We don't know anything yet.

The New York Times minimizing the unconstitutional assault on US cities so much that it didn't appear on the "front page" even on my big screen monitor. Had to export a pdf to capture the tiny headline. Truly atrocious. Does any major US news org care at all?

Every quarter, in every undergrad class, I talk with students about what should be included in our LLM AI policy. For the first time, most of the class decided that we should not allow AI at all. Here's how we got there . . .

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*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

Thanks to the discourse I have had Blondie in my head all day.

How humiliating this all is. The retching convulsions of a diseased administration, hacking up its bile and blood-streaked phlegm in front of the whole world.

1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.

What movie do you consider “perfect?”

"ice-age ghost ponds" sounds like the name of a band on the soundtrack for the movie Garden State

This is really the main thing everyone should be thinking about. At this point just being out as trans or "looking like" an immigrant in public or affirming that gender is complicated or that racism & misogyny are bad or that Trump et al are fascists - are all variously risky. So do *something.*

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

Private equity is turning childcare into its next profit center, while independent programs vanish. This is a key piece of the skyrocketing childcare costs puzzle. We need public funding and community-run models to keep care accessible and accountable. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

So many immediate horrors right now, but I appreciated the invitation from @donmoyn.bsky.social to reflect on the future and how social scientists could help with the eventual federal government rebuilding. As @sbagen.bsky.social has argued persuasively, we need to start now with that effort! 1/

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Listen: one of the ways that people survive and hold on to reality in totalitarian environments is by forming sanity/reality pods - circles where we can tell each other the truths we hear and see and defend against collective delusions You can join one of mine or I’ll help you build your own.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Thought this was an interesting chart in @economist.com highlighting how mayors have such different roles in different cities. www.economist.com/united-state...

Reminder that @grimalkina.bsky.social and her team have studied equity and genAI adoption. Here is her blog post, which links to the (open access) paper they wrote: www.drcathicks.com/post/new-res...

Your periodic reminder that credit card rewards are a regressive tax that should be regulated out of existence: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/b...

What’s happening to CBS News is neither complicated nor subtle. www.mediamatters.org/cbs/how-cbs-...

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

The only solutions are market solutions

As I learned in critical theory: "Law is the institution by which Power declares itself Virtue."

This is so good that I'm tempted to start watching The Gilded Age

Ten days! Submit! Tell your friends to submit! My panel is coming together--and you won't want to miss it!

Remember, if you encounter what seems like an implausible survey finding, ask: 1. Were survey respondents selected randomly or was this an opt-in poll? 2. Could the results, especially for young adults, be driven by bogus respondents? Keep this post in mind: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪

Trevor Jackson's review of ABUNDANCE (Klein/Thompson) alongside OVERSHOOT (Malm/Carton) is very, very good.

[screams in adolescent feminist rage across the years] EXILE IN GUYVILLE

[running in from the next room] HOMOGENIC

Democrats: OMG how can we win over that 17%

If you want to get your sea legs on mutual aid, one thing you can do is throw a 24 pack of water and some individually packaged nonperishable snacks in your trunk and just keep your eyes open. Pulling over and offering water to a person in distress can be a much bigger help than you realize.

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my new favorite thing

"And then, that's when I punched big balls in the nose."

To quote my favorite movie Matewan: "Any union that keeps a worker out on account of his race ain't a union. It's a goddam club." This Labor Day, read about the brave people who desegregated the labor movement. Buy my book "Freedom Train": ucpress.edu/books/freedo.... @ucpress.bsky.social

It's seriously the fault of patriarchy. People want a (violent, authoritarian) daddy to be in charge and make them feel safe. And if you sense a theme between this & my thread about men seduced into fascism because they're mad they don't have sex mommies: yup. Patriarchy is emotionally stunting.

And replying to them 4-6 months later

Boosting..

Share this tweet if you are down for a national walkout.

i have to think that if you showed lacan this video he would weep tears of joy and terror

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

#OtD 24 Aug 1943 French philosopher and anti-fascist Simone Weil died. She opposed French colonialism, took part in factory occupations and joined the Durruti Column to fight Franco, besides working as an agricultural laborer and WWII resistance member stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9629...

precipitated the crisis by taking on too much debt to finance (non-humanities-related) expansion and lost a good deal of money on bad bets in the crypto market (you can't make this stuff up) Anyone who has been following American higher ed over the past 16/ stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...

Give this kid the key to the city and a Seattle Dog.