Also: might be the best example of the power of rhetorical analysis I've read in years. "The insistence that diffusion is going to happen as a matter of course when a technology is still in the early adoption phase is either wishful thinking or authoritarian hubris. Perhaps both."
Finally had a moment to read this. Such an essential reading of the current tone of AI-adoption rhetoric.
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Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
Winter veg.
A sobering piece on the deliberate randomness and brutality of organized state terror, by @mashagessen.bsky.social.
This has happened twice now, and it’s stressful and embarrassing to have to argue to prove I have a valid pass (I have printed out correspondence and supporting documentation, but no one at Clipper or Caltrain has been able to reactivate my GoPass or give me a timeline for a fix).
I hope that’s true now. I was told last week (by Clipper) that all I needed was my Stanford ID and a verbal confirmation of the GoPass, but a conductor on my Friday evening commute didn’t know anything about that.
Would be happy to write an op-Ed on this Kafka novel…. @sfchronicle.com @sfstandard.com
I really wish someone/anyone at @caltrain.com could find a way to honor the GoPass purchased by my employer. Or at least instruct their conductors to stop harassing me when it doesn’t show up on my card until they can fix the problem. #clippercardnightmare
Increasingly convinced that “nothing new under the sun” arguments are not only lazy but intellectually dangerous.
Mirror for the sun…
I think the misogynist contempt that’s evident as a motivation in the murder of Renee Good makes her killing by a state actor more similar to so-called private violence—eg domestic violence homocides—than some arguments that rely on a firm distinction between state and private violence can sustain.
An essential thread—thank you.
“a torrent of untruths, half-truths, smears, and innuendo has been unleashed by the White House”
How is this garbage legal.
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
Certainly on board with adamant and broad calls for solidarity w/ institutions beyond academia (and I do take the joke and catharsis of your gif!). Something about the centering involved in the "we are all humanists/professors now" move nevertheless feels precarious to me...
💯 agree.
Wish for 2026:
“Come healing of the reason / come healing of the heart.” - L. Cohen.
Appreciate the article and list, and was interested to learn about Mountainhead’s production schedule. But…unfortunately you are wrong about Bugonia.
Did not know they were called this!
Not sure this is the correct rhetorical posture for the moment…
Ok—but where’s Bugonia? It’s a thousand times more interesting on “resistance” than the Eddington disaster (or the Anderson film, for that matter).
This is way better than the CA high-speed rail I voted for in 2008. 🙃
Props indeed.
Might have isolated the only sunny spot in the Californias this morning.
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