Kendrick got me thinking about my brother in hatred, Edward Ongweso Jr, and how we can be even harder haters.

We got a US Senator calling campus protests 'little Gazas that are disgusting cess pools of anti-semitic hate, full of pro-Hamas sympathizers, fanatics, and freaks.' This is their pretence to totally destroy the whole university system in America, just like Israel did in Gaza.

Crisis is not just knocking in insurance markets, it has already kicked down the door, guns blazing and hostage taking. It's the bizarre nature of insurance that a full blown crisis can be raging, yet almost nobody is talking about the systemic shit show. bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

I said from the very start that major insurers like Allstate left entire states like California primarily as a form of capital flight meant to pressure them into pushing through regulatory changes and creating profitable markets. I am vindicated yet again: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

'Home insurance costs spike, with parts of Australia at risk of becoming uninsurable' abc.net.au/news/2024-04-3…

'In shopping for a new insurer, I discovered the hugely bifurcated and inefficient market that Americans are currently grappling with.' ft.com/content/7745d8….

2850 academics, writers, and intellectuals have committed to boycotting Columbia and Barnard. This group includes over 1,389 tenured/ tenure track professors. Their demands are below. You can read the letter and see the full list of signatories here. docs.google.com/document/d/1Oe…

'This is Silicon Valley’s king. A lobbyist roleplaying as a founder. A diplomat masquerading as a technologist.  A charming, capricious, abusive and untrustworthy man [...] his only reliable trait is that whatever happens must benefit Sam Altman.' wheresyoured.at/managing-up/

Pundits can’t fathom the idea that students are simply *protesting genocide and demanding divestment* because they can’t imagine political action motivated by sincerely held beliefs. They’ve probably never experienced the power and joy of collective action. I feel sorry for them

What other life forms do you want to “make better” thanks to AI gene editing? Let’s be clear: this won’t actually happen, but the vision is the result of, and motivation for, a broader ideology that continues to expand in deeply troubling ways. It shuts down other possibilities.

This is fascism in action. Fascism is not a single event, nor is it a binary yes/no, but this is undeniably what it looks like.

Crazy what's happening on campus

Hell yeah this is a huge win: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted to ban noncompete agreements—a major legal tool bosses exploit to control workers across the labor market, from fast food to tech companies.
thehill.com/business/46154…

🚨336. A History of Fossil Empire in Palestine, Part 1🚨

We dig way into a giant, new essay by Andreas Malm which lays out a longue durée analysis of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, connecting it in a history of fossil empire and colonial annihilation. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

To be clear, Google wants workers to build tech that helps enforce apartheid and commit genocide, then shut up about it.

🚨Preview – 335. Seto Kaiba is My Role Model🚨

First the dream deferred of Neom, then the bizarre Yu-Gi-Oh! lore behind one of our biggest techno-fascist, finally the strange, destructive hyper-reality of SHEIN patreon.com/thismachinekil… soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

A little piece from me on how paranoid whiteness haunts reactionary attitudes towards generative AI images.

Shout out to Fabian Offert and Jathan Sadowski for helping to clarify these ideas

And big thanks to Australian Academy of the Humanities for the invitation!

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