they aren’t unusual; 80% of parents who send their kids to college basically agree. every student we convince to even minor in a humanities subject is a victory over reagan, clinton, and lead poisoning

I just started reading CAPTIVE CITIES, and it is an absolute banger. Nobody makes me think harder than Jennie Lightweis-Goff. 50% off today. pennpress.org/9781512826685/…

JLG is kind enough to call me this book's doula, which is generous. It would be more accurate to say I helped rehome this book from a spot in the boonies where it was being neglected and abused, to a loving home in Philadelphia. And 50% off today.

Gonna rawdog my termpaper brah

IMO, to do this well, it helps to know the language of men's clothing. 🧵

WRITER: you know what an icepick is right ARTIST: sure thing boss

Woof

Many journalists have written extensively about those externalities. When these massive data centers come to town, they distort power supplies (per Bloomberg’s Leonardo, Naureen S. Malik, Andre Tartar)… 7/ bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

…they take up drinking water - yes, drinking water, because of the water quality required to cool these facilities - which threatens to hike water prices for families… 8/ theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

…they extend the lives of gas & coal plants, worsening air quality (per The Washington Post’s Evan Halper) - not just because fossil fuels are the fastest way to surge energy supply but because 24/7 facilities can't run solely on intermittent renewables. 9/ washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

Now on top of the negative externalities on people’s power, water, air, and global climate, we have another: the ceding of more & more control over critical energy & water infrastructure to Silicon Valley. I wrote about this last week in The Atlantic. 14/ theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

We’re basically seeing this again. OpenAI with Sam Altman is so good at raising capital (incl. now from Softbank) that it's covering up the company’s technical & commercial weaknesses. See also this excellent AI Now Institute report from Brian Merchant. 23/ ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-gen…

Add Joshua Gooch's Capitalism Hates You to the top of your TBR pile now!

The inflection point for our democracy was Biden’s decision to run again. After that moment we were completely screwed.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Waitsfield on Saturday morning to protest Vice President JD Vance, who is visiting Vermont with his family for a ski trip this weekend.

Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.

Around 500~ Vermonters came out to Waitsfield Vermont this morning to protest VP Vance who is spending the weekend at Sugarbush Ski Resort. Smaller protests at the resort and shops telling the Vice President he is not welcome. 30 minute Video of the Protest

BREAKING: A large group of protesters line the streets in Vermont, disrupting JD Vance's planned ski vacation. Thank you free speech.

Another gem sign from this morning's protest across Waitsfield and Sugarbush Resort with estimates between 500 and 2,000 people showing up