Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 27/03/2026“Over the years the light he cast waned until, with his stance on Gaza, it seemed to go out. Historians will decide whether that was an anomaly or the culmination of a long process in which Frankfurt School critical theory turned into a form of liberalism too often complicit with US imperialism.” 020
Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Rereading Beauvoir's Prime of Life: didn't remember that Sartre does Donald Duck impressions and tries to master the yo-yo (in imitation of Gide, apparently). 120
Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Shocked and saddened to learn that Eduard Bernstein has died. 011
Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Great day to read or reread IWD-founder Clara Zetkin's 1923 "Struggle Against Fascism." And her 1932 speech as Communist Deputy in the Reichstag's final session before its dissolution: "Fascism Must be Defeated." (There's even an audio recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qmi...)youtube.comClara Zetkin Reichstag Speech 1932 | Historical German AudioYouTube video by Old Broadcast 031
Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Pleased to realize the Pogues' Dirty Old Town plagiarizes Hank Williams' Lost Highway. Annoyed to realize Ballad of the Green Berets does too. 000
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiLee Cee @leeceelee.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Springfield (eating the dogs / cats) Ohio desperately needs your help with ICE. Ohio Gov Mike DeWine said it will be “the next Minneapolis” as 15,000 Haitians (1/4th of the entire city) will have their TPS status prematurely revoked Weds Feb 4th. Here are links to donate and volunteer directly: 1/ 8442413
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiLee Cee @leeceelee.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Minneapolis is 2.6mil people. Springfield is 60,000 with 15,000 of that population under threat of deportation (1/4th of the whole city.) Springfield is 26 square miles. 1000 ICE agents is 40 agents per mile. People are terrified. We need all the help we can get. 9344175
Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 14/01/2026"If we'd stepped onto the precipitous slide to fascism at a point further up the slide, we wouldn't be so far down the slide right now" is both absolutely true and absolutely beside the point. 010
Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 07/01/2026In this respect, our feckless universities mirror our feckless opposition party, both thoroughly corrupted by a phony spirit of seriousness. Taking a position is seen as a pathology, an embarrassing failure to serious personhood, defined as continually adjusting to, rather than adjusting, reality. 050
Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 07/01/2026True education is the constant disruption of ataraxia. 030
Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Although cowardice, bullshit, and cynicism motivated Texas A&M's Plato censorship, they've accidentally arrived at true ancient skepticism: absolute suspension of judgment entails absolute moral conformism. Being truly neutral or non-ideological requires accepting the status quo as default. 0101
Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 10/11/2025For 2,000 years one could reasonably argue either “democracy has never worked” or “true democracy has never been tried.” (One still can.) 180
Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Lenin's philosophical writing is so embarrassing. After claiming there's no differences between Berkeley, Fichte, and Mach (who tries to move materialism out of the 18th century), he goes out of his way to argue Hegel isn't *really* an idealist. The word "absolute" didn't give you a clue, buddy? 140
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiDonovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 31/10/2025More Nietzschean moments in Schlick's moral theory. 131
Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I’d completely forgotten that Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna) made an album cover in the style of the old Vintage edition of Nietzsche’s The Gay Science. 060
Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Amusing to learn how much Moritz Schlick's "Problem of Ethics" cribs from Nietzsche's moral psychology. (A quick search reveals that Schlick was even a confessed admirer!) 381
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiDaniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 08/10/20251/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system. Thread below ⬇️cambridge.orgHegel and ColonialismCambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism 714367
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 04/10/2025Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.bit.ly2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key servicesOver 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike. 243122044148
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 30/09/2025The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 4137431127
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiAAUP @aaup.org · 30/09/2025BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:courtlistener.comFindings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.comJudge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J... 172650759
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiAugust J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 22/09/2025To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...politico.comPoll: Capitalism is out … and socialism is inThe movement is gaining popularity among Democrats, a left-leaning group found. 10283332329
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiProf Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2025"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...computerworld.comOpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flawsIn a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi... 12237071841
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 17/09/2025I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org. 571671851
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiTeen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 16/09/2025A new poll from Data for Progress found that “voters of all parties” are open to leftist policies, and that a majority of Democratic voters polled preferred democratic socialism to capitalism “when written definitions of each are read aloud to them.” Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...teenvogue.comGen Z and Millennials Prefer Socialism To Capitalism, New Poll Says“Young progressive voters are stepping into their full economic and political power." 431915608
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiHarrison Stetler @harrstetler.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Large union-led protests and strikes are expected tomorrow in France in rejection of Emmanuel Macron. My latest for @thenation.com on the French crisis and Macron's dwindling options: www.thenation.com/article/worl...thenation.comEmmanuel Macron Is on His Last LegsThe French took to the streets en masse last week, days after the collapse of the latest Macron-aligned government. But the divided left-wing opposition is struggling to capitalize. 0267
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/09/2025UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...sfchronicle.comUC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probeUC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process... 89988490
Reposted by Donovan Miyasakielia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/09/2025857 people arrested in a single day in London for holding signs opposing Israel’s genocide in Palestine These include Holocaust survivors, vicars, retired nurses and teachers. So many of them are elderly. Labour is dead www.instagram.com/p/DOTb3nIjYIS/ 05733
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiJason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out: "Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."nytimes.comTrump Administration Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels 1442963967
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiSexy Devonian Stone @devonianstone.bsky.social · 03/09/202530 helens agree this is some bullshit 719957
Reposted by Donovan Miyasakigil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 03/09/2025about four or five times a year for the past several decades the first ever study finds that giving poor people money really helps them. it's always the first ever time 3529
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.anthonymoser.github.ioI Am An AI HaterI am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater. 17458412005
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/05/2024old enough to remember the breathless litigation over whether or not it was credible that the IDF may have possibly bombed 1 (one) hospital 222721902
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiWIRED @wired.com · 27/08/2025An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content. www.wired.com/story/dark-m...wired.comA Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic InfluencersAn initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content. 66344128
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025" Democrats are so worried about alienating a small slice of the electorate that they’re hesitating to condemn the most abusive act yet by a historically unpopular president from the opposing party." newrepublic.com/article/1996...newrepublic.comThe Democrats’ Self-Destructive Fear of the Swing VoterThe party is responding to Trump’s authoritarian abuses with timid messaging that sounds as if it’s been poll-tested to death—because it probably has been. 51519151
Reposted by Donovan Miyasakialec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention? 12028951462
Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Why would Fanon draw in the Damned of the Earth on the political philosophy of an expressed anti-socialist like Nietzsche? I try to answer that question on the Blog of the APA.blog.apaonline.orgNietzsche, Fanon, and an Egalitarian PoliticsWhat could a revolutionary thinker like Frantz Fanon possibly draw from the political philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, a self-proclaimed anti-egalitarian, anti-democrat, and anti-socialist? Nietzsch... 6111
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...presswatchers.orgWe have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press WatchThe frog in the proverbial pot is dead. 10536291401
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...doomsdayscenario.coAmerica Tips Into FascismToday is different than before. 44498614055
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 25/08/2025This memo is being sent to Democratic leaders/elites, arguing that directly attacking Trump's deployment of the National Guard in DC is politically unwise. It encourages the use of terms like distraction and stunt. (I am not endorsing this kind of thinking at all. ) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bz9d8...dropbox.com 142764156
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/08/2025I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department. 5654691060
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/08/2025looking through some old posts and stumbled on this. the other day chris murphy said the military occupation of dc was a distraction from epstein. a month ago, they were calling epstein a distraction. 661474207
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiAAUP @aaup.org · 23/08/2025Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, warned of a more “militant” response on campuses in the fall – including possible mass strikes. “We’re going to need to politicize this fight. It’s not an economic strike on our job conditions – it’s a political strike for the future of the sector.” #DefendHigherEdtheguardian.com‘Everyone is coming into fire’: students return to US campuses bruised and changed by Trump’s assaultThe effects of a rightwing campaign to remake American higher education are fueling fear and anxiety, but advocates say they have plans to fight back 115479
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiTruthout @truthout.org · 22/08/2025The former top State Department spokesperson has admitted that the U.S. knew that Israel was systematically sabotaging ceasefire negotiations — even as he spread the lie to the press and the public that it was Hamas standing in the way of a deal.truthout.orgFormer Top Biden Spokesperson Admits Israel Sabotaged Ceasefire Deals as US Blamed HamasThe former State Department spokesperson effectively admitted he and the president repeatedly lied about negotiations. 12196108
Reposted by Donovan MiyasakiAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/08/2025Leaked Israeli intelligence confirms one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts.bit.lyIsraeli data shows 83 percent of Gaza war dead are civilians: ReportLeaked Israeli intelligence confirms one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts. 15320204