Craig Johnson

folks I'm pretty sure a half decent DM at your local DnD meetup would've seen this one coming

sadly the positivists seem to have won this one

Quick addendum on this: the one part of the left that truly understood power was ... unions. Union organizers were never under the illusion that they could sweet-talk concessions from bosses with the right framing. They dealt in power.

That's why the right killed them.

when people are turned away at the polling station, it will be too late

i sometimes find myself grateful that we got several centuries of good literature and about a hundred years of good film before defunding and devaluing these forms of art

After revelations that companies like Ring have been selling home security footage to ICE, the most common defense of keeping a camera up seems to be, “But what if I’m stalked?”

And as a violence researcher, I’m just here to state for the record that police do not care about your security footage.

this is the culmination of a century of power moving from the legislative to the executive

still, somehow, there's a misunderstanding about the fight we're in

our opponents hate democracy and think we're not people, and they are winning

Screenshot from an email. webinar: mitigating burnout: how AI can support higher and staff during peaks periods.

Dear “staff,” they’re trying to make fools of you. “Helping you” avoid burnout, cut “busywork,” or wherever is prelude to showing you the door.

(Note: They keep pushing. I get stuff like this almost daily, this from The Chronicle, which increasingly seems to be in league with big tech boosterism)

spectacular post

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

the contradictory messaging on Iran transforms the conversation into one about what Trump says, rather than what he does - he can be a liar, rather than a murderer

it's intended to confuse you, the market, and the international community

when Iran attacks after the war is "over" that's them being belligerent and cruel

when the liberals complain after the war is "over" that's them being weak

I'm concerned people see the contradictory messaging on Iran - it's not a war, it's a war, it's over, it'll last for a long time - and think "haha another disordered Trump policy"

the disorder and contradictory messaging is the policy!

THIS is the take on LLMs and the job market. They can probably do some jobs, which will worsen millions of people's lives. But much more than that, people who don't understand your job will assume that it is worthless, even more than they already do.

I can't compete with this.

I started my class this semester talking about the US's abduction of the Venezuelan President, now about the threats against Cuban sovereignty

if you've never had job security there's a degree of feeling like the rets of the world is finally waking up to your experience for your entire working life, which isn't reassuring but is familiar

and to the extent that the US does have a social safety net, it's because people fought and lost their jobs, freedom, and lives for it

for those of you fortunate enough to not be familiar with these groups already - this is Nazi accelerationists doxxing a nihilistic group that encourages people to commit suicide on livestream

a truly cursed sentence

just say it

just say "I never thought the leopard would eat my face"

incidentally, this is why if you want the news presented honestly the WSJ and the Financial Times are great places to read

folks, the Wall Street Journal is not the NYT, it is a paper for people who want a headline like "New Dictator Installed, Stock Market Up." they do not mess around

if they're getting worried, there's reason to be worried

Footage reviewed and geolocated by Bellingcat confirms US tomahawk missiles hit the girls’ primary school in southern Iran that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Researcher Trevor Ball notes Israel does not possess Tomahawk missiles. United States does.

will the US Navy control the Straight? Probably yeah

will its control be safe enough that the price of oil isn't massively increased due to the risks associated with transit, and the fact that decreased transit means less production overall? Probably nah

Sec of State chilling with open fascist who participated in a coup to end democracy, kill members of Congress, and possibly hang the Vice President

agreed! the work must go on