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Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities...
Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities (and imagination). âThe world we have known is the world that is bound up with the movement toward...
Political scientist Adam Przeworski (born in Nazi-occupied Poland) is keeping a diary....
Political scientist Adam Przeworski (born in Nazi-occupied Poland) is keeping a diary. âI am trying to find categories in which to place the current situation and historical precedents from which...
âIf youâre looking for some great databases of the ongoing resistance (as...
âIf youâre looking for some great databases of the ongoing resistance (as well as some other useful resources) hereâs a thread of where to start.â đŹ Join the discussion on...
87% Of Loud Crashing Noises Are Nothing, Report Top Experts From Other...
87% Of Loud Crashing Noises Are Nothing, Report Top Experts From Other Room. âDespite initially reporting âDammit!â and âGod dammit!â separated by several secondsâŚâ đŹ Join the discussion on kottke.org...
Microsoft claims theyâve made a significant breakthrough in quantum computing involving Majorana...
Microsoft claims theyâve made a significant breakthrough in quantum computing involving Majorana quasiparticles. âItâs theoretically possible for an electron to hide itself, with each half hiding at either end of...
Where Do Trans Kids Go from Here? âI never thought that my...
Where Do Trans Kids Go from Here? âI never thought that my country would want to disappear my child, and would want to essentially deny her existence as a person.â...
The Information Overwhelm
In the most recent issue of Garbage Day, Ryan Broderick writes about how Steve Bannonâs âflood the zone with shitâ has been embraced by the Trump administration in both governance...
Hereâs a site that tracks how much of Project 2025 has been...
Hereâs a site that tracks how much of Project 2025 has been implemented. Currently at 34%.
âFiring civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate...
âFiring civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal powerâ. Hereâs how that has played out recently in TĂźrkiye, Benin, Hungary, and Venezuela.
âThe odds of a city-killer asteroid impact in 2032 keep rising. Should...
âThe odds of a city-killer asteroid impact in 2032 keep rising. Should we be worried?â If the JWST canât rule out an impact in the next few months, we may...
Timothy Snyder recaps what he heard at the Munich Security Conference about...
Timothy Snyder recaps what he heard at the Munich Security Conference about the new foreign policy strategy being pursued by the Trump administration. He calls it âaffirmative action for dictatorsâ...
Theyâre Purposefully Traumatizing the Federal Workforce
Russell Vought is a Christian nationalist, a significant contributor to Project 2025, the policy director of the RNCâs platform committee for the 2024 election, and is currently the director of...
If youâre wondering âwhere are all the protests?!â, they are happening all...
If youâre wondering âwhere are all the protests?!â, they are happening all over the place. âFrom Stonewall to Tesla dealerships, protesters are pioneering a form of opposition that doesnât necessarily...
Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump. âI believe that itâs we...
Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump. âI believe that itâs we elites, who do not enjoy getting dogpiled on social media or having college students yell at us about...
Lizzie Wadeâs forthcoming book is about human resilience in the face of...
Lizzie Wadeâs forthcoming book is about human resilience in the face of cataclysm. âFor millennia, the rich & powerful have conspired to conceal how resourceful, creative, and resilient humans beings...
Unbelievably Cruel ASMR Video by the White House of Deporting Immigrants
This afternoon on Twitter, the official White House account posted an ASMR video of an immigrant deportation flight. Elon Musk quoted-tweeted the video with âHaha wow ??â. Hereâs a screen...
Over the past 20 years, archaeologists working in the Amazon have found...
Over the past 20 years, archaeologists working in the Amazon have found evidence of an ancient civilization that reached a peak population of 1 million around 150 CE. đŹ Join...
Good read. âDismantling the federal government to prevent that from happening was...
Good read. âDismantling the federal government to prevent that from happening was a key object of the conservative project before Trump. It has remained so with him at the head...
The War on DEI Is a Smoke Screen. âMAGAâs attacks on âwokenessâ...
The War on DEI Is a Smoke Screen. âMAGAâs attacks on âwokenessâ and diversity, equity, and inclusion are a thinly veiled attack on the Civil Rights Movement itself.â
Ethan Marcotte resigned from his job at 18F (a GSA subsidiary) rather...
Ethan Marcotte resigned from his job at 18F (a GSA subsidiary) rather than participate in the Trump/Musk purge of govât employees. âI didnât want to sit down with anyone involved...