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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 1h

Unironically this.

Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 6h

So Jurassic Park is about a group of rich people who don't understand that biology is far more complicated than "there are only two genders" and how this ignorance toward gender fluidity in nature causes these rich people to lose their money and die.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3h

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3h

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 3h

Like Rawls on a poster board, “Look, here are two principles. Now we’re going to take 700 pages to really make sure they’re clear.”

NO KINGS*

* Philosopher-Kings may apply

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 3h

If I had the time, I’d absolutely make a protest sign with asterisk and then fill the back with agate-sized text explaining the nuanced contours of my comprehensive doctrine which shape my sloganeering.

Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 4h

Ok. But actually, “No kings” is fine.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 5h

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 3h

You’re going to get a bunch of platonists in here yelling at you.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 4h

It’s worth considering why that is significant in the context of the quoted thread.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 4h

It’s because you gnawed his arm off, isn’t it?

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 4h

and, instead, require different kinds of techniques to shepherd them. I wonder if there is something there in a way that could make platforms more structurally democratic.

And maybe this is something that lots of folks are working on. If so, ignore me…

John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 4h

The guts of social media platform design is well outside of any competence that I have, though your observation that trying to control complexity creates a lot of the turbulence we see is one that resonates with me. Generally speaking, complex systems can’t be managed through “control” —>

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 6h

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
@nymag.com -->

nymag.com/intelligence...

What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?

Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.

nymag.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 4h

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 5h

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 7h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 4h

Happy birthday, though.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 7h

This is a thread about the geography of social cohesion and the ways in which social and political structures can blow apart certain kinds of that cohesion during times of strain.

There are different kinds of social possibilities in Rogers Park as compared with Gage Park.

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 15h

Rogers Park and surrounding neighborhoods were hit hard by immigration enforcement activity over the weekend.

There's no competition here, but I want to name that the same heavy, violent, fast-moving abduction pattern has invaded the southwest side about three times a week for over a month now.

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 6h

Honestly, I think we'd be better if the WH Press Corps handed in their credentials too.

Starve Trump of oxygen, go out in the streets to report what this Administration is *doing*.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 6h

“With no reporters able to ask questions, it seems the Pentagon leadership will continue to rely on slick social media posts, carefully orchestrated short videos and interviews with partisan commentators and podcasters.

No one should think that's good enough.”

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 6h

This is absolutely true.

Administration press conferences are lies or evasion. Nobody should be wasting their time credulously acting as a WH stenographer. What’s happening at that podium isn’t news.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 6h

FWIW, the referent there seemed pretty clear to me. *Who* you were saying thought/did those things … wasn’t the big account.

And lots of folks who I respect really muffed the reading comprehension test there.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 6h

Congratulations on your infamy on this particular niche microblogging site.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 7h

This isn’t necessarily to say that one is superior to the other—just that they’re qualitatively different.

And one of the challenges laid out in this thread is in thinking about that distribution and the ways in which we can conceptualize Chicago as a whole.

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 15h

That does horrible things to a community, to people's ability to function. There are families who haven't left their homes in weeks, relying on networks of trust to bring them essentials. Kids staying home from school, fear about every unknown car on the block. And those fears are not unfounded.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 7h

This is a thread about the geography of social cohesion and the ways in which social and political structures can blow apart certain kinds of that cohesion during times of strain.

There are different kinds of social possibilities in Rogers Park as compared with Gage Park.

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 15h

Rogers Park and surrounding neighborhoods were hit hard by immigration enforcement activity over the weekend.

There's no competition here, but I want to name that the same heavy, violent, fast-moving abduction pattern has invaded the southwest side about three times a week for over a month now.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 7h

A play so weird that it deserves to have more written about it.

Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 7h

New column:

I wrote about the Strangest DP in postseason history Monday night because of course I did.

How can you not wax poetic about a "ground-ball" double play that had no actual "ground" in it?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...

Making sense of Brewers-Dodgers 8-6-2 DP, the strangest double play in postseason history

What will you tell your grandchildren about the strangest double play in postseason history? Here's everything you need to know about it.

www.nytimes.com

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 8h

I have curated a careful habit of practically never being in my office except during office hours.

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 8h

your whales must be seen before they can be killed

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 15h

No, no, Liev Schreiber is impeccably consistent.

John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 16h

Glancing around nervously as the Provost pulls out a manila folder with printouts of all of my Moby Dick skeets in it…

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16h

whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 16h

So this is awesome. Thank you so much for the detail.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, I think if I were at the game I would have written FC 8-6-2-2U.

But this is one of those fun conversations because it really captures the data loss in the movement from observation to notation; and how different approaches to coding try to make sense out of that.

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