Stringer Bell an important minor prophet of our time

We’re at the Beginning, Not the End We’re at the Beginning, Not the End - How We Win by Rashad Robinson

really liked this about how racism isn’t just a moral failure, but the operating system for authoritarianism. we treat "talking about race" as a strategy question. but the reason to talk about it is to prevent the power grab that we're going to face
rashad-advisors.kit.com/posts/we-re-...

The Interview: Saidiya Hartman | ArtReview The academic, theorist and artist speaks about her new production Minor Music at the End of the World, currently touring

Dialectical materialism is me, adding "seeing this in person" to my to-do list, knowing it will take me a whole sabbatical to cross it off:

artreview.com/the-intervie...

a sonic bequeathal. in memory of michael eugene "d'angelo" archer, 1974-2025.

i don't usually do this, but if y'all have a minute, can you please share this link with people who you think may read it? stacialbrown.substack.com/p/a-sonic-be...

So many ppl spent the entire 2010s online trying to find ways to exclude Blackness from their interpretation and analysis of history; the cost of doing so is a level of intellectual and political unpreparedness that cannot meet the current moment in a way that’d be laughable if it wasn’t dangerous.

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I’m really hung up on this idea that everyone left of center with any kind of platform must triangulate to swing voters in Missouri. It’s utterly bizarre. Politics does not work that way. It never has.

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

So exhausting..

somebody's granddaddy came back 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

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Kevin needs help

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

One big problem is that to truly understand what the internet is doing to people, you have to be on it too much to play any useful role in society

Key Takeaways from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s Emails Bloomberg News obtained over 18,000 messages to and from the disgraced financier, revealing the deep ties to the people around him.

TLDR version: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

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Love watching pilot program after pilot program determine over and over and over that UBI is an unambiguous positive that does not ruin economies or neighborhoods or lives and everyone nods and goes "wow, cool, interesting" and then does fucking nothing until the next pilot program 15 years later

YouTube video by CrashCourse Hurricane Katrina: Crash Course Black American History #49

Today marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall. One last thing I wanted to share is this video we did as part of Crash Course Black American History that examines the storm and its aftermath.

Thinking about all my New Orleans people today. And always.

youtu.be/VmqZvlj07-w

yes

The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is to call LLMs “artificial intelligence.”

Ways and Means | Los Angeles Review of Books Carey Mott reviews Andrea Louise Campbell’s “Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes” and Ruth Braunstein’s “My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America.”

"Campbell finds that racial sentiment has the single largest influence on white Americans’ tax attitudes, w/ white taxpayers perceiving their tax dollars as aiding nonwhites—a resentful relationship dating to the post–Civil War era. Black + Brown communities, meanwhile [are often] taxed unfairly."

Had a GREAT talk with my daughters about AI this morning. We watched this video from Curiosity Theory after the chat, and I recommend folks check it out as a framework for navigating digital/media literacy

adding another entry to the “ai predictions are probably best understood as psychoanalytic fantasies” file

there are certain things you know your entire life as part of an oppressed class (or multiple oppressed classes) and it gets so tedious, frustrating and infuriating to watch people “discover” those things when they find themselves oppressed for the first time.

You can, in fact, just decide to start a thing. I do it all of the time and it's a good way to execute ideas rather to just critique others' ideas. Critique by doing as Michelangelo said. Critique by DOING.

Care

Given how “care” is get being promoted by critics of structural violence, I suggest, if you haven’t, checking out this new book by Premilla Nadasen from @haymarketbooks.org.

Challenges the idea that care is inherently oppositional to the state or capitalism.

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2098-c...