people online are constantly saying shit like "the average person is now post-literate and returning to medieval peasant mindset" while neglecting the corollary, namely that our elite aristos are once again scrying for angels, summoning demons, distilling elixirs of eternal life, etc.
11.10.2025 11:15 β π 115 π 32 π¬ 3 π 4
the dork in question is Jed Rubenfeld, husband of Amy Chua of Tiger Mom fame, who also mentored Vance. The fix was in, and it was most likely a very gentle 'debate'
08.10.2025 20:37 β π 82 π 24 π¬ 3 π 2
perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didnβt take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.
06.10.2025 13:35 β π 9444 π 2148 π¬ 181 π 87
βYou are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the lineβ lmao
06.10.2025 21:55 β π 187 π 32 π¬ 1 π 0
I would really like to read an article analyzing the Peloton hashtag #irideforcharliekirk. I am sure there is some useful theoretical framework here, but itβs a bit beyond my reach.
04.10.2025 23:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump.
All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing
29.09.2025 23:04 β π 3033 π 905 π¬ 42 π 52
Disabling Intelligences
This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.
Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences details the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. link.springer.com/book/9783032...
16.09.2025 16:43 β π 94 π 37 π¬ 9 π 10
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in itβremoves them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
23.09.2025 17:09 β π 6693 π 1942 π¬ 203 π 298
I got mine on Friday! Congrats! Really looking forward to it.
23.09.2025 00:46 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
"Whatever nuance is needed for its interception, resisting AIβs further creep into intellectual labor will also require blunt-force militancy. The steps are simple. Donβt publish AI bullshit. Donβt even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit."
16.09.2025 14:21 β π 18 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0
This week has really crushed my last dregs of hope that legacy news organizations can become capable of meeting the moment.
13.09.2025 14:34 β π 1778 π 262 π¬ 14 π 34
I don't think it's simpering praise. He was an interesting man. I didn't agree with much that he said, but he was interesting and he was growing, and his death is a significant loss for those who believe engagement can help bridge disagreements.
From an Atlantic editor.
I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!
13.09.2025 13:56 β π 8603 π 1518 π¬ 361 π 182
Tapping the sign
06.09.2025 22:57 β π 5867 π 1666 π¬ 68 π 67
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
31.08.2025 12:02 β π 12342 π 1936 π¬ 78 π 28
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28.08.2025 16:58 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 3
1) A Special Announcement from American Religion
15.08.2025 17:00 β π 1 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Consumer tech π€ carceral tech π€ military tech
07.08.2025 20:03 β π 65 π 12 π¬ 3 π 0
The AHA can't comment on a genocide in progress because that's political and not history yet but it can encourage uptake of a plagiarism and learning preemption machine because that's apolitical and the future
05.08.2025 17:49 β π 20 π 5 π¬ 3 π 1
My bereaved family: Can't believe he's gone. But now, with the power of technology, we can ask him what he thinks about current events
My distorted face glitching on a screen: ToyYotathon Is hERE
04.08.2025 20:39 β π 5033 π 654 π¬ 30 π 15
Here's the final footnote of my book's final chapter, in which I suggest that a case like Davis's would be brought to overturn Obergefell, and at least Thomas and Alito would be into it. I thought it'd be a case *like* hers, not just hers again, but...
31.07.2025 17:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The making of a Drift cover
Behind the scenes with our print designer
Here's a pretty cool look at how the designer of one small print magazine β @thedrift-mag.bsky.social β puts together its covers. I especially like the gif showing the evolution from inspiration to final design.
newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-making...
29.07.2025 17:20 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Critical secularism studies - are we still doing this? Any juice left in that lime? I say yes!
25.07.2025 14:46 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
I might be stretching it a bit to call this βpolemical,β though, and I think your general point is fair and right.
28.07.2025 20:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yeah, Iβve been writing about this so itβs on my mind. Mostly sociologists and/or Christians who are, to me at least, clearly doing polemical work about who is a good/real Christian but then presenting it (and genuinely mistaking it, I think) for analysis of on-the-ground reality.
28.07.2025 20:32 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Idk. Many people who produce polemical rhetoric about white Christian nationalism do not seem to get this.
28.07.2025 20:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Person holding a sandwich-board sign with a faux dictionary definition that reads "Dad. noun. a human male who protects his kids from gender ideology."
With all due respect to Billboard Chris, this is a very funny sign. Also a useful case study for teaching a kind of scientism, weaponized "objectivity," ideology pretending to be non-ideological. Especially silly and stark here, but there are many such cases.
25.07.2025 17:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Just attended AFTβs AI Symposium. Trying to get handle on how itβs being addressed in bargaining.
Unsurprisingly, none of the speakers evidenced awareness of the critical scholarship on AI. Or any scholarship. Weingarten multiple times said βAI can now generate knowledge.β
Consent: manufactured.
25.07.2025 14:57 β π 53 π 28 π¬ 4 π 2
Critical secularism studies - are we still doing this? Any juice left in that lime? I say yes!
25.07.2025 14:46 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
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