Here's the speech I gave tonight as part of the Univ. of Washington Grad School's Public Lecture.
It's about how impeachment can save our republic and rekindle its spirit of liberty.
Starts 30 minutes in:
youtube.com/live/3UkV400_t0Y?si=2UcSsVW93k-xxqSb
Depends on the economy. Economy like 2008: AOC. Economy like '00, '04, '12, '16, '24: Vance. Economy like '20: ?.
Excellent essay. One of your best.
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
And that thing when he was a pauper must have been traumatic too.
This wasn’t just a protest against violence in Arab society. It was a declaration: Israeli democracy requires Jewish-Arab partnership – or it will fail.
J Street Israel Director Nadav Tamir on the power of recent joint protests in Tel Aviv:
This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.
bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy
Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).
momentary exception to not posting to amplify how beautiful & powerful this Providence protest is #ICEout
“It’s not the painting, it’s the energy BEHIND the painting.”
Ethan Hawke — on the limitations of AI art — is very good. 🔥
@vulture.com
She ends her story in 2016, when she wrote the thesis. Has much happened since then?
To be fair, the "entertaining supporters" are no less cool! That's the landvættir (land wights), guardian spirits for each quarter of the country: The bull in the west(fjords), the eagle in the north, the dragon in the east and the (mountain)giant in the south.
I know in my heart that the Siege of Minneapolis will go down as one of the biggest political blunders/grossest abuses of federal power in American history. Just a matter how long that consensus takes. Next week? Next year? Next decade?
I read a chunk of the thesis this is based on. Really excellent !
Thanks !
Maybe related to "Interface Providence," also that year, I think ?
BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
Even the smartest bear can get lost in the details and nuances of civil procedure
Attention Bluesky elders: The artist behind the ANIMORPHS covers is here!
Congratulations !
I spent Christmas thinking about Greco-Bactrian kings and Greek texts in Nubia, and now you can too!
If you'd welcome some distraction from Armageddon, here's my January mega-post, all about the Greek language's life beyond Europe.
dannybate.com/2026/01/06/g...
MAYOR FREY: “They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly: That is BULLSHIT.”
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
* in my craw
this is actually much more important video
never too early to encourage a lifelong love of nonlinear storytelling and massive footnotes
The wild story of how the Israeli ffolk dance "Mayim Mayim" became embedded in Japanese culture. From "Unseen Japan" unseen-japan.com
short clip: youtube.com/clip/UgkxwV1...
full video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJgG...
In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
This is a really nice analysis of the AI bubble, how we got here, and where we might be going. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
