Yes. Portions of the event, including tonight’s convo, will be edited into podcast episodes.

"What the kleptocratic antitrust agenda has underwritten is not so much a media conglomerate as a surveillance agency, & it is one which will persist, after the near-term political turmoil, either as parallel media serving the jilted broligarchy or paragovernmental arm of a post-democratic dynasty."

Quarry Farm Symposium, my favorite event on our annual calendar, kicks off tonight with a discussion of everyday ecofascism with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alexander Menrisky.

This year’s theme is Energy Studies, co-organized with @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social.

marktwainstudies.com/2025-quarry-...

This is great piece, very clear and well structured

When the AI stock bubble crashes, it won’t necessitate QE type policies from the Fed as the bubble is built on equity on debt

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

My thoughts, such as they are. Much aided by thinking with your piece from last week.

"What the kleptocratic antitrust agenda has underwritten is not so much a media conglomerate as a surveillance agency, & it is one which will persist, after the near-term political turmoil, either as parallel media serving the jilted broligarchy or paragovernmental arm of a post-democratic dynasty."

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Ben lacks many things, but not professional pride.

Are we absolutely sure Ari Shapiro isn’t a bot?

“Let me tell you all the disqualifying stuff that happened at the fundraiser I threw” is precisely the kind of self-own one has come to expect from Thiel.

Yes, preferably.

Who is the American author who would most appeal to fans of Virginia Woolf?

dimgram

Even before thinking about the content of what he’s saying, I hate the way this guy talks.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

it’s delightful to be receiving this book when i’m wrestling with another essay about close reading because opening to virtually any page of this book and reading some or all of is a guaranteed win, clarifying and inspiring!

Strangely enough, this 2021 Connie Bruck profile of Ari Emanuel is one of the best single documents of our current polycrisis which I have yet read.

“Just go do the thing your think piece would tell other people to do, and don’t talk about it.”

Durable advice from
@sblackwood.bsky.social @sunsetandecho.bsky.social @kwazana.bsky.social @hesterblum.bsky.social

Nooooooo! Do not sully Twain's brand.

When the margin of the value produced by labor which capital claims as their right and privilege is "all of it," we are no longer in capitalism.