Chica Marx

“I’m not a serious thinker. I’m a writer: that’s very different. I think a writer’s intelligence has to be alive, has to be incomplete. It has to carry contradiction. It has to be sort of haphazard and amateur.”
- Benjamín Labatut

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Are we not even making our own disinformation? What happened to American manufacturing?

It actually doesn't get much better than that.

For tomorrow night's TCM appearance, I just want to highlight that when researching the true story of Dog Day Afternoon, the 'gay wedding' referenced within the news report of the film did happen and Lee G. Brewster's DRAG Magazine covered it only to follow up on it later. Photos from DTA.

Congratulations! Looking forward to this one. 🖤🌈👾👽🔥

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I know everyone is upset about Gmail’s AI thing right now, but why does nobody talk about the fact that it’s search is absolute pants

Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?

Love it, seen it many times. Big love for the Commie screen writers.

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
- Doris Lessing

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

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AI is the perfect bureaucratic technology in that it offers effortless on-demand simulacra of governmentality.

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

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Signed, numbered copies of “Deserter’s Dance” zine, made by Karmaklubb Oslo, available free at Hive Mind Books Brooklyn.

I predict a James Frey scenario. She’ll lose the Vanity Fair job but recast herself as a novelist, win even bigger advances & publicity budgets, & within ten years achieve literary world celebrity & another NYT profile. I think Balzac already wrote the whole script.

New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said on a podcast with Jon Stewart it's a "great idea."

““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”

👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …

It’s hard to conjure the media environment of the time for today’s students. The wasteland of nothing for or about queer life, let alone black queer life.

They are so funny. Our neighbors are being stuffed into unmarked vans, and they’re all like let’s vote against a term we probably can’t define instead.

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Has JD Vance done anything as VP besides go on podcasts and complain?

Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷

Of these Power Clowns agreed to it.

The most repulsive thing about the Times is that it takes power at its word.

It is within our powers to be cool-adjacent.

David Bartholomae: writing "is an act of aggression disguised as an act of charity"

the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism