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Christian Morales

@cmorales.xyz
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I research social policy, economic security, health, and ethics. I'll probably talk your ear off about NYC politics but will mostly post about whatever I am currently reading or watching. Opinions expressed are my own.

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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 13h
I really like the Neue Galerie. It's tiny, but cozy and intimate. Perfect to visit on a winter's day!
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 16/10/2026
ford motor company stocks SKYROCKET after henry ford debuts new "Truckasaurus" at investor event
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ok so remember some time ago on here we were talking about how pikachu doesn't free himself even though he could and one of you said "he lived in a poke ball of the mind"? well that's how i feel when i see decorative pumpkins in woolworths in australia in october
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think if people imagined Tough Mudders less and the Stoic cosmopolis more, more people would be of this correct opinion
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 26/09/2026
The vibes have disappeared indeed
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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We just got word that Brooklyn Book Festival has been canceled this Sunday due to the impending Nor’easter... so we’re taking our BKBF sale online! This weekend only: 50% off subscriptions with the code RAINEDOUT, and discounts on books, back issues and merch.
thepointmag.com
Subscribe | The Point Magazine
The best writing and thinking about modern life—three times a year in print, all year long online.
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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Help us find out what health is for! For our next issue we’re conducting a survey of healthcare practitioners, broadly construed—physicians and nurses, EMTs and psychoanalysts, hospice workers and acupuncturists, to name just a few possibilities.
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What is health for? | A survey from The Point magazine
This fall, The Point, a Chicago-based magazine of politics and culture with a national readership, is publishing a symposium on the question “What is health for?” As part of this symposium, we would l...
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 28/08/2026
Teenage Crushes and Grass Stains at Camp Miasma
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ok ok maybe google search isn't all bad...
i searched alex trebek

google suggests did you mean: who is alex trebek
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 19/08/2026
Also it's truly fine if a 15 year old only understands 3/5 Chaucer references
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 09/08/2026
When did you leave again? I feel like post-lockdown NYC is undeniably different than pre-2020 NYC
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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
My therapist in 2019: "Striving for achievement and prestige alone isn't psychologically healthy." Me in 2019: "You haven't read Aristotle, shut up Katie." Me in 2026, realizing that I only want to pursue projects that are meaningful with my buddies: "OK you might have been onto something Katie."
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 07/08/2026
I loved the meticulous historical research that informed much of the scenery details in that book.
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 07/08/2026
Feel free to reach out if you do!
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 23/07/2026
you can just have the spaghetti you were gonna have for lunch for breakfast it's not like they're gonna arrest you
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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 15/07/2026
If I hear someone say “meeting in Bronx” I will kick them in nuts
Welcome to West Village? The
'the Is Not Optional, Some New
Yorkers Say.
Some newcomers in the city say they are meeting in Bronx, or living in East Village.
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 29/06/2026
That is my favorite play of all time. I am jealous but enjoy!
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
You know, the business who used to have to train its own work force.
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Just spitballing here, but if universities (like mine) are making a case for their existence by arguing that they give students job skills, why aren’t we asking employers to help fund them…? Otherwise it’s just another back-door way to force the public (and students) to subsidize big business.
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 14/05/2026
Has Google Scholar gotten worse at returning relevant search results, or am I just imagining it?
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Couple about to sign divorce papers… WOMAN: I wish I'd never joined that Star Wars dating app MAN: You were looking for love in Alderaan places WOMAN: And I wish I'd never married a guy addicted to Star Wars puns MAN: It was a wookie mistake WOMAN: Just sign it MAN, SIGNING: May divorce be with you
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 02/05/2026
There’s something about using the word “spend” as a noun that absolutely peeves me.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
oh COME ON
the tobacco lobbyistlooks ike aaron eckhart in thank you for smoking
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
In my talk on Social Trust and the Role of Governments I suggest we should not only consider whether citizens trust their governments but also pay more attention to the question of whether governments trust their citizens. Here’s a handy slide.
Do Governments Trust Their Citizens?
Common Complaints Against Governments
• 'They are taking us for fools',
• 'They are treating us like criminals'.
'They are treating us like children'
'They are treating us as their servants',
• 'They are ignoring us'
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 23/04/2026
Tell that to Venus and Proserpina.
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alexandra @bigmoodenergy.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty
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Kathleen Weldon @kathleenweldon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Everyone knows the terms hawks and doves re: military attitudes. I learned today that some Kennedy School types coined "owls" in the 80s for a center position. But has anyone ever heard of "gulls"? Found in a 1980s banner point. Curious if it was just for the 4 way split or really used.
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Imagine making AI bird slop when kingfishers already exist
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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.
Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture ShowTim Curry in ClueTim Curry in The Three MusketeersTim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island
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Demiurge of Doom @euthyphro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Philosophy Twitter is back, baby!
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Philosophy Bits @philosophybits.com · 14/04/2026
“Even that part of our knowledge which is logically independent of experience is yet elicited and caused by experience.” — Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
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Philosophy Bits @philosophybits.com · 24/03/2026
“That in reality we do not know what kind of thing each thing is or is not has been shown many times.” — Democritus, Fragments, B10
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 21/03/2026
Can your French teacher teach me how to pronounce “beignet”? Because I have been trying and embarrassing myself for years!
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 20/03/2026
Ah, I have one episode left to catch up in tonight 🫣
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The next step after this is thinking about what they want control and power *for*. It's not an end in itself, it has to be used, and it can be used on anything. I want power - I'd use it for good things I hope - but what the rich want to use their power for is inevitably cruelty.
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James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"a mix between Amelia Bedelia and the guy from Memento" is possibly the greatest description of AI agents we will ever get
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 11/03/2026
Feliz cumple!
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Max Read @maxread.info · 28/02/2026
one of the funniest things to keep coming out of the anthropic reporting is that the pentagon was trying to convince amodei by proposing elaborate hypothetical scenarios. buddy do you think an EFFECTIVE ALTRUIST has never considered a bizarrely specific and elaborate hypothetical scenario??
This hadn’t gone exactly how they’d like. In December, Bloomberg reported recently, “a senior US defense official posed a hypothetical scenario” to Amodei:

What if a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile were hurtling towards the US with only 90 seconds to spare, and Anthropic’s AI were the only way to trigger a missile response to save the country, but the company’s safeguards wouldn’t allow it, the senior official mused in a December phone call.

“Call me,” was how Pentagon officials interpreted Amodei’s answer, according to another senior defense official briefed on the discussion, who described being astounded by the billionaire’s response.

LOL. Our beautiful generals have many medals and some even have battlefield experience, but I can say with some confidence that they have never engaged with a Rationalist online and are deeply unprepared for what it means to pick a fight with one.[Dario Amodei Bane voice] “Oh, you think stupid elaborate hypotheticals are your ally. But you merely adopted elaborate and weirdly specific hypothetical scenarios; I was born in them, molded by them. I didn’t see a normal argument until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!”
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 27/02/2026
Ooof, I relate to this so much. My work inbox is also currently, uncharacteristically, un-triaged. I hope you are able to find time to rest soon.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 12/02/2026
Remember the monthly child tax credit in 2021 that was a basic income for 40 million families for six months? One of the results of that policy was that fewer parents sold their blood plasma.
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DemigirlBOObs @demigirlboss.win · 11/02/2026
The thing is, even if you think she's a self-important loon (she isn't), Askell's work is tangibly making the world a safer place. You can't condemn ChatGPT for encouraging suicide in one breath, then belittle Askell for trying to make an AI with a robust constitution that prevents that in the next.
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Kathleen Weldon @kathleenweldon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
An indication of how perception of time seems to have changed. This survey was fielded in November of 53, a full 10 months into the Eisenhower administration, and a solid majority thought it was too soon to judge its performance.
DO YOU THINK THE NEW ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN IN OFFICE LONG ENOUGH FOR PEOPLE TO DECIDE HOW WELL THEY ARE DOING, OR IS IT TOO SOON TO DECIDE?

GENERAL PUBLIC 65% too soon
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 31/01/2026
It is a far, far better repost that I do, than I have ever done…
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 31/01/2026
Tell me 5 classes you took in college Medical Ethics Minds and Machines The Politics of Public Policy Philosophical Perspectives on Feminism and Gender Central European Literature and Cinema (also all the pre-med hurdles)
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Christian Morales @cmorales.xyz · 31/01/2026
Thought you should know, even the zoos are putting their penguins away.
youtube.com
It's too cold in New York for penguins
YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Half a billion on terrorizing citizens but we can’t have universal healthcare or basic income or affordable housing or public transit or
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Absolutely terrific post by @lukefarrell.bsky.social . It’s shocking, wasteful, and pernicious how much our government relies on private contractors to perform the state function of administering public services. Great proposals here. lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...
lpeproject.org
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.
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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Please share with the PhD students in your life. 🙏
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