Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Rep. Brandon Gill: "We particularly need the left to tone down the rhetoric ... somebody is gonna listen and believe they are the next Dietrich Bonhoeffer and act on that and that's what we're seeing here."

I had no idea this was a thing! I also had no idea that you could set actions to work with a tap on the back of your phone!

Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

It’s not magic if it’s science.

theverge.com

The 90s kid in me is still shocked that you can order TWO TERABYTES* of storage to your door, and it can arrive less than 24 hours later. *I know that 2TB isn't even all that much. It's still shocking.

a woman in a blue shirt is sitting at a desk in front of an old computer .

Alt: A woman with retro hair & a blue blouse sits in front of a giant vintage computer, shaking the disembodied hand that emerges from its monitor.

media.tenor.com

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

I’m working on a piece on exactly this—in additional to the biological reality, this is a core principle of feminist theory & epistemology.

John Bleasdale@www.johnbleasdale.com · 8mo ago

One thing I’ve not heard in the AI debate is the fact that our intelligence is not a brain thing exclusively—it’s embodied. Without a body, our intelligence would be different. We have neurons in our guts and nervous systems which feedback in ways we’re only beginning to understand.

The only thing better than closing out of Zoom for the week is closing out of Zoom for THE YEAR.

TFW you're putting together a list of 2025 recommendations and lots of things you want to include you actually read/watched/listened to in 2024

two men are sitting in front of a map and one of them is asking the other if he still believes in time

Alt: GIF from Saturday Night Live Weekend Update that reads: You still believe in time?

media.tenor.com

Fracking love this.

Lynn Fisher@lynnandtonic.com · 9mo ago

You too can make a tiny, fixed-width website in the year of our lord 2025 ⚡️ lynnandtonic.com

Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

a woman wearing a yellow plaid jacket says " ugh as if "

Alt: Cher from Clueless wearing a yellow plaid jacket says "ugh as if"

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Amy Hoy@amyhoy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

I just listened to the latest episode and wondered if this was what you were hinting at! Can’t wait!

Adrian Daub@adriandaub.bsky.social · 9mo ago

So excited to finally get to share the news that PROJECT 1933 is going to be a book!!!

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: 1. Dave Matthews Band 2. John Mayer 3. Jennifer Knapp 4. The Chicks 5. Grace Potter (yes, I am an elder millennial mom…)

Jenna Avery@jennaavery.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: 1. Prince 2. Sting 3. Elvis Costello 4. UB40 5. 10,000 Maniacs

Ever since my daughter got excited about "supporting" Taylor Swift by buying "Taylor's Version" albums, I've wanted to write something like what @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social did so brilliantly here. Spot on. Swift is the embodiment of capitalist realism.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

My daughter's school instituted a no-phone policy this year—she loves it. However, the students are on their school-issued iPads all day long. And those iPads deliver push notifications anytime they receive a grade: homework, tests, papers, etc. This stresses her the F out.

Today I discovered @ceaubin.bsky.social’s pod This Guy Sucked because of a mention on @annehelen.bsky.social’s Culture Study pod. Put all the millennial scholar podcasts straight into my veins. (Guessing on gen… but you catch my drift!)

"I am someone who does what I do pretty well, and does very little else willingly." = My Whole Vibe Also @katemanne.bsky.social admitting she'd "rather experience growth as a beginner than regression as a more expert practitioner": SAME.

My Summer of Strategic Incompetence

Learning not to be so embarrassed by my ignorance and failures.

open.substack.com

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Went looking for the research (I think?) on how playing in a fenced-in area can actually get kids to explore/roam more than in an open area... and the search results for my query were... disheartening 🤣

"Traditional economic theory assumes information flows serve resource allocation. But increasingly, resource allocation serves attention flows. We've moved from an economy where attention supports other forms of value creation to one where attention is the value creation." - @kyla.bsky.social

Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely

attention and speculation as primary economic drivers

kyla.substack.com

My god.

Emily✨@emilyoram.bsky.social · last yr.

*runs in panting* there’s video. THERE’S VIDEO

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Teaching people how to use LLMs is not "upskilling", it's the opposite.

It is a BURDEN

The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.

In honor of this week's Maintenance Phase episode on ultra-processed food, I must highly recommend the Ritz Crisp & Thin original chips. They kinda look like diet food... but I don't think they are? Anyhow, they're freaking wonderful.

Listen to @melissafebos.bsky.social on The Feminist Present with @adriandaub.bsky.social and Laura Goode this morning and PHWOOF (in the best way). Brilliant conversation, recommended it immediately to my husband, AND it unlocked part of an essay I was in the middle of! episodes.fm/1517251918/e...

Listen to from The Feminist Present wherever you get your podcasts!

episodes.fm

Disturbing. Fascinating. And I’m absolutely hung up on the AI’s use of the word “lie.” I’ll be thinking about that for the rest of the day, thankuverymuch.

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · last yr.

I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

“The one thing that today ought to define ‘the left’ is the impulse to denounce the radical insufficiency of managing the given.” — Yves Citton, Mythocracy

Let's be clear: Republicans don't want more 'parents' at home. They want more *women* at home. If you think this isn't about eradicating women from the public sphere, you haven't been paying attention

An attempt to cast consumers as feminized and hence contemptable …. not like those manly producers.

Duncan Jones@manmademoon.bsky.social · last yr.

This constant use of "little girls dolls" as a placeholder for all of world trade, is doing a lot of really weird work here...

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”