Scu (James Stanescu)

William Gibson has never been more relatable!

Just @ me next time.

I need you to stop everything in your life and write this one.
Pretty please? 🙏

Before I wrote this last year I knew a lot about the horrors of dairy but didn't truly know what it means to be a herd animal. We think humans are intensely social, but cows are another level entirely

I think it's pretty much impossible to do dairy farming humanely, but the way we do it seems 1/

What works did you teach about hope?

So much this!

Have you thought about painting the edges?!

And you know, a pretty good book, too

Such cool artwork.

The secretive dog experimentation industry is crumbling The US experiments on tens of thousands of beagles. After a shocking case, will it come to an end?

Some really big news dropped in animal rights world last week that was made possible only by extremely competent activism—a top breeder of dogs for lab experimentation will shut down. So I wrote about it and what it means and says about science, etc.

gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Trust me, this is his happy face.

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consil... #smbc

Mercer students design, develop space-themed arcade game Starship Showdown feels like a classic arcade game. But the two-player shooting game was actually created in 2024 by two students who weren’t even alive during the arcade’s heyday.

We spent 2023-2024 building an arcade game (software and hardware) from scratch. We spent 2024-2025 doing research on card games and creating a life path RPG system. We cost about 5-6k a year. Become a supporter of a cool thing. den.mercer.edu/mercer-stude...

I am looking for a game company or someone who is interested in games research to make a contribution to my research lab because: we need money. If that’s you please DM me.

I might need to add an extra chapter just on this post to my book manuscript on ecofascism and animals.

Ep 16: More Slaughterhouse Capitalism with James Stanescu — How We Win We are so happy to share another guest with you, James Stanescu, who collaborated with Vasile on the ideas in his recent essay for Current Affairs. We previously talked about Slaughterhouse Capitalism...

You can listen to it here, or wherever you get podcasts. www.winforanimals.org/how-we-win-p...

The podcast is wide ranging, but mostly focuses on the interlocking nature of different modes of capitalist production and our relationship to other animals. This work is the basis of a book Vas and I are writing (editors of academic presses feel free to reach out!).

How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism Henry Ford learned mass production from slaughterhouses. A century later, our modern economy still resembles a meatpacking plant.

This is the link to Vas' article: www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-ind...

I was recently invited on Vas and Devs Stanescu podcast, How We Win. Our focus was on “Slaughterhouse Capitalism.” This is Vas’ recent article for
@currentaffairs.bsky.social
It also grows out of my own research.

Wow.

Opinion: Warehousing kids makes us all less safe D.C.'s Youth Services Center isn't reducing crime—it's manufacturing it.

DC’s warehousing of kids is cruel and counterproductive. Meanwhile, there are common sense alternatives available.

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Like a birthday present that you made yourself!

Truth.

Art History Major does not generally have better financial outcomes than finance major. Recently an article from CNBC has been going around, entitled, " College majors with the best and worst job prospects — art history beats f...

That article that argues art history has better economic outcomes than finance is a lie. www.criticalanimal.com/2025/05/art-...

Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books Reading list in advertorial supplement contains 75% made up books by real authors.

The fake Percival Everett book sounds cool, hopefully he gets on that soon.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/c...

Because you are too busy calling them chief or scout?

Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife The human body has become a strange contradiction at the heart of the modern blockbuster. Sexy, yes. But sexual? No.

We just keep coming back to how this essay is basically correct.
(Music, at least, still has desire).

bloodknife.com/everyone-bea...

1. This is a thread about why Food Waste is so often, and wrongly, identified as the major problem with the food system. Yes, it's an issue, but in the rich world, it's far smaller than many others. It’s massively over-emphasised, while other, far more important problems, are ignored and avoided. 🧵

I can’t remember anymore where I found it, but it’s one of my favorites!

I see the cause near your keyboard.