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Sam Adler-Bell
@SamAdlerBell
writer // contributor @bookworld // cohost of @knowyrenemypod with my pal @matthewsitman
Sep 4 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
This is exactly right. Whatever else it is, labor-saving AI is a technical means of “de-skilling” new territories of production. Whether it (presently) “works” for creative endeavors is secondary to — or maybe made irrelevant by — the fact that its implementation is desirable to capital...
Dec 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
the trend of pro-social language providing cover for anti-social impulses is depressing as hell we have not become more respectful of others, we've become more afraid of them! but we don't want to say that.
Nov 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I reviewed IT’S NOT TV, Felix Gillette and John Koblin’s history of HBO, for @nytimesbooks nytimes.com/2022/11/02/boo… lol Image
Oct 31, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
i guess ppl who pushed the gay lover theory of the Pelosi attack (e.g. conservative pundits, Don Jr, the CEO of twitter) will now say the SF police are lying, bc the only remotely honorable alternative would be to feel intense shame and apologize profusely justice.gov/opa/press-rele… Image you'll say I shouldn't assume these people have normal brains / real emotions / the concept of honor, but if I had done something like this, and then found out how wrong I was 24 hours later, I would die of shame. I'd be unable to function. that would be it for me
Sep 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“‘What do you do in this school?’ a teenage student asked her. ‘I’m a social work intern,’ she told him. ‘Oh,’ he said, comprehending. ‘You snatch babies.’”
newrepublic.com/article/167627… Nice piece by @emilyecooke
Sep 21, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Mets: score runs (hope this works) Okay. Now score some more.
Feb 16, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
i appreciate the Claremont Review for consistently confirming my theses about the right and race

(as ever, C. Murray keeps the flame of biological determinism alive) Gotta hand it to the editors: Amy Wax on Charles Murray is a savvy commission
Feb 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We can agree that Sam Francis had a more sophisticated, clear-eyed, & honest interpretation of the right's project and its promise than most conservatives today. His racial ideas — which rendered him unmentionable in polite right-wing circles until quite recently — not excepting. e.g.
Jan 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
i suspect one way to understand these guys' edgy internet personas is as the flip-side of what AOC does on here: they're playing a satisfying, affective game with a very-online community that is not coterminous with their actual in-state constituency. in both cases, these antics have strategic motives (earned media, fundraising, the cultivation of para-social bonds) which can be orthogonal to the goal of getting votes or seeming palatable. It’s a form of what @AntonJaegermm, following @paologerbaudo, has called hyper-politics.
Jan 9, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
!!! I feel like, at this point, any COVID story that does not briefly mention this statistic is misleading by omission.
Mar 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I personally will be so owned if @marcorubio co-sponsors the PRO-Act to help every American worker join a union to combat woke capital.
Mar 6, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Great movie, great essay. what makes the The Killing Floor so thrilling to me is how it manages to be so tender — suffused by desire, "mired in love," as @__seab writes — and so sociologically precise.
Feb 17, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"no right" i took some shit for saying i thought Taibbi's recent problem has been mistaking those ideas that irritate him most for those that pose the greatest threat. i remain unsure how else to explain this stuff.
Jan 16, 2021 • 59 tweets • 12 min read
you too can have perfect taste...
Jan 16, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
oh my god! how did I forget baby Will Oldham is in MATEWAN! It's possible I haven't seen this movie since watching it with my dad as a kid (before I saw the darkness, so to speak)
Jan 14, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
if leftists had left anti-Trumpism to the liberals, we'd be completely marginalized at this point. AOC, Bernie, etc understand this. for one, anti-Trump leftist leaders have managed to extend the critique of Trump to the rest of the GOP, resisting the early centrist impulse to quarantine the Good Republicans from the Bad.
Jan 13, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
how about this: "impeachment is a dish best served twice" i'm gonna crack this thing. hold on. uh... "like marriage, if the second impeachment really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail."
Jan 5, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Is it not an indictment of the strategy itself — or at least its messengers — that #ForceTheVote couldn't convince any of the existing M4A grassroots infrastructure (DSA, NNU, etc) to participate in the plan? Like, isn't that failure internal to an analysis of whether the plan was any good? Or is that the strategy can't fail; we can only fail the strategy?
Oct 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Will someone with a podcast please tell this old man to shut up To be sincere, I do think the message being put forward by Bernie, @NotHimUS, @Roots_Action, and others is the right one: the Democrats don’t deserve our votes, but that doesn’t mean we can afford four more years of Trump.
Sep 30, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
it seems more like: people who believe Trump's sociopathy is as transparent to everyone in America as it is to them, think Biden is doing well. whereas, if you don't feel that way, or doubt it, as I do, it seems like a disaster for Biden. i hope, of course, I'm wrong.
Sep 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I could feel it coming the entire episode but still threw my phone when it came: @nytimes reporter on The Daily saying Trump’s personal debts are the same as how he ran the federal government, racking up deficits that we’ll be “paying for in years to come.” Fucking idiotic.