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"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
“The spectacle of these four years will have been that average Americans have a greater deal of courage and moral certitude than any of their institutions. And yet we will need institutions to get through this. We need institutions to guide us forward and to..."
America is about to learn how tiny the federal gas tax has been all this time. 18¢ per gallon, unchanged since 1993 and not tied to inflation. Fill your SUV’s tank and you can buy half a pack of gum on Uncle Sam.
We were talking about that!!! Saw the trailer before WH!
Wait the one they crash out of???
The name's Bozo, Bozo Bond
Lair of the White Worm is almost in its own category, because its look *is* genuinely captivating. But YES to Octopusssy for this sequence alone
Can I defend either of them? No.
Will I turn the TV off when they're on? DON'T TOUCH THAT REMOTE!
Promo still from "Mamma Mia!" (2008)
Also of course Meryl
Weirdly lots of Geena Davis on my list
Cutthroat Island (1995)
Eh, who am I kidding, I'm gonna start thinking about this now. This one HAS to be on my list
One day, I'll try to write up a list of my top ten movies that do this for me -- movies that leave me "unreasonably pleased" in ways that I can fully articulate, but couldn't possibly defend
It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.
Poorly drawn sketch of a large computing machine connected to electrical wires and three stick figures kneeling in front of it. Text above the stick figures says: "O Deep Thought what is the ultimate answer to the problem of the climate crisis?"
Same sketch, now with text above the machine saying: "You should have stopped burning fossil fuels"
Same sketch, zoomed out to see three smoke stacks and text above the stick figures saying: "How could we have known?"
I'm no artist, but hopefully this gets the point across. A comic in three panels.
Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, “Wyoming is missing”
John Roberts attacked the Voting Rights Act when he was a lawyer in the Reagan administration. On the Supreme Court, he's been working to make his wish to destroy the law a reality. bit.ly/4uduYXR
War is merely the continuation of sundowning by other means.
1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
Deutschland sagt sich ab
Weimer sagt Verleihung von Deutschem Buchhandlungspreis ab
"Absagekultur"
One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
The lines that are being drawn here are around a binary in which the future of education is either:
a.) Christian nationalist indoctrination with books
or
b.) Christian nationalist indoctrination with chatbots
There is no third way coming from the conservatives or establishment liberals.
OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...
That's too many cuck seats though I can't decide how many too many
For this Patreon-episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, @moiradonegan.bsky.social and I talked about Kristi Noem and gender politics in the age of government functionaries as content creators www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
They'll just get them online, their parents medicine cabinet, or friends. They aren't going to stop access, only safe access to hormones. Trans people have been getting access to hormones via nonmedical pathways for over half a century.
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“It’s obvious Germany is the chaotic ur-mother, a chthonic force that confounds all meaning and won’t call me back after a second date. And Prussia… [cries briefly] Prussia is the ordering principle, the egoic sovereign, that cleans up its room and gets the German people pregnant.”
I was trying to figure out what this drivel sounded like and then it hit me … this reads like Jordan Peterson’s interminable Maps of Meaning
“Germany was in the Romantic Age the Volk, the great mother, while Prussia was the State, the great father. Once before Prussia, the father state, impregnated Germany the mother-people. Prussia had been desiccated by the classical spirit of normative reason. It required the pregnant blood of people-ness…”
𝔖𝔦𝔯, 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔦𝔰 𝔞 𝔚𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔶’𝔰