“The existence of technology can lead us down many paths. That does not mean all should be taken.”
the ft slowly embracing the luddite cause
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“The existence of technology can lead us down many paths. That does not mean all should be taken.”
the ft slowly embracing the luddite cause
whoa what the fuck is that Minneapolis line??? that's psychotic.
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Former official from a key Global South state tells me, regarding Europe's disgraceful reaction to Trump/Israel's illegal war on Iran:
"Double standard as usual. That's why the global south doesn't give a fuck about Europe anymore. Declining continent and declining states."
Of the top 10 most-removed classic books:
60% are by Black authors
60% are by women
60% center Black experiences
That's no accident.
Source: www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...
I still remember seeing it when it came out when I was 5. It was awesome then and awesome now
I’ve always loved this movie
I mostly ignore the NYT but I sincerely cannot believe the fawning, drippingly pro-Tisch orientation of this article
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/n...
"Modern capitalism’s absurd concentration of wealth and power and its heedless pursuit of endless material progress were a snare and a delusion."
Paul Baumann on the Christopher Lasch conservatives miss:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/real-christo...
Why is your new email app so bad?
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE:
-Amazon
-AT&T
-Booz Allen Hamilton
-Caci
-Charter Communications
-Comcast
-Dell
-Ecolab
-FedEx
-General Dynamics
-L3Harris
-Motorola
-Thermo Fisher
-UPS
Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
Amy Klobuchar voted for one of Trump's nominees the day after a woman in her state was murdered by ICE.
CBS has cancelled a story about the Christmas Nigeria bombings because Bari Weiss complained it implied that Nigerians are human beings without seeking an alternative perspective from Steven Miller.
A reminder that Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra’s parents emigrated here during a period when Italians were considered to be a genetically inferior and criminal-minded underclass that Stephen Miller’s racist predecessors said should be excluded from America
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
Gotta get me one of these
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation
“Ancient boundaries were more ambiguous than what is often shown in historical maps.
While the modern understanding of borders relies on recent concepts of territorial sovereignty, the frontiers of pre-modern states were fluid and frequently contested.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/african-ot...
I've been on a number of search committees in my career now and I quickly learned that a lot of the conspiracy theories about what must be going on behind the scenes are just wildly, insanely wrong.
As a Jewish journalist, I know I am casting my lot with people who, deep down, are antisemitic. But that's okay because I'm confident that however much they hate Jews, they hate Muslims 5-10% more.
by Bari Weiss
Netflix made a bold promise that streaming would be cheaper and better than what existed before. It broke that promise to cash in on its audience.
If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.
So true. SNL sucks and always has
Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.
Vertigo (1958) Directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes.
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
