atticus goldfinch

I think this opinion piece is quite emblematic of what we around these parts have come to call "Woke 1", i.e social justice practiced primarily as an extension of left-wing academic discourse, with all the issues and limitations that implies.

It's a relic of bygone age, unfit for the present moment

North Carolina is gonna be gone gone for them, huh.

This is one of my favorite charts because the obvious implication is ... obvious, but you absolutely are not allowed to say it out loud in US public discourse.

Autopsy raises questions about death at private ICE detention center The family of a man discovered dead in the shower room of a privately owned immigration detention center says the Trump administration is refusing to provide the full story of what happened.

(TW suicide) One person who died in ICE custody this year is someone I haven’t seen mentioned much—Chaofeng Ge. He was found hanging in a shower room at a processing center. It was declared suicide…even though his hands and feet were tied behind his back. ICE is refusing to give the family details

lmao

I’m not saying I would definitely donate to your bail fund if you punch Matt Walsh 5-6 times on TV, but I might.

Exactly right.

Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.

Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.

Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.

Every possible angle.

You and what army?

No, really, Matt: if you want to deport and jail all my neighbors, you’re going to need an army.

We’re in the real world now bucko. This isn’t internet land where you declare something and it becomes true. You need actual dudes. So where’s your army?

I'm going to print this image out and hang it on my wall because the idea that this exists should fill everyone with absolute boiling fucking rage every day.

Things not looking too hot Grima

there has been a tendency in the 21st century to insist that the Holocaust was an event so unique that "never again" becomes ontologically impossible: to the right wing, history has only ever had one horror, and it exists only to be used to shield their own actions and bludgeon their enemies

it is incredible that keyboard radicals can look at the martyrdom of people with perfectly conventional politics and imagine themselves the heroes of a struggle which they do nothing but complain about

Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...

Some thoughts:

1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.

2. History professors are qualified nominators.

3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.

4. He would be so mad.

This is why "Woke 1" was an ideological dead-end: with no clear way to achieve an oppression-free utopia, life would default to an endless critical exercise, of both the world and oneself. An endless discourse, fitting for an ideology created by and for academics.

my drunk googling has been unfruitful

my one experience with booktok was watching all all the popular accounts trying to read dune for the film release and coming back like they had spent a month in the trenches. they were really unprepared for concepts like neologisms and third person omniscient.

so no, I cannot imagine that lmao

no but I cracked up thinking about the zoomers I know reading umberto eco and shit and there's always room for a dumb joke after my second class of wine

borges, wolfe, calvino, le guin, eco

Oooooffff

I think it’s really worth underlining how unusual it is to have a former JSOC and SOCOM commander making statements like this directly to senior administration officials.

every agent on the screen knows who the other ones are. Someday, we'll offer partial amnesty to the first non-shooter who reveals the identities of the others. that day will come.

They say we live in a bubble when there is a dude so fully ensconced in podcasts, twitter, group chats, and stimulants that he thought he could dress like a literal Nazi and start shooting people in the street and be remembered as a hero

These people live in a shrinking and dying parallel universe

So my hunch is that 4o melted brains (aside from the hallucinatory spirals) in no small part due to its very...user-centering affect. I have trouble describing it any other way than "it simped for the user".

I think centering the-user-the-person in a...servile? way is probably very bad.

technology that wants to center me in its closure is dangerous technology, and I have a survival instinct against it

this is gonna sound weird but: this is repellent to me in a way that rhymes with why I can't look at tiktok, youtube shorts, or instagram reels without a physical get-it-away-from-me revulsion

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.”

The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night

For sale: Nazi coat, gently worn

(Size small)

Bovino’s gonna be hearing whistles in shadows like Captain Hook hearing the ticking of a clock

These short story ones are great. I've got a gigantic list of novels waiting for me. Will probably finally read either The Library at Mt Char or The Spear Cuts Through Water next.