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Kye@kyebarker· 10d

My four modes of instruction

Kye@kyebarker· 19d

I have been Melville-pilled.

Hard copies of Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man and Israel Potter

Kye@kyebarker· Jul 23

Kye@kyebarker· Jun 30

Summer reads so far

Kye@kyebarker· Jun 12

from Unto This Last by John Ruskin

"Wealth, therefore, is "The possession of the valuable by the valiant"; and in considering it as a power existing in a nation, the two elements, the value of the thing, and the valour of its possessor, must be estimated together. Whence it appears that many of the persons commonly considered wealthy, are in reality no more wealthy than the locks of their own strong boxes are, they being inherently and eternally incapable of wealth; and operating for the nation, in an economical point of view, either as pools of dead water, and eddies in a stream (which, so long as the stream flows, are useless, or serve only to drown people, but may become of importance in a state of stagnation should the stream dry); or else, as dams in a river, of which the ultimate service depends not on the dam, but the miller; or else, as mere accidental stays and impediments, acting not as wealth, but (for we ought to have a correspondent term) as "illth" causing various devastation and trouble around them in all directions; or lastly, act not at all, but are merely animated conditions of delay, (no use being possible of anything they have until they are dead,) in which last condition they are nevertheless often useful as delays, and "impedimenta," if a nation is apt to move too fast."

Kye@kyebarker· Jun 11

I just remembered the one good thing that I have ever done - putting "Heaven or Las Vegas" over a video of a red panda eating - so here it is. Let it cleanse your timeline.

Kye@kyebarker· May 19

If you've ever thought to yourself, "I wish there were a theorist of ecological communism who also made great wallpaper," then I have an article just for you. doi.org/10.1177/1474...

Screenshot of the first page of the research article "The cause of labor is the hope of the earth: William Morris and regrowth communism" from the European Journal of Political Theory.

Kye@kyebarker· May 18

I went to commencement for the second time and I’ve decided that I really like doing it for corny reasons that basically boil down to the fact that you get to be this for graduating students

Kye@kyebarker· May 6

I think there would be close to zero student interest in it, but this would be a fun seminar.

History as Political Theory: French Revolutions
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution (1790)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution; and the Effect It Has produced in Europe (1795)
- Joseph De Maistre, Considerations on France (1796)
- Germaine de Staël, Considerations of the Principal Events of the French Revolution (1818)
- Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History (1837)
- Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856)
- Peter Kropotkin, The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793 (1893)
- C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938)

Kye@kyebarker· Mar 24

Gotta give it up to Jean-Paul Marat, who iconically died doing what he loved the most: posting.

Kye@kyebarker· Feb 16

Frederick Wiseman was one of the best American artists ever. We will sorely miss his eye, which salvaged the possibility of social democracy out of our frayed and strained social institutions. No one ever saw the beauty of a meeting like him. No one knew the true meaning of democracy like him. RIP.

Kye@kyebarker· Feb 3

Kye@kyebarker· Jan 18

I'm extremely late on posting this, but it was a huge missed opportunity for Mamdani to appeal to me specifically when he did not lean into idea that his support came from "nowhere" by saying that his election brought "news from nowhere."

Text: When we won the primary last June, there were many who said that these aspirations and those who held them had come out of nowhere. Yet one man’s nowhere is another man’s somewhere. This movement came out of 8 and a half million somewheres—taxi cab depots and Amazon warehouses, DSA meetings and curbside domino games. The powers that be had looked away from these places for quite some time—if they’d known about them at all—so they dismissed them as nowhere. But in our city, where every corner of these five boroughs holds power, there is no nowhere and there is no no one. There is only New York, and there are only New Yorkers.

8 and a half million New Yorkers will speak this new era into existence. It will be loud. It will be different. It will feel like the New York we love.

Kye@kyebarker· Dec 25

Happy holidays from my parents’ dog, Huckleberry

An extremely distinguished lab lounges with discernment

Kye@kyebarker· Dec 9

The image is a headline from CNN - "‘You’re not rushing. You’re just ready:’ Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself"

Kye@kyebarker· Oct 21

Kye@kyebarker· Oct 7

Charles I watching Trump speed run personal rule without consequence

Kye@kyebarker· Sep 30

Relevant www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...

The following is the text of the email that Penelope Hegseth sent to her son, Pete Hegseth, on April 30, 2018. One sentence was redacted by The New York Times for privacy reasons.

Son,

I have tried to keep quiet about your character and behavior, but after listening to the way you made Samantha feel today, I cannot stay silent. And as a woman and your mother I feel I must speak out..

You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.

I am not a saint, far from it.. so don’t throw that in my face,. but your abuse over the years to women (dishonesty, sleeping around, betrayal, debasing, belittling) needs to be called out.

Sam is a good mother and a good person (under the circumstances that you created) and I know deep down you know that. For you to try to label her as “unstable” for your own advantage is despicable and abusive. Is there any sense of decency left in you? She did not ask for or deserve any of what has come to her by your hand. Neither did Meredith.

I know you think this is one big competition and that we have taken her side… bunk… we are on the side of good and that is not you. (Go ahead and call me self-righteous, I dont’ care)

Don’t you dare run to her and cry foul that we shared with us… that’s what babies do. It’s time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out, especially against women

We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don’t want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted]

And yes, we are praying for you (and you don’t deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply)

I don’t want an answer to this… I don’t want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But… On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say… get some help and take an honest look at yourself…

Mom

Kye@kyebarker· Sep 17

Government by goon squad

Kye@kyebarker· Sep 5

I don't think that colleges should be pushing technology that their students use to cheat in their classes

Normal Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting

Kye@kyebarker· Aug 31

The press probably shouldn’t make the case for fascism while interviewing the opposition.

Kye@kyebarker· Aug 12

Data reading his terrible poetry with most people clapping nicely, but Riker is falling asleep

Kye@kyebarker· Aug 8

Summary of the academic summer: June, July, and August as Luxuria, Acedia, and Superbia

Kye@kyebarker· Jul 22

From a Marxist perspective, AI boosterism is just the classic fantasy by venture capitalist vampires that constant capital can create value like variable capital, or, as Blade would say,

Blade dispels the illusion that capital can create value without labor in a classic moment from the movie BLADE (1998).

Kye@kyebarker· Jul 2

Kye@kyebarker· Jun 30

The White House assault on academic free speech can’t be a first amendment violation when it is based on arbitrary power and not a law by congress

Kye@kyebarker· Jun 8

GIF from the movie The Big Short of Steve Carrell addressing a conference and saying that, “we live in an era of fraud in America.”

Kye@kyebarker· May 27

Please stop making the vegetarian option gluten free. That bread is gross.

Freedom of Speech
Painting by Norman Rockwell

Kye@kyebarker· May 7

Rousseau on acquired needs remains undefeated

Kye@kyebarker· Apr 30