David W. Brown

this is an absolute twenty alarm fire and I just cannot bring myself to believe capital, in one way or another, isn’t going to reel him in on this.

we can’t have a real economy without the goddamn labor numbers. it just doesn’t work.

Just-out-smarted people can be so unpleasant.

El Greco's Saint Sebastians. — alina Ştefănescu I have been one acquainted with the spatula, the slotted, scuffed, Teflon-coated spatula that lifts a solitary hamburger from pan to plate, acquainted with the vibrator known as the Pocket Rocket an...

El Greco's paintings of Saint Sebastian and a little ongoing art-intrigue involving the one that was being auctioned at Christie's until the Romanian government stepped in earlier this year. :)

www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/7/...

Yeah this part.

OpenAI basically says they want college classrooms to be the test site. We’d be paying to be their subjects. No thanks. Pay faculty, hire more faculty.

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All the American government is reduced to a senile 80-year-old wanting to be around the people he sees on TV

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

I gave an in-depth interview with my hometown Chicago Tribune about what’s going to happen to NPR and PBS, and how cutting public media is part of a broader anti-democratic ideological project.

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Three dozen PDFs (and counting) of books on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, and more. (Fanon, Chomsky, Parenti, Sankara, Prashad, etc.) Spread the word!

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The funny part is that once they start putting out fake numbers, AI models will incorporate them as fact in all their responses, and those newly laundered facts will make their way into the legitimate press. (And by "funny" I mean we are doomed.)

if your not using ai youre going to get left behind. you gotta use it. guys please use it. we're going to make you use it. your fridge is ai now. fuck you

(Also yours Erika and Alina but I've not written them yet 😢)

I have a half-finished newsletter in which I sing your praises!

I keep a list, but most people take less adderall than I do. My go-to tastemakers are @alinaetc.bsky.social and @andrewbertaina.bsky.social (both of whom also have excellent new books out, incidentally).

the main thing you need to know about all these tariffs is that Donny's name is on every page of the Epstein Files

Bonus cat

Mara is pleased to hear it

rabbit rabbit rabbit

Even this description does a disservice to how gross this was. This shit kid, Farritor, overrode Rubio and personally destroyed lots of USAID when he was ordered not to. And Elon was utterly confused about what the agency even was, the Bond villain narratives in the replies are too generous.

My desk is their preferred battleground, but only when I’m working 😟

This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.

Reminder that the US has a signed and ratified trade deal with Korea that an international treaty & part of US law, & <everything> here is wildly illegal & we should stop sanewashing & normalizing of it & simply enforce the damn law even for this One Special Boy.

That cat is clearly an angel and has never done such a thing. Why would you defame her like this??

It's like Thunderdome here.

Art doesn’t get censored because it might make people immoral or violent. It gets censored because it might make them realize that there are different ways to live than the prescribed hegemony crammed down our throats

I especially appreciate the harmonizing at 4am.

They also spend a lot of time singing to me!

At least they aren't standing on my keyboard, which is something.

All day. And where do they have to do it? My desk.