Henry Snow
@henrysnow.bsky.social
Labor historian | they/them | political economy, maritime work, ships and shipbuilders | CONTROL SCIENCE out with Verso 5/26/26 | currently an adjunct at UConn
words at buttondown.com/anotherway
words at buttondown.com/anotherway
unfortunately accurate. my mother's side of the family arrived in Massachusetts in 1635. her great grandfather was a Union officer who had previously tried to run guns to John Brown in Kansas. she did not know until this summer that you should salt your pasta water
I don’t like being referred to as a Yankee but I’ve realized this is not at all because I’m Southern, but because I specifically resent being associated with traditional New England Protestant culture and its flavorless foods
All people from the U.S. are Yankees. I say this as a person born and raised in The South because pissing off That Specific Kind of Southerner is a moral good.
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
unfortunately accurate. my mother's side of the family arrived in Massachusetts in 1635. her great grandfather was a Union officer who had previously tried to run guns to John Brown in Kansas. she did not know until this summer that you should salt your pasta water
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
today's newsletter post
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Something To Be Thankful For
Democracy against inequality; agency against structure
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November 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
today's newsletter post
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Wrote this up on a comment thread at FB and decided to bring it over here too. Happy US Thanksgiving— or, as some of my Canadian friends call it, Yanksgiving, which is even more appropriate than they intend because it really is a Yankee holiday.
Weirdest day to be an American emigrant or expat.
Weirdest day to be an American emigrant or expat.
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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*keynes voice* anything we can actually do, we can afford
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
*keynes voice* anything we can actually do, we can afford
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Public man-made death: The dismantling of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Public man-made death: The dismantling of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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Trump's speech about the shooting in DC veered into him attacking the Somali community in Minnesota, which of course had nothing to do with the shooting. Gives away his bigoted game.
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Trump's speech about the shooting in DC veered into him attacking the Somali community in Minnesota, which of course had nothing to do with the shooting. Gives away his bigoted game.
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moderately expensive socks are probably my top consumer goods investment in terms of dollar to improvement of quality of life ratio. you can't go back afterward
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
moderately expensive socks are probably my top consumer goods investment in terms of dollar to improvement of quality of life ratio. you can't go back afterward
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It’s hard to know who will see your posts on any site but here you can take advantage of custom feeds and recommend them to others who may share the same interest.
I follow a “demography” feed someone made that pulls any post with the word “demography” and I made a “data” feed of a few accounts.
I follow a “demography” feed someone made that pulls any post with the word “demography” and I made a “data” feed of a few accounts.
Bluesky seems far worse than Twitter at ensuring your content gets seen by your proximate academic network.
Discover let's you see the big posts, followed shows you whay people posted in the last five minutes - but the in between posts get lost in the cracks.
Discover let's you see the big posts, followed shows you whay people posted in the last five minutes - but the in between posts get lost in the cracks.
Before the monstrous transformation of Twitter to X, it was considered normal to be active on academic Twitter. Now, even though we've migrated to Bluesky ("safe space"), I feel that many ppl (including myself) are less active in posting anything. Have you noticed this trend? Or am I imagining this?
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
It’s hard to know who will see your posts on any site but here you can take advantage of custom feeds and recommend them to others who may share the same interest.
I follow a “demography” feed someone made that pulls any post with the word “demography” and I made a “data” feed of a few accounts.
I follow a “demography” feed someone made that pulls any post with the word “demography” and I made a “data” feed of a few accounts.
My book CONTROL SCIENCE is out in May-- a four-century history of labor control & economic thought, from Caribbean plantations to Zambian mines to Amazon warehouses, it explains how cynicism became economic common sense. It's also a call to do better today
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804714...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804714...
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
My book CONTROL SCIENCE is out in May-- a four-century history of labor control & economic thought, from Caribbean plantations to Zambian mines to Amazon warehouses, it explains how cynicism became economic common sense. It's also a call to do better today
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804714...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804714...
in the word of an anonymous shipwright in 1825, "it is simply too much"
South Korean conglomerate HD Hyundai sees an opportunity to accelerate America’s shipbuilding revival by deploying artificial intelligence.
AI Opens Faster Path to Trump Shipbuilding Goal, HD Hyundai Says
South Korean conglomerate HD Hyundai sees an opportunity to accelerate America’s shipbuilding revival by deploying artificial intelligence.
bloom.bg
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
in the word of an anonymous shipwright in 1825, "it is simply too much"
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the mother of her nephew!!!
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
the mother of her nephew!!!
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LLMs make it much more difficult than in the past to distinguish sincere hard effort from automated boilerplate, so that it is harder to tell a sincere boss committed to helping you work better from one who is lazy and couldn't care less about you. There are similar dynamics for other situations.
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
LLMs make it much more difficult than in the past to distinguish sincere hard effort from automated boilerplate, so that it is harder to tell a sincere boss committed to helping you work better from one who is lazy and couldn't care less about you. There are similar dynamics for other situations.
shipwright John Gast writing in 1825 against attempts to transform labor-management problems to problems of population, sex, and gender-- while he's critiquing Malthusian population control the analysis here is also an apt critique of neo-Fordism and xenophobia
![If Messrs Malthus, M'Culloch, Place & Co are to be believed, the
working classes have only to consider how they can most effectually
restrict their numbers, in order to arrive at a complete solution
of all their difficulties . . . Malthus & Go . . . would reduce the
whole matter to a question between Mechanics and their sweethearts
and wives [rather than] a question between the employed and their
employers—between the Mechanic and the corn-grower and mono-
polist—between the tax-payer and the tax-inflictor.8](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z5dfiztglbo7dtsc7nr36e5d/bafkreic4elm3jdgd2wh644fkzymh73apngxymqfsbw4ishusem3muf7k5a@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
shipwright John Gast writing in 1825 against attempts to transform labor-management problems to problems of population, sex, and gender-- while he's critiquing Malthusian population control the analysis here is also an apt critique of neo-Fordism and xenophobia
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This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.
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For those going home to visit family this weekend:
• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
November 25, 2024 at 11:31 PM
For those going home to visit family this weekend:
• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
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More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.”
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
Xavier professor receives $2M for research into Caribbean slavery
www.xavier.edu
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.”
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
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NEW: Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas.
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
www.lawdork.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 AM
NEW: Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas.
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
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"Monopoly" for the Populists was about the monopolization (concentration) of a *publicly allocated, privately exercised* privilege. (No need to argue about whether it was about "public power" or "private power")
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"Monopoly" for the Populists was about the monopolization (concentration) of a *publicly allocated, privately exercised* privilege. (No need to argue about whether it was about "public power" or "private power")
my 17th-century ancestors include a guy who helped cause King Phillip's War with a land deal that was illegal even by English standards. he was also known for persecuting Quakers, who then interpreted his death in a freak horse accident as punishment. somehow I don't think Hillsdale would cover this
Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
my 17th-century ancestors include a guy who helped cause King Phillip's War with a land deal that was illegal even by English standards. he was also known for persecuting Quakers, who then interpreted his death in a freak horse accident as punishment. somehow I don't think Hillsdale would cover this
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Before a single strike, several lawyers raised red flags:
• No self-defense justification
• No organized armed group attacking Americans
• No legal basis for killing civilians
These concerns were documented and ignored — they appear to have been executions.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
• No self-defense justification
• No organized armed group attacking Americans
• No legal basis for killing civilians
These concerns were documented and ignored — they appear to have been executions.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Before a single strike, several lawyers raised red flags:
• No self-defense justification
• No organized armed group attacking Americans
• No legal basis for killing civilians
These concerns were documented and ignored — they appear to have been executions.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
• No self-defense justification
• No organized armed group attacking Americans
• No legal basis for killing civilians
These concerns were documented and ignored — they appear to have been executions.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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The resurgence of tobacco is wild. Cigarettes and vapes are little more than poison delivery products that causes terrible health outcomes and pollute the environment. Picking tobacco exposes workers to unhealthy amounts of nicotine. Smoking takes decades of off people's lives.
the latest episode of the ezra klein show has a cigarette ad. philip morris
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The resurgence of tobacco is wild. Cigarettes and vapes are little more than poison delivery products that causes terrible health outcomes and pollute the environment. Picking tobacco exposes workers to unhealthy amounts of nicotine. Smoking takes decades of off people's lives.
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This week on the blog: hoplites! In particular, hoplite equipment! We talk shields, helmets, armor, weight and mobility.
Was the hoplite an over-encumbered battlefield turtle incapable of fighting outside of the phalanx? (No)
Was he actually a good skirmisher? (Also no)
acoup.blog/2025/11/21/c...
Was the hoplite an over-encumbered battlefield turtle incapable of fighting outside of the phalanx? (No)
Was he actually a good skirmisher? (Also no)
acoup.blog/2025/11/21/c...
Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part II: Hoplite Equipment, Hoplight or Hopheavy?
This is the second part of what looks like it’ll be end up as a four part series discussing the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites, the heavy infantry of the Archaic (800-480) and Cla…
acoup.blog
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This week on the blog: hoplites! In particular, hoplite equipment! We talk shields, helmets, armor, weight and mobility.
Was the hoplite an over-encumbered battlefield turtle incapable of fighting outside of the phalanx? (No)
Was he actually a good skirmisher? (Also no)
acoup.blog/2025/11/21/c...
Was the hoplite an over-encumbered battlefield turtle incapable of fighting outside of the phalanx? (No)
Was he actually a good skirmisher? (Also no)
acoup.blog/2025/11/21/c...