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prof-shorthair.bsky.social
Artist in residence, drummer, reader, Friends of Milton Society, past member of Late Greats, Master of LCR (ask me!), pre-retired code wrangler. "Things was hurt by Mr. Lincoln gettin' kilt." - an American slave
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We have enough productive capacity to ensure good lives for 8 billion. And yet, because capital controls production, deprivation remains endemic. This new study shows *95%* of surveyed households in low/middle-income countries are denied access to basics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

We spent so long treating Americans data like a profit center and not a right that no one is terrified enough at this gross attack on our civil liberties www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

I was talking about this with my students yesterday—throughout Western Europe, Nazism is treated in public spaces and memorials as a nightmare, as horror that must never be repeated. If slavery and Jim Crow received the same commemoration in the US, we'd be a very different country.

submitted 22 days ago • 43 comments

Shocker

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This guy's got nothin'.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Kinda insane and shows how afraid the networks are of upsetting this administration that a guy who killed 7 people and wounded 48 with “47” literally tattooed on his face has all but been forgotten like there’s still not a very serious threat emanating from every pore of this pathetic cult

submitted 64 days ago • 223 comments

Settlements in the Bezos and Gates divorces amounted to around $60 billion. To put into perspective how much wealth the ultrarich are hoarding, that’s more than the budgets of Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, and Seattle combined.

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

The Democratic Party’s problems are not about being moderate or left. That’s a consultant and pundit red herring The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame

submitted 105 days ago • 259 comments

Trying to imagine the press commentary about a Black guy playing video games on a ‘massive TV’ in the EEOB. Even if it were Barack Obama.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

This is what we need. It's not sufficient, but it's necessary.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

I’m sick to death of people saying we’re “descending” into fascism. The fascism is ALREADY here. THIS IS WHAT IF FEELS LIKE. And if you’re not feeling it, it’s probably because you’re one of the “good Germans.” @michaelharriot.bsky.social explains

submitted 107 days ago • 514 comments

This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...

submitted 113 days ago • 166 comments