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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 19m

suggesting you're the antichrist and generally just talking about the antichrist a lot does feel like the kind of thing the antichrist would do as a bit

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 1h

where this comes up in my own work: there is this persistent notion that workers are collateral damage of new tech, like industrial machinery. no, they are intended victims. mechanized labor was an intentional effort to crush artisans, and this shaped its timing, imolementation, etc.

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not particularly critical of "innovation" in general-- hell, I'm basically an ecomodernist-- but "human capital" and "rents" are category errors when describing workers' actions here. The whole point is that they do /not/ want their labor value to either vanish or become rents

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 1h

Mokyr has described workers harmed by technological change as "incumbents who fear a threat to the stream of rents generated by their physical capital, human capital, market power, or political influence," a profound misunderstanding of labor

Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 2h

Lol at a Nobel for "having explained innovation-driven economic growth", fantastic timing everybody

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t care how many times I encounter the fact, it will never fully be accepted by my brain that Isaac Newton stuck a bodkin needle into his eye as part of his experiments on optics

Newton looking like he’s just made up his mind to put a needle in his eye

A bodkin needle. The kind I would never ever put in my eye no matter what

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Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 10h

A personal connection between student and teacher demands more than, and is more important than, individualizing each lesson.

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 15h

sal khan on his true north knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/at-k...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 15h

“The free press holds powerful institutions to account” when was the last time they covered an economic issue

Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 15h

I love how Caitlin’s main example of Bari Weiss speaking truth to power is a piece about NPR that just goes through the same right-wing tropes about liberal media that we’ve heard a thousand times before.

That she will somehow denigrate the storied
CBS News—it has been reported that some staff members have delivered minatory instructions to not "mess with the Golden Goose(s) of '60 Minutes' and 'CBS News Sunday Morning," as though West 57th Street were the O.K. Corral—is a complete misreading of her and her vision, which is to bring the traditional methods of American journalism back to the news, and also to build a culture of ideas. This is exactly what she's done at The Free Press, which covers a variety of stories, the most popular of which
—Uri Berliner's explanation of NPR's decline, for example—are those that hold powerful institutions to account.

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 14h

except my courses. my courses do that. the undergraduates yearn for Gerrard Winstanley

𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 14h

The problem with this discourse is that it reveals something that nobody with a stake in their own academic or professional discipline wants to own up to, which is there is no particular educational paradigm that automatically makes you a good person

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 20h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 15h

This is correct but that era of prestige & good pay was v short, a mid-century blip—much like it was for auto workers in the US. Prior to WWII the professoriate was white-male dominated and moderately high prestige, but by no means “well paid”. It’s most prosperous days were the immediate postwar.

Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 17h

To add to this, the US professoriate was overwhelmingly, relentlessly white and male before 1960, and it was overwhelmingly a well-paid white collar job.

1964 CRA prevents ed discrimination. It takes 5 years to complete a PhD. 1969 begins a trend towards adjuncts and lower pay.

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 17h

"an occupation’s general prestige and perceived potency (but not its moral standing) declines when it becomes increasingly stereotyped as female" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 18h

it's too long for bluesky but remind me next time we're at the same department event to share my RCM horror story from Rutgers

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

an affirmative case for trans rights as a pillar of good democratic governance

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 1d

someone gave my mom a labubu. why. she doesn't know what that is. she buys MLM stuff out of pity for the sellers and has a greenhouse full of beets. you can't do this to her. you can't. someone will pay

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 10d

Check out this Q&A with Rutgers History prof Jack Bouchard about his forthcoming book, “Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World” (@yalepress, 2025) #Rutgers

history.rutgers.edu/news-events/...

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

your great grandchildren will someday get to read a hot mid-2200s dissertation on the figure of the heroic frog in long 21st-Century America

Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 7d

frog from Chrono Trigger arriving at exactly the historical moment we need him I see

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 8d

wizard frog is insane

Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

northern new englanders are insufferable about surviving bad weather and I know it and I'm still guilty of it. have to prove I haven't gone soft living in Connecticut

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

my wife on a long drive north: "what a cute town!"

me: "oh this place? think they're the ones who lost power for three weeks in the great ice storm of '08"

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

as someone who wrote a book covering this entire period (17th century on) and ending with Thiel it's as if he came up with a comment to give me specifically an aneurysm

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 3d

Our project to digitise the Zambia Congress of Trade Union archives has now been scanning documents for a year. Over 80,000 pages scanned so far, despite severe power shortages in Zambia!

Photo of a two-storey building with cars parked next to it. On the wall of the building is a sign reading "ZCTU HQ Solidarity House"
Underneath the sign is a red banner reading "Zambia Congress of Trade Unions #Solidarityforever"

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

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