It's unfair to call the Marvel movies "kid's movies", they also have serious political messages, such as: - America is good - the military is good - military contractors are good - billionaires are good - heroes protect the existing power structure, villains try to change society

the hardest line in all of fiction is the last sentence of Benito Cereno

I wrote about AMOC

“Because it is such an incredibly upsetting thing to think about.” This is part of what I’m writing about now. Ethical problems that are not just “wicked,” but which overwhelm our capacities, affectively, to stay with them…

Matt Elia 🎒 Makes me think on TJ Clark on economic inequality. Since he wrote this in 2011, we've made progress on this. This politics is a little more thinkable. Clearly an unfortunately long way to go with client change x.com/_John_Handel/s…

The return of climate politics in, like, 5 years is gonna be the mother of all returns of the repressed. People now asleep will wake up screaming

This is the post that kicked off the Cedric Robinson stuff, right? It would be crazy if Robinson criticized the very thing he’s accused of doing here. Let’s take a look at what he wrote. Oh

It is funny that climate change has almost become a passé topic among the conventional wisdom factories given that CO2 is not only still increasing in the atmosphere but that rate is accelerating, with each year bringing a new record for most fossil fuels burnt ever in history

Pope Leo XIV: "This economy kills." Names resource colonization -- oil, mineral extraction -- as a primary driver of armed conflict. Condemns new tech "designed mainly for warfare." Calls for a banquet "no longer reserved for an elite."

My sense of the university is that we live in the worst of all possible worlds of top-down, bureaucratic authoritarianism for which social justice discourse was just a short term way station.

NEW: Atlanta now has more surveillance cameras per person than any city on Earth outside a few in China. The densest grid is over Black neighborhoods. To grow that AI-fueled network, the city razed a part of its most important infrastructure: the forest. capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-ci…

When Gwendolyn Brooks wrote, "We are each other's harvest," she meant it with dark sobriety: global fates are linked, for good and ill. Millions will starve in a causal sequence traceable back to our colonial, carbon-intensive way of life. A planetary sacrifice zone.

When I think about summer, with the AMOC collapsing, imperial warfare in Iran and Lebanon, its energy crisis sending shocks through global supply chains, fertilizer shortages causing hunger, plus hottest summer on record coming...

War is creating a global south food and fuel crisis exacerbated by major cuts to foreign aid by top global north donors made in part to fund rearmament in preparation for more war

when God puts me in strange and terrifying situations, I see myself as a cat going to the vet. it’s good for me somehow, I say, or else someone who loves me wouldn’t have taken me there

AI "failure rates exceeded 80 per cent for all models when they needed to do so-called differential diagnosis, when full patient information was lacking." "The researchers evaluated 21 LLMs, including leading models by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek.

One in five student interactions with generative A.I. “involved cheating, self-harm, bullying, and other problematic behaviors,” according to a report published by Education Week. Why is the technology being adopted by schools? newyorker.com/culture/progre…

Happy birthday Tortuguita! We love you, and carry you in our hearts as we continue your fight.

some might say this is tendentious, willfully obtuse, or just plain wrong, but they forget America is a country where the cops regularly choke the life out of managers they arrest for wage theft while shoplifters run free and even enjoy outsize privilege under the tax code

Gerald Horne