Ethan
@utopologist.bsky.social
Communist, theatre director. I make some occasional audio projects (the talking kind). 🇵🇸
I need to finish my play about Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I need to finish my play about Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova
Wallace Shawn?? The playwright who wrote The Fever???
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
November 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Wallace Shawn?? The playwright who wrote The Fever???
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All I want for Christmas is U(lyanov)
a cartoon of a man in a coffin with a sign that says lenin
Alt: Simpsons Lenin coming back to life (please please please please)
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
All I want for Christmas is U(lyanov)
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the performers at iconic colorado restaurant casa bonita are on strike! they do amazing work, throw some support their way actionnetwork.org/petitions/i-...
I Support the Casa Bonita Performers!
Tell Casa Bonita leadership that you stand with these workers as they seek a fair contract guaranteeing a safe workplace and sustainable working conditions.
actionnetwork.org
October 31, 2025 at 5:38 AM
the performers at iconic colorado restaurant casa bonita are on strike! they do amazing work, throw some support their way actionnetwork.org/petitions/i-...
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Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
I've been thinking a lot recently about the iconic Cool Zone tweet. It just did not occur to me at the time how Cool things would get, and continue getting. Even now, new levels of Cool are constantly being reached
October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I've been thinking a lot recently about the iconic Cool Zone tweet. It just did not occur to me at the time how Cool things would get, and continue getting. Even now, new levels of Cool are constantly being reached
I miss the drilmusicals tumblr account. They went on an incredible four-month run in 2015 and then ascended to heaven
October 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I miss the drilmusicals tumblr account. They went on an incredible four-month run in 2015 and then ascended to heaven
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The Israeli left? yes, the new Big Thief is great!
October 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The Israeli left? yes, the new Big Thief is great!
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Too many amazing stories from Gallup, and almost none I will repeat here. However I will talk about what I myself experienced. There was Something in the basement at the Old Rehoboth Church
October 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Too many amazing stories from Gallup, and almost none I will repeat here. However I will talk about what I myself experienced. There was Something in the basement at the Old Rehoboth Church
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I'm just like a large language model in that I've read everything on the internet and it's made me effectively useless
October 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I'm just like a large language model in that I've read everything on the internet and it's made me effectively useless
My partner got me into film photography this summer and I just got back a roll of black and white film I shot with them and God forgive me but I for maybe the first time really Get the appeal of analog, I really do
October 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
My partner got me into film photography this summer and I just got back a roll of black and white film I shot with them and God forgive me but I for maybe the first time really Get the appeal of analog, I really do
One thing that I hate about this is that if it was actually on the horizon, I'd be all about personhood for sentient robots because my boundaries for what constitutes a person are very broad and include a bunch of non-human things, but this isn't that! We're not anywhere near that! We may never be!
It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis
It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis
Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
One thing that I hate about this is that if it was actually on the horizon, I'd be all about personhood for sentient robots because my boundaries for what constitutes a person are very broad and include a bunch of non-human things, but this isn't that! We're not anywhere near that! We may never be!
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It's the end of The Best American Poetry.
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector
When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...
defector.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It's the end of The Best American Poetry.
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
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“What the people think is one thing; what is publicized about what they think can be quite something else. The media cannot mold every political feeling we have, but they can fill the air with pronouncements about what our feelings allegedly are.”
-Michael Parenti, “Inventing Reality”
-Michael Parenti, “Inventing Reality”
September 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“What the people think is one thing; what is publicized about what they think can be quite something else. The media cannot mold every political feeling we have, but they can fill the air with pronouncements about what our feelings allegedly are.”
-Michael Parenti, “Inventing Reality”
-Michael Parenti, “Inventing Reality”
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There were so many things I thought were great in this essay, including its discussion of "AI-and-I" essays:
“What if we take seriously the idea that AI assistance can accelerate learning — that students today are arriving at their destinations faster?” Hsu asks. But what if we don’t?
“What if we take seriously the idea that AI assistance can accelerate learning — that students today are arriving at their destinations faster?” Hsu asks. But what if we don’t?
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
There were so many things I thought were great in this essay, including its discussion of "AI-and-I" essays:
“What if we take seriously the idea that AI assistance can accelerate learning — that students today are arriving at their destinations faster?” Hsu asks. But what if we don’t?
“What if we take seriously the idea that AI assistance can accelerate learning — that students today are arriving at their destinations faster?” Hsu asks. But what if we don’t?
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the recent Chotiner interview is good mostly because it's less about gotchas and more going "here is what a prominent liberal thinks about liberalism, he's going to accidentally tell you why liberalism is a failure by explaining what's great about it"
September 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
the recent Chotiner interview is good mostly because it's less about gotchas and more going "here is what a prominent liberal thinks about liberalism, he's going to accidentally tell you why liberalism is a failure by explaining what's great about it"
Oh shit, happy Blowback Day to all who celebrate! Snuck up on me this year
September 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Oh shit, happy Blowback Day to all who celebrate! Snuck up on me this year
I got the covid/flu double vaccine yesterday and it's got me feeling like
September 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I got the covid/flu double vaccine yesterday and it's got me feeling like
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a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval
September 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval
I always think I can't think any less of Jared Polis and he always finds a way! Almost have to respect his commitment to being a fucking clown, tbh
September 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I always think I can't think any less of Jared Polis and he always finds a way! Almost have to respect his commitment to being a fucking clown, tbh
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Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
September 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
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[wormy dipshit whose entire lifestyle and worldview is propped up by direct and indirect violence that they are privileged enough to be insulated from, and who only speaks up for an ethical respect for human life when the most wicked devils alive finally get theirs voice] I condemn all violence!
December 5, 2024 at 5:30 PM
[wormy dipshit whose entire lifestyle and worldview is propped up by direct and indirect violence that they are privileged enough to be insulated from, and who only speaks up for an ethical respect for human life when the most wicked devils alive finally get theirs voice] I condemn all violence!
The musical Assassins has some issues but the biggest one for me is that it assumes Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK
September 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The musical Assassins has some issues but the biggest one for me is that it assumes Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK
Jesus, they're still making Walking Dead shows?
September 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Jesus, they're still making Walking Dead shows?