My favorite reaction to these articles you post are the armchair economists who have decided that they’ve settled decades of ambiguity about what impact, if any, the minwage has. Then they start wringing their hands about automation (which is continuing apace justfinethankyou), or firing people or small businesses…

That’s just one-dimensional thought in action! But just to feed them anyway, here’s a story about Mitt Romney and Debord getting drunk in Paris: https://toe.prx.org/2016/08/revolutionary-slogans-will-be-written-by-the-winners/

This is the best article ever written on Gizmodo, by a long shot.

In typical fashion, Trump seizes on a very important issue but in the dumbest way possible. It’s true that wind turbines kill bald eagles. That’s why multiple studies are done before turbines are put up, and why you must acquire permits in an attempt to offset the loss from USFWS. That is, the number of non-purposeful…

This is just a quick note: you have no business calling yourself a leftist if you’re defending the boss. Jesus.

GOVERNOR MARK WHITFORD:

have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.

I can almost see my house from there. But this is interesting because it’s an old picture of Phoenix. Now where that old hotel/radio tower is, there’s a massively built up downtown campus for ASU, including the j-school and law school. This brings in huge condo developers (see Portland on the Park), but it’s a mixed…

Virginia Tech running backs were not allowed to participate because they keep fumbling things in their hands.

But really this whole album is amazing:

With any luck, yes, and this will solve what Veblen called the “irksomeness” of labor, or what Keynes waxed poetic about in his essay on the economic possibilities for our grandchildren. The end of work is absolutely something to look forward to.

This was a phenomenal essay; thank you for writing it. I use this as a case study (I teach philosophy, coincidentally, at one of those didn’t-get-into-the-flagship regional comps), when talking about modes of justice. When they first get the overview, the loudest voices are white and male, and all piss and vinegar.

Once we get the replicator panel, the irksomeness of labor is solved and we can finally have full communism.

My favorite episode:

Live your truth and all that, but just because a finding seems counterintuitive doesn’t make it false. I figured a bunch of science folks would know that, but we seem to have a lot of people shouting “nuh uh” here. Which... ok.

To the lickspittles frothing about “objective” data: where do algorithms come from?

Highlight of my young life was getting all my Bruno and Boots books autographed. This is the first I've heard he was only huge in the upper Midwest. Everyone else's loss I guess.

It’s interesting to me that people who demonstrate no knowledge or familiarity with Freud are the first to say it’s worthless. Weird.

You should send that paper off to a peer-reviewed journal!

Hopefully these sorts of policies are the first steps toward student loan cancellation generally, which is sorely needed.