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Limp – sentences that aim to be forgettable so that they may slink away and recede into nothingness.
Thanks @the-syllabus.bsky.social for featuring my paper, and @benhr.bsky.social for the heads up. What a cool honor! Working paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
This Sunday September 7 is the debut of my show ITS HER FACTORY on Inhailer.com and the 20th anniversary of my dissertation defense
In short: idk how we should teach this stuff, but it IS already mandated… it just seems we aren’t teaching it very well. 🤷🏻♀️
(At least not in the way you’re hoping, of internalizing & acting on the lesson… but nowhere in the US can you get an undergrad degree without having to take a decent number of courses in H&SS… but Boris Johnson got his degree in ‘Classics, ancient languages, literature, history, and philosophy’.)
I agree—but in the US this is already true. I got my BS in physics from RPI, where we were essentially required to take one humanities or social science course every semester. Just took my kid on a college tour at MIT. Same there for every major. We can mandate the courses. Doesn’t mean ppl learn.
I think the thing that gets me is that I did have ethics classes in university. It’s just that the classes always turned into the women, nonbinary, and other marginalized people giving a shit and the cis dude bros not understanding why it was that important.
"Computer science isn't political!", they said. "I'm just going to develop AI products for startup cash and to draw cute girls", they said. "You're over reacting and making everything political", they said. We need ethics training in engineering.
There is a very strong case for the working class to stand firmly in defense of their immigrant brethren or imminently find themselves fighting civilizational wars on behalf of the dumbest most drug-addled dipshits alive
The richest guys on the planet posting nonstop clash of civilizations/great replacement tripe will end well, I’m sure
If you work on any @UofCalifornia give this one your time. Uni leadership is belatedly asking us to "Stand Up For UC" while repeatedly revising faculty disciplinary policy to make standing up impossible. This essay asks, how did we get here? What now? utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
Going live on YouTube as things are changing fast. www.youtube.com/live/UEyf1Sb...
Waterb bottles flying, mace flying, volatile situation will post when able @acatwithnews.bsky.social is going live on youtube rn
More pepperballs fired into the crowd, some folks falling back to be attended to by medics (not pictured)
Fireworks going off outside the fence, music, loud chants and banging on the fence Im working multiple cameras today so updates may be sparse
I’m outside the MDC here in Los Angeles, where a protest march has just converged outside the gate. Once again a lively atmosphere here
Gift link!
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If you follow this scumbag, reconsider it. I cannot believe he, out of the blue, just said this to a woman law professor. (Who is brilliant, talented, kind and lovely.) democratic socialist my ass! Profile link to block: bsky.app/profile/soci...
I'm home sick. A kind person informed me that I need to actually rest. (?) Which means not being on Bluesky and posting like a fiend? Who knew? It will be really hard for me. But, I will try. Leaving this publicly as a reminder to myself. And, I hope, to shame myself into following through. 🙏🏼
re-upping in honor of Labor Day
AI boosters are trying out ways to limit the backlash against AI. They seem to think that saying insulting AI is a slur is a good approach. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...
This was like >20 years ago. I believe they really didn't understand the rules. They just bought wholesale that you shaded things for the boss man. They had more money than they knew what to do with. It was just how they did things. Only stopped when a legal consultant told them to knock it off.
Geez... How much of an obnoxious AIBro do you have to be to get the cops called on your ass?
Witnessing the AI artist get kicked out of the DragonCon artist alley was satisfying.
it seems to mostly be Park Police jumping in on this car chase thing, at least per Burgum/Trump exchange at the cabinet meeting love to base my safety as a pedestrian on how well Burgum and Noem are coordinating 🙄
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i want to put two things i have recently seen on this website next to each other:
Got flagged down by a union brother, lifelong ILWU member who showed me his first union card, and we got super weepy together sharing the moment Did I cry? Yes. Will I cry again today? Yes, probably
Just to be clear, this is an alternative to the global trend of adopting laws that require people to either upload a picture of their ID or have an AI scan their face to guess whether or not they’re over a certain age. #S-209 #S-210
(2) Create financial incentives for parents to buy the "BlackBerry for Kids"--subsidize the company so it can offer the cheapest phone on the market, and provide tax breaks or tax refunds to parents who purchase it, etc.
And here’s a wild take: it should start with a rights-preserving online age-assurance strategy that goes like this: (1) Invest in RIM to create a "BlackBerry for Kids".
I saw this as a kid and it blew my mind --it's postmodern, metatextual. There used to be stuff like this on network TV. People complained about the lowest common denominator aspect of the business, and they were right to, but the format also regularly allowed stuff like this, which is brilliant.
Incredible stuff! Thanks! :)
"Solidarity Forever" at the Workers Over Billionaires rally on the steps of Wisconsin's Capitol on this beautiful #LaborDay
A world-first RCT in cancer patients found that a daily interferon-α nasal spray reduced the risk of Covid infections by ~40% vs. placebo 🎉 interferon-α is a naturally occurring protein with broad antiviral effects www.petermac.org/about-us/new...
Russell Vought might be Public Enemy No. 1. More than RFK, jr.? Yes! Because without Vought stealing all the money from programs, agencies, grants, and states. Trump's govt could *not* close USAID, withhold NIH grants, penalize states and so on. IMPEACH OMB Director Russell Vought!
Russell Vought might be Public Enemy No. 1. More than RFK, jr.? Yes! Because without Vought stealing all the money from programs, agencies, grants, and states. Trump's govt could *not* close USAID, withhold NIH grants, penalize states and so on. IMPEACH OMB Director Russell Vought!
Thread: this is Russ Vought giving himself permission to ignore Congress and the constitution
Enormous impoundment-related changes in Trump/Vought's Circular A-11 update from Friday, which is OMB's guidance to agencies They: -removed the definition of impoundment -said GAO's impoundment determinations don't matter -claimed pocket rescission authority -claimed profound deferral authority 🧵
Here’s the sign my mom and I put on the statue on the first day the protests moved beyond students. And here’s the second one I made to carry during the protests, currently hanging in my garage.
Generational fights about to get a lot worse. This is the second piece I've seen that found this generational difference.
WE ARE A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS FUCKING GET USED TO IT
imagine a mayor who claps on the 2s and 4s
Even the beat endorses Mayor Young Cardamom
HEY NYC! The great @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dancing on the @jcod3.bsky.social float at the West Indian Day Parade! #CuomoCouldNever
Whoopsie. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#OtD 1 Sep 1911 five women published the first issue of Japan's first all-women literary magazine, Bluestocking, credited with sparking the feminist movement in Japan. Often banned, it was still a commercial success and became more radical over time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8155...
I worked for a couple of years at a very wealthy foundation that classified me as an independent contractor to avoid paying Social Security and other benefits. I knew it was illegal even though they seemed not to know. I believe it was simply considered a good business practice. Happy Labor Day!
I worked for a couple of years at a very wealthy foundation that classified me as an independent contractor to avoid paying Social Security and other benefits. I knew it was illegal even though they seemed not to know. I believe it was simply considered a good business practice. Happy Labor Day!
Happy Labor Day! Matt Meyer, the Democratic governor of my blue state, celebrated the holiday by vetoing an important bill that would have protected workers from one of the most common forms of wage theft (eg being reclassified as an "independent contractor"). Off to my union picnic!
Sending soldiers into cities under the guise of fighting crime is an unprecedented abuse of power. And it’s illegal. bit.ly/4m6TG77
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Moderna vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 2/2
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting “Free DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
NEW — Mayor Brandon Johnson took the stage at the “Workers Over Billionaires” rally and march in Chicago. He ended his speech with a rallying cry: “No troops in Chicago. Invest in Chicago” Video here ⬇️ thetriibe.com/2025/09/live...
Huge crowds at the Labor Day rally at the Haymarket Monument in Chicago. Messages of “workers over billionaires” and “national guard out of Chicago”
live feed of chicago rally march PROTEST chitown #FuckTheFeds #ChicagoFree #WeGotUs #FuckICE #Chicago
Sharing again as a Labor Day read: professional dancers are artists, but they’re also workers. And increasingly, dancers are coming together to fight for better workplace protections. “We’re told we should do it ‘for the love of the art form,’ but we still have bills to pay and families to raise.”
This is going to impact Florida particularly hard, where the state’s own office of Economic and Demographic research acknowledges that a slow in population growth is negatively impacting the labor market, and that the best way to counteract that is through migration.
Ready to go
![Hand lettered poster reading “Everybody [rainbow colors] united (red white blue) against the broligarch$”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:srjglkkyyugosgyvj53znuts/bafkreibdrjauj3jybozetnyve35zi6sogsviyr7cl56gqevneto3q77nrm@jpeg "Click to view full size")
"The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Ours is the cause of labor🔥🫡✊
Steve Bannon is concerned that the controversies around RFK Jr. are pulling attention away: "My concern is that next week could turn into the ‘Save Bobby Kennedy’ campaign, when we should be talking about making more changes to the CDC, when we should be releasing the data on mRNA vaccines."
@k8bowers.bsky.social Hi ya! I just noticed this cert is expired. It didn't scare me off. :) But, I don't know who to reach out to at SAA about it. Would you happen to know the right person to contact?
@murphtracks.bsky.social
"White people have long decried 'federal tyranny' while promoting racist systems of state power." –– @sethcotlar.bsky.social
"White people have long decried 'federal tyranny' while promoting racist systems of state power." –– @sethcotlar.bsky.social
Historian Jefferson Cowie's book, Freedom's Dominion, is an extended meditation on the deeply rooted American anti-democratic tradition he's called "racialized anti-statism." White people have long decried "federal tyranny" while promoting racist systems of state power. bsky.app/profile/seth...
This is "the one big trick" that the right has mastered. They present their movement as just "the authentic voice of the volk outraged by Democratic overreach," when really what they're doing is just old fashioned political mobilization. Organize a passle of pissed off people & call it a movement.
My mom used to go to the BX (the Air Force base version of Target, literally the only place to shop if you lived on base in a remote area) and ask them for their outdated pattern books, and bring them home so I could make paper dolls with the drawings. I cut out hundreds of them.
I'll explain why I suggested how to avoid looking. I used to do human rights work in the field capturing images in dangerous situations, and, scouring the resulting images for thousands of hours. That takes a toll. It's a common practice to limit viewing of the worst images. To protect oneself.
I'll explain why I suggested how to avoid looking. I used to do human rights work in the field capturing images in dangerous situations, and, scouring the resulting images for thousands of hours. That takes a toll. It's a common practice to limit viewing of the worst images. To protect oneself.
Yes, please. Contribute to give this photojournalist the equipment she needs to keep working. cw: on the web, when you click thru, 2 small photos on the far top right show bodies of destroyed children. Stay on the left and scroll down, and you'll avoid the worst of it.
Yes, please. Contribute to give this photojournalist the equipment she needs to keep working. cw: on the web, when you click thru, 2 small photos on the far top right show bodies of destroyed children. Stay on the left and scroll down, and you'll avoid the worst of it.
Haneen Salem, a photojournalist in Gaza, is raising funds for new camera equipment chuffed.org/project/1469...
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
Come to think of it, the way he used the Trump Tower as a lever for visibility in the press was a factor then and is ongoing now. And, how he forced the attention of the news media and the public onto himself with a "raging feud with Mayor Koch," is of a piece as well.
Come to think of it, the way he used the Trump Tower as a lever for visibility in the press was a factor then and is ongoing now. And, how he forced the attention of the news media and the public onto himself with a "raging feud with Mayor Koch," is of a piece as well.
Yep! Here's the last bit. (I skipped the middle section on "Mike Dunbar, a Republican who is running a ''draft Donald Trump' movement.") Some familar patterns: "Met With Gorbachev" "No particular background in foreign policy" "luxury hotels" as the "ostensible subject" I smirked at "ostensible."
Yep! Here's the last bit. (I skipped the middle section on "Mike Dunbar, a Republican who is running a ''draft Donald Trump' movement.") Some familar patterns: "Met With Gorbachev" "No particular background in foreign policy" "luxury hotels" as the "ostensible subject" I smirked at "ostensible."
The last paragraph shows that Trump's relationship with the media was well understood as early as 1987.
When NY allowed liquor stores to remain open, the state had to patiently explain to people that causing a secondary epidemic of alcohol withdrawal from people with dependencies during a mass pandemic was bad, actually.
Went to shopping centre and they'd set up an Ancient Egypt kids' play activity with a pyramid to loot, a sarcophagus to open, and plastic pith helmets to wear while despoiling.
One thing that’s come up a lot among those of us living amidst constant abductions by DHS agents is how many of us wish we spoke better Spanish. So. Maybe a way to prepare, for those of you who have like a month or two before it reaches you.
JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
Friendly reminder that you can stock up on over the counter birth control pills in case of changes to access, and they're typically good for at least 1 year but of course check the expiration dates. opill.com/products/opi...
Cuts to our national parks have led to staffing shortages, hindering the ability of remaining staff to maintain trails & facilities, monitor disease causing insects, prevent injuries/rescue the injured, run educational and volunteer programs, and even collect the fees that keep the parks running.
A lovely review of what sounds like an essential new book from Howard W. French (@hofrench.bsky.social). Gift link: Jennifer Szalai (@jenszalai.bsky.social), "The Tangled Legacy of the Man Who Led Africa’s Liberation" (NYT; #skystorians) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/b...
While looking for the date of that editorial, I stumbled across this from September 2, 1987 and shivered. www.nytimes.com/1987/09/02/n...
While looking for the date of that editorial, I stumbled across this from September 2, 1987 and shivered. www.nytimes.com/1987/09/02/n...
October 25, 2024
October 25, 2024
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