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Eric Brown @ericbrown13.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Idly wondering for no good reason (no sarcasm) what Kojeve would have made of Iain Bank's Culture

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Eric Brown @ericbrown13.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Going to give a talk on global financial systems and power relations tonight. Harrowing, but fun I hope!

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Eric Brown @ericbrown13.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Markets, the central feature of microeconomics and macroeconomics, are a theoretical artifact mostly irrelevant to how the economy of the world works.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/10/2025

Trump is pushing private equity and crypto into YOUR 401(k) – putting your retirement savings at risk. These shadowy markets lack strong guardrails to keep your money safe. We can’t let Wall Street gamble with Americans’ hard-earned savings.

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Eric Brown @ericbrown13.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

ok, roasted chick peas with honey and sesame seed are excellent

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 25/10/2025

Mad Max 8.0

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/10/2025

Well, Fam, just found out our health insurance is jumping from $1700 to over $3000 a month. And we still have to wait till Nov 1 to see more options—when the site will probably crash because everyone will be freaking out at the same time.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

You shouldn’t be allowed to have an opinion about The Economy if you haven’t worked a service / retail job before.

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Eric Brown @ericbrown13.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I think the only real step forward for innovation to get all the SV techbro elite off Tolkein and into Lovecraft.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Bartolomé de las Casas would probably be doxxed by and hiding from right wing Christian organizations if he were around today.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Eric Brown @ericbrown13.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

US intervention in South America, what could go wrong?

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jonas @jh1791.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

You've probably seen this. But it's a great, quick intro into his work and how to do research. I use it every semester. youtu.be/g3bBajcR5fE?...

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Social Networks and Getting a Job: Mark Granovetter

YouTube video by Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Two reasons to click through: because Petri is always terrific, and for the unaccustomed, almost bracing sensation of seeing something in The Atlantic that's worth reading.

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Eric Brown @ericbrown13.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

that one week of OceanGate content feels like madlibs when you go back and read the articles from then

'Your stepdad is lost at sea!' California man whose billionaire stepfather is on missing sub asks OnlyFans model to SIT on him 30 minutes after pleading for prayers, as he triggers war of words with Cardi B over Blink-182 concert

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Growing up in the '70s I'd read about strongman rulers in far-off places like Asia or Africa who had billion-dollar Swiss bank accounts and mansions in the French Riviera while their citizens were mired in poverty, and wondered how that could be allowed to happen Now I know

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ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.blacksky.app · 11/05/2025

In the spirit of Mother’s Day, here’s a clip of Björk two-piecing a reporter who was stalking her and her baby.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/05/2025

much of machine learning research is motivated by the idea of 'humans and the human condition as a problem,' with researchers assuming the authority and legitimacy to solve it

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/05/2025

“This is probably the single most significant aggregated repository of data about American air travelers,” said Edward Hasbrouck, an expert in travel data privacy. “That the government has gotten access to it is a very big deal.” www.levernews.com/airlines-are...

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Airlines Are Collecting Your Data And Selling It To ICE

An aviation industry clearinghouse is collecting passenger information from billions of past and future flights and selling it to Trump’s immigration enforcers.

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Odessa @odessa.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

This is so funny because I just watched the video this morning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4QW...

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Police Find Raccoon With Meth Pipe in its Mouth During Ohio Traffic Stop

YouTube video by PoliceActivity

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

the entire point of the piece (and the related book) you're replying to and didn't read is that your great-grandparents were eating formaldehyde milk and gypsum flour and arsenic jam because there were no food safety laws. Keeping food safe is a society's job, not an individual's!!!

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The hopium is wild to see. No, Trump isn't "fucked." He is in a moment many fascists were, which is to say losing popularity once in power. But that is why authoritarians take power: so no one can take it from them. Popularity doesn't matter as much when you're in complete control.

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

In a world transformed by tech, philosophy is more vital than ever. David Edmonds on how to think in the age of AI www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0... #AI #philosophy #philsky

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How to think in the age of AI

In a world transformed by tech, philosophy is more vital than ever.

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

New article! The gaze from afar: climate action despite the loss of hope by Carl Cassegård , Karl Malmqvist , Åsa Wettergren and Ulrika Winter. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

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Regarding climate change, catastrophic developments are already ongoing. This does not eliminate the hope that meaningful climate action is possible but can lead to other emotions and emotive-cognitive orientations becoming more central in motivating collective action. We argue for the crucial role of a ‘gaze from afar’, which can validate action even without hope of averting catastrophe. Such a gaze breaks with the conventional model of empathic role-taking by judging one’s present actions from the point of view of a distant other. This paper draws on a project on post-apocalyptic environmental activism to illuminate two different variants of the gaze from afar: that of people who do not share our present and that of non-human others. In each case the gaze helps propel a heightened degree of moral reflexivity and existential responsibility that can motivate collective action in the midst of ongoing catastrophe.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

NEW: Friends of Neri Alvarado, rotting in a Salvadoran prison on Trump's orders, made a video highlighting his volunteer work helping neurodiverse children learn to swim. Neri was sent there after someone at ICE thought his autism awareness tattoo was a gang tattoo. Vid posted by Noah Lanard on X.

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Brian Gaar @briangaar.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

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Eric Brown @ericbrown13.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Me: describing sundown towns in the context of social norms. Students (international): that's fucked up

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

*sees someone considering running against an 80 year old*: the only reason this could happen is antisemitism

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Lauren Berlant was right

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Eric Brown @ericbrown13.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

My PPE and polisci students have never seen the movie Alien or Aliens and I am considering setting up a movie night so they can see it. Other sci-fi suggestions for political movies?

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Grabbed a screencap of this convo between @diplomatofnight.com and @mayachhabra.bsky.social because I think the discussion here makes a very interesting point about how imperialist societies (almost necessarily) become stupider over time

Emissary: "People tend to know intuitively that trying to take someone's home or their land or their sense of peoplehood by force will invite force in response. Only very stupid people think otherwise."

Maya: "My impression from Indian history (or rather, the history of British colonialism in India) is that here's a sort of honesty in the completeness of the self-deception. And racism is fostered in order to short-circuit the otherwise obvious realization here. hey make themselves stupid, because if they didn't, it would occur to them very rapidly that what they're doing is not only immoral, but likely to result in being hit back. Sure, "people" would fight back if you showed up and stole their stuff. So all sorts of elaborate propaganda has to be concocted to prove you're not stealing their stuff and they're just unreasonable and inferior and probably not real people. (See also American slavery and... a lot of things)."

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Gerard Hoffnung's The Bricklayer's Lament, one of the greatest comic deliveries of all time www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZUJ...

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The Bricklayer's Lament - by Gerard Hoffnung

YouTube video by Col

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

And egg color doesn’t affect flavor or quality (what they eat does). We have other chickens with pink, green, and blue earlobes. Here’s a typical dozen collected over the last few days, all free range:

A dozen eggs of various shades of brown, pink, blue, and white in a cardboard carton

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 12/02/2025

As the Trusk regime is wrecking the state apparatus that brought us the IRA, it's more urgent than ever to understand the politics of green macrofinancial regimes. Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Screenshot of the abstract of the linked paper.

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Eric Brown @ericbrown13.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Looks like it's Infrastructure Week but in reverse.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 24/01/2025

Folded & assembled proof sheets for @skeuomorphpress.org’s forthcoming letterpress edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology"—an LIS practicum student created the woodcut illustrations of tech mentioned in the text, which we carved on the laser—I set type for the book & fold-out poster

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

if you want to know where we are in Western climate politics, the Bank of England, one of the few central banks with an environmental mandate, has just published its 2025-2028 research agenda and there isnt a single word on climate www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/ban...

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Bank of England Agenda for Research, 2025-2028

Research is crucial to what any central bank does. It forms a critical part of the analytical apparatus that guides policymakers’ decisions. This document sets out the key new directions for research ...

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Ross Mittiga @rossmittiga.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

For me, the answer to each of these questions is an unequivocal Yes. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... Others, however, disagree (in this case, @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social and @jeremywallace.bsky.social). muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Project MUSE - How to Confront No Ordinary Danger

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Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Putting the final touches on my new essay on what I’m calling “reactionary futurism” in Silicon Valley—coming soon in Critical Security Studies.

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