David Bering-Porter

Amazing headline.

That would be amazing!

I do! I couldn't fit it into my syllabus this semester, but it's great work!

Teaching the first episode of The X-Files in class tomorrow as we consider the role of government and sovereign authority in the construction of conspiracy. We've been talking a lot about UFOs in class, and it will be interesting to hear their perspective on such an iconic TV show.

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote.

zohranfornyc.com/register

Amazing!

So, this is happening now.

Trump announces 100% tariff on foreign-made movies | CNN Business President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Monday he will be imposing a 100% tariff “on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States.”

Why is everything terrible?

www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/e...

Excited to see this small piece I wrote on horror, possession, and opera come out in Calibano, the magazine of the Rome Opera!

www.operaroma.it/en/calibano/...

"From the dawn of civilization onwards, crowds have always undergone the influence of illusions ... The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them." -- Gustave Le Bon, _The Crowd_.

This looks great!

This, but the entire summer.

I hope he's okay, but we need more of this.

From the ArtificialInteligence community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the ArtificialInteligence community

A nice refutation of Sam Altman's asinine comment that GPT-5 has "PhD level intelligence:" www.reddit.com/r/Artificial...

What are your favorite podcasts, YouTube channels, or other mass media platforms that engage in critical theory, cultural studies, media studies, etc.?

Wow, this post about NFTs really ages like raw milk.

Proofreading has some real highs and lows. Sometimes you are reminded why your argument is actually pretty good and the next moment you see that you've misspelled "the" for the 15th time.

A perfect, concise reading of Trump's idiotic press briefing. No notes.

A more complete report on the DOGE fiasco. I say we, the people, sue to get our money back.

I don’t think we know enough just yet to understand how this will affect NPR and PBS but both received a very small percentage of their budgets from the CPB. This will however have an immediate effect on local public radio and TV affiliates, esp in rural & Indigenous areas

More info here (gift 🔗)

Let that sink in. What DOGE burned through in six months, through sheer stupidity, carelessness, and cruelty, could have funded the NEH for more than a century. This was never an attempt to save money, it was a mugging.

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

I acknowledge that the new system is better, but sometimes I miss "ibid."

Preparing a final manuscript means going down some very weird rabbit holes to clarify some very minor points.

I love that this is the summer that my car's air conditioning has decided to die.

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

It's not fair to be existentially exhausted on a Saturday.

Reading this right now and it's great!

What fresh hell is this?

www.tesla.com/tesla-diner