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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you snap your fingers while wearing this, you decolonise the Americas

chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don’t you love it when the university’s mandatory annual HR code of conduct and compliance training includes completely fake quotes like this one?

Definitely AI-generated HR “code of conduct” training slide that has the quote “Integrity is doing the right thing. Even when no one is watching.” Misattributed to CS Lewis, and superimposed over a group of diverse women sitting or standing at a table.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I often teach in a manner similar to what he describes. But of course, professors are the end point of years and years of thinking.... via reading and writing. Why would he expect *students* to already be accomplished at the things he no longer *feels* like he relies on?

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

At this point, if you publish in The Atlantic, your whole thing is suspect.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Plan a horror festival using only your first name.... Latin American edition. Cronos Huesera Alucarda Día de la Bestia

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Make a band bigger: Counting Murders

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Nothing like sitting in an aisle seat during boarding to document how spatially challenged people are.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This refusal of the social is the beating heart of so many of our problems as a nation. So much so that the experience of riding a bike in much of the United States is like a metonymy for the real of being American.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Helmet scolding reinforces precarity, just like all of our other systems. Poverty, employment, nutrition, disease, etc. resolve in the US to individual pathology. We live in an anti-care society. Cyclists experience this every single time they throw a leg over the saddle.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

American infrastructure encourages contempt for pedestrians, cyclists, and any other kind of mobility that doesn't center the car. And our vehicles sales are driven purely by emotional manipulation. The only rationality in the system is the maximization of profit over all other interest.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's well known that despite high rates of helmet adoption in the United States, cyclists die at 5-6x the rate of death or severe injury in the Netherlands, where helmets are just not worn.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's a tragedy that we continue to individualize bearing the risk of mobility, largely in response to the irrational and emotional place of the automobile in American life.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I like the idea that the shows I like all happen in the same universe. It's rewarding to see that Brianna Barksdale not only ended up in witness protection, but got a medical degree and became a hospital administrator in Pittsburgh. Those gangster/administrator skills definitely overlap.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We might go even further and say that most historians' critiques of "historical" films fall into the same notion of the past that our absurd economist above entertains.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

As a discipline, we often mistake the "truth" of "our documents" for the meaning of the past. And this is, I think, the root of the discipline's theoretical hostility.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Historians all to often work with a naive confidence in language that not only fetishizes the archive, but also places their interpretations of the past squarely in the center of Ricoeur's hermeneutics of faith/restoration.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is quite absurd, of course. And unsurprising for an economist in a law school. But, it's also the same mentality that in 2017 gave us historians saying, "the confederate statutes weren't even put up until the 1920s," as if that fact, put in the right order, changed their meaning.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's almost like a version of long covid that didn't even require actually getting sick, and yet still addles peoples brains.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Proximity and close proximity are not entirely the same thing, thank you very much.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Fuck you Microsoft Word. I don't want to be more concise.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Police and thieves in the streets. Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunition.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It really sucks to discover a typo in an article that has been out for a year.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

So, as much as anything, it's probably some problem with the DRM or content management that won't load because of the way that Safari secures against tracking/privacy, etc.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

In this case and the others in that thread, I think it's like a second order effect of enshittification. In the process of enshittifying the Internet, content providers had to create new security features to control the golem they released. And those features make things even worse again.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

And for some reason, Criterion Channel has stopped working on MacOS Safari for me. The trailers stream, but full films don't. I haven't changed anything. Just, you know, more impossible internet.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

There is no such thing as an “authentic” historical film.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

*These* are the higher education stories that matter, not some half-assed report farted out by a group of faculty cranks at ivy and ivy-adjacent universities

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"This film set in the past isn't authentic" is the lowest form of historical film criticism.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I guess this is what happens when your best player is a part-timer in the MLS who stands still 63% of every game.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's not only that search doesn't work anymore. It's that the goal of destroying search has likewise made direct navigation to sites full of friction. The whole thing is broken. And it is broken by companies in response to the decisions by those same companies.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Google like maps or gmail will just sit on loading forever. And if they do manage open, they won't be completely functional. This is regardless of ad or content block settings. Tons of sites now require Cloudflare checks, even on refreshes. AI, bots, scraping have required layers of unusability.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Everyday, it seems more difficult to get normal websites to work on standard browsers. The internet just seems more and more maddeningly impossible to use.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Goya's capricho No. 6, "Nadie se conoce," has that excellent ambivalence of meaning both "No one knows themselves" and "No one knows each other." The masquerade performs the way that the monstrousness of the neighbor mirrors the monstrousness of the self, and the other way around.

Capricho 6 by Francisco Goya, inscribed in Spanish "Nadie se conoce." The image shows a masked man bowing before a masked woman, as if at a masquerade ball. Behind are weird and frightening visages in tall striped hats, one of whom looks down upon the scene.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I want to teach a seminar built around Karatani's History and Repetition, Santer's The Royal Remains, and Marx's 18th Brumaire.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Fascism is the recreation and repetition by Capital of the conditions of its own emergence. When social reproduction starts to fail, Capital returns to, repeats its original crisis.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Watching all the bird drama in our yard in San Diego kind of makes me want a Watership Down except its birds instead of rabbits.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/07/2026

800,000 dead. @jackohman.bsky.social on Elon Musk’s USAID cuts. Make a former trillionaire cry. Share this cartoon everywhere.

Editorial cartoon: elon musk waving chainsaw labeled “usaid cuts” as “800,000 dead” appears in a cloud of blood. “It’s only an IPO” says Musk.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Football. The disappointing game.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's a hard time to be writing, what with the World Cup, Tour de France, and Silverstone over the last few days.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

feels like a 0% chance Senegal gets that called a penalty if positions are reversed

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

And now I’m supposed to go back to focused writing. 😅

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

You’ve got to hand it to the Trump administration. They’re the most efficient government we’ve ever had at losing wars in the Middle East.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

“They even fill their reflecting pools with Mountain Dew” — Some European, probably

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I hear every soccer player gesture in the voice of Luke Skywalker complaining to Uncle Owen.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Nothing I like better as an academic than having written. Nothing quite as hard as an academic than writing.

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chad black @chadblack.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I don't know what irritates me more-- seeing the pair of blue lines of the grammar check on a Word document every time I use a comma before the word 'but' or the fact that Word insists this is an improper use of the comma. Do I change it to get rid of the blue lines, or stick to my stylistic prefs?

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