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Once, when I was in middle school, I wondered why there was so much in the curriculum about Nazis. I knew that history was important, but I didn’t think being able to identify a Nazi was going to be an important life skill. This was neither the first nor last time I was wrong about the future.

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Against a mediascape dominated by narratives of individual heroism as the salve to heal all social ills, _Citizen Sleeper 2_ demonstrates that every hope for a livable future depends on workers of the world uniting.

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this story has to be read in this context, they are creating the conditions for an absolutely massive and brutal trafficking network www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

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‘Profits from fossil fuel production have to be shared with domestic governments in the form of royalties and other taxes. Few governments, in countries rich or poor, would willingly relinquish those revenues.’ @brettchristophers.bsky.social on climate ‘overshoot’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Cool, cool cool cool…

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My dissertation in a sentence: If you’re not serious about ending capitalism, you’re not serious about ending climate change—and yes, that means you too, IPCC.

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I remember the last time I tried to care about the Super Bowl. It was 2002, probably. I was in middle school. I was at a church youth group Super Bowl party. I still believed in God, capitalism, and America as the world’s savior. Perhaps my failure to accept the Super Bowl saved me.

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The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

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The Trump-Musk coup is proving that legislation is not required for structural changes. A general strike where demands went beyond wages and working conditions and included universal healthcare, ending fossil fuel subsidies, and democratic ownership of means of production would work. The capitalists

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Everything we are witnessing are very clearly moments of a singular process: liquidation of the state, reinvestment of “freed” assets into a pipeline for pumping public money into private pockets (e.g via sovereign wealth fund),

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I'm sure I have a tiny violin around here somewhere....

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After "changing" the map, now "changing" the calendar...

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Oh look, they’re just saying the quiet part out loud. Again.

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Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...

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When I first saw Interstellar in theaters, back before grad school, when I was still a rather naive film school graduate working at DreamWorks Animation and dreaming of making science fiction cinema, the film was everything I could have wanted. Now, after watching it dozens of times for my research

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I am genuinely concerned by how many times this week I’ve found myself explaining to fully grown adults just what oligarchy is. Since I learned about it in middle school, I guess I was under the impression it was more widespread knowledge.

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Re-watching _Snowpiercer_ for my dissertation arcology chapter, and right now for some reason it feels extra cathartic to watch a bunch of workers beat the absolute shit out of the fascists running the country I mean train.

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Really seems like the Dem plan is to just let Trump go hog wild, run against him on it in 26, and then spend the rest of our lives slowly doling out bits and pieces of the postwar welfare state consensus from 1965-2025 back to us as necessary to keep the donations rolling in

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The story of so-called “AI” in education, as told by five events: 2018-2019: A historic wave of teacher strikes sweeps the USA. 2020: Deepak Sekar (PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering), Pranav Mehta, and Maria Walley found so-called-“AI” education company, Prof Jim.

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If congress is banning the theoretically maybe harmful TikTok out of concern for the wellbeing of Americans, I can’t wait for them to hear about health insurance companies.

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Just finishing up the AI policy for my spring syllabus. It was really hard to not write “bullshit.”

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What’s the helpline for if you’re in an abusive relationship with a country?

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Baltimore winter boat life can be cold but it’s always beautiful, especially on the mornings when the air and water are still and ever so slightly frozen.

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Opening of a story I’ll write at some point, maybe after the two already in the queue: “I used to joke that I was never more than three bad days away from becoming an eco-terrorist. I realize now that this was in poor taste. It would have been much more polite to keep my mouth shut and just do it.”

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Very excited to return home to Baltimore after six weeks away just in time for a front-row seat to the series finale of America.

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