Christopher Hudson

Temuera Morrison as Chief Kahekili

Kahekilinuiʻahumanu in Chief of War Apple TV+ show Star Wars

Boba Fett, King of Maui

Hey Bluesky! Just started on here, hopeful for some good conversations. Sharing these replies on nationalism as a thread.

I love @zacharywoodman.bsky.social and I’m glad we got to have him on Non Serviam

Satirical pretend screenshot of Fox News in North Korean style with inset of Donald Trump’s face altered to North Korean features and main shot of White House spox Karoline Leavitt as announcer in traditional garb.

Satire, not a real Fox News screenshot.

I feel like the broad knee-jerk negative reaction most people have towards anything AI / LLM related lets slide things that are legitimately incredibly alarming.

Another fun one for me to record. I had to question my knee-jerk dislike of creative AI (even if I didn't come around).

I hadn’t made that connection before, but you’re absolutely on to something with the comparison! Bari Weiss as the Carl McIntire of the 2020s. 🙃

I go to hardcore shows, so I don’t need any more agro dudes scared of women and deodorant yelling at me.

BBC chart: 2025 prices have increased among imported goods & domestic goods in tariff-affected categories.

Meanwhile, the Yale Budget Lab estimates that the US average effective tariff rate rose from 2.4% (January) to 16.6% yesterday.

Today's tariffs raise that figure to 18.2%.

Curate your own newspaper with RSS Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

This, from @molly.wiki, is very good.* Google Reader died long ago, but RSS didn't go anywhere, and it really does offer a better experience than proliferating email newsletters. (* And not just because it cites me.) www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

The Radio Right by Paul Matzko Libro.fm

Current listening to The Radio Right by @paulmatzko.bsky.social, and his description of the key role conservative broadcasters played easing the transition of segregationist democrats to the GOP hauntingly mirrors how modern right-wing podcasters do the same thing today for transphobic liberals.

a disembodied mouth superimposed atop a phone, yelling the logos of mastercard, visa, and paypal

Inside the mass call campaign to stop video game censorship

aftermath.site/steam-itch-p...

Any news, article, or study related to COVID-19 is overwhelming bombarded with laugh reactions and ridicule by conservatives, and I fear general COVID / vaccine denial has completely replaced climate change denial as the primary “science” related signal for being on the right.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.

“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.

Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

I think the word "Nazi" is quite overused these days, but demanding a list of people who attended an event at which speech about and by people the Florida regime clearly considers undesirable is....some real Nazi-ass shit.

European Economic Review Volume 178, September 2025, 105116 European Economic Review Ways of seeing the world: Legibility in alternative institutional settings Author links open overlay panel Christopher J. Coyne a , Nathan Goodman b , André Quintas a Show more Add to Mendeley Share Cite https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105116 Get rights and content Abstract Legibility refers to the ability of people to make sense of the world. In Seeing Like a State, James Scott (1998) employs this concept to analyze efforts by governments to make the world legible through top-down efforts of standardization and control. State efforts to impose order often generate harms because they lack access to local experiential knowledge (mētis). How, then, can people make sense of the complexities of the world? This paper explores the answer to this question by considering ways of making the world legible across institutional contexts. After examining Scott’s critique of state-imposed high modernism, we consider two alternative forms of legibility—the market process and local community. In doing so, we engage the criticism that markets can also be a form of imposition and control. We highlight the importance of market contestability as a way of encouraging the use of local knowledge. Finally, we argue that political capitalism makes market outcomes more akin to state-led high modernism, impeding desirable complementarities between market discovery and mētis.

In the European Economic Review, Chris Coyne, @andrequintas.bsky.social & I build on James C. Scott's book "Seeing Like a State." We examine legibility and the use of knowledge across alternative institutional settings, including states, markets, & communities.

Can’t wait for the libertarian golden children of the econ dept and law schools to jump to defend their institution 🙄

DYING WISH announce new album 'Flesh Stays Together', premiere lead single and video Portland, Oregon based band Dying Wish have shared details regarding their new album Flesh Stays Together, which is set to arrive on September 26th via SharpTone Records. The band has also unveiled the album's first...

Dying Wish announce new album 'Flesh Stays Together', premiere lead single and video

Just to reiterate: What this administration is doing right now is orders of magnitude more dangerous for academic freedom and free speech than anything the right has spent the last 30 years complaining about.

My piece on modern far right intellectuals for @liberalcurrents.com

So many of the “campus free speech” crusaders of the past decade have turned out to be utter hypocrites.

Free speech was merely a convenient rhetorical device for their ultimate goal: imposing their own beliefs on universities by government fiat.

Trump administration takes credit for crime drop it previously denied existing The Department of Homeland Security is boasting that its mass deportation program is responsible for a major drop in crime.

Latest: The Trump administration takes credit for a crime drop it previously denied existed. reason.com/2025/07/29/t...

Why Are Progressive Democrats Giving President Trump a Free Pass on Tariff Price Hikes? Whatever your politics, one consequence is obvious: tariffs mean higher prices.

“Instead of owning the pricing fallout from his trade wars, President Trump can now point to Democratic cries of ‘corporate greed’ and claim their proposed FTC crackdown proves that it’s businesses—not his tariffs—to blame for higher prices.” @ryanbourne.bsky.social @cato.org

At some point you just have to conclude this stuff reflects the views of Substack's leadership.

If you don't feel hatred deep in your bones at these paternalistic abuses of the term 'safety', I don't think we're the same species

Dear Autocorrect,

I promise I’ve never once meant nor will I ever mean “he’ll yeah”.

Interesting interview

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the “candidate of peace.”

(chart from the Telegraph, July 16)

‎Seabird Reader ‎Seabird is a new way of finding worthwhile writing and other media on the internet: A place for readers to discover, for curators to share, and for writers to feature their latest articles, essays, b...

It's Seabird Sunday, the weekly roundup of worthwhile links shared on the Seabird app. Join us there for daily links from users you follow and to contribute your own links!

Sign up code: "WaitIsOver"

iOS:
apps.apple.com/us/app/seabi...

Android:
play.google.com/store/apps/d...