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Freelance writer with a PhD in history. Ex-academic; studied the anti-apartheid movement. Emeritus adjunct. Became a software engineer in 2020. Words in Teen Vogue, Smithsonian, Jacobin, BBC. He/Him zeb-larson.com
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A good friend of mine is teaching an online class that's open to the public on African American history! 8-9 PM on Thursdays, wide range of topics. It'll be great, she's an amazing teacher and this is a great way to immerse yourself in the history.

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Mahmood Mamdani was already one of the most interesting scholars of the Third World and now his son is very likely to become mayor of perhaps the most culturally diverse city in the world

submitted 20 hours ago • 23 comments

The uncomfortable thing that nobody wants to admit is that with any degree, you might need to do a career switch! It happens in lots of careers, including with people who code! I don’t think we’d have this level of handwringing about majors except that the cost of education is so high.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents. www.startribune.com/what-should-...

submitted 10 hours ago • 78 comments

It’s hilarious that all of these politicos and civil society orgs showed their ass over Cuomo and then he lost anyway.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Has anybody done a welfare check on James Carville this morning?

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

I worked in a secure group home in 2011: it was supposed to be me, the manager and the social worker. For a few days, they stopped showing up. Then he came back at day three and told me that the two of them had a long-running affair, he left his wife and kid for her, and now they were splitting up.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

In an hour and a half I cooked two dinners. This is one of them. The other was risotto. I have five minutes to relax. Please clap.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

NYC you need to be boosting/supporting independent media in your city. What we are seeing in Chicago is a press corp not equipped to cover grassroots movements, abolitionist policies, and regime change.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

A total dipshit who got snookered into attacking by Netanyahu suddenly realizing that he has no ability to stop this conflict. Not only that, but his own military is frothing over the prospect of getting to fight, so he's just trapped himself. He wanted to win; he never wanted to fight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

God I wish the works of Mahmood Mamdani on postcolonial citizenship were known enough in America for Zohran Mamdani to just be able to say "did you read my dad's fuckin' book???" when people go after him with these bad faith accusations

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Tune in to Dr. S.E. Anderson on Resistant Communiqués as he delves into the power of visuals in organizing, the impact of SNCC's print shop, and the influence on his docu-comic, "The Black Holocaust for Beginners". bit.ly/RC_SAnderson #VisualStorytelling #SNCC #BlackPublishing #ResistantCommuniques

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

There was a real missed opportunity in Spider Man: No Way Home to have Tobey Maguire’s Spider Man see J. Jonah Jameson on TV and just sigh deeply.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I always despair for democracy seeing that any dipshit can say "crime is skyrocketing" and people just go along with it. The data doesn't show this. There's no goddamned evidence for it except the bullshit people get fed from TV. I have no idea how to break this.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

I need a new headshot (my regular is six years old) and out of curiosity I snapped a selfie of myself in a quiet moment today. No headshot, but I kinda like it? Rose says I look sardonic and kind of intimidating; I think I look tired.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

District Nine (though in terms of worst movie for a first date, Synecdoche, New York takes the prize)

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Masterclass in the tail wagging the dog.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

the takeaway from iran is that while trump clearly always wanted to bomb iran, he didn't go for it until the israelis had already proved it was safe. he is, as ever, a bully--which is to say, a coward

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments