhXupfAiE?...
I......just....fucking wow....
I’ve shared this before, but it bears repeating. A lot.
I am very aware that I am turning into the Man Yells At Cloud meme with my constant annoyance at "based off of" and it's a fight I won't win (cuz it's dumb and i'm lazy) but it'll probably be my dying words: You cannot base something OFF something; rather, you base it (up)on...hence the word: base.
Speaking of Michael Silverblatt's incredible reading capabilities...there are some excellent readers on YouTube (Glutenburg Bible, Better Than Food, Bren Booth-Jones, Strange Lucidity, Lady of the Library, Life on Books, etc.)...but for the closest analog I think Chris Via of Leaf by Leaf is it:
Leaf by Leaf
Hello. I started this channel as an outlet for my love of books. I post reviews, recommendations, highlights, and themed videos (e.g. favorite opening lines; my criteria for evaluating books; and so o...
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Read: Full Spectrum Resistance 🏴🍉🌹@phil-kapitan.bsky.social · 2d agoI finished listening to Emily St. John Mandel's book The Glass Hotel because Jeselnik Book Club is doing it this month; and I wanna say, after watching his discussion of Stoner, I was happy to learn he is a really excellent reader. Not Silverbatt level (who is 🤷♂️) but still, very sensitive and clear.
And I've read like 1/3 of Paul Harding's book Tinkers, and I am really liking it. It's just a really phenomenal first book and I can't wait to finish so I can read more! 🤩
I finished listening to Emily St. John Mandel's book The Glass Hotel because Jeselnik Book Club is doing it this month; and I wanna say, after watching his discussion of Stoner, I was happy to learn he is a really excellent reader. Not Silverbatt level (who is 🤷♂️) but still, very sensitive and clear.
Anthony Jeselnik
🎤 2026 U.S. tour dates on sale now 📚Join Jeselnik Book Club "Tall and trim, with the sculpted features of a model, Jeselnik appears far too handsome to be a comic." -The New York Times
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Ugh, depressingly accurate... it's what I've been feeling for a *while* youtu.be/jrQbr4EfgoA?...
The Boring Literature of the Modern Apocalypse
YouTube video by Matt Ingwalson
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For those not already aware, this guy does *incredible* videos that tear apart the fragile edifice of power that Joe Rogan and his lackeys have built for years...and they are having an actual real-world effect! Worth studying for deployment within other cultural & political cesspools. 🤔
Read: Full Spectrum Resistance 🏴🍉🌹@phil-kapitan.bsky.social · 2d agoHoly shit, @elephantgraveyard.bsky.social's new video is already over 2 million views in 2 days 😳 Watching now 🧐 youtu.be/wn9pQb4ukBo?...
Holy shit, @elephantgraveyard.bsky.social's new video is already over 2 million views in 2 days 😳 Watching now 🧐 youtu.be/wn9pQb4ukBo?...
How Comedy Drowned in a Radioactive Cesspool of Corruption and Depravity
YouTube video by The Elephant Graveyard
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"as the world changes our elites are changing, becoming more fascist, attracted to ideas justifying that only some people are going to make it. it’s the job of a credible left to put forward a vision of the future for how we live together well on this planet." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/m...
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World Is Now on the Table (Gift Article)
In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.
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Episode 1 B of Understanding Capital is out! Listen to me and @m.sappir.net from Chicago DSA chat about use value, abstractions, the commodity form, and what it means to engage with Marx's critical project today!
Episode 1 B - With Michael Sappir [5-14]
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In an open letter published on September 11th, 24 Fields Medal winners say AI could ruin the foundations of maths. They also call bullshit on OpenAI claims surrounding the solution of the Navier-Stokes problem, and criticize its dealings with mathematicians in th process.
Top mathematicians are outraged by OpenAI’s methods
24 Fields Medal winners have written a letter of objection
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