These are also terrible numbers for America, since about 37% simply do not live in or acknowledge reality.

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

So good!

I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...

#Florida has some excellent indies, inclu. Tombolo in St. Pete, Oxford Exchange in Tampa, Midtown Reader in Tallahassee, Books & Books in Miami & Key West (where Judy Blume runs the store), Story & Song in Fernandina Beach, Happy Medium in Jax & the Lynx in Gainesville, run by @legroff.bsky.social.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Just a reminder! If you're buying books in support of #BannedBooksWeek buying from Amazon undercuts the broader project of social justice supporting the right to read is a part of. Get your banned books absolutely anywhere else!

I love this brave young person so deeply.

"The Free State of Florida" once again banned more books than any other state — for the third year running. More than 2,000 books were pulled off of shelves last year.

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Counterpoint: don’t give the fascists even a single inch.

Cuomo could never.

1. The Boss is right.
2. The Boss is hot.
(How is he still hot?)

You know, things people believe in if they believe that the purpose of government is to protect its people.

Real radical leftist positions I could get behind: universal healthcare. Free universal education, pre-K through college. Universal safe housing. Actual punishment for corporate wrongdoing. Tax the rich at the rate the poor are taxed. Extreme restrictions on firearm sales & possession.

I live nowhere near NYC but I’m always astounded that Mamdani’s critics are trying to paint him as some kind of radical leftist. Everything he says just seems to be smart and logical? Like what “centrist” actually should be? Not “centrist” as it stands now (craven kowtowing to authoritarians).

I don't even cringe when I see that man standing on the world stage making completely incoherent statements. I do feel tremendously sorry for the rest of the world that has to be subjected to U.S. violence and complete buffoonery.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

I’m getting so excited for Edwidge’s Danticat’s visit to Bo Diddley Plaza for Gainesville Reads on September 27th. Signing at @thelynxbooks.bsky.social at 5pm (with cake) before our discussion. I’ve been a Danticat-head for decades, love her so much.

Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Don’t comply in advance. Exercise your freedom of speech or else they’ll strip this from us, too.

Don’t comply in advance. Exercise your freedom of speech or else they’ll strip this from us, too.