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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Read it all. From one small section:

Shortly after a man fired >500 rounds at CDC and killed a cop, the staff that safeguard employee, facility, and data security are gone. And the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, that trains and supports risk management across the entire agency, is gone.

Beyond that, the CDC will not be able to function administratively, as the Office of Safety, Security, and Asset Management (OSSAM) office, which safeguards employee, facility, and data security at CDC lost its entire Occupational Health and Safety Office. Barely two months after a gunman shot more than 500 rounds at CDC and killed a police officer, the office devoted to employee safety has been The Workplace Health Office was also RIFed, as was the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, which is charged with training and supporting risk management across the entire agency. Not only have the CDC employees been terminated, but the ones who remain will be forced to function within an organization that has eliminated mechanisms for looking after their well-being, safety, and ability to effectively do their jobs to carry out the CDC mission.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 2d

Thoughtful reflection clearly not really a thing.

James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 2d

You see, it's the uniformity of thought that causes the two-hour faculty meetings with the follow-on quarterly retreats to write the one-paragraph description of the department.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d

4) I find the "uniformity of thought" critique simplistic. How does this operate in engineering, the natural sciences, computer science, and business, the fields which most students study? I don't think it is a fair critique of how the humanities and social sciences operate either./4

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d

Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them.
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1

The evidence is overwhelming: outrageous costs and prolonged indebtedness for students; poor outcomes, with too many students left unable to find meaningful work after graduating; some talented domestic students and scholars have been crowded out of enrollment and employment opportunities by international students; and a high degree of uniformity of thought among faculty members and administrators, which can result in a hostile environment for students with different ideas.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 2d

Granting a foreign military base on US soil. Real America-First type stuff.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 2d

This ain't profound or nothin', but, you know, we used to build great things.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 2d

Huh, I will admit I didn't have this one on my bingo card.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 2d

Well, this is a reassuring plot 😬

Concentration index of the S&P 500: average market value of top 10% of stocks compared with the median stock. Now at record highs, comparable to the Great Depression and Dot-com bubble peak.

www.ft.com/content/d5d4...

Time series plot ranging from 1926-2025 showing the concentration index for the S&P 500. There are 3 notable peaks in the 100-year span: the Great depression trough, Dot-com bubble peak, and the current value, which hasn't yet peaked and is already equal to or greater than the previous peaks.

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 3d

US soybean farmers finding out the hard way that "America First" was a lie

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 4d

A trio of cyclonic eddies in the Gulf of Mexico are creating record-high Ocean Heat Content values for the date. Absolutely something of importance during this part of hurricane season.
@miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 8d

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 8d

Student protests are basically a necessary condition for any democracy movement

open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

Student-Led Pro-Democracy Protests and Their Impact Worldwide (1955-2025)
Outcome
• Successful Transition
• Long Term Impact|
• Partial Gains|
• No Immediate Gains
Hungary Uprising' °

1960
1970
Poland Protests' ® 'France May '68
° South Korea April Revolution
Mexico Movement, a, Yugoslavia Protests
Greece Polytechnic, o
1980
Poland Solidarity, O
" 'South Africa Soweto
Philippines People Power,®
Brazil Diretas Já
South Korea June Movement
Burma 8/8/88 China Tiananmen
1990
Vepal Jana Andolan|
Indonesia Reformasi, o
2000
zechoslovakia Velvet- & ,East Germany Participation
Taiwan Wild Lily
Serbia Otpor, & ran University Protests
o Ukraine Orange Revolution
Venezuela Movement, o
2010
long Kong Umbrella
Tunisia Participation
gypt Tahrir, & Chile Winter urkey Gezi Park, g, Ukraine Euremaidan
•,Ethiopia Protests
2020
Myanmar Protests' 8, Iran Life Freedom
Bangladesh July Revolution' & Serbia
Algeria Hirak' 8 Thailand Students
Note: This timeline illustrates major student-led protests from 1955 to 2025, highlighting their outcomes in terms of political and social change. Outcomes are categorized as 'Successful Transition' (leading directly to significant reforms or government changes), 'Long Term Impact' (initially limited but influential over time),
'Partial Gains' (achieving some concessions or moderate changes), and 'No Immediate Gains' (little to no short-term change despite protest efforts).

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 6d

The administration doing its level best to undermine actual law enforcement and national security in service of performative cruelty and chaos.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

www.wsj.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

www.blackenterprise.com

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 6d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 7d

As someone still reeling from a recent demonstration by a group of super-smart students of their highly restricted vision of the future of humanity (it's all Mad Max/Apocalypse), I can totally get behind this.

Among other things, we need better and more diverse visions of the future!

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 7d

Robot personhood / rights is a sci-fi trope because it’s an obvious way to do a story about prejudice against other humans, but I wonder if it’s created a cultural expectation that this *has* to be a debate once you’ve invented robots you can talk to

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 8d

Teaching to tests. We've made standardized tests high-stakes not just for students, but for teachers and districts. Tests require analysis of texts up to a couple paragraphs, so that's what students get trained on in English classes. Another depressing example of the effectiveness of incentives.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 9d

This is a fantastic speech.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11d

NEW: In newly unsealed testimony, a SpaceX insider revealed that Elon Musk’s company had directly received money from Chinese investors, raising questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 12d

In their nice little monograph, A Moral Political Economy, Federica Carugati and Margaret Levi also note the importance of a real, grounded theory of human nature that can replace the zombie Homo oeconomicus that still ignites neoliberalism.

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 12d

This is one of the great failures of Anthropology post, say, 1987. Through the obsessive policing of anything biological, "positivist," or universalizing, we've opened the discourse to people with right-wing agendas to project whatever hideous vision of human nature suits their political ends.

Why Socialists Should Believe in Human Nature

It's tempting to argue that

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 14d

Epi Ellie, as usual, doing the Lord's work.

Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 14d

Today I review the second study RFK Jr cited in his autism & Tylenol press conference: acetaminophen in pregnancy from the Nurses' Health Study.

You're gonna wanna read this for yourself.
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RFK Jr clearly hasn't read this paper he cited. But I have.

At last week’s press conference, RFK Jr and his buddies announced that Tylenol causes autism, citing 3 studies as proof. Let's talk about one of them.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 15d

He just liked this image because his hands look extra big.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 16d

youtu.be/TjDEsGZLbio?...

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