feminist law professor. regulation of pregnancy, gender and sports, relational feminist theory, ecofeminism.
Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.
Melissa Gira GrantI wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
"Go comment at your local government meeting" is common advice given to people angry the many injustices they face on the ground. But local governments often treat the public with contempt, and set up as many obstacles as possible to reduce possibility of rooms full of people denouncing them...
I don't think people realize how embedded AI use already is in both the public service and the private sector. This signals perhaps the most massive enshittification of the knowledge economy in human history. Rather than innovation, it will be the death of innovation.
I don't know what will change things, but if no guardrails are put up in a generation we will be a dramatically dumber society. Which is hard to imagine given how fucking dumb we are right now.
Turned this rant into a blog post. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...
The data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.I have adavekarpf.beehiiv.comDave KarpfI'm reading the "environmentalists are wrong about data centers" piece from the NYT and ohmygoditssofuckingbad. Apparently, so long as you're punching left, they'll just let you say any goddamn thing you please... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...
If your response to the data center backlash is "oh no, those poor hyperscalers! People are using inexact data in their arguments against OpenAI and Grok. Everyone should just let them proceed with their buildouts and focus instead on PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY," then you're either a grifter or a mark.
US public life is such an anti intellectual space that having a working memory of longer than 15 minutes is considered bias
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwòrelated to another bizarre feature of political discussion in the US: that it's supposed to mark you as reasonable/bipartisan/fair or whatever that you take these discourses on their own terms. as opposed to marking you as (at best!) a mark
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
Joel S.The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.
It took them one year to normalize I.C.E. killing multiple unarmed people in single week. One year.
Long overdue idea whose time has come Grizzly bears should be reintroduced to CA Supported by Scientific, legal, sociological, & ecological facts CA F&W says no bc like USFWS, they’re terrified of any political heat from Repub politicos & anti-Env special interests calmatters.org/politics/202...
Bring back grizzly bears? California lawmakers want to study the ideaGrizzly bears went extinct in California, but that hasn’t stopped a fight over whether the state should study bringing them backcalmatters.org
Musk didn’t cut foreign aid, he bribed the president so he could illegally destroy the mechanism for distributing the foreign aid that our representatives in congress already allocated through law.
Faine GreenwoodFuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul.