Peter B. Kaufman

Kakapo everywhere.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history

The Architecture of Resilience | FFDW Issue 2 of the DWeb Digest - Architecture of Resilience

DWeb Digest Issue 2: "The Architecture of Resilience" is live.

With @pbkauf.bsky.social as guest editor.

8 essays on building decentralized infrastructure that lasts.

Read it: ffdweb.org/digest/issue-2

Former Nato chief attacks Trump’s ‘gangster’ talk on Greenland Anders Fogh Rasmussen says US president is using island as a ‘weapon of mass distraction’ from real threats such as Russia’s war in Ukraine

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who is also a former Danish prime minister, said that Trump was using Greenland “as a weapon of mass distraction from the real threats” such as Russia’s war in Ukraine. “For me, it’s been a painful process. Since childhood, I have considered the United States as the natural

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Passing along this idea I'll never get around to pulling off—

Create an index of Trump-connected stocks and compare how it performs to traditional indices.

Would include Trump Media, American Bitcoin, Alt5 and firms that have Jr. or Eric as advisors (Dominari, Grab a Gun, Unusual Machines, etc.).

Sure.
Makes sense.

Interactive!

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

Ok everyone

Hey thanks

Peter B. Kaufman talks about The Moving Image Peter B. Kaufman is Associate Director of Development at MIT Open Learning. He is the author of The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge (Seven Stories Press, 2021) and founder of Intelli...

Could footnotes soon point to videos instead of books?

Read IWM Visiting Fellow @pbkauf.bsky.social's conversation with Russell Harper from the @chicagomanual.bsky.social about Peter B. Kaufman's new book, The Moving Image:
cmosshoptalk.com/2025/11/25/p...

Must be nice to have a real supreme court

That doesn’t sound good.

A conversation with the unflappable Russell Harper @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Fie!

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.

Ew.

Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:

‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side With daft jokes and experimental wordplay, the first comprehensive translations of his lesser-known stories show Anton Chekhov in a new light

Chekhov’s earliest stories were “childishly comical”. During the translation process, says Rosamund Bartlett, “we would just collapse in fits of giggles”.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Stephen Fry has had a lifelong bond with Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Now, he is starring in the new West End production of the play. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Zx81Zq

College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,

You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Paramount held talks with Saudi wealth fund over potential Warner bid David Ellison met officials from the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund, among other Gulf investors

Paramount held talks with Saudi wealth fund over potential Warner bid on.ft.com/43BEl7Y

Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.

Thank you.

#Epstein #OpenAccess #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Thanks to the support of @iwm.at in 2025-2026, I'm writing a new book, and between meetings in Europe I'll have the good fortune to workshop it at Central European University next week:

events.ceu.edu/2025-11-12/f...

It's about why people think the zany things they do, and why open access matters!

"Capping his ascent"? What a fucking weird headline.

Yes but not astonishing