drew beck
@drewbeck.bsky.social
A defector from the culture wars / that shell-shock love away • 🇵🇸
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Committing atrocities is a loyalty test and binds you together with others who have done the same, severing other bonds of care and loyalty.
The atrocity literature highlights this over and over.
The atrocity literature highlights this over and over.
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Committing atrocities is a loyalty test and binds you together with others who have done the same, severing other bonds of care and loyalty.
The atrocity literature highlights this over and over.
The atrocity literature highlights this over and over.
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Yeah hi, I'll have a big mac meal aaaand please have the Grinch jack me off.
December 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Yeah hi, I'll have a big mac meal aaaand please have the Grinch jack me off.
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“If you believe the MAGA postliberal project is real, then liberalism must understand MAGA is not a reaction to economic consequences or “elite failures,” but an affirmative preference for illiberalism.
Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...
Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...
Liberals: Stop the Masochism
Why liberalism romanticizes the Forgotten Man and is reluctant to take its own side in the fight against authoritarianism.
www.thebulwark.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“If you believe the MAGA postliberal project is real, then liberalism must understand MAGA is not a reaction to economic consequences or “elite failures,” but an affirmative preference for illiberalism.
Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...
Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...
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I appreciate the reporting AND I want everyone to stop using criminal records as a stand in for whether people should or should not be harassed and deported.
Nearly 1,900 immigrants were detained during the first half of Operation Midway Blitz. Most had no criminal record, newly released federal data shows. @joemahr.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social report
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
Nearly 1,900 immigrants were detained during the first half of Operation Midway Blitz. Most had no criminal record.
Newly released federal data shows that immigration agents booked in roughly 1,900 immigrants in the first half of Operation Midway Blitz – two-thirds of whom had no known criminal convictions or pe…
www.chicagotribune.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I appreciate the reporting AND I want everyone to stop using criminal records as a stand in for whether people should or should not be harassed and deported.
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But MS talks like a pundit. He is creating his own reality by speaking. In this mindset, facts are not just inconvenient but irrelevant. They literally don't matter, because the goal is NOT to jointly identify how to act in light of reality, but to talk enough that your audience accepts yr frame
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November 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
But MS talks like a pundit. He is creating his own reality by speaking. In this mindset, facts are not just inconvenient but irrelevant. They literally don't matter, because the goal is NOT to jointly identify how to act in light of reality, but to talk enough that your audience accepts yr frame
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The burden of proof for "kids these days are cooked" is *incredibly* high because, like, literally every generation as far back as we have written records has believed that so our prior should be extreme skepticism. And instead people on here are like "a professor wrote a blog post! It's proven!"
November 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The burden of proof for "kids these days are cooked" is *incredibly* high because, like, literally every generation as far back as we have written records has believed that so our prior should be extreme skepticism. And instead people on here are like "a professor wrote a blog post! It's proven!"
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Farewell Tom Stoppard. I know I'm supposed to consider "Arcadia" your best work, but there's no improving on Brazil's taut first hour & the office dialogue in particular.
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Farewell Tom Stoppard. I know I'm supposed to consider "Arcadia" your best work, but there's no improving on Brazil's taut first hour & the office dialogue in particular.
Executives using AI is such a huge risk. Already predisposed to think everything they think is smart, they’ll be led to the stupidest conclusions.
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Executives using AI is such a huge risk. Already predisposed to think everything they think is smart, they’ll be led to the stupidest conclusions.
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We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
What does Webster’s say about soul?
is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend
can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
What does Webster’s say about soul?
Nationalizing could be such a good way to fix shit. Oh, your company acted the fool and needs a bailout? All g, ours now.
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Nationalizing could be such a good way to fix shit. Oh, your company acted the fool and needs a bailout? All g, ours now.
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This is the end of a longish but very interesting thread and pairs a bit with what I wrote about today re: uncertainty that we will actually never be able to conquer. I think that predictability is what people are after. That and COMMUNITY [yes, there's that word again but I am right, lol].
Anyway, this turned into a ramble, but the whole point is that I think a lot of the discontent currently expressed in economic terms is only expressed that way because those are the only terms available. Taking it too literally & responding technocratically is a mistake. Deeper shit is afoot. </fin>
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is the end of a longish but very interesting thread and pairs a bit with what I wrote about today re: uncertainty that we will actually never be able to conquer. I think that predictability is what people are after. That and COMMUNITY [yes, there's that word again but I am right, lol].
Moloch
![An article with the headline "[US people] are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jye22xkea3jqsabskhfec347/bafkreigunh6t53vvgp2sewo2fsy4xttrwgy3zrdwplje7j2qjop5jdeyxy@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Moloch
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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I’ve been thinking a LOT about “we” recently! I use it at work all the time (many do!) but I’m so suspicious of it now. I think it expresses a core longing for union, just as it tucks power and agency away somewhere amid the hope.
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I’ve been thinking a LOT about “we” recently! I use it at work all the time (many do!) but I’m so suspicious of it now. I think it expresses a core longing for union, just as it tucks power and agency away somewhere amid the hope.
I know this is some 4D chess fantasy shit but fixing/replacing policing is a generational struggle and it doesn’t happen just by installing a progressive top cop. I don’t know how you do it, but I do believe that Mamdani and his whole operation is thinking deeply about the problem.
November 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I know this is some 4D chess fantasy shit but fixing/replacing policing is a generational struggle and it doesn’t happen just by installing a progressive top cop. I don’t know how you do it, but I do believe that Mamdani and his whole operation is thinking deeply about the problem.
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When I talk to students about public speaking or teaching, I always bring this up: Just tell people when you don't know something! It's remarkably powerful b/c it signals to your audience that you know the boundaries of your expertise and they can trust what you DO talk about.
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
When I talk to students about public speaking or teaching, I always bring this up: Just tell people when you don't know something! It's remarkably powerful b/c it signals to your audience that you know the boundaries of your expertise and they can trust what you DO talk about.
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An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
This is the way.
Specifically, marry rich then take that motherfucker’s money and give it all away.
Specifically, marry rich then take that motherfucker’s money and give it all away.
The billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is funneling tens of millions of dollars into tribal higher education, months after the Trump administration sought to cut one of the system’s most essential funding sources.
MacKenzie Scott Expands Giving Spree to Tribal Colleges
The billionaire philanthropist is steering millions of dollars toward tribal schools, after the Trump administration proposed a significant federal funding cut.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This is the way.
Specifically, marry rich then take that motherfucker’s money and give it all away.
Specifically, marry rich then take that motherfucker’s money and give it all away.
This is an excellent video. It's really satisfying to see how folks solve tough problems, and very engaging!
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is an excellent video. It's really satisfying to see how folks solve tough problems, and very engaging!
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Everyone posting about giant slowly rotating industrial fans fails to recognize that in order to have that we also must bring back New Jack Swing
One of the absolute dogdick shittiest things to be nostalgic for is how I miss big warehouse sets with a fuckin' huge flood light blasting on the windows
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Everyone posting about giant slowly rotating industrial fans fails to recognize that in order to have that we also must bring back New Jack Swing
A disease of punditry and of wealth and of a toxic and insular elite world
I like how these guys get to have it both ways
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an "extraordinary moment" but said no company would be immune if bubble burst.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A disease of punditry and of wealth and of a toxic and insular elite world