#moe tkacik

[alanshemper]

Meet the Disaster Capitalists Behind Alligator Alcatraz

Incompetent and militarized ‘emergency response’ is on track to be a trillion-dollar industry by the end of Trump’s second term.

[17 July 2025]

[cpark1899]

Suicide Mission

What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

This is a great article about a Boeing employee and the struggle with an employer who wants to essentially dismantle, for shareholder reasons, what made the company great. It's very well written and kinda scary ... I haven't needed to fly since before the pandemic, and I sure as hell won't be anytime soon after reading this and knowing the current woes with the 787. Definitely worth a read. There's a wee bit of conspiracy theory at the end (though not implausible - think Karen Silkwood), so take that with a grain of salt, but the story of disappearing quality control is worth it.

[idroolinmysleep]

Like most neoliberal institutions, Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property, trade secrets, and data, discarding “thought” and “understanding” and “complex reasoning” possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs.

Moe Tkacik on Boeing’s decline.

[woodsaddle]

[Obama Cabinet official], [Obama policy adviser], [billionaire CEO], [billionaire private equity tycoon], and [billionaire mayor] sing praises of [photogenic local schools chief whose extensive sackings of teachers and principals had been sufficiently unpopular with voters to have cost her boss the recent D.C. mayoral primary]. One refers to [recently released charter school propaganda-mentary] as her “Rosa Parks moment.”

--maybe moe tkacik is the best, i think about this on occasion

[fieryfalcon]

What I sensed was that while the laws of supply and demand governed everything on earth, the easy money was in demand—manufacturing it, manipulating it, sending it forth to multiply, etc. As a rule of thumb (and with some notable exceptions), the profit margins you could achieve selling a good or service were directly correlated to the total idiocy and/or moral bankruptcy of the demand you drummed up for it.

Moe (Ms. Tkacik if you're nasty) where have you been all my life??

[fieryfalcon]

Comrades: I hope that you want to throw up now, because I have run clean out of bile to waste on the mental morlocks who think up this sort of shit.

Moe Tkacik, whom I recently discovered (via Freddie deBoer) and with whom I have now fallen irretrievably in love

[housingworksbookstore]

A black dress is sexy. The black dress. The dress you paid more for than you should have, but every time you wear it you feel bitchy and beautiful.

How Well Does "Sex and the Single Girl"'s Sex Advice Hold Up? - Page 2 | Nerve.com

Weigh on on the life and legacy of Helen Gurley Brown here, tomorrow night, with Cat Marnell, Edith Zimmerman, Moe Tkacik, and Alison Brower. Free, 7pm.

[housingworksbookstore]

"If you’ve read Dunham’s essays in The New Yorker or Rookie, you’ll have a general idea of what the book will be: a collection of frank, autobiographical essays about sex, friendship, work, eating disorders, etc. What’s most striking about the proposal is that the essays are collectively presented as an advice book: the (presumably tentative) title is Not That Kind of Girl: Advice by Lena Dunham. In the intro, Dunham is self-deprecating about the idea that she has any wisdom to share, but says that if the book can help anyone avoid some of the mistakes she’s made it will be worth it. She cites Helen Gurley Brown’s Having It All as a kind of inspiration, even though she thinks much of what Brown specifically advised is totally nuts."

Coincidentally, we'll be discussing the life and legacy of Helen Gurley Brown here on October 23 with Moe Tkacik, Edith Zimmerman, and Cat Marnell.