Jonathan B. Field (he/him)

I am over at the other place. I do not have the business in the front party in the back conceit over there.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Waitsfield on Saturday morning to protest Vice President JD Vance, who is visiting Vermont with his family for a ski trip this weekend.

Another gem sign from this morning's protest across Waitsfield and Sugarbush Resort with estimates between 500 and 2,000 people showing up

Around 500~ Vermonters came out to Waitsfield Vermont this morning to protest VP Vance who is spending the weekend at Sugarbush Ski Resort. Smaller protests at the resort and shops telling the Vice President he is not welcome. 30 minute Video of the Protest youtu.be/WX-uMnc4JZA?si…

BREAKING: A large group of protesters line the streets in Vermont, disrupting JD Vance's planned ski vacation. Thank you free speech.

Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.

@seeshespeak God dammit

just goofing around in our 13” of glorious new snow

The inflection point for our democracy was Biden’s decision to run again. After that moment we were completely screwed.

@DWaldstreicher Zing

When your blurbs are this spot on they are also self-revealing.

We’re basically seeing this again. OpenAI with Sam Altman is so good at raising capital (incl. now from Softbank) that it's covering up the company’s technical & commercial weaknesses. See also this excellent @AINowInstitute report from @bcmerchant. 23/ ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-gen…

Now on top of the negative externalities on people’s power, water, air, and global climate, we have another: the ceding of more & more control over critical energy & water infrastructure to Silicon Valley. I wrote about this last week in @TheAtlantic. 14/ theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

…they extend the lives of gas & coal plants, worsening air quality (per @washingtonpost’s @evanhalper) - not just because fossil fuels are the fastest way to surge energy supply but because 24/7 facilities can't run solely on intermittent renewables. 9/ washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

…they take up drinking water - yes, drinking water, because of the water quality required to cool these facilities - which threatens to hike water prices for families… 8/ theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Many journalists have written extensively about those externalities. When these massive data centers come to town, they distort power supplies (per @business’s @Leonardonclt, @naurtorious, @andretartar)… 7/ bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Add Joshua Gooch's Capitalism Hates You to the top of your TBR pile now!

@seeshespeak The most important take away from that book is that you should wear a helmet when you go sledding

Teaching Wharton’s ETHAN FROME provides me with a good reminder about social progress. A decade ago, most of my students were quick to identify Zeena as its villain but, today, they’re much more attuned to the book’s nuances, and less drawn in by Ethan’s victim complex.

@seeshespeak Come visit

Working on course syllabi in the Atlanta airport, the night before the first day of the semester, like an absolute deadbeat of a prof

@seeshespeak She is the worst

Because it’s the right thing to do, that’s why.

@ashleyrattner Shortly after I graduated, one of these senior faculty in my doctoral department, thought I was with catering at the departmental reception at MLA

@AmyClukey @melnickjeffrey1 @squirrel_doom Wow.

The young hippie at the farmers' market swore that these King Oyster mushrooms would have flavor notes "redolent of rotisserie chicken" and I've been a vegetarian for about 35 years but whoa.