Drew Strombeck
@drew-strombeck.bsky.social
DIY on the Lower East Side SUNY Press 2020; Co-ed Avant-Gardes in Crisis SUNY 2021; he/him/his
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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"The Grift Bubble: A Political Theory of American Collapse"
"Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots."
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"Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots."
snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...
The Grift Bubble
A Political Theory of American Collapse
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November 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"The Grift Bubble: A Political Theory of American Collapse"
"Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots."
snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...
"Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots."
snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...
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There goes 90+ day credit-card delinquencies. New cycle high.
(via Kev Gordon)
(via Kev Gordon)
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
There goes 90+ day credit-card delinquencies. New cycle high.
(via Kev Gordon)
(via Kev Gordon)
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“For anyone out there struggling to write because you’re distracted, or tired, or sick, or scared—I’ve been there. Take care of yourself and your communities…. your book will be there when you get back.”
Thx to @nickcav.bsky.social for the wise advice
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Thx to @nickcav.bsky.social for the wise advice
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A book 15 years in the making
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November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“For anyone out there struggling to write because you’re distracted, or tired, or sick, or scared—I’ve been there. Take care of yourself and your communities…. your book will be there when you get back.”
Thx to @nickcav.bsky.social for the wise advice
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/a-book...
Thx to @nickcav.bsky.social for the wise advice
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/a-book...
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those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station
We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station
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Either universities are private businesses that get to set their own priorities or they’re public goods that are obligated to serve everyone. You can’t have it both ways.
October 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Either universities are private businesses that get to set their own priorities or they’re public goods that are obligated to serve everyone. You can’t have it both ways.
History as tragedyfarce? Farcetragedy?
October 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
History as tragedyfarce? Farcetragedy?
City gov Mt Vernon, OH after raid today: “The City remains steadfast in its commitment to supporting our citizens, upholding the rule of law, and, above all else, defending the Constitution of the United States and the principle of due process for all individuals.” www.cleveland.com/nation/2025/...
ICE raids restaurant in central Ohio, detains workers
Local officials say they received no prior notice of the immigration enforcement action at the restaurant that opened in 2024.
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October 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
City gov Mt Vernon, OH after raid today: “The City remains steadfast in its commitment to supporting our citizens, upholding the rule of law, and, above all else, defending the Constitution of the United States and the principle of due process for all individuals.” www.cleveland.com/nation/2025/...
I really love Halle Butler’s books. She leads us into depression’s dark, self-violent, isolation, then signals a near-imperceptible shift, one conversation that cracks open the cell, leads the soul into a community where it can thrive.
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I really love Halle Butler’s books. She leads us into depression’s dark, self-violent, isolation, then signals a near-imperceptible shift, one conversation that cracks open the cell, leads the soul into a community where it can thrive.
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All is not lost, tomorrow you wake up and probably get to eat oats. Perhaps an egg. The possibilities are endless.
October 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
All is not lost, tomorrow you wake up and probably get to eat oats. Perhaps an egg. The possibilities are endless.
“The challenge Arendt poses to us is to think of truth and meaning not from the perspective of the economist, financial analyst, data scientist, or sociologist, but of the historian, the kind who sees human events as a series of breaks, anomalies, & initiations”
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
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Stupidology | William Davies
The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...
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October 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
“The challenge Arendt poses to us is to think of truth and meaning not from the perspective of the economist, financial analyst, data scientist, or sociologist, but of the historian, the kind who sees human events as a series of breaks, anomalies, & initiations”
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
Incredible. Apparently AI companies cannot control how much compute users burn (and thus how much users cost the companies).
“even the model developers have no real way of limiting user activity, likely due to the architecture of generative AI”
Incredible. Apparently AI companies cannot control how much compute users burn (and thus how much users cost the companies).
“even the model developers have no real way of limiting user activity, likely due to the architecture of generative AI”
The Case Against Generative AI
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth
Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...
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September 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Incredible. Apparently AI companies cannot control how much compute users burn (and thus how much users cost the companies).
“even the model developers have no real way of limiting user activity, likely due to the architecture of generative AI”
Incredible. Apparently AI companies cannot control how much compute users burn (and thus how much users cost the companies).
“even the model developers have no real way of limiting user activity, likely due to the architecture of generative AI”
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I'm over the moon that my book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the not too distant future.
September 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I'm over the moon that my book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the not too distant future.
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Reminder that September is National library card month, so you should totally go get a library card! Yes, they have books, but many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and more! Maybe it's time for a visit!
September 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Reminder that September is National library card month, so you should totally go get a library card! Yes, they have books, but many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and more! Maybe it's time for a visit!
I appreciate and understand zero-tolerance re: generative AI in the classroom. I'm also disallowing it; we'll spend a lot of class time with pen and paper. But I like the ethic here to be positive: students deserve and should cultivate space to think away from the machines.
August 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I appreciate and understand zero-tolerance re: generative AI in the classroom. I'm also disallowing it; we'll spend a lot of class time with pen and paper. But I like the ethic here to be positive: students deserve and should cultivate space to think away from the machines.
August 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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mohonk curve section interior, new paltz, new york, 1978
August 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
mohonk curve section interior, new paltz, new york, 1978
Great thread, which debunks a number of myths re: the humanities.
This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”
July 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Great thread, which debunks a number of myths re: the humanities.
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We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
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feel like this goes beyond politics and into tech and maybe culture. there's a kind of future blindness it feels like. a focus on both tearing down structural things/institutions and replacing them with nothing. or building things that disrupt institutions/infrastructure w/ little thought to future
This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them
Budget agreements won’t matter, funding obligations won’t matter, expended funds on the basis of promised reimbursement won’t matter.
You really don’t get the impression the GOP is thinking through what this means for the second they’re not in control.
You really don’t get the impression the GOP is thinking through what this means for the second they’re not in control.
July 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
feel like this goes beyond politics and into tech and maybe culture. there's a kind of future blindness it feels like. a focus on both tearing down structural things/institutions and replacing them with nothing. or building things that disrupt institutions/infrastructure w/ little thought to future
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super cool to realize that the capacity for shame was a load-bearing part of our system of government and that the MAGA movement's total rejection of that is an insanely powerful cheat code
the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
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July 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
super cool to realize that the capacity for shame was a load-bearing part of our system of government and that the MAGA movement's total rejection of that is an insanely powerful cheat code
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Here's the West Philly Tool Library! Brooklyn's got the Greenpoint Public Library Tool Library, the Flatbush Tool Library, the Green Guerillas' Tool Library...
July 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Here's the West Philly Tool Library! Brooklyn's got the Greenpoint Public Library Tool Library, the Flatbush Tool Library, the Green Guerillas' Tool Library...
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I for one am tired of Humanities academics pushing their elitist agenda of basic literacy, independent thinking and an elementary knowledge of human history
June 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I for one am tired of Humanities academics pushing their elitist agenda of basic literacy, independent thinking and an elementary knowledge of human history
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The liberatory power of mass literacy has been established across half a millennia.
When you begin with this fact, everything from Silicon Valley fantasies of post-literacy to MAGA book bans fall neatly in line.
Literacy is the foundation of democratic society.
It must be enclosed & economized.
When you begin with this fact, everything from Silicon Valley fantasies of post-literacy to MAGA book bans fall neatly in line.
Literacy is the foundation of democratic society.
It must be enclosed & economized.
June 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The liberatory power of mass literacy has been established across half a millennia.
When you begin with this fact, everything from Silicon Valley fantasies of post-literacy to MAGA book bans fall neatly in line.
Literacy is the foundation of democratic society.
It must be enclosed & economized.
When you begin with this fact, everything from Silicon Valley fantasies of post-literacy to MAGA book bans fall neatly in line.
Literacy is the foundation of democratic society.
It must be enclosed & economized.
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It’s so easy to be an artist. You just do it. That, of course, is why it’s so hard to be an artist. You just have to do it.
People despise how artistic courage highlights their own cowardice. Thus, crave the art, despise the artist.
my random thoughts on it, better said by all the ppl in history
People despise how artistic courage highlights their own cowardice. Thus, crave the art, despise the artist.
my random thoughts on it, better said by all the ppl in history
June 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It’s so easy to be an artist. You just do it. That, of course, is why it’s so hard to be an artist. You just have to do it.
People despise how artistic courage highlights their own cowardice. Thus, crave the art, despise the artist.
my random thoughts on it, better said by all the ppl in history
People despise how artistic courage highlights their own cowardice. Thus, crave the art, despise the artist.
my random thoughts on it, better said by all the ppl in history