Michael J. Steudeman

this is a very basic point to make but I hate that so many tech people are going "whoops haha AI is about to destroy society as we know it!" and yet incredibly few tech people are arguing in favour of just...slowing down the roll-out of AI, apparently progress must crush us and we have no say in it?

Has anyone done the relationship mapping between trump donors and LLCs that bought a ton of old warehouses six months ago and are now reselling them to ICE at 5x market rate yet

There are fast days and feast days but no religion has yet had the idea of combining them: feasting while moving extremely fast.

Everyone sprinting about, hands full of food, all day long. Passing each other rotisserie chickens like marathon runners getting cups of water

Thinking back on the 80s movies that inspired Stranger Things, part of their charm was that they weren’t 45 hours long

Literally my entire adult life, the mainstream media has fallen for a massive bullshit campaigns from the right again and again and again and again. At no point do they hold it against the right. At no point do they change the way they deal with the right.

Where is their pride?

February 19, 2026 INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY As survivors and descendants of the mass removals, detention, deportation, and family separation targeting our community during WWII, we refuse to stand by idly while our friends and neighbors are violently disappeared, forcibly removed, mass incarcerated, and separated from family members. We decry the murders of community members and at least 37 people in ICE custody and enforcement in 2025. We reject false narratives that state violence is "unavoidable," a "justifiable military action," necessary for "national security"—the same arguments used as they forced our parents, grandparents, aunties, and uncles into U.S. concentration camps in 1942. On this Day of Remembrance, we call on Japanese Americans and all people who believe in "Never Again" to demand justice for those we have lost—on the streets and hidden away in ICE detention centers. To break this cycle of state violence. To rise up and resist, together. We bravely commit to being the allies our familes needed during WWII. STOP REPEATING HISTORY. #TsuruForSolidarity #FreeFamilies #FreeThemAll

84 years ago today, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, about two-thirds of whom were US citizens. The Day of Remembrance this year comes as we see DHS buying land and warehouses for more camps now.

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.

It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

After reading Careless People it’s actually wild to open meta’s text-based platforms and see them try to do all of the things to me that Sarah Wynn Williams describes in the book

I think if you are gonna use Threads you have to read the book so you know the anti-democracy machine you’re sustaining

hostile, huh?

How could that have happened? Could it have been because Republicans talked about this issue and we ran away from it?

Obviously lawyers should not wear a civil rights t-shirt to court. Lawyers should observe decorum by only wearing an American flag pin or a crucifix, which are neutral messages without any potentially prejudicial meaning.

How is anyone affiliated with this ‘MAHA’ movement not humiliated to the core of their being every single day? I cannot convey the embarrassment I feel even living on the same *planet* as this video

I want a plugin that tells me whether an article is paywalled before I click it so I can avert the disappointment

Normie white dude candidates saying ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ were pretty important to Reconstruction I as well.

Book cover of Empire with a Vengeance, by Mark Condos. The coveri mage is a reproduction from the cover of Le Petit Journal, depicting the allied punitive expedition to Baoding during the Boxer Rebellion in China, featuring the execution of a Chinese official and destruction of the city's walls.

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And yet, every day, our most prominent Democratic politicians, scholars, public intellectuals, universities & university leaders, & other civil society organizations continue to use his platform as their primary social media outlet. One cannot help but notice this & draw conclusions.

As a Senate candidate, Fetterman guaranteed voters he’d be a reliable Dem, not another Manchin or Sinema.

Constantly. It was his core promise to primary voters.

Liar.

My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate.

Thoughts on this:

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it’s also a bad look b/c the robot looks cute & is very polite

FWIW, I just emailed NYT's standards editor to ask about the paper's policy on this. Will update if I get a response.

The gender version of this is why I am skeptical that we can win by out traditional masculinitying GOP. The very guys we were trying to win over flipped the fuck out and hated us even more when we send a war hero against a draft dodger and a football coach against a weird nerd who wears eyeliner.

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

It’s inaccurate for one. Mellon is by no means the only humanities funder. And the bigger issue is that universities are forced to rely on foundations. I’m more interested in that. And I think the Mellon foundation is great. (No I’ve not received any grants from them.)

Like in no universe would I ever tolerate this from a GOP candidate. I’d be livid at anyone trying to dismiss the concerns.

Tattoos are voluntarily etched in the flesh. People think hard about them.

honestly I think this is a fair criticism. At first I read smearing of Platner as another iteration of the DNC trying to torpedo a progressive candidate, but I do not think that frame applies here at all. It’s not just the tattoo that’s at issue but how he’s handled it. We can do better than this.

EU foreign policy chief criticises ‘fashionable euro-bashing’ by US Kaja Kallas says other countries ‘look up to us’ and rejects idea Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’

European leaders are now pushing back against the "great replacement theory" and other "White Christian Nationalist" propaganda that JD Vance spewed at the Munich security conference.

Good for them.

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Reboot doesn’t land the same without Nic Cage

As a child protection professional, I can tell you the death penalty is NOT an awesome solution to child sexual abuse. Most children are abused by family members; they will not report if their family members will die as a result.

John Fetterman, now mustachioed

over on the PA subreddit folks have identified that Sen. Fetterman’s mustache makes him look like Dr. Robotnik

and now I can’t unsee it

See my memory thought that was the main name of the series, lol. (To your point)

was Soul Reaver one or am I thinking of another game?