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“But where Pynchon takes down the liberal culture industry, laying waste to its dreams of revolutionary activity … [OBAA is] an epic re-mythologisation of culture industry ‘activism’, one that places the liberal fantasies of its own heroism at the core of the spectacle.”
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The Problem with Cinematic Liberalism
The year in film: Where One Battle After Another uses a spectacle of ‘political’ action and violence to mythologise the liberal culture industry, Caught by the Tides holds a mirror up to reality.
ocula.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“But where Pynchon takes down the liberal culture industry, laying waste to its dreams of revolutionary activity … [OBAA is] an epic re-mythologisation of culture industry ‘activism’, one that places the liberal fantasies of its own heroism at the core of the spectacle.”
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Will note: this is probably the direct result of workshy Bari Weiss waiting until Friday before a Sunday air date to spike the story. International rebroadcasters probably get the recordings early to vet locally and run through local standards and practices. She forgot and no one told her :)
Oh yeah Global TV (in Canada or by VPN) has the full uncut 60 Minutes story on its 60 Minutes rebroadcast. CBS must have sent them the original tape.
December 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Will note: this is probably the direct result of workshy Bari Weiss waiting until Friday before a Sunday air date to spike the story. International rebroadcasters probably get the recordings early to vet locally and run through local standards and practices. She forgot and no one told her :)
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.
New School “administrators have started to implement a plan to close, overhaul or merge about 30 academic programs or majors; pause nearly all admissions to doctoral programs; and offer buyouts or early retirement to what professors say is about 40 percent of the full-time faculty.”
Falling Enrollment, Money Woes: The New School Seeks a Path to Survival
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.
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"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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I cannot believe how effective you are at making me passionately hate you, you have a gift
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I cannot believe how effective you are at making me passionately hate you, you have a gift
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the reason you can tell "Artificial Intelligence" is fraudulent is that if you tried to tell an average adult that you believed a statistical average of reddit posts and pirated books from libgen could combine to make a brain, they would laugh at you
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
the reason you can tell "Artificial Intelligence" is fraudulent is that if you tried to tell an average adult that you believed a statistical average of reddit posts and pirated books from libgen could combine to make a brain, they would laugh at you
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If you want a union that keeps you from getting fired for racism you can just be a cop.
December 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If you want a union that keeps you from getting fired for racism you can just be a cop.
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My most boomer-coded belief is that growing up watching Looney Tunes as a kid was spiritually and intellectually superior to anything later generations had to offer.
December 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
My most boomer-coded belief is that growing up watching Looney Tunes as a kid was spiritually and intellectually superior to anything later generations had to offer.
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someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning
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If you wanted a real conversation about fairness in education, accommodations isn't where you'd start. But then @theatlantic.com doesn't do real journalism.
December 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
If you wanted a real conversation about fairness in education, accommodations isn't where you'd start. But then @theatlantic.com doesn't do real journalism.
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Every other big business is busy cramming an LLM into everything and meanwhile Costco is the only one that seems to understand that profit = revenue - expenses.
December 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Every other big business is busy cramming an LLM into everything and meanwhile Costco is the only one that seems to understand that profit = revenue - expenses.
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“everyone is twelve” theory has reached Senator Kelly
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“everyone is twelve” theory has reached Senator Kelly
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DOGE let me go to the PBS offices to root around and I found the 19 hour long unreleased Infinite Jest episode of Wishbone
August 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
DOGE let me go to the PBS offices to root around and I found the 19 hour long unreleased Infinite Jest episode of Wishbone
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Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”
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is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend
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I’ve decided that the only person I want to interview Sam Altman is Ziwe
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I’ve decided that the only person I want to interview Sam Altman is Ziwe
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It's so refreshing seeing politicians are unabashedly in support of labor and unions. This is what we need to build solidarity.
No contract, no coffee.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It's so refreshing seeing politicians are unabashedly in support of labor and unions. This is what we need to build solidarity.
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interview mag has set the precedent that every new york city mayoral candidate must be asked if they've ever been to basement
April 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
interview mag has set the precedent that every new york city mayoral candidate must be asked if they've ever been to basement
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When they need to do this you know we are getting somewhere
BREAKING: The House passes a resolution condemning socialism, per FOX
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
When they need to do this you know we are getting somewhere
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Oof. Video Data Bank. Small, but with wide-ranging impact. They are the distributors for most of the contemporary video art (going back to the 1970s) that you may know. It's going to be tough for them to keep going with 3 of 5 folks gone.
Citing financial strain attributed to changes in enrollment, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago laid off 20 workers last week, including three of the five positions in the Video Data Bank.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Lays Off 20 Workers
The cuts include three of five workers employed at the institution’s Video Data Bank, a major resource for early and contemporary media and video art.
hyperallergic.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Oof. Video Data Bank. Small, but with wide-ranging impact. They are the distributors for most of the contemporary video art (going back to the 1970s) that you may know. It's going to be tough for them to keep going with 3 of 5 folks gone.
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bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal
November 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal
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It turns out that jury was...holding out for a hero.
November 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
It turns out that jury was...holding out for a hero.