Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements."

Really meant,

"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

I pray that a downsized DoE employee will bring a neodymium magnet into the server room containing all the student loan records

anarch-ish ~= libertarian socialist*

this is why, imo, Graeber calls himself a Marxist in the scope of academia but ends up at an anarch-ish analysis through his anthropological work. best demonstrated here: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/davi...

++++. SK police wear hi-vis in majority of situations, even for "crowd control" with "riot" shields, most recently seen when they went to arrest Yoon Sukyeol.

Someone captured the Los Angeles radio scanner traffic from yesterday, where LAPD came under impact munitions fire from LA Sheriffs when both departments violently converged on peaceful protesters from two sides.

The answer to hostile architecture: weaponizable architecture

Ranked competitive hostile architecture

buying a big wet rectangle of meat wrapped in paper and twine from an ardent communist who doesn't speak the same language as you is the most trad thing you can possibly do

and good god the absolute abundance of fruit that is grown in just like, residential yards still gets to me. you can just grow more lemons & persimmons than you know what to do with, at your house! truly the land of milk & honey

did the midnight bike run of the LA marathon route a few years back as the cops shut down the streets to cars, & the feeling of whizzing down Sunset alongside several hundreds of other Los Angelenos remains unmatched