The Trouble with Democracy: An Anarchist View - Jeff Shantz libcom.org/article/troubl…

Simplicity, patience, detail. My kitchen mind.

Worth noticing the meta-conversation here. Women and people of color are more likely to emphasize their academic titles because it's one of the few objective credentials they can rely on when their knowledge and experience are questioned.

What Twitter lost when academics left wasn’t authority figures. It was a community who loved learning for its own sake, who took pride in explaining things to others. They left, and the cool threads about modern art, military history, and quantum physics left with them.

recalling friends who'd been married for thirty years & now divorced; vividly recalling their early, happy years together & sad now to hear them speaking bitterly of each other, totally denying what they'd once felt. we are just too vulnerable to loss, the irrevocable fact of

Anthony Eden hate account Spent a lot of years trying to study statistics on my own after work. It was slow. Gave it up to pursue a PhD instead. Being enmeshed in a community of highly motivated learners is a powerful thing. Hard to replicate on your own.

If you ever get a message that starts with “Hey, can you show some love…..”. DO NOT OPEN IT!! That is the last thing I opened from someone and ai got hacked. Now they sent the same message from my account. PLEASE DON’T OPEN IT!!!

Easily one of the greatest eulogies of all time. I can't make it all the way through this without weeping like a child.

I have started to think the only way to repair the world is let women run it for a century or so. The difference in grace and sportsmanship for the US team is so stark. The women were kind to their rivals. The men couldn’t even muster basic decency for their teammates.

Interesting that Americans who love "democracy" are pushing this royalist monarchist instead of calling for free and fair elections

The reason AI poses a threat to college is that no one believes in higher ed any more and the public correctly recognizes the system is nakedly extorionate: you exchange a large sum of money (or take on mountainous debt) in exchange for an “I’m Employable” stamp (AKA diploma).

Kurt Achin "Everyone likes to look at the dots. But when I connect them, people scream. Often because when I'm done connecting the dots, they are looking at a portrait of someone they know." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammerin…

surely there are "top schools" beyond Harvard? indeed, I would venture to say that, for many students, there are universities & colleges more suitable for them than Harvard, where students often don't get to take courses with senior professors until their junior or senior years.

The best Brutalist/Brutalist-inspired architecture of the 1960s through 1980s still looks more like the future than almost anything built before or since. The atriums of the Hyatt Regency San Francisco (1973), Hyatt Regency Atlanta (1967), Atlanta Marriott Marquis (1985).

Tyler Austin Harper "passively accepting the end of mass literacy" is the line more people need to hear. the framing around AI in education has somehow made "kids should learn to read and write well" the radical position. if the default path leads to a generation that can prompt but can't compose,

What we think of as modern civilization is essentially coextensive with mass literacy. People greeting the end of mass literacy with a yawn are assuming that we can keep this machine work going in the absence of the foundations it was built on. Huge civilizational-scale gamble.