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Tressie McMillan Cottom

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears. Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame. “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃@darinself.com · 8h ago

Several scholars of authoritarianism and even the Third Reich have, for years, pointed to the similarities between Trump's GOP and the NSDSP and fascism generally. So unless Brooks knows more about that than us, I'd suggest he be quiet and listen to the actual experts.

driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 9h ago

The Republican Party is chock full of Nazis. The government has Nazis in senior administration positions. The Republican Party’s largest donor is a neo-Nazi. David Brooks might not want to admit it, but that’s why it’s long past time for him to shut up.

driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

Joe Bak-Coleman@jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 10h ago

✅exciting sounding finding ✅authors funded by effective altruists ✅Bad study design ✅dumped in an industry funded conference ✅news coverage as tho it’s actual unbiased good science

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 11h ago

In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 22h ago

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 22h ago

All three Yandex AI supercomputers are reportedly offline: Galushkin in Vladimir, Chervonenkis and Lyapunov in Sasovo, whose data center shut down after the Oct 8 strike. Yandex Cloud outages also threaten thousands of Russian firms relying on it for websites, databases and payments 👏

onion person@junlper.beer · 2d ago

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

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Anil Dash@anildash.com · 11h ago

Not only no culture, but no *commons*. The dependency on the capitalist overlords will be complete, because you can’t ask for help or context from others when there is no common frame of reference. This has already happened in coding, the first space where they destroyed the commons we’d all built.

onion person@junlper.beer · 2d ago

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 4d ago

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing. Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);
Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's been a struggle for reporters to get DHS to provide the names of officers who violate people's civil rights. Now, in our case against DHS's construction-site raids, the government is arguing in court that its employees names are "confidential" and should not be made public during litigation.

DHS's position on the protective order: "We cannot agree to the striking of this provisions. The phone numbers, physical addresses, full legal names, and email addresses of current and former employees in the federal government ... should be confidential."
Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 14h ago

Having watched so many episodes of Katie's show, where even her mega-MAGA guests act like they're being held hostage, this story doesn't surprise me. Of course they're making everyone pretend to be their friends and come to their stupid parties. www.vanityfair.com/story/stephe...

MAGA’s Petit Trianon? Katie and Stephen Miller’s House on a Military Base

From her house on a military base, Katie Miller treats Washington’s most powerful to cakes, farm animals, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs. "I can’t fucking stand her,” says one ally. But "Stephen Mil...

vanityfair.com

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h ago

Walmart, “quietly updated its customer privacy notice in August, broadening the data it can collect and analyze to include everything from retinal imagery and demographic information to income and license plate numbers. The company even asserts the right to follow shoppers aisle by aisle…”

Walmart Says It Prices Products, Not People. Its Patents Suggest Otherwise.

A decade of filings reveals technology that could instantly change prices based on what’s in your cart, your perceived personality, and even the specifics of your car.

levernews.com

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14h ago

True story. I walked into a local music festival this weekend. As we hit the top of the event stairs a low toned but brightly shaped voice shouted from stair shadows, “NAME BRAND COLLARDS!” I pointed in the voice’s direction. We never saw each other and yet we definitely met. 🤣

Nic 🍉@nml-dc.bsky.social · 14h ago

I mean, if you are dropping by unannounced you better have a bag of the name brand collards with you is all I'm saying

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15h ago

Three things that concern me, on a scale that I won’t divulge: 1. the thing where adults won’t watch or read things about “bad” people 2. All the first person genre fiction marketed as adult fiction. sorry. 3. The way that the people who we need to win don’t seem to want to win

Gwen Snyder is uncivil@gwensnyder.bsky.social · 18h ago

I empathize obviously but it's tough not to be a little resentful reading electeds be like "this is unprecedented, my family was swatted" It's horrific, AND A lot of us were raising the alarm about this stuff 8 years ago. Earlier, for women targeted by Gamergate.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d ago

The other important thing to know about Rhodesia (and Ian Smith) fandom in the US is that it has a long history on the radical (and not so radical) right. Here’s the American Conservative Union, the people behind CPAC, stanning Rhodesia in 1978.

OFFICERS CHAIRMAN Hon. Philip M. Crane Member of Congress, Illinois FIRST VICE CHAIRMAN Thomas S. Winter SECOND VICE CHAIRMAN Jamesoo Campaigne, Jr. Publisher SECRETARY Stefan T. Possony, Ph.D. Author and Lecturer TREASURER Hon. Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma BOARD OF DIRECTORS Hon. John Ashbrook Member of Congress, Ohio C. Lee Barron Coral, Idaho Hon. Robert E. Bauman Member of Congress, Maryland Jeffrey Bell Trenton, New Jersey JohnS. Buckley Chairman, Young Americans Sor Freedom John Chamberlain Author and Columnist Leroy D. Corey The American Conservative Union 316 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20003 (202) 546-6555 October 18, 1978 Mr. Ron Dreeszen 421 Southwest Fifth Avenue Portland, OR 97204 Dear Mr. Dreeszen: ACU, as a public interest lobbying organization, is continually involved As a leader in the American Legion, I believe you are probably concerned about many of the same issues with which we are also concerned. Al though I realize you have a very busy schedule, please read this letter with the COON OTOW thought of strengthening lines of communication between us. Ronald B. Dear Attorney, Houston, Texas Donald J. Devine University of Maryland M. Stanton Evans Editor and Author Hon. Jake Gam U.S. Senator, Utah Alan M. Gotteb Critens Committee for the Right to Keep and in many areas and we would like to share a few with you. One such area is that of national defense. Through an ACU television documentary entitled, "Soviet Might/American Myth: The United States in Retreat, ing to do our part to bring the tragedy of the weakened we are attempt-state of our defense system to as many Americans as possible. The film features Senators Barry Goldwater and Jake Garn, General John Singlaub, Admiral Thomas Moorer, Richard Harvey President, Congressman Richard Ichord and ACU Chairman Congressman Philip M. Crane. Our Texas Freedom Forum Hon. Jesse Helms goal is to air the film throughout every state. Enclosed is the November U.S. Senator, North Caro…
Philip Bump@pbump.com · 3d ago

If you praise the Confederacy, everyone knows what you're doing. If you praise Rhodesia, though, you still get that little frisson of naughtiness, the little tingle of rebelliousness that can power you through the drudgery of your eight-hour shift at your dad's car dealership.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · yesterday

[cw: horrific] yes, give your credit card to the richest man in the world, who saw a user post an image of a toddler being tortured, and after the user was suspended, personally restored the man's account, verified it, follows it, and now pays the man who posted CSAM of a 2-year old to be on X.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · yesterday

LOL, sure, return to X, where the white nationalist owner is telling people to put their credit card numbers into Grok prompts.

Nikita Bier @nikitabier The only group more insufferable than tech people is anti-tech bluesky users, who have been coming back to X in droves the last few weeks. And they’re just discovering that the entire world got rich over the last two years while they were busy arguing with each other about politics and AI. And they’re very, very angry.