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Malcolm Harris
@BigMeanInternet
writer PALO ALTO, KIDS THESE DAYS, SHIT IS FUCKED UP AND BULLSHIT, WHAT'S LEFT (2025) malcolmpharris@gmail California communist (him)
Oct 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
If a vote for Kamala is a chess move, what are the next three moves? Not a "gotcha" q, I really wanna know. It seems like the answer is "It's the kind you make when you're in check and have no choice" and that's where the metaphor breaks down for me because it's not a game and losing now vs. over the next decade/5 moves is roughly the same amount unacceptable.
Nov 19, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Hmmm I find this short piece kinda unconvincing. Someone argue with me! lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…
Image The psychic dimension of politics is not unimportant, but it is not nearly as important as the material dimension of politics, and the conditions of western discourse are preventing us from talking about that part of the conflict realistically at all
Jul 17, 2023 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Pro-growth lefties accuse their opponents of being out of touch with working-class preferences and focused on consumption instead of production but what do they imagine planning support looks like for, say, "fresh bananas at every American 7/11" among the world's banana workers? I think we better get planting those pawpaw trees 🤷‍♂️
May 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The crazy part is that's way less (in real terms) than top freelancers used to get forge.medium.com/how-much-is-a-… In the '50s, Reader's Digest was paying the equivalent of over $10/word on the top *unsolicited submissions*
Dec 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Oh the white South African billionaire is afraid of a left-wing "mind virus" sweeping the globe? Every day a new challenge not to post screenshots from my book!
Dec 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Man, I dunno... nytimes.com/2022/12/10/opi… Image Pretty sure they're not "all" coming to celebrate with you :/
Dec 4, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
People thinking that these AIs are thinking — or that thinking is what these AIs are doing — is going to Jokerfy me. I gave Percival Everett's robot-frying script from Dr. No to the robot
Dec 4, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Great opportunity for a thread of full-magazine holiday subscriptions offers that cost less than $40 Here's @BostonReview, $25 digital/$50 print, unless you got in on their 40% off deal in November store.bostonreview.net/memberships
Oct 29, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is a good review. I know the West Coast story much better than any of the other regional ones, but there the settler attack was so much about destroying the indigineous life-worlds, rendering it materially impossible to reproduce native societies harpers.org/archive/2022/1… Including, like, having militias guard water sources in order to drive people into slavery
Oct 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Jeez, this is not why I'm on Twitter! I like sharing links to my writing and having conversations with friends and acquaintances and hyping good movies and stuff like that If I want to talk shit about people I talk with my irl friends without leaving a paper trail. If you DM talking shit about someone I will probably be like "Haha, well it takes all kinds"
Aug 31, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Has anyone else been watching this season of Below Deck Mediterranean? I think they're making the boats too big now. The yacht is in Malta and it keeps hitting stuff trying to dock because it's too big and there's a labor shortage.
Aug 31, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"The Californian Ideology" is a useful essay but people should not uncritically adopt its terms. What they describe as "the technological optimism of the new left" is a mischaracterization that goes to the roots of the essay and has been repeated ever since. Not only did the California New Left lack "technological optimism," they bombed hella computers, including centers of the "counter culture." Those guys had to put up bars and hire guards.
Aug 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
😵‍💫 "Unlike everyone else, *I'm* weighing utilitarian concerns while maintaining deontological red lines." The "demisexuals" of philosophy.
Aug 30, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Looks legit to me 🤷‍♂️ And cool
Aug 24, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
They should take videos of Joe Biden calling Pell Grantees with $17K in loans to tell them that they're good now "This is Joe, just wanted to make sure you saw the news. I know you've been working really hard for a long time, don't think no one has noticed..."
Aug 24, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
As they send out PALO ALTO galleys, I ask you: What podcasts would you want to hear cover the book? (Please, tell me podcasts, this is not a trap)
Aug 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Haven't been the same re: the current discourse about race ethnicity and food since I saw Padma do an episode of her Hulu show with the standard exoticized immigrant food community spiel but about Ashkenazi Jewish New York bonappetit.com/story/white-pe… One "Jews love pickles" and I was like 😧
Aug 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Hey, that's Paul R. *and* his uncredited wife Anne Ehrlich’s 1968 book “The Population Bomb“... which ushered in decades of policies of coercive sterilization and worse, worldwide. ZPG coined by demographer Kingsley Davis, who was a Hoover Institution fellow from '81 til his death in the late '90s. Just across campus from the Ehrlichs
Aug 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Wild how thin the audience for any kind of anti-consumerist orientation seems to be these days. Very controversial all of the sudden to say we should be creating less trash. Weird timing, considering the various biospheric environmental crises. All attempts to politicize the use of servant app platforms have failed, much to my frustration.
Aug 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Anti-napalm campaign is an underrated turning point in the hinge between Civil Rights organizing and the radical turn One of the lead organizers is Aaron Manganiello, who goes on to found the Brown Beret chapters in NorCal
Jul 27, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Nathan Fielder is doing art, okay? God. What he's doing is directly informed by decades of video and performance art that has sought to interrogate people's everyday assumptions. It's derrivative, lackluster *art*. He's working right at the intersection of performance art, comedy, and magic. Who else is doing that? No one.