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The limit of this metaphor is that in the history of ideas, unlike in biology, old extinct lineages can come roaring back to life out of nowhere. A human can’t suddenly reintroduce dinosaur genes into the human gene pool but a Renaissance editor can suddenly revivify the Presocratics

Some of you may not remember that I was 10 years ahead of the curve on pup play too but here’s my 2016 piece in the late great Village Voice

This helps explain how rich kids/nepo babies get offended when they are told they didn't earn their spot. It's not that they're delusional, they did throw the darts. They're just oblivious of the other factors...how many extra throws they got, how much closer to dart board they stood, etc.

I’ve been thinking a lot about cladistics lately in relation to the history of ideas and I decided to make a diagram to schematize the evolution of Greek philosophy

Just a first draft

One disincentive is that they’re all courting donations from an ever-shrinking pool of foundations and wealthy benefactors that are more of less all financially invested in AI.

The mirror universe equivalent of putting tape over your laptop camera, maybe? Instead of obstructing surveillance, this encourages it and facilitates its non-consent

Columbia and Brown to Disclose Admissions and Race Data in Trump Deal

Columbia and Brown universities agreed to provide the Trump administration with detailed admissions data as part of settlements, including information about applicants’ race

Björk: wrote a song about my
borderline personality disorder and how I have to ragesmash every morning to get it out of my system before I can function like a normal human

Gays and dolls: 🤩😍🥰 I feel so seen

The next series of Anti-Oedipus lectures is going to be good, I’m having so much fun writing them.

I’m not an ethicist or anything but I think that if we didn’t honor people who do fucked up shit after they die, people would also be disincentivized to do fucked up shit while they are alive.

In the US they put the CEOs of arms manufacturers on the boards of universities. In the UK they make the former head of MI5 chair of the Man Booker prize.

Everywhere you look the institutional humanities are dominated by the most vile people and the most vile interests.

Wow, the first female head of MI5!

Love when women have an equal opportunity to participate in the oppression of humanity and the maintenance of a global hegemony in direct contravention of international law!!

Girl power!!!!!

Very stable genius

Turns out destroying the education system and pumping every mass medium full of disinformation seriously impedes people’s grasp on reality

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I encourage my readers to scroll through the replies and quote tweets to this.

DOZENS of academics wringing their hands or making snide jokes. These people *do not comprehend* the system they are part of and they have no conception of their own agency OR responsibility.

Good thing they have PhDs!

A few weeks ago @prisonculture.bsky.social said they’re gonna have a tough time finding all the new agents they want and looks like that is indeed the case

#OtD 5 Aug 1895 Friedrich Engels, communist and lifelong collaborator, friend and sponsor of Karl Marx, died in London aged 74. Most famously, he co-wrote the Communist Manifesto: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Are you organizing your colleagues to stop it or just posting your way through it?

Asking for history.

Food: A Radical Concept | FT Get more from FT on Patreon

I wrote about food: about the starvation of Gaza, food waste in the US, and the fantasy of everyone having enough to eat.

Free, no paywall.

Slow Man Robert Wilson and his first masterpiece.

The protean director Robert Wilson, who died last week, once explained to an audience, “If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn’t seen before.” Read Hilton Als on Wilson’s genius.

Food: A Radical Concept | FT Get more from FT on Patreon

I wrote about food: about the starvation of Gaza, food waste in the US, and the fantasy of everyone having enough to eat.

Free, no paywall.

For the record, a lot of bourgeois white fucks like @conorsen.bsky.social are quietly letting their true conservative colors show on twitter while cosplaying as moderates or liberals on here.

As fascism continues to spread, more and more of them will show their real colors.

Can everyone please @ him to tell him he’s a weak fucking loser and he should quit his job?

Did you know you could use that same time to read a book

Hey @conorsen.bsky.social, since you used to follow me for many years back when you had like 200 followers I feel entitled to tell you these are absolutely shit takes and you should be extremely embarrassed.

Rolling Stone ain’t what it used to be but at least SOMEONE in the Democratic Party is making a direct attempt to reach younger voters SOMEHOW. Gotta hand it to Warren for this one

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‘A Huge Step Backward’: Trump’s Labor Deregulation Targets Immigrant Workers

The U.S. Department of Labor’s plan to gut 63 "costly and burdensome" workplace rules has New York worker advocates worried.

My latest for @documentedny.bsky.social
documentedny.com/2025/08/04/d...

I hate them. Those ones and the ads for Taskrabbit that are like, “We do labor law violations, but in a cool way”

Fondly remembering back on Twitter when I suggested drinking one cup of water for every cup of coffee and a bunch of men’s rights chuds showed up in my mentions to explain that hydration is a woke myth and coffee can’t dehydrate you because it’s a liquid.

We had some good times there huh