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The Austin Chronicle has been around since 1981.
Capitalism, is there anything you can't sell?
Best wishes. Coping with AI is hard enough without your institution cheerleading for it. Then there's (gestures wildly) everything else faculty are dealing with now.
Sounds good! What are you doing to fend off Cal State's AI mandate, or are you okay with it? (Loaded question from a stranger, sorry.)
David Roth nails another one to the wall. Some very excellent comments, too.
This article was written by a first year college student who recently received a B- in their intro to film class. And in what dimension is The Dam Busters a "classic" film?
Be prepared for "think" pieces about the corruption of elite education institutions and their coddled faculty. Bari Weiss will see it and say, "Yeah! That's why I needed to start my own edbiz grift!"
@andrewhickey.500songs.com The MC5 episode was, as always, thoroughly researched, insightful, and highly entertaining. I have to say that I infinitely prefer the "clean" version, as I never imagined there were so many MFs in the world. Well done, Mr. Hickey.
Anyone he thinks he can punch down at. The problem is that some of those groups aren't large enough to fill national needs in agriculture, meat packing, etc. But I'm sure Yarvin and the rest can cobble together something workable.
To be fair, he might have been talking about women.
I wonder how much he pays Melania to show up for these events. And does he pay her by the day or by the hour?
Just about all of us support Effectively Wild's DEI policy, and those of FanGraphs and The Ringer, too. I also have come to rely on you for streaming suggestions. Forgot about Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and now it's in my queue. Thanks!
Tell it, brother. Hallelujah.
You’re right, of course. But for Trump, it’s likely even more simple and corrupt and stupid. For the past 36 hours, Fox News has been avidly promoting war, and how easy it will be to achieve “victory.” This is the new situation room: One stupid man watching TV.
This is a simply terrible article. I understand that the jocular tone is intended to help them make their resistance-is-futile argument go down more easily, but it's just blaringly ugly. Roose and Newton were once actual journalists. Now they're purely shills for the tech bro mindset.
Billy Cobham’s rhythm melodies are alchemy.
You’re an effing masochist.
Haven’t listened yet, but I hope you spend some time on In My Life, arguably the most radical American album of the 1960s. Collins’ next album was excellent, but she never tried anything as adventurous as the Rifkin arrangements again. Anyway, thanks as always! You’re indispensable.
Aside from the existential stuff, there's also the political economy: the tech has to be removed from the control of oligarchs, and it has to stop killing the planet. All of these issues are intertwined, of course.
Much sympathy and empathy. I've got a manuscript that's been in the hands of an insightful and talented human editor. Now I feel lucky as well as grateful.
Oh, for godsake.
Sure, and thanks. I guess I'm saying that I'm happy to be a total jerk about it.
Except that this is a "toy" that expends a week's energy usage of a small town while you're playing with it. So just say no.
The president arrives for his meeting with Cyril Ramaphosa.
Enjoy the emolument, dumbass.
In some cases, cool as in it’s good to confirm that they’re dead.
Totally on brand for Ron Johnson, though--that guy combines stupidity, venality, and pure evil in intriguingly novel ways.
Could have called it off after the first paper.
Perhaps the Great Leap Forward is also a good analogy. It was a radical reorientation of industrial/ag policy with an exclusively domestic emphasis. It was similarly ill-conceived and incompetently rolled out. Killed at least 30 million people, maybe twice that.
Agreed, emphatically, but "pique" is not a synonym for "systemic racism that has infected the country since long before its founding." The inheritors of that pestilent mindset are now steering the boat, and what's up next is a mutiny and whole lot of plank-walking.
There are a few images of American GI's who participated in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. In these pictures, the soldiers look stunned, shocked, or just numb. Kristi Noem has the demeanor of the camp commandant, the person in charge of the torture and death.
Oh, for Christ’s sake, fuck off. It’s not up to me to give you a précis of Meredith Whittaker’s professional history.
Yes, because Whittaker, unlike Porat, has been an honest broker about the capabilities and limitations of the service. There has been a lot of uninformed reporting here.
Meredith Whittaker has pushed back against this reporting. Have a look at her feed before drawing conclusions. @meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Yeah yeah, thanks and all. But "with everything going on right now," what are you doing for us RIGHT NOW? You've got access to a public voice that no one else has, and you're not using it. You're looking like just another chickenshit rich liberal, but I'd love to be convinced otherwise.
Thank you so much for your interview with Troy Edgar. It's an example of the kind of tough, no-nonsense, focused journalism we always need--but now more than ever. And you were relentlessly polite, while also being relentless. It was "confrontational" only in the sense that you demanded answers.
You know how when you open Firefox and it presents a row of your most visited sites? This is how Twitter showed up on mine today.
A moment of sanity. Thank you.
This is a marvelously well written, informative, and sympathetic essay. Thanks to Alex Ross!
Please stop being cowards. You are actively NOT covering the news with this framing.
Because he can’t say it to Elmo. Trump always punches down.
The case study is Hong Kong, but it's obviously more broadly applicable. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Plus that final zinger: "What a nasty little man."
Podcast version has a substantial audience. Brooke clearly had fun. Just listened--what a great interview! You explain tough concepts clearly, and it was fun to hear you dialed down a notch. Charming! (Don't do that on Better Offline--we want the full blast.) Glad you're getting out there.
Watching this on repeat how is your day going?
6/Oh, and capping the essay with a cameo by Frances Fukuyama? Who the author regards as one of her intellectual gurus? That part of the essay slams mainstream liberalism as a sclerotic, motheaten collection of olds and old ideas. Fair enough! But also not new-FF has been a joke for decades now.
5/And I'm also wondering about how the essay came to be reprinted in The Free Press. As a wet kiss to the Lost Boys of the young (elite) conservative movement, it's plausible that it got Bari Weiss's attention. But that is a scurrilous rag of dubious ethics and worse politics. Did she steal it?
4/It all comes across as a subculture as distant as cockfighting. And the idea that this Beltway-ensconced bubble clarifies and summarizes the whole of Trump's attractiveness to some percentage of young men is just a nonstarter. I'm left wondering about the political moorings of the author.
3/of sexual minorities, book bans and education pogroms, etc. That is, there's nothing here about the dirty work of the neo-fascist movement. It's all three piece suits with pocket squares, as polite as the ladies' tea party in The Manchurian Candidate, and just as surreal.
2/It's disturbing enough that these men are somehow willing and able to put a moral vacuum and vicious hatemonger like Trump on a pedestal. The author does not, or is not interested in discovering, how these fuzzy-cheeked post-neocons would participate in processes of mass deportation, persecution
1/I found this article to be airless and devoid of material context. The author is a scholar of ancient, apparently mostly western philosophy--her interest in these young conservative men concerns what they think and talk about, and how their political leanings connect with a "spiritual" life.
Agreed that the current purge is beyond the pale, but let’s not pretend that the FBI has ever been anything but compromised.
And he got the inspiration from Bruce Baillie: vimeo.com/349266082
Ironic to call them snowflakes, but here we are.
Not making excuses for the fascists running the place, but most municipalities in Texas are inadequately equipped to handle winter-like precipitation events. And snow showers also most often also result in sheet ice. Can't prep better because the budget's spent on razor wire and book bans.
Photo taken at London Trans Pride 2024.
That he's doing his performative fascism in front of a snarling crowd and a sea of compliant media in an arena that regularly showcases professional wrestling is just so on the nose. This is his most comfortable venue, ensconced in the WWE presidency, but with extra brownshirts.
Hell freezes over.
Regrettably, the same can be said of every designated appointee. Will grant that Hegseth is the most consequential, but what a parade of comically, horrifically unqualified fools, assholes, and fascists.
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Might just as well blow them up then. Elmo can sell raffle tickets and let winners push the button. Keep going until the stock is depleted. There's no such thing as bad publicity!
Yes, this article is excellent. And so was your Times piece, although the comments made me worry about the reading comprehension skills of Times readers. You didn’t say men being paranoid weirdos was the sole factor in the Dem debacle.
The richest American alive is a neonazi with massive defense contracts and his own propaganda outlet. That’s a code fucking red.
it's that time
6 MAGA extremists have introduced a bill that would allow South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about SC H5357, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it. Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back: www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...
Absolutely right. Some excuse-makers for AI are saying that Midjourney, Animaker et al aren't doing anything that computer graphics and animation have done for years. These arguments are either ignorant or disingenuous.
I assume most of the sound baffles are chewed off the walls by the end of recording.
That is really good, isn't it?
History rhymes again.
And it seems like Carroll should have the last word.
And the reason people give you their $ is that you provide excellent, thoughtful, meticulously researched, carefully prepared audio essays. It's a free market ideal that is rarely realized.
My response for my client @oliviaoftroye.com to President Trump's nominee for Director of the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (#FBI) #KashPatel's threat of a forthcoming defamation lawsuit. #RightBackAtYa
Something Wild. 49 songs and a bunch of ‘em bangers.
Elmo and the MAGA boys think it's all coming to this.
Tressie McMillan Cottom's latest NYT article investigates this phenomenon. If the left manages to build a robust parallel ecosystem, what are the long term effects? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
Here's one of the nightmares in our future.
NEW FROM ME: The government will do things that hurt people. But knowing exactly what it is doing — & therefore who’s most at risk — is at the foundation of fighting against it. Anything else is doing Trump’s job for him. Here’s a start. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
IP theft on a truly staggering scale.
Now the cash has crashed, the dream-ship sailed, the gravy train has been derailed at its own terminal. Let the fairy tale be an epic fail for no one found the Holy Grail and time's terminal. But then America Says hello and the world says welcome home. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq1o...
WNCR at New College.
Nice, @theo.io made exactly what I was looking for. It works perfectly, found a ton of Bluesky people I didn't know were here!
Actually got started as a dogsbody at Cincinnati's first alt rock station. The next year I helped start carrier current (!) station at New College (yes, that New College). DJed at Indiana U. Looked into NYU's station, but they had pie charts/playlists and that was it for my radio career.
It may only be implicit, but you and your co-collaborators are running a site that radiates simple human decency. Nothing bro-eee or worse about it. That matters.
And he's still there. Online blurb says nothing about being a christian nationalist crazypants person.
Bingo.
I moved to NYC in 1975 because I’d seen French Connection, Klute, Serpico, Pelham 123 et al and thought, that place looks interesting. Taxi Driver was released shortly after I got there, and I thought, what have I gotten myself into.
This, on the other hand, is real. "They're eating the food of your dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the dog's food. They're eating the food of the pets of the people that live there, and this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame."
We like it, and this is also the peanut butter we wrap our dog’s monthly flea and tick pill in, as it doesn’t have salt.
You’re accumulating some real cultural capital, and it’s because you’re doing really good work (that you work very hard to accomplish). You deserve it. Spend that capital on something that’s valuable to you.
Surge pricing is obviously bad--it's completely in the control of the vendor.
eXistenZ is the good version of The Matrix.
That's okay--it's last week's meme. We've moved on to anti-Irish jokes.
The tattoo seems the least extreme, but that’s just me.
"Biden" vs. "Kamala"