Peter Sachs Collopy
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מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן
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Conservative media is just a huge project of making it more thinkable for more classes of people to be demeaned, exploited, and disempowered by the actual elites in society.
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Conservative media is just a huge project of making it more thinkable for more classes of people to be demeaned, exploited, and disempowered by the actual elites in society.
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Overall social media use is declining.
Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all.
A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.
Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all.
A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Overall social media use is declining.
Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all.
A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.
Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all.
A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.
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"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.
October 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.
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It's really OK to change your mind when new facts are presented. It really is.
October 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It's really OK to change your mind when new facts are presented. It really is.
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It's fine & true to say that in some of these fields there aren't really jobs but the better perspective is to emphasize that there's so much to be investigated in these fields-yes, even in German literature-and so fewer opportunities for that investigation is a bad thing for culture and society.
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It's fine & true to say that in some of these fields there aren't really jobs but the better perspective is to emphasize that there's so much to be investigated in these fields-yes, even in German literature-and so fewer opportunities for that investigation is a bad thing for culture and society.
“Software has physical constraints, and we're hitting all of them simultaneously.”
as tech execs demand the adoption of a.i. and force their employees to dogfood their own a.i. agents in the name of increased productivity, the actual quality of software has plummeted
The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.
techtrenches.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“Software has physical constraints, and we're hitting all of them simultaneously.”
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Almost everything I've seen about implementing AI in archives feels as though it was written in a world with neither archivists nor archival description
I have read through the new OCLC blog post about AI in archives (hangingtogether.org/exploring-ai...) and liveblogged my response over on Mastodon.
Overall, it really doesn't feel like they consulted with archivists or took our expertise seriously.
Some highlights:
Overall, it really doesn't feel like they consulted with archivists or took our expertise seriously.
Some highlights:
Exploring AI uses in archives and special collections: Integration, entities, and addressing need - Hanging Together
Learn how archives and special collections are exploring using AI responsibly to meet accessibility requirements and improve access to unique resources.
hangingtogether.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Almost everything I've seen about implementing AI in archives feels as though it was written in a world with neither archivists nor archival description
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Not to be too apocalyptic, but capital is pouring into these tools because capitalists believe these tools will lock capitalism in once and for all as an inviolable and unmovable economic system.
And the bubble: "In financial markets, a bubble occurs when the level of investment in an asset becomes persistently detached from the amount of profit that asset could plausibly generate... A.I. investment fits that pattern."
Opinion | Warning: Our Stock Market Is Looking Like a Bubble
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Not to be too apocalyptic, but capital is pouring into these tools because capitalists believe these tools will lock capitalism in once and for all as an inviolable and unmovable economic system.
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Eugenics is about collectively demarcating who among us is “inferior” enough, in the “right” ways, to be actively or passively cut out of society. It relies on us not caring about disability justice & also encourages people to disable each other to the point they can be easily,wordlessly left behind
Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)
If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.
If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.
October 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Eugenics is about collectively demarcating who among us is “inferior” enough, in the “right” ways, to be actively or passively cut out of society. It relies on us not caring about disability justice & also encourages people to disable each other to the point they can be easily,wordlessly left behind
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“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...
October 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...
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it's impossible to know what people *aren't* posting and why, but i assure you that "is this safe to post" is a real concern that is shaping the decisionmaking of many real people right now
If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.
the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.
October 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
it's impossible to know what people *aren't* posting and why, but i assure you that "is this safe to post" is a real concern that is shaping the decisionmaking of many real people right now
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What LLMs are doing, fundamentally, is reaping the benefits of a vast spontaneous, directly social, decommodified decentralized production of use values.
October 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
What LLMs are doing, fundamentally, is reaping the benefits of a vast spontaneous, directly social, decommodified decentralized production of use values.
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*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history
* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system
* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...
* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system
* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...
September 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history
* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system
* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...
* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system
* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...
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say what you will about the whole earth guys, but “access to tools” is a killer slogan
WHOLE EARTH CATALOG
access to tools
[black sky]
[gibbous Earth]
[surface of the moon]
Spring 1969
$4
access to tools
[black sky]
[gibbous Earth]
[surface of the moon]
Spring 1969
$4
September 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
say what you will about the whole earth guys, but “access to tools” is a killer slogan
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We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.
September 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.
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live your life in such a way that it won’t be considered an insult to your memory to post unedited direct quotes of things you said in public repeatedly
September 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
live your life in such a way that it won’t be considered an insult to your memory to post unedited direct quotes of things you said in public repeatedly
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The life and death of Charlie Kirk and the response to it is the fastest case study of the difference between history and memory that I have ever seen develop.
September 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The life and death of Charlie Kirk and the response to it is the fastest case study of the difference between history and memory that I have ever seen develop.
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i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
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I had been calling this the argument against so-called AI from "craft", but it seems to be broader than that.
More accurately, AI people are against "process", as if process itself wasn't a critical part of the creative method.
More accurately, AI people are against "process", as if process itself wasn't a critical part of the creative method.
May 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I had been calling this the argument against so-called AI from "craft", but it seems to be broader than that.
More accurately, AI people are against "process", as if process itself wasn't a critical part of the creative method.
More accurately, AI people are against "process", as if process itself wasn't a critical part of the creative method.
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Now more than ever
March 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Now more than ever
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The state relies on us creating a dichotomy between "good protesters" and "bad protesters" and it relies on a misinterpretation of nonviolence in order to get us to do it. When we resist a fascist state, we must resist the fascist state's logic.
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/without-th...
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/without-th...
Without the Awful Roar of Its Many Waters
or: False Nonviolence Won't Save You
margaretkilljoy.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The state relies on us creating a dichotomy between "good protesters" and "bad protesters" and it relies on a misinterpretation of nonviolence in order to get us to do it. When we resist a fascist state, we must resist the fascist state's logic.
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/without-th...
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/without-th...
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“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates
"When mass protests broke out against his policy, Biden repeatedly condemned the activists as violent and antisemitic, responding to outlier actions that didn’t represent the movement. Biden’s slander helped splinter the Democratic coalition, giving Trump a potent wedge issue." shorturl.at/K4cPI
The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals
As with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent.
www.thenation.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates
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We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now