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Fair enough 🤣 it's the ever elusive sought after "buzz", but to what end?

I have no clue what oura rings are. But isn't the fact that they made you post and wonder about it on social media a sign of good advertisement? And now you got me wondering

TOMORROW!

Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies aged 84 A trailblazing figure in the civil rights movement and Democratic politics, Jackson championed the rights of Black, poor and working-class people with his ‘rainbow coalition’

He opened up space in public life -- didn't win elections, but made it possible for other people to win them later.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

YouTube video by skolander Green Eggs and Ham narrated by the Reverend Jesse Jackson

Hilarious delivery by Jesse Jackson who remarkably is able to keep a straight face throughout youtu.be/A1mqg4C0awA?...

Even then the distribution of income was not fair enough to give people as much leisure or income as made possible from the gains in productivity. Here the problem is crystalized even further: AI does stuff because it has scraped previous human work, why should we not all benefit? Marx's dead labor

It's ethical problems and harmful impact on creativity notwithstanding, an argument for regulating AI is historical: previous gains in productivity due to technological change seem to have translated into higher wages and more leisure time only when states stepped in to correct capitalism's problems

A sociologist who knew Italy well once told me that Putnam does not consider the fact that in the Post-WW2 period central Italian local government was often run by more left-leaning parties, leading to a larger welfare state and greater focus on the institutions.

Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.

So grim. Middle class Americans selling their plasma to the rest of the world twice a week and NBC News covering the ethics of it as-a matter-of-factly. For context, during my dad's surgery in Turkey, I found a volunteer in a hospital cause it was illegal to buy and donating was limited to 1/month

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Norwegian skier having a meltdown because he cheated on his girlfriend and then won the bronze medal at some kind of cross country skiing event and then decided to publicly get her involved

I love Scandinavian directors' study of fragile masculinity like Joachim Trier, Ruben Ostlund and Thomas Vinterberg in such movies as Worst Person in the World, Force Majeure and the Celebration...but lately I've started to feel that they're just reporting what they see around them

I'm feeling a surge of patriotism right now.

🤣🤣not surprising given where it originated and where it became popular

And this from an athlete that performs the winter Olympic sport most akin to cornhole or bowling

And this from an athlete that performs the winter Olympic sport most akin to cornhole or bowling

He was entirely unconcerned with the form in which he presented his wealth of ideas. So many things came to him out of that storehouse of his mind, once the mass [of ideas] was in motion, that many times they could not be readily forced into a lucid sentence structure. And he wants to be done with it quickly and be brief about it on top of that, because ever new problems of reality crowd in upon him. What a limitation of discursive thought that it does not per-mit the simultaneous expression of several lines of thought which belong together! Therefore, much must be pressed hurriedly into long involved periods and what cannot be accommodated there has to be put into the footnotes. After all, let the reader take as much trouble with these matters as he had done himself.2

Cover of Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait by Bendix

If you're teaching classical sociology and assigning Weber's original writing consider including this passage from Marianne Weber's biography of her husband (quoted in Bendix) then ask your students 'why do you think he really wrote that?' It 100% is not about protestantism leading to capitalism

Wow...I completely misunderstood the question and was about to say Ibn Khaldun

Multicolored background with speech bubble that reads “Voting in a sense feels like a privilege. And that’s pretty weird because people are like, ‘It’s your duty to vote.’ But it’s like, a lot of times things don’t change even if you do vote.” Text below reads “John, a 27-year-old Black UPS worker”

Multicolored background with speech bubble that reads “Politicians have a very predictable script at this point, and I’m kind of done hearing it.” Text below reads “Sylvia, an unemployed 33-year-old White woman”

Last week, I published a report - the "Political Disconnect" -based on interviews with 144 low-income & working-class people, across racial groups, who don't usually vote. They are the experts on why, and today I want to share their words.
www.swarthmore.edu/u...

I asked a designer whether he felt threatened by AI. He said no, but that his workplace had become intense because, while clients were happy with 3 design proposals in the past, they expected 6-7 now. He is considering retiring early

In the mood for some French hip hop and IAM from Marseille

youtu.be/x4uHgwHdXOA?...

To emphasize the role of public colleges: as a member of faculty at the City University of New York located in the same state as Bard College I am not allowed to accept gifts totalling more than 50$ a year by an individual my college conducts business with let alone a trip to the Caribbean

Also, we should revisit this analogy only when libertarians prove to be as effective as cats at keeping pests away

Most watched Super Bowl halftime shows in last 10 years, where Bad Bunny’s show ranks The Super Bowl Halftime Show is more than just a musical break; it's a global cultural phenomenon where legends are made, and records are broken. From pop spectacles to hip-hop history, here is how th...

I don't know how reliable this is, but it seems like Bad Bunny might break Kendrick Lamar's viewership record with +135M viewers. I'd like to know how many people tuned in just for his show or how many more will have seen it by the week's end. www.thebiglead.com/most-watched...

These are the high schoolers taking a stand against ICE: ‘You can’t let despair take over’ Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI.

one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

"Listers: A Glimpse into Extreme Bird Watching" is as delightful, hilarious and fum as a documentary as you would expect. Available to stream for free. 🎥

I feel that Bad Bunny wanted wholeheartedly to make the couple that got married during his show happy; he seems to have that type of kindness. However, it is also a brilliant political move: any conservative American who dumps on his show will also dump on the institution of marriage.

YouTube video by owen reiser LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

The two brothers who documented their endearing and hilarious run at extreme birding across the US wanted to avoid streaming services and distribution networks. So they've made Listers available ad free on youtube [they accept donations]. It is super entertaining and beautiful. A must see!

YouTube video by owen reiser LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching (Official Movie Trailer)

Highly recommend this documentary by two brothers who take up competitive birding and document their cross-US trip featuring interviews with other extreme birders. The rawer footage is accompanied by beautiful shots of birds. It is as delightful, quirky and fun as you would expect. A gem and classic

YouTube video by owen reiser LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

The brothers who documented their run at extreme birding across the US wanted to avoid streaming services and formal distribution networks. So they've made the film available as free on YouTube and accept donations. I highly recommend. It is super endearing and extremely funny and beautiful.

So close to setting up a chess board correctly, but the black king is on the wrong square