Bryant Burkhart

yearning for the 'good ole days' of walmart is like yearning for the executioner's blade.

yeah, i think separating identity/self-making from truth claims here is necessary. "science" (as a composite ideal) can act as a modern myth, but that's distinct from science's ability to know things about the world.
(pragmatism makes this point well.)

I'm interested in arguments for virtue and find them compelling... but I think I agree with you here. I think Lasch may sharpen this point by tying it to the failures of meritocracy, but I'm still not totally convinced by it.

maybe cuz I like social sciences and am cautiously pro-modernism.

God, I'd take this over an abundance agenda anyday.

By the time you're done that list, you'll be 45 and deradicalized

(yes I read the Iliad in high school for fun. yes, I was also extremely uncool. didn't turn me into a bootlicker though. Mostly thought it was boring.)

i generally enjoy Dean’s work, but the lack of specificity (and citations) really frustrated me here. Her interview with Henwood ultimately affirms most of the left critiques of “woke,” so it was frustrating to see her just dusting off 1970s (and 90s) era broadsides against neocons.

He's shadowboxing something that no one wants to resurrect. Even the most strident communists aren't necessarily fans of a centralized economy. It really shows his lack of research

Mamdani/Jacobin/ most of DSA national are arguing for a nordic-style social democracy more than anything.

mix in a little bit of that sewer socialism?

can i get "hell yeah, brutherrrrr"

as a literal (former) construction foreman who has studied Derrida...

this made me guffaw

also my general attitude toward Derrida, tbh

had a very embarrassing moment where I confused clipse and clipping. a few days ago.

Very confusing 4 minutes as I scrambled to figure out why Daveed Diggs was rapping about slinging dope.

(as good as the new clipping album is... it's NOT clipse)

Honestly, this interview convinced me to read the book.

Now I have to read another book?! Maybe I'll read the AI summary. 🫠

Haha. I just read "Fifth Sun" by Camilla Townsend (which means I also read about 7 book reviews and half a dozen articles on the topic of the Spanish Conquest of the Mexica)

It's been fun peering into a field that's not mine and seeing the fractures.

I left the carpentry trades (half in the field, half in a factory) after a decade because it destroyed my body (my back, specifically).

Undoubtedly, I played a significant part in that, but a lot of it is just because the work is damn hard. It's good work, but I want better for my coworkers damit

Buy my book! It kind of is crucial to understanding the moment we’re in, if I say so myself:

Glad some excellent reporters still carrying the torch for peace. (On the other hand, BOTH the NYT and The Atlantic have run op-eds praising the war. 2001 called, it wants it’s warhawks back)

i think everyone on the left should more or less aggressively grab on to the legacy of FDR's war liberalism and shove it down the throat of every fascist until they cannot breath

It was great to be out on such a dismal day. Thanks to @willbunch.bsky.social for the excellent coverage.

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

"yeah, it's dying. but at least we're not alone!"

this question has REALLY been weighing me down the past few months. Like... 'questioning if I should switch to sociology' weighing me down

The Imperial Boomerang Lands in Los Angeles As police and the National Guard escalate against anti-ICE protesters, the Department of Homeland Security bridges US violence abroad and US violence at home.

Were Aime Césaire alive to conduct a structural analysis of the advancing militarization of American law enforcement since 9/11, I suspect he would have understood DHS as a template for how Imperial Boomerangs operate in the 21st century.

Me for @zeteo.com on LA, and what led to it.

What happened in 2013?

whatyoumean, that's how I start all my manuscripts.

can you imagine anything more tiresome than your drug friend also being your priest?

hahahahaha (sorry to all my drug friends)

how much of the DOGE-driven destruction of the nation’s research and development capacity is because these people are AI cultists who believe that we’re on the verge of creating a sentient general intelligence?

available on switch right now

I hope it was... well, I'm not sure what you were looking for there, but I hope it was illuminating.

Eliza is a great writer. Whether one agrees with her diagnosis of circle's maladies (opinions vary), it's a challenging testimony to the power and difficulty of community.

The worst people in the world are mad.

"no, no. The Christ is UNDER the sauce"

that said, at some point we will have to reckon with the political consequences of putting this scale of wealth at the personal, unilateral discretion of individual human beings (generations ago would've been nice, but I'll settle for now)

I admit, I'd be annoyed because I can type better/faster than I can write.

But also, if I was a student I'd be glad knowing I'm actually learning. (But, admittedly, I'm a nerd. I went BACK to school after years away)

Definately stealing this for when I teach, though.