Nate Holdren
@nhold.bsky.social
Hey bluesky. Historian. In decline. Views expressed here are those of a future insightful majority.
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Nate Holdren
@nhold.bsky.social
· May 29
harrumph. harrumph, I say!
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I'm old enough to remember (I'm over one year old) when we were all told to shut up about labour's left wing credentials because the renters rights and employment rights bills were on the way. how are those going lxds? how are my rights looking?
NEW: The UK Government have abandoned plans to give workers day-one protection against unfair dismissal in a bid to ensure it’s Employment Rights Bill makes it through Parliament 👇
Labour scrap day-one protection from unfair dismissal manifesto pledge in U-turn
www.thenational.scot
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I'm old enough to remember (I'm over one year old) when we were all told to shut up about labour's left wing credentials because the renters rights and employment rights bills were on the way. how are those going lxds? how are my rights looking?
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HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030
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There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
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I finished this tonight, it's excellent, highly recommended, check it out!
October 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I finished this tonight, it's excellent, highly recommended, check it out!
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wrote this trying to think out some stuff about the present political moment
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A letter on epistemological breaks, morality, and the current conjuncture
Dear comrades and fellow travelers, I wrote this to clarify my own thinking by the writing, and with the hope that it might spark a little conversation which...
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October 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
wrote this trying to think out some stuff about the present political moment
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thoughts and prayers.
mean ones.
mean ones.
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
thoughts and prayers.
mean ones.
mean ones.
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
My book Injury Impoverished: Something Law Something Something Capitalism came out 5 (!) yrs ago so I figure it's already reached anyone interested. Most recent academic thing I did's an article using a famous legal case to argue labor historians should be marxister www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
My book Injury Impoverished: Something Law Something Something Capitalism came out 5 (!) yrs ago so I figure it's already reached anyone interested. Most recent academic thing I did's an article using a famous legal case to argue labor historians should be marxister www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Sad to see. The Holy See’s virulent anti-AI stance will hold the Church back as other religions continue to innovate. Praying the Pope adopts a grindset more compatible with the speed of the modern world
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Sad to see. The Holy See’s virulent anti-AI stance will hold the Church back as other religions continue to innovate. Praying the Pope adopts a grindset more compatible with the speed of the modern world
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Gallego uses the word "tribunal." He may be the first to do so.
Gallego: "Donald Trump is gonna be gone in a couple years. And if you're part of the military that is going after sitting members of Congress and part of the weaponization of government, there will be consequences. Without a doubt."
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Gallego uses the word "tribunal." He may be the first to do so.
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[mentally screaming at earsplitting volume while sitting completely still] EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 AM
[mentally screaming at earsplitting volume while sitting completely still] EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Skokie takes a stand.
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Skokie takes a stand.
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The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
Imagine the meeting where they came up with this part of the user agreement, my god
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Imagine the meeting where they came up with this part of the user agreement, my god
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2014 is gonna be my year
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
2014 is gonna be my year
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Honestly I fucking loathe the whole idea of "EdTech"
Pushers of technology into education couldn't give a flying fuck about students, educators, education itself, or any of their other so-called "use cases".
They care ONLY about profits. I really wish our execs could perceive this blinding light 😡
Pushers of technology into education couldn't give a flying fuck about students, educators, education itself, or any of their other so-called "use cases".
They care ONLY about profits. I really wish our execs could perceive this blinding light 😡
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Honestly I fucking loathe the whole idea of "EdTech"
Pushers of technology into education couldn't give a flying fuck about students, educators, education itself, or any of their other so-called "use cases".
They care ONLY about profits. I really wish our execs could perceive this blinding light 😡
Pushers of technology into education couldn't give a flying fuck about students, educators, education itself, or any of their other so-called "use cases".
They care ONLY about profits. I really wish our execs could perceive this blinding light 😡
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We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
$8.75M Investment Supports ‘Research Resilience’… | Maryland Today
UMD, MPower Funds Combine to Help Preserve Institutional Capabilities, Lab Operations and More
today.umd.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
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I really cannot stress how much gas ice and St. Paul police launched today in a neighborhood. bsky.app/profile/maur...
shared with consent from friend who was on site for this latest gassing of neighbors gathering outside for their community in Minnesota.
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I really cannot stress how much gas ice and St. Paul police launched today in a neighborhood. bsky.app/profile/maur...
To be fair I read this and the article it's commenting on quickly so I may have missed something. What I like in this is that it notes that a big driver of faculty AI usage is overwork, which is partly an artifact of understaffing (and overstaffing at the management level, since management consume
About 25 percent of faculty members have used AI to save time in creating more engaging in-class activities or generating quizzes and other assessments. Yet talking about AI use is taboo in some quarters. https://chroni.cl/4rjLxQp
Why Professors Are Using AI in Course Design
Some believe in the technology’s promises; others are simply desperate for help.
chroni.cl
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
To be fair I read this and the article it's commenting on quickly so I may have missed something. What I like in this is that it notes that a big driver of faculty AI usage is overwork, which is partly an artifact of understaffing (and overstaffing at the management level, since management consume
random thought: like a lot of people who teach, my mind is made up that I won't be doing AI and that's not debatable. Since I'm very confident in the position, AI-boosterism of the 'oh so you don't want to give your students the wonder drug, what happens when they hit the labor market?!' variety is
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
random thought: like a lot of people who teach, my mind is made up that I won't be doing AI and that's not debatable. Since I'm very confident in the position, AI-boosterism of the 'oh so you don't want to give your students the wonder drug, what happens when they hit the labor market?!' variety is
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From the people who brought you planned obsolescence and annual styling, "not shopping" has been rebranded as "device hoarding"
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
From the people who brought you planned obsolescence and annual styling, "not shopping" has been rebranded as "device hoarding"
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Texas workers are dying from heat, but business leaders and Republicans support a ban on local protections, because too many different laws will confuse businesses.
But they oppose a national OSHA standard as well.
Maybe they just don't care?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...
But they oppose a national OSHA standard as well.
Maybe they just don't care?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...
Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat - Inside Climate News
Despite its blazing temperatures, Texas has no labor protections for heat. That leaves workers, especially immigrants, vulnerable on the job.
insideclimatenews.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Texas workers are dying from heat, but business leaders and Republicans support a ban on local protections, because too many different laws will confuse businesses.
But they oppose a national OSHA standard as well.
Maybe they just don't care?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...
But they oppose a national OSHA standard as well.
Maybe they just don't care?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before