Louise Seamster
@louiseseamster.bsky.social
debt, development, infrastructure, the economics of racial inequality, and the myth of racial progress. I express my own views
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very big story here: apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
very big story here: apnews.com/article/immi...
I tried to read the one yesterday so I’m sparing myself today's
What if the A.I. bubble “is an inevitable part of developing and adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity and growth?” Mohamed El-Erian writes.
Opinion | A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I tried to read the one yesterday so I’m sparing myself today's
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This sounds less like educating kids and more like training a generation of good compliant worker-consumers.
October 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This sounds less like educating kids and more like training a generation of good compliant worker-consumers.
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as gsu partners with google to open the "AI Innovation Lab" to train teachers to "recruit" public HS students to "to participate in a daily curriculum focused on AI/ML literacy, problem-solving, design-thinking and mentorship"...
For decades, scholars have argued education’s hidden curriculum is about disciplining and socializing children as future workers, and they just….tweeted it out
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor
November 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
as gsu partners with google to open the "AI Innovation Lab" to train teachers to "recruit" public HS students to "to participate in a daily curriculum focused on AI/ML literacy, problem-solving, design-thinking and mentorship"...
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This was the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw that ED plans to transfer so many programs to the Dept of Labor.
For decades, scholars have argued education’s hidden curriculum is about disciplining and socializing children as future workers, and they just….tweeted it out
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This was the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw that ED plans to transfer so many programs to the Dept of Labor.
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Looks like they are in Carrboro today--this is the spot day laborers wait for work
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Looks like they are in Carrboro today--this is the spot day laborers wait for work
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I had to explain to my higher ed policy students how comfortable I had to become "seeming crazy" to people simply because I took people seriously when they said they were going to do something and paid attention to their trial runs in the states
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I had to explain to my higher ed policy students how comfortable I had to become "seeming crazy" to people simply because I took people seriously when they said they were going to do something and paid attention to their trial runs in the states
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If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
(KRON) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday that it has settled claims of hazardous waste violations at an Apple microchip factory in Santa Clara. In August 2023 and January 2024, federal regulators inspected Apple’s facility at 3250 Scott Boulevard after receiving a tip from the public. The inspections, according to the EPA, [...]
www.kron4.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
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This same Rick Hess? The one who dismissed concerns about the very things happening now as a "freakout"?
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
The Great Project 2025 Freakout (Opinion)
There's nothing especially scary in the Heritage Foundation's education agenda—nor is it a reliable gauge of another Trump administration.
www.edweek.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This same Rick Hess? The one who dismissed concerns about the very things happening now as a "freakout"?
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
oh hm!! same guy, just a year ago, certain the president would NOT claim executive authority to dismantle the Dept of Education...
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
oh hm!! same guy, just a year ago, certain the president would NOT claim executive authority to dismantle the Dept of Education...
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CBP reportedly pulling out after a week in Charlotte.
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
CBP reportedly pulling out after a week in Charlotte.
For decades, scholars have argued education’s hidden curriculum is about disciplining and socializing children as future workers, and they just….tweeted it out
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor
Is Trump dismantling the Education Department? Not yet. But changes are coming.
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor and parceling out other core job duties to other agencies. It's the most sweeping effort so f...
www.chalkbeat.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
For decades, scholars have argued education’s hidden curriculum is about disciplining and socializing children as future workers, and they just….tweeted it out
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The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor
Is Trump dismantling the Education Department? Not yet. But changes are coming.
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor and parceling out other core job duties to other agencies. It's the most sweeping effort so f...
www.chalkbeat.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor
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Perfectly said: "Alice embodied the difference between an intellectual & an academic. She was as excited & sophisticated about philosophy as anyone I’ve ever met, while being totally unencumbered by the petty bullshit of academia. She did not gatekeep knowledge; she shared it with the generosity..."
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Perfectly said: "Alice embodied the difference between an intellectual & an academic. She was as excited & sophisticated about philosophy as anyone I’ve ever met, while being totally unencumbered by the petty bullshit of academia. She did not gatekeep knowledge; she shared it with the generosity..."
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"EAT THE FUCKING COOKIES!!!!" is going to rattle around in my head for a while, and that makes me a little happier.
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"EAT THE FUCKING COOKIES!!!!" is going to rattle around in my head for a while, and that makes me a little happier.
Reposted by Louise Seamster
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
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NEW: Scientists used historical tidal data to predict that future storms in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook will produce surging waves reaching at least 11 feet.
The area’s yet-to-be-built flood protection system is only 10 feet.
With @nyamnews.bsky.social
The area’s yet-to-be-built flood protection system is only 10 feet.
With @nyamnews.bsky.social
New York Moves Forward With a Brooklyn Flood Protection Plan That Falls Short of Other City Projects
The city is on track to install barriers and elevate roads and sidewalks in the port neighborhood of Red Hook. Experts say it will provide insufficient protection from storms.
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: Scientists used historical tidal data to predict that future storms in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook will produce surging waves reaching at least 11 feet.
The area’s yet-to-be-built flood protection system is only 10 feet.
With @nyamnews.bsky.social
The area’s yet-to-be-built flood protection system is only 10 feet.
With @nyamnews.bsky.social
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People are calling me stupid for calling this terminological misuse out. Think about what is enacted:
"in a cultish atmosphere, jargon does just the opposite: Instead, it causes speakers to feel confused and intellectually deficient. That way, they’ll comply." — Montell
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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"in a cultish atmosphere, jargon does just the opposite: Instead, it causes speakers to feel confused and intellectually deficient. That way, they’ll comply." — Montell
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
People are calling me stupid for calling this terminological misuse out. Think about what is enacted:
"in a cultish atmosphere, jargon does just the opposite: Instead, it causes speakers to feel confused and intellectually deficient. That way, they’ll comply." — Montell
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
1/2
"in a cultish atmosphere, jargon does just the opposite: Instead, it causes speakers to feel confused and intellectually deficient. That way, they’ll comply." — Montell
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
1/2
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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Well, it's official. Second printing of "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is sold out. Next printing in Jan! Will post will sales or live, or sign up here:
www.wehere.space/we-here-pres...
www.wehere.space/we-here-pres...
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Well, it's official. Second printing of "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is sold out. Next printing in Jan! Will post will sales or live, or sign up here:
www.wehere.space/we-here-pres...
www.wehere.space/we-here-pres...
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Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
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watch out mr thermodynamic theory of value; cause labor theory of value about to kick your ass like it always does
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November 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
watch out mr thermodynamic theory of value; cause labor theory of value about to kick your ass like it always does
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Amusing to see the rhetorical flourish that betting against AI is betting against thermodynamics.
That's exactly backwards! Thermodynamics is AI's enemy! Don't take my word for it, ask Nvidia, they readily admit that energy constraints are the biggest problem for data centers.
That's exactly backwards! Thermodynamics is AI's enemy! Don't take my word for it, ask Nvidia, they readily admit that energy constraints are the biggest problem for data centers.
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Amusing to see the rhetorical flourish that betting against AI is betting against thermodynamics.
That's exactly backwards! Thermodynamics is AI's enemy! Don't take my word for it, ask Nvidia, they readily admit that energy constraints are the biggest problem for data centers.
That's exactly backwards! Thermodynamics is AI's enemy! Don't take my word for it, ask Nvidia, they readily admit that energy constraints are the biggest problem for data centers.
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He’s not betting AGAINST thermodynamics, man. He’s betting ON thermodynamics. Like, yes, thermodynamics tends to win!
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November 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
He’s not betting AGAINST thermodynamics, man. He’s betting ON thermodynamics. Like, yes, thermodynamics tends to win!