Dan Greene

Next Weds 10/29 at 7 PM, we're having a party and panel at Busboys Takoma DC for @jacobsilverman.com's Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. All welcome! Because we're in DC, Corey Frayer, Sandeep Vaheesan, and I will join Jacob to talk DOGE, crypto, and the tech right.

We're not waiting for our bosses to defend our schools. AAUP, UAW, AFT, AFSCME, and more have joined together to defend UCLA just like we did Harvard. We won that and we'll win this. Your dues pay for these cases so join today!

The bear hug in practice meant "those kids are ok to kill because they're different from regular kids"

24 years ago I was both upset I couldn't go to the mall to buy The Blueprint, and terrified that my dad had been killed downtown. That mix of momentary consumer frivolity and ambient dread would go on to become the millennial structure of feeling.

The good news is the bad news! Politics is social. Coalitions can be built and rebuilt--because most people don't actually believe in anything very strongly. At least not in a way that lines up with actually existing political parties.

A few years ago, there was (deserved) debate over the value of "fixing" face rec such that undersampled groups would be better recognized. In hindsight, the problem wasn't recognition vs exclusion. They're fine with misrecognition. The racial profiling quota is the whole point. Abolish.

The most powerful Democrat in Maryland does not want to help Democrats. These leaders are not fit for the moment. Regular people are getting kidnapped or fighting the kidnappers every single day and the people who are supposed to represent us are scared of a mean phone call or a long meeting.

Tonight! Come through. Starting at 7 PM

How does this accord with the "operator" fetish, wherein nonstandard beards, tattoos, and weapons are supposed to indicate lethality and independence? Is it just that the grunts with beards are more likely to be Black and SpecOps elites are more likely to be White?

Teaching Dorothy Roberts in Race & Data today. One of those writers who shows that clear writing is clear thinking and vice versa. You don't even realize your hand is being held, you just discover at the end that you've been led through something very complex.

this is what locked up the "wandering aimlessly while your host tries to keep you from sharp objects" vote. Solid 20% of the American electorate.

Every week a new battery miracle, with the simplest use cases of all. But we're only allowed to talk about the chatbots that do your homework (but take longer and do worse) or write your code (but take longer and do worse). And it's not like for every tenth battery in use, someone kills themselves.

Shocked to learn that a member of Biden's team comes off as incoherent but endlessly aggrieved in their career pivot

This is great and true