Sam Brody

:::pushes glasses up on nose, clears throat:::

I actually disagree that Fishback has trustworthy physiognomy

Uh, guys...

Guiou, a case worker for foster children, is a registered Democrat and a “big Zohran Mamdani fan.” But she said she’s considering changing her registration so she can vote for Fishback in the primary. She’s drawn to his promise not to take money from AIPAC and to his insistent emphasis on affordability. Guiou said she and her fiancé have to live with roommates because rent is so expensive and homeownership unachievable. She told me that she listens to Fuentes sometimes, and some of what he says makes sense to her. “I would say that there are some things that he speaks for that I agree with, especially about things not being affordable, about the elites purposefully keeping the general population under their control by pricing us out of things that should be considered basic needs,” said Guiou. And she listens to Candace Owens, who has lately been accusing Charlie Kirk’s wife of complicity in a Zionist plot to murder him. “My politics are kind of confused, right?” she told me with a laugh.

we are absolutely fucked

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dammit

"Chief Nerd" tweets: "SAM ALTMAN: 'We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Below these words is a picture of Sam Altman sitting on a stage, wearing a suit and tie. Next to him is a table with two bottles of water.

whiners: "Bluesky is so anti-AI, they just refuse to see the upsides, it's such an echo chamber"

capitalists:

Kansas House studies bill granting unprecedented administrative autonomy to KU, K-State, and WSU The Kansas Board of Regents voted unanimously Wednesday to oppose a bill granting the state’s three largest public universities — KU, KSU and WSU — unprecedented autonomy in purchasing, construction, ...

uhhhhhh am I missing something here or do I seriously have to utter the words “critical support for the Kansas Board of Regents in its struggle against private equity”

I think there’s something to that. It’s a 50/50 country and they’re trying to treat half it as if it were 1% of it

it’s the shrek thing. “YOU sacrifice.” there’s not even a sense that they need to pretend to be sacrificing too.

that is also what characterized the old fascist attitude towards internal inferior populations. nothing’s changed there. I’m talking about war

people joke about “socialism” in the name of the NSDAP but I often think about how reactionary it was, really dependent on trying to copy its enemy in some ways. also regular old patriotic nationalism as a collectivist force was stronger back then too. these guys are all grift, they want cheap glory

the rhetoric of self-sacrifice for the nation seems entirely missing from today’s fascism.

thus their obsession with air-power wars and arresting grandmas and kids.

too much capitalism in the fascism solution, or something.

A snapshot of a page of text. The visible text reads: "encouraged us and advised us not to be too strict in our anarchist doctrines (shulkhn-orekh)--wisdom that we did not have the courage to follow. 2) In times of great economic crisis, cold calculation aligns with the instinctive desire to live in community and, albeit to a small extent, to dispel worries about one's own increasingly difficult survival. The individual in a communist colony does not have to worry about rent, grocery bills, doctors' fees, medicine, and all the other banal items that make life difficult during times of unemployment in the capitalist disorder. These worries fall on the community, on the managers and officers when they come together to conduct business. One of our members, a middle-aged worker, expressed the situation in a characteristic way. He kept a few coins on the table in his room, with which he would often chat like so: 'So, you are cursed! I'm free of your evil reign (memshole)! I do not need to come to you anymore! Not to worry! I can move on quite comfortably without your mediation!" This attitude was shared by a large number of members. They found in it compensation for all the difficulties they faced."

Love this anecdote from Joseph Cohen’s “The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America.”

Describing a comrade who joined the Sunrise Colony, a commune that formed in the 30s near Detroit and later moving to Virginia: this guy was so happy to be free of currency that he would sit and yell at his coins.

Oh, nice. I just finished this book today and I’m hoping to write about it soon. It dovetails very interestingly with the new Crabapple book on the Bund. Two different flavors of Yiddish left, many similarities, many differences that actually somehow still seem to matter

Cool! Unless you don’t like that in your family, in which case, sorry about that!

You might be using an expansive definition of “full cult” - they didn’t all drink poison kool aid or get raided by the Feds

Oh cool I thought maybe it was the guy yelling at the money :-)

In that case, at least one of your grandparents is also probably mentioned in this book!

Who? Cohen?

(A bonus about this edition - great work, Kenyon Zimmer - is that when you wonder what an English word was in the original Yiddish, it often tells you. Here you can see that he used “shulkhn-orekh” for “doctrines” and “memshole” for the “evil reign” of money.)

A snapshot of a page of text. The visible text reads: "encouraged us and advised us not to be too strict in our anarchist doctrines (shulkhn-orekh)--wisdom that we did not have the courage to follow. 2) In times of great economic crisis, cold calculation aligns with the instinctive desire to live in community and, albeit to a small extent, to dispel worries about one's own increasingly difficult survival. The individual in a communist colony does not have to worry about rent, grocery bills, doctors' fees, medicine, and all the other banal items that make life difficult during times of unemployment in the capitalist disorder. These worries fall on the community, on the managers and officers when they come together to conduct business. One of our members, a middle-aged worker, expressed the situation in a characteristic way. He kept a few coins on the table in his room, with which he would often chat like so: 'So, you are cursed! I'm free of your evil reign (memshole)! I do not need to come to you anymore! Not to worry! I can move on quite comfortably without your mediation!" This attitude was shared by a large number of members. They found in it compensation for all the difficulties they faced."

Love this anecdote from Joseph Cohen’s “The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America.”

Describing a comrade who joined the Sunrise Colony, a commune that formed in the 30s near Detroit and later moving to Virginia: this guy was so happy to be free of currency that he would sit and yell at his coins.

"the extraction class" - nice

apropos of this post from last week, I was just reminded that six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas (1884-1968) was also a Presbyterian minister.

I think the iPhone weather app has been fully Trumped. it’s just constantly wrong now

I think the iPhone weather app has been fully Trumped. it’s just constantly wrong now

:::scenes from a reality show about academia, the only genre that makes sense since apparently no one in Hollywood knows how to write fiction about academia:::

KIMBERLEY: I put caffeine pills in his drink. That’s why he messed up the interview. I’ve hated him ever since he wouldn’t shut up about “Judith Butler’s bad writing.” Who sucks now, Tim?

HENRY LOUIS GATES: we don’t condone drugging rival contestants on this show. But academia is a cutthroat place.

JASON STANLEY: I told myself last year, “don’t go back to the U.S. until the regime is over.” But when Skip called and asked me to do Tim’s interview, how could I say no?

TIM: I was so nervous. I’m pretty sure I messed up a few of the questions about my teaching statement. I didn’t get the job.

TIM, TO THE CAMERA: yeah, so, today was interview day and I did *not* expect SPECIAL GUESTS at my JOB INTERVIEW. I mean, JASON STANLEY? He’s like, my idol! I would have never thought he would be there!

HENRY LOUIS GATES: When it was time for Tim’s interview, we knew we had to get Jason Stanley.

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yeah I assume it’s this and I hold no hope although I always as usual hope that everyone always gets exactly what they deserve as determined by heaven and not by me

whaaaaaat

I too am out of this loop