It's worth watching for yourself.

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

You might question her methods, but credit to Bari Weiss: her leadership has pushed 60 Minutes into new formats and attracted a bunch of new viewership outside the normal broadcast audience.

Breaking news: Trump is citing “national security” to halt all active work on offshore wind projects Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January

I am old enough for the answer to all those "do you remember" quizzes to be embarrassing, but apparently not old enough to recognize Walter Cronkite on sight.

Per the discussion in the comments about bus stop versus college party -- a lot of the safeness/creepiness is downstream of organizations vouching for people. The college, rightly or wrongly, is telling you "this is a safe person to interact with."

Can't believe this was an actual sentence I read this morning.

So all we had to do to get the billionaires on board with baby bonds is send all the money to Wall Street.

Love this energy chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Any experts on reinsurance and parametric insurance out there?

More or less done with the reading list for History of the Database. You could take a lot of different approaches, but this is the one I went with.

Ever since we got solar panels I've been lowkey obsessed with the Tesla app

[1/3] Before everyone scatters away on holidays, a reminder to people here interested in the history of climate economics and/or the politics of climate modelling about two ongoing calls for papers. One questions futures, the other is history-oriented, take your pick!

For a more realistic take on discrimination in the workplace, might I suggest my once again relevant articles.

A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).

The hate I can at least understand. The desire to shoot ourselves in the foot, repeatedly, will never cease to mystify me.

sometimes i create notes with zero context which baffle me when i find them years later. this was created in 2021—wtf was i thinking about?

Useful. The author doesn’t draw the parallel directly, but fixing attn to how *state governments* are creating demand for private currencies sets another bell ringing in that carillon tune, “history doesn’t repeat but it sometimes rhymes, and what we’re doing now w/ money is like Jacksonian times!”

Clicked to see covers, stayed to read great new work in political science.

A university is so much more than its bricks and mortar facilities. It is also an eduroam network with intermittent access

It has come to my attention that perhaps not everyone is aware that ISIS is fundamentally opposed to Palestinian nationalism, just as it is to Syrian, Lebanese, Egyptian, and Iraqi nationalism.

It gets worse

Oh nooooooo.......

Light one candle.

I don't know, guys, today kind of broke me.

Instacart is using algorithmic pricing to charge you 20% more for your Wheat Thins.

this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.

One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.

All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed. “Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”

Starting the day the way it was intended, by getting mad at a year-old NYT article for using the fact that young women now earn at least as much as young men in 22/250 US metros as evidence of male crisis.

Get a heated toilet seat they said. It's the best thing ever they said. #FridayVibes 😼 #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

I think you can track America's frantic mood of desperation and malaise by how "Caturday" now trends 7 days a week. We need it. Calendar be damned.

Blue states should counter with mandatory Antifa chapters.

I hope @chronicle.com is paying attention. As goes Iowa...

This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.

This Day in Labor History: December 11, 1886. The Colored Farmers’ Alliance was established in Lovelady in Houston County, Texas. Let's talk about this brave attempt for Black rural organizing in the Jim Crow South!

Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.

My biggest disappointment of the year was failure to get media attention on this. Everyone was too busy with the crisis of the day. Understandable but there will be long run impacts here that more people should understand.

Incredible book, if you haven’t seen it. I think about the “technologically precocious boy” all the time.

Because the difference is a social convention and it's been destroyed by the collapse of P/E ratios and the invention of obscure financial instruments, leaving financial markets less about raising capital and more about rent extraction?

it is wild to me that post war financiers and early venture capitalist spent *decades* arguing that what they did wasnt gambling, that it required specific skills, and that they acted in the interests of the national project, and today people are just like WHAT IF WE MADE EVERYTHING GAMBLING

When all is done, the OU undergrad will have scored a 6 figure right-wing media contract, the higher ed press will still be talking about grading rubrics for conservative views, the trans grad student will still be getting death threats and have her life/job ruined. And everyone else will move on.

One of the things I wonder sometimes is what it means to have a society in which a large fraction of adults of a certain age have lost a child, vs one in which that is an uncommon experience. Surely it has to durably change people and their orientation to the world.

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Very excited about forthcoming @sfjournal.bsky.social with Jessie Himmelstern academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a... How has job insecurity changed over the past 1/2ish century?

this is a great piece and I have always hated the "externality" and "market failure" framings from economics

This Day in Labor History: December 2, 1984. A gas leak in a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India killed somewhere between 3787 and 16,000 people. Let's talk about probably the worst industrial disaster in history and how U.S. companies can murder with impunity, then and now!