Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa

Habermas's generation of Frankfurt School thinkers was formed in the optimism of the postwar years, when a better world seemed possible. Today, in the post-postwar era, the pessimism of first generation Frankfurt School thinkers like Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse actually seems more fitting.

Just watched Mattie Do's second feature, Dearest Sister (2016). It's not the masterpiece The Long Walk is, but it's still fantastic. Several of the same actors star in both and there are stylistic/genre similarities as well. Plus, another sinister solar power company! Definitely worth your time!

Anyone remember that Iran expressed solidarity w US post 9/11? Citizens held vigils & officials condemnedi the attacks, aligned against Taliban & held backchannel talks on security. Ccooperation ended in 2002 after Bush, a near subsidiary of the House of Saud, labeled Iran part of the Axis of Evil.

this is the speech the DNC censored.

They didn't vote for Dems in 2024 for the same reasons why I don't vote for the GOP: the Republicans actively have demonstrated that they hate me.

I disagree with protest voting for Trump. But the 2024 Dems gave that community nothing at all. We watched that unfold with Biden HQ, then Harris HQ.

Liberez-les! Free them!

I guess you're allowed to do another ten billion arguments about whether or not Biden was just a small baby who had no power over the situation so long as you agree that the next president should actually maybe do something fundamentally different.

Fwiw, this is what I've previously written about that section in Haraway:

Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.

The same ones they're training to play Doom?

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Never fund DHS again. Abolish it completely.

If someone wants to moan about "but but we have to ____" yeah fine we can discuss a new department, but *this* department has to go.

Maybe Haraway?: "the cyborg does not expect its father to save it through a restoration of the garden"

Lao Horror, Lao Hopes: 10 Questions with Mattie Do After her father immigrated back to Laos five years ago, Mattie Do and her husband made the decision to join him in Vientiane. In doing so, Mattie and her husband became acquainted with Mr. Anouson…

"Again, since we weren’t ever thinking about this film having much of a life outside of Laos, we tried–and I don’t know how successful we were at this–to really think about making a movie that would be scary for a Lao audience, understanding that a Lao audience has never seen a scary Lao movie."

"A department generating high credit-hour production across the university but with few declared majors is not an inefficient department. It is a department whose students are not being counted in the metric being used against it."

i cannot believe this complete fucking idiot has been at the top of the u.s. political echelon for my entire adult life

Do is such an interesting person. She's the first woman director from Laos and made Laos' first horror film! I plan to watch that one, Chanthaly (2012), next.

Just watched Mattie Do's second feature, Dearest Sister (2016). It's not the masterpiece The Long Walk is, but it's still fantastic. Several of the same actors star in both and there are stylistic/genre similarities as well. Plus, another sinister solar power company! Definitely worth your time!

@prisonculture.bsky.social's zine arrived this morning and it's truly a thing of beauty!

My point is actually really simple and it's important because we should dispel the conspiracy brained thinking where we can: the Israelis act like they have impunity because the US repeatedly says out loud that they have impunity. Under every administration. It's that simple.

Earth’s days are getting longer at an unprecedented rate. Climate change is to blame Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening days by 1.33 milliseconds per century

great. now we will also get to work 1.33 extra milliseconds every century. www.scientificamerican.com/article/eart...

Here’s my take on birth rate discourse.

Maybe these folks should shut the fuck up until they do something about maternal mortality, particularly among women of color.

Sociologists for Palestine have asked members to send us the letters they have written to @asanews.bsky.social.

We are sharing them here as evidence of how unpopular this decision is with the ASA membership.

Please amplify this thread & any letters that resonate with your position.

Thanks for putting this together. It's great!

@prisonculture.bsky.social's zine arrived this morning and it's truly a thing of beauty!

Fascinating that the US is burning down its own regional system for really just nothing at all

Just put together a little introduction for someone who wanted to replicate this at their school and I thought I'd share it in case others are interested:

Opinion | Colleges Face Widespread Closures. So Why Are They Still Resisting Change? Transformation is no longer optional.

i’ll save y’all the trouble: luddite faculty are scared of bold changes so it’s all their fault.

Hot take: I actually think faculty have amazing ideas for saving higher ed and the specificity of local knowledge to save their individual institutions. But they are not ultimately the decision makers, even with “shared governance”

Here is my best Habermas story.

I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"