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@tristanjb.bsky.social
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Creating a living thread for my #wanttoread finds of recently published books
Proud to carry-on the oldest tradition of Pennsylvanians: being a failguy ruthless-credulity.bearblog.dev/failguy-colo...
Failguy colony
In his first advertisement for the newly founded colony of Pennsilvania, William Penn was speaking to a very specific audience, enticing a certain type of gu...
ruthless-credulity.bearblog.dev
August 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Proud to carry-on the oldest tradition of Pennsylvanians: being a failguy ruthless-credulity.bearblog.dev/failguy-colo...
my incomplete thoughts on Eddington and on touching poo
Touching the third rail of shit - reflections on Eddington
After a life of merry pranks that often ended with someone smelling or touching his shit, Till Eulenspiegel was dying. Like any good medieval Christian, Eule...
ruthless-credulity.bearblog.dev
July 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
my incomplete thoughts on Eddington and on touching poo
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Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3* days.
July 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3* days.
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US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammunition as Palestinians seek food in #Gaza.
The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there.
apnews.com/article/pale...
The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there.
apnews.com/article/pale...
US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza
American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Asso...
apnews.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammunition as Palestinians seek food in #Gaza.
The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there.
apnews.com/article/pale...
The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there.
apnews.com/article/pale...
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This pretty much broke me this morning.
June 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This pretty much broke me this morning.
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'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
www.404media.co
June 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'
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What might well end up being, when we look back at it, the most consequential headline of 2025:
May 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
What might well end up being, when we look back at it, the most consequential headline of 2025:
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27 pages. Of babies. Whose entire understanding of what Earth sounded like was bombs dropping & people screaming at the sky
March 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
27 pages. Of babies. Whose entire understanding of what Earth sounded like was bombs dropping & people screaming at the sky
Creating a living thread for my #wanttoread finds of recently published books
March 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Creating a living thread for my #wanttoread finds of recently published books
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"Indeed, we have now seen what it looks like when the government supports and subsidizes technological innovation and implementation without concerning itself with the inegalitarianism of the system. His name is Elon Musk." www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/t...
The Abundance Agenda
A review.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
March 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"Indeed, we have now seen what it looks like when the government supports and subsidizes technological innovation and implementation without concerning itself with the inegalitarianism of the system. His name is Elon Musk." www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/t...
Benedict Anderson the only real “post-modern neo-marxist” in the game
March 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Benedict Anderson the only real “post-modern neo-marxist” in the game
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Mahmoud Khalil has become a political prisoner for protesting a US-backed genocide. His detention heralds new vistas of repression made possible by institutions and technological developments begun by the War on Terror.
Mahmoud Khalil's Detention Is A War on Terror Milestone
ICE turned a campus activist for Palestine into a political prisoner. Witness a coalescence of several post-9/11 currents that threaten your most basic freedoms
www.forever-wars.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Mahmoud Khalil has become a political prisoner for protesting a US-backed genocide. His detention heralds new vistas of repression made possible by institutions and technological developments begun by the War on Terror.
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accelerationism is an idealist fantasy whose core faith is the spontaneity of mass (re)action. it forgets entirely that all political action requires organization. conditions are never sufficient, no matter how bad they get; there is no such spontaneity. this is why it is ultimately antipolitical
The accelerationist belief that if things get bad enough, then things will start to get better is quite something to see in the wild. It’s wrong though. Historically, misery creates more misery and is visited on the most marginalized in ever intensifying cycles of horror.
February 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
accelerationism is an idealist fantasy whose core faith is the spontaneity of mass (re)action. it forgets entirely that all political action requires organization. conditions are never sufficient, no matter how bad they get; there is no such spontaneity. this is why it is ultimately antipolitical
Vanessa Wills, “What Could It Mean to Say ‘Capitalism Causes Sexism and Racism?’”
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February 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Vanessa Wills, “What Could It Mean to Say ‘Capitalism Causes Sexism and Racism?’”
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www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
Kinda head-spinning to see Pierre Koury and David McCollough cited positively in a socialist journal? Feel like I missed some turn in left discourse around COVID doi.org/10.1080/1045...
Covid-19 in the History of Capitalism
The obvious role of capital in generating poverty, war, and environmental breakdown has not led to a parallel recognition of how deeply it shapes the ideology and practice of healthcare. Progressiv...
doi.org
February 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kinda head-spinning to see Pierre Koury and David McCollough cited positively in a socialist journal? Feel like I missed some turn in left discourse around COVID doi.org/10.1080/1045...
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💯 I joined CT Tenants Union after becoming numb from policy work that felt like a dead end in the face of elite power (and a 115% rent hike!). CTTU taught me how to organize, and transformed my understanding of how tenants can win together.
Learn more about the model on @thedigradio.bsky.social!
Learn more about the model on @thedigradio.bsky.social!
This @thedigradio.bsky.social interview w/ tenant organizer Hannah Srajer was what I needed today. “You’re trying to break people out of the numbness that structures are like in the USA because we have to be numb to survive what we are surviving right now.”
www.thedigradio.com/podcast/buil...
www.thedigradio.com/podcast/buil...
Building the Union w/ Hannah Srajer
Featuring Hannah Srajer on building tenant unions by applying labor organizing models. The Connecticut Tenants Union is partnered with SEIU 1199NE to organize fighting super majority tenant unions tha...
www.thedigradio.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
💯 I joined CT Tenants Union after becoming numb from policy work that felt like a dead end in the face of elite power (and a 115% rent hike!). CTTU taught me how to organize, and transformed my understanding of how tenants can win together.
Learn more about the model on @thedigradio.bsky.social!
Learn more about the model on @thedigradio.bsky.social!
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New forms of corporate power distribution require new forms of labor solidarity. Good piece on the current geography for organizing.
Amazon’s Retribution in Quebec Should Be a Wake-Up Call
In response to a successful unionization effort at a warehouse in Quebec, Amazon is shuttering its operations in the entire province. Its punitive behavior demonstrates that traditional organizing met...
jacobin.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New forms of corporate power distribution require new forms of labor solidarity. Good piece on the current geography for organizing.
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As someone who is about to leave a legal aid non profit that does tenants rights law, I’m pumped to listen to this & began reading the book a few days before the ep aired. Legal protections for tenants are abysmal. My ~3 years in tenant law has taught me that organizing is the only way out.
“Our mission in the union is to crush the lawyers.”
Stupendous episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social on tenant organizing, with a heap of nonprofit hate that warms my soul (during my 15 degree outdoor morning workout).
open.spotify.com/episode/6bMS...
Stupendous episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social on tenant organizing, with a heap of nonprofit hate that warms my soul (during my 15 degree outdoor morning workout).
open.spotify.com/episode/6bMS...
Abolish Rent w/ Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal
The Dig · Episode
open.spotify.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
As someone who is about to leave a legal aid non profit that does tenants rights law, I’m pumped to listen to this & began reading the book a few days before the ep aired. Legal protections for tenants are abysmal. My ~3 years in tenant law has taught me that organizing is the only way out.
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OpenAI shocked and appalled that an AI company would steal intellectual property
www.404media.co/openai-furio...
www.404media.co/openai-furio...
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
OpenAI shocked and appalled that an AI company would steal intellectual property
www.404media.co/openai-furio...
www.404media.co/openai-furio...
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New @thedigradio.bsky.social ep: Tracy Rosenthal & Leonardo Vilchis on Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. The permanent housing crisis for poor people has become generalized crisis exposing contradictions & making possible powerful new solidarities thedigradio.com/podcast/abol...
Abolish Rent w/ Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal
Featuring Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal on their book Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. Tenant unions fighting to transform Los Angeles, the country, and the world.
thedigradio.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
New @thedigradio.bsky.social ep: Tracy Rosenthal & Leonardo Vilchis on Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. The permanent housing crisis for poor people has become generalized crisis exposing contradictions & making possible powerful new solidarities thedigradio.com/podcast/abol...