I'm not a nationalist, so I don't prioritize American jobs over foreign ones. But I do care about fair wages and labor protections. Just because something was made abroad doesn't mean it was made in a sweatshop. Just because it was made in the US doesn't mean fair wages.

In a time when so many forces are conspiring to steal our attention, replace artists with machines, and atrophy our thinking, reading is more important than ever. A people who can’t read, write or create is a people who can be easily controlled. Read a book to annoy a fascist.

So “leave it to the states” should really be changed to “leave it to the individuals,” and those individuals should have the freedom to decide, in concert with whomever they decide to include in that decision, what happens to their own bodies. 12/13

If the left gets up and votes, the right never wins. That's why they're trying so hard to restrict voting rights. With all that's going on in the world, we need to move forward as a civilization instead of backwards, especially with women's rights. VOTE.

Man, if Elon Musk allowing the #Polymarket platform to be front and center on X isn't a blatant attempt at election interference, I don't know what is. It's nuts that a betting platform is being touted as a legit poll. Its clearly attempting to mislead voters.

Europe now stands alone in confronting the largest threat to its security since the annexation of the Rhineland.

your teachers were Nobel laureates; my teachers were anonymous men named LabelKing and PabloThriftscobar

“There is also no doubt that both racism and sexism played an important role in Harris’s defeat.  But my own conclusion is that both of those things were amplified by the flood of disinformation that has plagued the U.S. for years now” open.substack.com/pub/heathercox…

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not. Tough one. I can see why RFK Jr is so concerned. Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.

"Resist loss of the miraculous by lowering your standards for what constitutes a miracle. It is all a fucking miracle." Louise Erdrich on the deepest meaning of resistance – amazing, amazing poem: themarginalian.org/2024/11/13/lou…

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

Incredibile speech from someone who sees the big picture. Have been appalled by Labour’s “delusion that the UK’s best interests and economic future align with those of Silicon Valley.” Insane.

Suranjan Sen I've accepted that Twitter is a quick moving, shallow platform where many people, including intelligent ones, don't give things much thought. Thus, nuance can get lost. I've also accepted that my tweets get seen by millions of people. As a matter of probability, a percentage of

The partnership between the US and the West was extraordinary. It lasted 80 years and - for all its crises and hypocrisies - it was a time of more growth, prosperity and peace than any period in recorded history. It’s never easy to let go.

Singularity – an animated ode to our cosmic destiny inspired by Stephen Hawking, who returned his borrowed stardust to the universe 7 years ago today themarginalian.org/2020/04/23/sin…

a lot of people obviously haven't seen Spirited Away, in which a monster driven by greed consumes people and steals their voices, doing perfect imitations of those it's devoured, and it's hard to think of a better metaphor for generative AI.

Explaining how he arrived at this picture, Alberto Giacometti took away the crockery and a vase of flowers from his mother's sideboard. 'I was left with three apples; have you tried to see three apples simultaneously at a distance of three metres? So I took two of them away.'

This is why it’s urgent that you give art your full attention. No texting in theaters. No scrolling while watching TV. You need to recover the ability to read for an hour or more. In an age of phone addiction, there’s joy & a kind of freedom in being immersed in a work of art.