Philosopher, working on evolution of mechanisms of action selection, and their variously situated subversion. https://davidspurrett.com/
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film AdaptationPHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...theonion.com
Europe is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander Hurst: The White House seems committed to ecocide. The EU should harness the power of the single market to force it to change course Are we understanding it yet? As Euro...
Europe is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander HurstEurope is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander Hurst: The White House seems committed to ecocide. The EU should harness the power of the single market to force it to change course Are we understanding it yet? As Euro...www.theguardian.com
Manosphere grifters have figured out that some men are easily manipulated by making them feel insecure about their masculinity. The GOP has turned this sales pitch into both an ideology and a campaign strategy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Lee Pace, this is your time to shine
Jesse HawkenStudio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
My heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde...
ATLANTA (AP) — US surpasses 2025’s record-breaking tally for measles cases, with 2,318 cases and 5 more months left in the year.
luckily he chose a remote, seldom visited corner of the country to make shit up about
Aaron RuparTrump claims California has "brownouts and blackouts every weekend"
“There are signs that the markets may have started to recoil from some of the more extravagant A.I. bets. Four of the five big, long-established data-center companies have underperformed the S&P 500 this year.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/b...
Big Tech Firms Like Oracle Turn to Bonds to Finance A.I. Data CentersRisk is rising as big tech companies like Oracle — the ultimate financial source of the Ellison media empire — need to turn to the bond market for staggering sums to finance data centers.www.nytimes.com
There are no jobs for teens, they’re not allowed to hang out anywhere in public, time to criminalize being bored
The Charlotte ObserverCharlotte joins major cities across the U.S. in grappling with the rise in disruptive “teen takeover” activities.
Trump bombed schoolchildren on the first day of the war, Pete.
Aaron RuparRep. Pete Sessions: "I'm very proud of the president ... he's been very careful not to treat Tehran like it's Gaza, but I think that is gonna start. You're gonna see building tumble, you're gonna see pressure being put on the regime."
Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
The bonfire of the humanities150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental scienceswww.technosphere.earth
wrote about why ICE keeps killing people. it's because they're part of a pretty explicitly genocidal project. trump wants them to kill people, and so they do. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/ices-missi...
ICE’s Mission Is MurderIt is a genocidal organization and it will keep killing people.www.everythingishorrible.net
More signs of resurging HIV after USAID’s closure. African Neonatal Network reported at IMNCH (a global health conference): HIV+ pregnant women ↑50% & those not on antiretrovirals ↑>300%, year-on-year, across 22 hospitals in 5 nations. @vtoxfordnetwork.bsky.social
"girls sell lemonade on the street to help their sisters arrested by ICE"
David BrauerIn Minnesota, girls sell lemonade on the street to help their sisters arrested by ICE. Stephen Miller’s goons are very much still here. Sign reads, “Please help us raise money for my sisters because they were arrested by ICE” & this has been confirmed by trusted community members.
Right-wingers are waging war on Reconstruction. Yesterday’s decision in Trump v. Barbara was a narrow 5-4 victory, but the reactionaries are not going to stop. Shame on some people for serving as foot soldiers for MAGA. My essay for @liberalcurrents.com: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-r...
The War on ReconstructionThe Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is just one battle in the right's larger war on the Second Founding.www.liberalcurrents.com
Just can't share & emphasize this sentiment enough: ICE has been kidnapping our neighbors in greater & greater numbers. The narrative of mass deportation having suffered a decisive defeat in Minneapolis is flatly wrong; kidnappings, inhumane detention, & deportations continue & are increasing.
unraveledEarlier this week, Intelligencer ran a piece called "ICE Won." We definitely don't agree with the title, but its gist—that the normalization of federal police violence is accelerating—is proving accurate. ICE arrests roughly doubled in Chicagoland in June over May. Some more thoughts on that:
it's so cool these guys bought the presidency to give themselves a few more years of runway so they could finally build a product that makes money then failed to build a product that makes money
Hypervisible“OpenAI has discussed giving a 5 per cent stake to the US government as the $852bn AI start-up seeks to clear political obstacles by securing financial buy-in from the Trump administration.”