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Sociologist at UC San Diego. Author of Automating Finance (2019) & The Quantified Scholar (2022) http://tinyurl.com/2p82v69n Director Latin American Studies (2023-?) and the International Institute (2024-26) at UC San Diego.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · Nov 14

Ok, so I typed down some definitional thoughts on what makes an Influencer Intellectual so unique. I consider this my academic contribution of the year, thank you.

pardoguerra.org/2024/11/14/i...

Influencer intellectuals, a quick summary

In my newfound condition as a part-time bureaucrat, I have dropped the ball on some of my academic projects. I’ve carved out a little bit of time in between grant applications, emails, and pa…

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2h

Just saw a random dude at the food market eating a quesadilla… with a fork. Gentrification has reached an absolutely immoral level.

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 4h

Really excellent article!

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 4h

"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...

The Cultural Devaluation of Feminized Work: The Evolution of U.S. Occupational Prestige and Gender Typing in Linguistic Representations, 1900 to 2019 - Wenhao Jiang, 2025

Previous research on occupational devaluation typically evaluates the potential wage declines associated with a significant inflow of women into an occupation; ...

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 8h

i think it’s noteworthy that a lot of centrist pundits have decided to just take it as a given that jd vance lies constantly and to treat this as almost part of his intellectual program so that only gauche rubes would bother to mention or care about it.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 23h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 22h

DOGEAF

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22h

hmm ok

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 22h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

"In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year."

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 1d

1) Es ilegal aventar huevos en casas ajenas? 2) dónde venden huevos podridos en CDMX?

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 1d

Que deliciosamente ironico

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 1d

Que oso. Que les vaya re mal.

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 1d

Mexico me ha dado un regalo maravilloso.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

Finally, because this is getting boring, don’t Americans *already sort of pay this* through healthcare premiums? Isn’t this analysis… fundamentally wrong? $1600 in out of pocket per capita, plus an average $9k in insurance costs per capita seems like a pretty big employment-dependent tax to me…

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

Again, isn’t this sort of conflating two very different things (the 1% and billionaires)?

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

Also: why use the $7 trillion if that’s not even an actual proposal? Sounds like a bit of a fallacy in the text…

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

How about “The problem with billionaires isn’t only their disproportionate hoarding of money and resources but also their disproportionate of power”. Seems a bit more consistent, doesn’t it?

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

Language matters, Paul. Saying “the problem with billionaires *isn’t*” is a very bad way of framing the issue.

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

I mean… the policy discussion is on taxing “high earners” which is *not* limited to the $7 trillion of billionaires but towards the $51+ trillion of the 1%. Again, saying that “taxing billionaires isn’t the problem” is categorically false.

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

Hmmm. I don’t remember any actual proposals to *only* tax billionaires.

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Give me one actual policy proposal that was just “tax the billionaires” and not “tax the $51 trillion in wealth of the top 1%”. This is a really unserious article.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

If this isn’t a red herring, then I don’t know what is. Is the proposal to “only tax billionaires?” Quite fucking sure that if we returned to the overall tax rates of the 1950s, which would include taxing millionaires as most serious proposals suggest, universal healthcare would be possible

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no, the US is exceptional.

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

The fact of the matter is, any reading of Smith to Hayek will tell you that a dude amassing the wealth of Bezos/Musk/Oracle family is distorting incentives and hiding monopolistic practices that make things overall worse. Billionaires are anathema to actual, pure competition. This is total BS.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

“The problem with Ebola isn’t that it could kill millions and millions of people, but that it has distorted the public debate allowing a few men with extremist views to talk shit about vaccines”. This has to be the worst take I’ve read in a while.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

Wrong AF.

Jesus. What’s the issue with saying “billionaires are wrong because they pervert the systems of incentives in the economy”? There. Did I die for saying this? No. Any self respecting actual liberal would be, idk, ashamed?

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

WuT Da fUcK!??!

Why in god’s name would the Qatari need a base in MFing Idaho (also, thanks autocorrect for capitalizing the mf) other than as an outright bribe!?!?!?!? Where da fuck are congressional republicans!?

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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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

Though I do have a couple of flights to Oakland in the future so I will get to experience the new terminal soonish! Looks good from the outside. T2 had a great Bloody Mary near the United gates. It was real good.