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@ahumbleman.bsky.social
Just a dude. Enjoyer of Economics, Aeronautics, Astronomy, History and Politics. I try to bring good vibes wherever I go and to remain humble. 🇨🇦
This, 100%.
So much of what we're seeing in US and European politics right now is driven by status anxiety. And so much of that perceived loss of status is based on the West's distorted view of itself and the rest of the world, and of how global inequality became the "normal" field on which history plays out.
November 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This, 100%.
They are laying off ppl at JPL???
Holy crap. This is terrible.
The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.
The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L
October 14, 2025 at 2:04 AM
They are laying off ppl at JPL???
Psychotic btw
RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol
October 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Psychotic btw
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What Trump is doing right now isn't "cancel culture." It's a modern version of the Red Scare. www.vox.com/on-the-right...
The third Red Scare
The right’s new assault on free speech isn’t cancel culture. It’s worse.
www.vox.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
What Trump is doing right now isn't "cancel culture." It's a modern version of the Red Scare. www.vox.com/on-the-right...
imo this is one of those @judah-grunstein.bsky.social posts that is a perfectly precipitated nugget of insight. Even if I’ve seen the idea expressed elsewhere, I tend to find his expression more cogent.
This is the original sin of technocratic governance. It doesn't have a vision of the state and society, only of the optimal numbers for the statistics it measures.
Without a coherent conceptual idea of what the UK as a state and society should look like after structural reforms a Starmer government won't have a sustainable policy mix that enables change and won't have the effective comms needed to sustain voter support for it
September 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
imo this is one of those @judah-grunstein.bsky.social posts that is a perfectly precipitated nugget of insight. Even if I’ve seen the idea expressed elsewhere, I tend to find his expression more cogent.
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Kind of weird how Roberts declared the VRA preclearance to rest on dated and unfair assumptions about the South and within 15 years the former Confederate states will have effectively eliminated almost every black district within those states.
Missouri Republicans today passed a new gerrymander that would break apart the Democratic district in Kansas City, which would flip a seat to the GOP. (The governor is expected to sign it.) www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
Missouri senators pass gerrymandered map that slashes through Kansas City
The vote marked a pivotal moment in Missouri, potentially altering the political makeup of Kansas City for years.
www.kansascity.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Kind of weird how Roberts declared the VRA preclearance to rest on dated and unfair assumptions about the South and within 15 years the former Confederate states will have effectively eliminated almost every black district within those states.
Erm, what the fuck?
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’
Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities
www.thetimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Erm, what the fuck?
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I feel like one of the many effects of LLMs on our industry is going to be making it really clear that the coding was never the hard part.
September 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I feel like one of the many effects of LLMs on our industry is going to be making it really clear that the coding was never the hard part.
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A platform where Jamelle Bouie is one of the most influential and respected people is one that is going to cause discomfort for a certain kind of liberal (or person who thinks they are liberal). Yes, Bouie is black, but what these people really reject is strong criticism of America's status quo.
September 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A platform where Jamelle Bouie is one of the most influential and respected people is one that is going to cause discomfort for a certain kind of liberal (or person who thinks they are liberal). Yes, Bouie is black, but what these people really reject is strong criticism of America's status quo.
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again remembering all the criticisms of "woke capitalism" and the hypocritical excesses of hollow corporate diversity and wondering if we were all on the same page about what would replace them when they were gone
Jack Posobiec, speaking now at NatCon: "New York, our greatest city, is on the precipice of being run by a Zohran Mamdani — I think we realize that something has gone absolutely wrong … As I stand here today, we are less than 10 years away from one of America's great cities being run by a Muhammad."
September 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
again remembering all the criticisms of "woke capitalism" and the hypocritical excesses of hollow corporate diversity and wondering if we were all on the same page about what would replace them when they were gone
Tariffs rejected and he croaks the same night is nasty work
May we be so lucky
Merry ghoulscrolling to us all
May we be so lucky
Merry ghoulscrolling to us all
August 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Tariffs rejected and he croaks the same night is nasty work
May we be so lucky
Merry ghoulscrolling to us all
May we be so lucky
Merry ghoulscrolling to us all
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Can folks do me a favor?
I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.
I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.
I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.
Here’s two favorite set photos.
Repost? I am in the wilderness.
I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.
I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.
I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.
Here’s two favorite set photos.
Repost? I am in the wilderness.
August 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Can folks do me a favor?
I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.
I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.
I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.
Here’s two favorite set photos.
Repost? I am in the wilderness.
I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.
I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.
I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.
Here’s two favorite set photos.
Repost? I am in the wilderness.
Come to 🇨🇦 chief
"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now."
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
The 'Mozart of Math' rarely speaks about politics. The wide-ranging cuts to science funding made him change that.
UCLA's Terence Tao called the Trump administration's actions an "existential threat" to academic research in the U.S.
www.nbcnews.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Come to 🇨🇦 chief
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"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now."
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
The 'Mozart of Math' rarely speaks about politics. The wide-ranging cuts to science funding made him change that.
UCLA's Terence Tao called the Trump administration's actions an "existential threat" to academic research in the U.S.
www.nbcnews.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now."
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
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Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
August 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
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You can explain the last decade of American politics with two memes.
August 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
You can explain the last decade of American politics with two memes.
This x 100. The centrists cannot talk to normal people lol
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
Jeffries on Trump planning a military crackdown in Chicago: "We should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he's deeply unpopular"
August 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This x 100. The centrists cannot talk to normal people lol
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Weekend #longreads: The math tutor and the missing $533 million
https://restofworld.org/2025/byjus-owner-byju-raveendran-comeback-fraud-case/
https://restofworld.org/2025/byjus-owner-byju-raveendran-comeback-fraud-case/
The math tutor and the missing $533 million
From Dubai, the enigmatic founder of Byju’s recounts how he made his empire — and vows to rebuild it.
restofworld.org
August 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Weekend #longreads: The math tutor and the missing $533 million
https://restofworld.org/2025/byjus-owner-byju-raveendran-comeback-fraud-case/
https://restofworld.org/2025/byjus-owner-byju-raveendran-comeback-fraud-case/
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3. This is why the Bill Gates/Ecomodernist approach will never work. I define ecomodernism as using technology as a substitute for political and economic change. We need new technologies and their widespread application. But we *also* need bold policies to shut down the old technologies.
August 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
3. This is why the Bill Gates/Ecomodernist approach will never work. I define ecomodernism as using technology as a substitute for political and economic change. We need new technologies and their widespread application. But we *also* need bold policies to shut down the old technologies.
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this is shocking
Last fall, I attended the premiere of a film that meant a lot to me. In late January, all of its hundreds of planned screenings were canceled without explanation. For @defector.com, I went digging:
Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector
If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...
defector.com
July 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
this is shocking
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I'm a huge fan of simple, clear, single-purpose websites. today I discovered a new one, which explains straightforwardly (with videos and step-by-step pictures) how to tie a whole bunch of basic knots
www.animatedknots.com/anchor-hitch...
www.animatedknots.com/anchor-hitch...
Anchor Hitch
The Anchor Hitch, or Bend, is also known as the Fisherman's Hitch and is an excellent knot to use for attaching an anchor line to an anchor.
www.animatedknots.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I'm a huge fan of simple, clear, single-purpose websites. today I discovered a new one, which explains straightforwardly (with videos and step-by-step pictures) how to tie a whole bunch of basic knots
www.animatedknots.com/anchor-hitch...
www.animatedknots.com/anchor-hitch...
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This is my 7th-grade band director when he heard me play a scale on the oboe.
July 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This is my 7th-grade band director when he heard me play a scale on the oboe.