Dylan Kerrigan

I Married a Man I’d Known a Few Months You have to take your time before you commit to someone. That was the advice I grew up with. I completely ignored it. FEBRUARY 13, 2026 KARA KENNEDY Why Is No One Having Sex? ‘I don’t want to perform.’ ‘Sleep wins.’ ‘She doesn’t have the same high sex drive as me.’ I spoke to the Americans behind the sex recession—and this is… FEBRUARY 12, 2026 KARA KENNEDY

You could have given me a thousand chances to guess what blog post this person published the day after she published "Why Is No One Having Sex?" and I could not have come up with anything this funny

Texas A&M, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Academic Common Sense I can’t believe I’m writing this, but at least it keeps my fingers on the keys, not scratching my head or tearing my hair out. And I know that my words here will have no impact on the policies that…

More shuttering of gender studies - a backlash from a resurgent patriarchy
“the policing of class materials .. to prohibit alleged advocacy of “race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity,” clearly violates academic freedom ..." nursingclio.org/2026/02/18/t...

Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK

Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil goodlawproject.org/putins-megap...

Seven Hills Women's Institute to close amid fallout from transgender membership ban - ShefNews Seven Hills Women’s Institute (WI) in Sheffield has announced it will close, becoming one of a growing number of WI groups to shut down following the national decision to restrict membership to biolog...

@shetnews.co.uk

Palantir's most recent scandal, covertly working with Topham Guerin to discredit the work of Good Law Project, is just the latest in a career littered with this kind of activity, beginning with the "Team Themis" scandal in 2011. They've been doing this for decades.
goodlawproject.org/how-palantir...

Who pays Reform's candidate?
What do they want for the money?
How is this in the interests of UK voters?
Why do our laws allow it?

Trans people are going to continue using the facilities that we feel comfortable in and living our lives of course. It just makes us vulnerable to attack, legal threats, makes us toxic in terms of employment when employers are told they have to protect our rights while also discriminating against us

Otherwise, the task of Leftists isn't to argue about LLMs are "good" or not. It is to understand what workers are fighting for, to understand how the glut of synthetic information is undermining democracy, and to mitigate the harms when the house of cards the economy has been built upon falls.

One small quibble I have with the newsletter is the statement "It’s entirely possible to imagine an 'AI' that was outside of corporate control."

I would just say, at that point we wouldn't call it 'AI'. 'AI' itself a marketing term, and a colonizing one at that.

As Brian puts it: "It fails to account for the fact that most of the dismissals of AI are not related to the technology, but AI’s political economy... Developed and sold by SV oligopolies, for the benefit of tech billionaires, with the intent of surveilling, deskilling, and eroding labor."

A good response to the AI ~discourse~ by @bcmerchant.bsky.social. A few choice top-line quotes:

1. "We’re in the midst of another concerted, industry-led hype cycle, this time driven more visibly by Anthropic, which just landed a $30 billion investment round."

The framing is on its face bad faith. Genocide is not and cannot be justified, even as a means of survival. If I'm given a choice of "die or commit genocide," then "commit genocide" is the WRONG ANSWER. Always. Under all circumstances. Full stop.

I will not concede any mass murder is justified.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Jean-Noël Barrot @jnbarrot Translated from French The European Commission should never have attended today's "Board of Peace" meeting in Washington, as it had not received the Council's mandate to do so. Beyond the legitimate political questions raised by the "Board of Peace," the Commission must scrupulously respect European law and institutional balance in all circumstances.

Merci.

This is a great piece but to me it kinda elides the truly objectionable thing about THE BOMBER MAFIA: the point of Gladwell's story, the thing he is twisting the facts to argue for, is the idea (embodied by Curtis LeMay) that indiscriminate massacre of civilians in war is actively moral

What Are Heterodox Free Speech Warriors Doing About Trump's Censorship-Industrial Complex? Nada Trump is issuing subpoenas demanding social media platforms hand over data about ICE protesters but the 'Twitter Files' agitators couldn't care less

"the “free speech” grift was never about protecting individuals from the state. It was about protecting a specific type of speaker from the social consequences of their speech."
www.theunpopulist.net/p/what-are-h...

2,500-year-old 'primitive prosthetic' found on jaw of mummified Scythian woman who survived complex jaw surgery Researchers used CT scans to peer inside a partially mummified skull and discovered the woman survived jaw surgery 2,500 years ago.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

ICE operations increasingly resemble Israeli occupation. That's no coincidence U.S. immigration enforcement has long cultivated ties with Israel. Now it adapts algorithmic surveillance tactics from Gaza for use on American streets.

"ICE is following in Israel's footsteps: both ELITE and Mobile Fortify bear a striking resemblance to mobile targeting applications Israeli forces have integrated into their policing arsenal."
#USA #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Policing #Surveillance #Technology #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

They vilified him for :: checks notes:: ordering the torture of a brown man in his charge that directly led to that man’s death.

Also the "Someone Dies Once a Week in our Concentration Camps" phase of the dictatorship.

The Youth Sports Industrial Complex is my own personal hobby horse for a lot of our current ills:

- Death of third spaces
- Radicalization of young men (idle hands, etc)
- Transphobia (Sports parents hysterically worried Emily is gonna lose a volleyball scholly)
- Fraying communities

YouTube video by Middle East Eye Is the British Museum erasing Palestine from history? | MEE Live

Thanks @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social for having @profdanhicks.bsky.social and I on the show to discuss ancient Palestine. 🏺🇵🇸

You can catch up here: youtu.be/4WvQz8sHDpI?...

Knowing who to be mad at really is praxis.

“The data speaks with dramatic clarity. In 2022, Gaza had 16,259 healthcare workers…. Since October 7, 2023, approximately 1,700 of these professionals have been killed—10.4% of the entire healthcare workforce.”

- European Public Health Alliance

Imagine not being able to see a doctor. Imagine not having access to medicine. Imagine ambulances not able to reach you or your loved ones in an emergency. Now, imagine that the reason for that is entirely man-made, purposeful; for millions of Palestinians, this is their horrifying reality.

Middle East Eye | “Turkey is the new Iran,” said former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a conference in Jerusalem for heads of major... | Instagram 5,976 likes, 1,826 comments - middleeasteye on February 19, 2026: "“Turkey is the new Iran,” said former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a conference in Jerusalem for heads of major...

Israel, que parece vivir solo y para la guerra, ya prepara un nuevo enemigo: Turquía www.instagram.com/reel/DU8bXC-...

Jews for Palestinian Justice UCL | Full statement after video. 🇵🇸 | Instagram 113 likes, 1 comments - ucljpj on February 19, 2026: "Full statement after video. 🇵🇸".

Great statement from UCL Jews for Palestinian Justice on the provost's bizarre attempt to take credit for the Palestine encampment (when UCL actually tops the table for disciplining students and repressing activism on campus)

www.instagram.com/p/DU8vh85jpC...