David Kaib

Sesame Workers Union T-Shirt Made in USA Union decorated 90% Cotton / 10% Polyester Gender-neutral fit

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The jacket is amazing

I did just order one from the Sesame Street workers union.

I have, inexplicably, too few union shirts. Looking for suggestions.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, “No abolitionist who is a true abolitionist wants to save money. What we want is for the money to be spent, to enhance, and support human life so that it can flourish in a way that doesn’t destroy the planet. We’re not about cost-savings.” Save lives, not money.

Going to start calling chatbots sycophancy as a service.

Constantly pointing out that the regime is corrupt doesn't do anything. You have to tell people what you plan to do about said corruption. But again, there's no opposition party so we're left with simple narration.

Every criticism of the party becoming nothing but a front for consultancy grifts always sounded like an oversimplification of a mixed bag. Turns out we weren't harsh or cynical enough.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

"OpenAI has hired former Coursera Inc. executive Leah Belsky to be its first general manager of education, leading the artificial intelligence startup’s efforts to bring its products to more schools and classrooms."

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yeah, some women were complaining about this a couple months ago. doesn't help that this was supposed to be about a 'baby boom', which, um, would be hampered by medicaid reductions and changes in/repeal of the ACA

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Situating concrete aspects of social murder and response to it within capital's circuits I want to try something. Specifically, I want to try to situate harms generated by capitalist society, and more specifically, means of responding to those...

Situating concrete aspects of social murder and response to it within capital's circuits by @nhold.bsky.social

Joke’s on you, I can only hold one fact in my head at a time.

“hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry”

I would also do this if I was the head of a union.

If I were a political party out of power, I would get on YouTube every day at the same time to run down the latest political news and alert the public what the party was doing about each issue.

I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.

Ruh row.

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

The ADL's hypothetical scenario involving flyers critical of Israel's demolition program encapsulates many other issues that those who reviewed the material or completed a training raised. The scenario begins with a student leaving their dorm room to find a flyer taped to the door "warning that your residence hall will soon be demolished" "The rest of the flyer contains 'facts' about how many Palestinian homes have been demolished by the Israeli military to collectively punish and 'ethnically cleanse' Palestinians," the toolkit continues. The ADL is referring to the highly charged debate over Israel's mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank. The training material then offers the Israeli narrative around the demolitions, claiming they target "terrorists" and "deter others from terrorist action". *. Other homes were demolished because they were "built without proper permits", the ADL states. "While you may agree or disagree with these Israeli government actions, the charge that Israel has demolished these homes to 'ethnically cleanse' Palestinians is inaccurate and inflammatory," the ADL material states.

According to the Guardian, the ADL is now creating education materials for schools in which the civil rights organization justifies Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in occupied Palestinian territory.

Almost like the goal is not to combat antisemitism, but to use Jews as a shield to promote an anti-education agenda that the majority of American Jews oppose.

Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself:

The point of these deals is to incrementally destroy these schools and to further their agenda of ethnic cleansing.

Was out running this morning and saw a guy walking two corgis, who were cross-crossing their leashes and spinning around him in circles. “Hey,” he said, bending over to get their attention. “Concentrate!”

I think there’s a big difference between “all hope is lost” and “I have lost hope” and in climate it is really important to distinguish between the two. My personal feelings, your personal feelings are not the limits of our collective politics.

Niemöller was a Nazi. He fought in the Freikorps. He was a willing participant in the Third Reich because he had sought and received assurances from Hitler himself that the Nazis would not go after Protestants. Then he ended up in a Camp. He was wrong. That’s why he wrote the poem.

Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.

Jewish people constituted 0.75% of the German population in 1933.