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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 12h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 1d

What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?

A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy

beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 11h

We know Eli Whitney's story, right? He invented the cotton gin, interchangeable parts, and set the South and North on course for War -- except that didn't actually happen writes Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social in an important new Commonplace piece. Check it out:🗃️
commonplace.online/article/how-...

How Eli Whitney Single-handedly Started the Civil War . . . and Why That’s Not True - Commonplace

The real Whitney story is less grand than the legend, but more interesting and, ultimately, more edifying.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 13h

You know, for all fascists’ claims about the efficiency of authoritarianism, tyranny sure does have a clear and measurable negative impact on my productivity (an effect seemingly duplicated across the entire US, if present indicators are correct…)

Someone should make a chart…

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 14h

Never doubt that deep and lasting change is possible; the high five didn’t go mainstream until the 1970s.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five

High five - Wikipedia

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 15h

If you’ve ever wondered What’s The Deal with the high fees ($795 and $895!), free hotel rooms, event ticket presales, airport lounges, and dinner reservations that these cards promise to users and what the underlying business actually is, I have answers. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Inside the Credit Card Battle to Win America’s Richest Shoppers

The fierce fight between Amex and Chase is playing out over higher fees, extravagant events and every perk imaginable.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 15h

TFW you definitely don’t live in a scam economy with exploding energy prices

(This is the kind of economic development that Delaware’s legislators and our governor have been actively courting with subsidies, alongside county governments. Part of our “fintech” growth future.)

Bitcoin mining company signs lease for New Castle warehouse

A bitcoin mining company has signed a lease for a small warehouse in Riveredge Industrial Park, a short drive from the Delaware Memorial Bridge.

https://delawarebusinesstimes.com/insider-only/bitcoin-mining-lease-warehouse/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=🎥%20Data%20center%20developer%20launches%20PR%20campaign%3B%20Christina%20may%20oust%20remote%20board%20member&utm_campaign=10%2013%2025%20Newsletter%20%28Copy%29

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 16h

Folks have noted there are lots of institutions in blue states that will loudly sign up for this; agreed.

I think there also those that already - quietly, tacitly - embraced all or most of the demands in the “compact” (bc they preemptively reconfigured after January) - & they’ll sign on silently.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 1d

Well this is a five alarm fire I didn’t need tonight

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

I posted about this on X, and Tricia McLaughlin, the DHS spokesperson, QTed me to say the kid was actually a hardened criminal arrested with a knife and a gun.

So far she has provided no evidence of this. I share this to give DHS's response, and for the possibility she is telling the truth.

My original post on X: "This makes NO SENSE. A 13-year-old was arrested by local police for unknown reasons, and then turned over to ICE, which is detaining him far away from his mother — who is going through immigration court, has an asylum application on file, and is legally authorized to work." Underneath that I posted a link to the opening paragraphs of the article and the headline.

In response, DHS Spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, @TriciaOhio, wrote: "Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property. He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 1d

As always the images the committee chooses to share with the award announcement illustrate nothing so much as the fundamental ridiculousness of economics as a field

(I believe their intention is to explain the winners’ ideas; so perhaps it’s the source material)

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

A giant arrow labeled GROWTH pointing to “BETTER PRODUCTS”

People falling off of lightbulb block stairs

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 1d

The same is not true of the other big tech innovation boom currently underway, in green tech (solar, batteries, evs etc), all of which is readily explainable in scientific terms and not at all framed as incomprehensible magic.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 1d

Awarding the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to someone for their work on how tech innovations generate economic growth only when ppl understand why they work is an interesting thing to do in a moment when AI’s most ardent proponents can’t explain how it works

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 1d

The Horrors! but competitively decorative

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 1d

Can confirm I still don’t enjoy the experience of a post going viral

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 1d

Joe this is hinged as hell

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 1d

Not bad, just distracting to get a lot of notifications.

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 1d

I wrote about Benioff’s call to send the National Guard to San Francisco and what it means for those of us whose careers are entangled in Salesforce. Hoping it’s also got something for others who are facing a tension between power in their industry / their own values. rachelhands.com/2025/10/13/w...

what we can do, today

Every so often I’m presented with a reason to rethink what I’m doing for a living. Over the past few years that’s generally come in the form of layoffs, or the big global crises that make one want …

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 1d

University management thinks "academic freedom" means free choice, free speech. But your individual choices don't matter if the institution won't support them: if they won't raise the money to support defunded climate science, if they tell you that teaching about Anti-Black Racism is illegal

University Senate re-considers ‘U.S. Anti-Black Racism’ course

The University of Connecticut Senate met to discuss the future of a U.S. Anti-Black Racism course amidst federal government scrutiny at 4 p.m. on Oct. 6 in the Student Union.

dailycampus.com

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1d

As Trump tries to rule the nation as an authoritarian, it's important to understand the role of mass surveillance in all of this.

I talked to @mguariglia.bsky.social about that for my newsletter

The threat of mass surveillance under Trump

The Trump administration is collecting our data to realize its authoritarian goals.

madness.ghost.io

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