"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

It’s a bad look.

30 September 1928 | Elie Wiesel was born in Romania. A Jewish writer, Auschwitz & Buchenwald survivor, Peace Nobel Prize laureate.

"Indifference is the epitome of evil." / „We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

Ezra Klein has been speaking a lot on red states and rural Democrats and here’s the thing…he shouldn’t.

He has no idea what he’s talking about.

Bad: seeing a young person wearing a Charlie Kirk shirt.
Good: the shirt said “tipping point”, not “turning point”, and the logo was sideways.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

New Video:
A guide on how to speak with fascists when and if you are forced to do that, and why it is the only appropriate way.

youtu.be/tZzwO2B9b64

If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it.

Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.

probably a good time to bring this back

I have no idea why I’m on reddit anymore except a hard to break 15 year old habit. That place is a shadow of what it once was and it’s a real shame.

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

<Sob laugh>

I’m really enjoying Nine Sols. I was promised Sekiro meets Hollow Knight and by god has it delivered.