Anschel

After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening

Hearing this as a lyric out of La Vie Boheme from RENT

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

It was @clairewillett.bsky.social

liberals are obsessed with identity politics issues like who is and isn't a pedophile while trump is laser focused on unleashing the power of the american economy

Media standards:

1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.

2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.

Way too many think that’s journalism.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

I agree with this, but I can't help noticing the irony of what a "party that rules the country for a generation" is likely to get up to...

Truly fucking insane to watch

I think this a lot about mathematics. If someone could make a computer that did research mathematics (and fwiw I don't expect that to happen any time soon) it wouldn't stop mathematicians. Might make grants a bit harder to get though...

I wonder how much of this is generational? I remember @gretchenmcc.bsky.social having some really interesting insights into the way people used punctuation pre-Internet, including those infamous ellipses

Three bunnies are standing together in a trench, in World War 1 British uniforms. Two of them have rifles. They look up to see a dove carrying an olive branch, as the sun emerges from clouds

Daily bunny no.3136 is going home at last

Or the result thereof

Finally, the only fiction that I can put on this list: China Miéville's *The City & the City*, which gave me a deep understanding of what a social construct really *is*. 7/7

For literature: not one book per se, but the poems of Pablo Neruda made me realize what poetry can be. I found others later, especially Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes; but Neruda will always be my first poetic love. 6/7

On a political level, Joe Sacco's *Palestine* was deeply transformative. I had always been suspicious of Zionism in theory, as an anti-nationalist and as a Yiddish revivalist. But seeing the horrors of Zionism in practice was truly radicalizing. 5/7

Of course, I *didn't* become a linguist, in part because I went to a college with no linguistics major (oops) and in part because of another book for The List: Halmos's *Naive Set Theory*. Just reading the introduction today fills me with inspiration and excitement. 4/7

Deutscher's book was the first one that presented to me the structure of language as something that could be studied rather than simply marveled at, and it's not a coincidence that I spent most of my adolescence expecting to become a linguist. 3/7

I had read other pop-linguistics books before, but they had been primarily intellectual tourism, telling me about this or that "exotic" feature of a language I had usually never heard of. 2/7

This is a fun question because when I think of my favorite books I usually go to those that I had intense emotional reactions to, rather than those that changed my worldview in some clearly identifiable way. First up is Guy Deutscher's *The Unfolding of Language*. 1/7

@gork.it is this true?

they are able to peel back the ACA because its a shitty half measure but if we had gotten real universal healthcare instead no one would dare touch it because literally everybody on all sides would flip out. one more reason why Democratic incrementalism and "pragmatism" is fucking stupid !!!!!

that's one of mine that, if i'm not mistaken 🫡

Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”: "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.

Boy watching Homer beat up the krusty burglar: Stop! He’s already dead!

Theresa May, the buffoon of "Brexit means Brexit", was to the left of Keir Starmer on trans rights.

That's the kind of fact that mainstreaming bigotry forces us to recognise.

Men like this are transphobes because they are, deep down, misogynists. They simply believe they are better than women at everything, and in trans women they have found a group it is alright to descriminate against. This man believes cis women are his physical inferiors, and needs you to know that.

If they're still making movies in 15-20 years there will be multiple Oscar noms for playing "remorseful / reflective former ICE agent who knows how Complicated history is"