Michelle Chihara

Not All Women | Dayna Tortorici The point of all this cataloging — which is less schematic in Lewis’s presentation than my summary suggests — is to help us recognize traces of enemy feminism when we encounter them in the present. An...

I liked reading this and will be thinking about it: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...

20 books we can't wait to read in 2026 Looking for your next great read? We asked critics, authors and literary folks about town to share books they’re most excited for in 2026. Featuring new works by Tayari Jones, Claudia Rankine, Jesmyn ...

Especially in dark times, reading for pleasure is important— spiritually, collectively — Check out the books a few writers and editors (including me) are looking forward to!! @latimes www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Uncool Whacking L.A. trees in a mistaken effort to reduce crime

Great piece on Los Angeles cutting down trees to reduce shade out of some misguided belief it will reduce crime and not just make the city more inhospitable. This place could be so amazing if city leadership weren't such a mess. lareported.substack.com/p/shade-remo...

Truly so excited for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ decisions, both

according to the @latimes.com and @thisblue.bsky.social, if you want to make good decisions this spring, you should pre-order my book!

(as well as @robinnelee.bsky.social's 'crash into me', for when you're ready to give into temptation)

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

From platform capitalism to Hybe 7M TikTok cult economy

The apocalyptic redefinition of failing up

Mr Beast is a walking harbinger of doom, remember when he had to apologize for talking about buying Black people?

The entire economy is a leveraged bet on who can throw the sharpest elbows in a game of Pay Me First

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In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.

You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.

That is all.

OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.

what a shocking turn of events
who could’ve seen this coming

Radical flexibility: driving for Lyft and the future of work in the platform economy Labour conditions in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in the US have become increasingly precarious and abusive. At the same time, many workers and users (no longer easily categori...

This research by @thisblue.bsky.social is very pertinent here.

I've tried and failed a couple times to write a post explaining how serious this would be. NCAR is globally essential to our climate change response. This can't just be replaced. Every scientist in the world will be doing climate research with one hand tied behind their back for at least a decade

I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...

"I’ve concluded that instead of teaching students to read and write, I should be teaching them how to prompt AI better. If only I’d had a better education in AI prompt writing, I’d be able to get AI to create more AI-proof teaching materials for me."

💯History of Palo Alto is the history of capitalism, everybody read their Malcolm Harris

YouTube video by Elle Cordova For our scientists

I wasn't familiar with Elle Cordova's work. I like this a lot:

Fabian Muniesa, 2024, Paranoid Finance, Polity Press.

"There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable." www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation

Here's the link: harpers.org/archive/2025...
5/5

It goes on..."But it’s hard not to see goonerism as just an intensification, almost a burlesque, of prevailing cultural trends. ...What do these companies care? They’ve won. If they have their way—and they usually do—in time we will all be gooners, of a kind."
Oof. Everybody plz touch grass 4/

...other-directed pleasures for the comfort of staring at screens alone. Does any of this sound familiar? Do you maybe know some folks who get up to stuff like this? It’s true that gooners are masturbating while they engage in these behaviors. You could say that only makes them more honest. 3/

Parasocially fixating on microcelebrities who want their money. Broadcasting their love for those microcelebrities in public forums. Conducting bizarre self-experiments because someone on the internet told them to. In general, abjuring connective, ...2/

This graf of this "Goon Squad" Harper's Mag article really gutted me with despair about the post-literate age... "...Think about it for a second: What are these gooners actually doing? Wasting hours each day consuming short-form video content. Chasing intensities of sensation across platforms. 1/

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!

We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump | Isabella Weber Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians

*This* is how the left should be talking about Mamdani's fiscal prospects & challenges. Rather than reify private market prices while fetishizing liberal budget-balancing, Weber challenges the political composition of pricing in the first place. Bravo!

ohhh, I see. They're going to try and remake higher ed the way they did with tech, by flooding the zone with frauds who crowd out any reasonable discussion

meanwhile ...