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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some dumb Bubbleyum bubblegum Chewin' Chumps, be screwin' I, the fly--I wonder why What's the reason for the treason Huh, you wanna die? I'm high-post, higher than most Not from France but I eat French toast

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s the Aziz Ansari bit about 50 Cent not knowing the difference between a grape and a grapefruit

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you @kevinrichert.bsky.social for a crystal-clear description of the obscurity to come in appointing a new president at U of I

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy 100th, on the equinox, and born on the equinox www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJnV...

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YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic

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BlackskyNews 🗞️ @blackskynews.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

The Coltrane Estate is marking the 100th anniversary of the musician’s birth with COLTRANE 100, an ambitious, year-long centennial global celebration honoring an artist whose work permanently reshaped the language, ambition, and purpose of music. nysmusic.com/2026/09/18/j... Good #BlackskyNews

Upcoming live event highlights include a COLTRANE 100 concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on September 23, featuring alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin and a 16-piece orchestra. A series of tribute concerts hosted by Ars Nova in Philadelphia September 23-26 will feature Sun Ra Arkestra, Immanuel Wilkins, Terri Lyne Carrington, Irreversible Entanglements, Reggie Workman + Andrew Cyrille Trio, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will host a birthday night event with Coltrane scholar Ashley Kahn and panelists David Murray, Brandee Younger and Naima Cochrane. The Ravi Coltrane Quartet will also be performing at the Blue Note in Los Angeles (September 22-24) and at the Village Vanguard in NYC (October 13-18). Immersive listening events hosted by Pitchblack Playback are also scheduled in various cities from September 20-23.

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"It sounds like _Finnegan's Wake_, Flann O'Brien, Syd Barrett!" Things said by people who don't understand that these models bump nothing but _Black Elvis_ and _Sex Style_ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon

Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating barriers to monitoring and oversight

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One chants out between two worlds

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Time to start following the Proposition 1 story in Idaho. If it passes, it will allow the state to regulate abortion *only after* the point of fetal viability (except in cases of medical emergency). The goal is to roll back restrictions imposed over the past several years unitedforyes.com

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United for Yes

The Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act will be Proposition 1 on the November ballot in Idaho. For nearly 50 years, Idahoans had the personal liberty to make private medical decisions—including regul...

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Dark star crashes Pouring its light into ashes Reason tatters The forces tear loose from the axis Searchlight casting For faults in the clouds of delusion Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds ...OK not exactly, but this is still awesome 🧵

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Texas A&M-Victoria’s upper admin have gone all-in on disciplining labor, way beyond what TX Senate Bill 2615 requires. You don’t need to spell out the orders when the admin is thinking like the firm www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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Faculty Quit as Texas University Orders Them Back to Campus

The new policy, announced in June, is a response to a Texas law restricting remote work for public university faculty. The Texas AAUP says it has prompted chaos and tears.

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Excellent🧵 on the legal tightrope that the gambling sites walk to pretend like they're not gambling sites but also that they're not cesspools for insider trading

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The AI was trained on the Kool Keith or James Joyce game

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I mean, you walk by a store and see fifty guys who look just like me fighting over very complicated shirts, you go in. Yes, you do. You. Go. In

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Eric Brown @sophisteuein.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I certainly wouldn’t complain that she’s biting the hand that feeds her. Her food does not come from Hollywood. And the hand she’s biting does not belong to a starving artist but to a $1B+ grossing movie project.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Jorg Bibow has written about how the mythical trauma of hyperinflation has been deliberately built up by German central bankers, among, others, to support a conservative vision of macroeconomic policy. www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_886....

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Awww so sad men with the emotional depth of a pancake can't handle Rooney or Ferrante. Give the cowards Emily Witt or Miranda July

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Enjoying @ninaecon.bsky.social 's extended engagement with Rogoff's new book. One thing it can help you see: someone can get halfway to understanding (debt forgiveness 👍), but only halfway (his views on taking on debt and on causes of inflation). Last section was also v helpful. Thanks Nina!!

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

👇 Louisville has had the finest tap water in the country for decades

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Zeb Palmer @zebpalmer.com · 31/07/2026

‼️ PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION ‼️ #IdahoFire A *very* rare "PDS" Red Flag Warning has been issued by the NWS for areas of E WA & N ID Saturday PDS is specific rarely used language for the most extreme life-threatening situations (tornado outbreaks, extreme flash flooding, etc, rarely for 🔥) 1/

NWS Graphic for PDS Red Flag

A PDS (Particularly Dangerous Situation) Red Flag Warning is in effect for Saturday. Extreme conditions are forecast for the afternoon and evening with southwest winds of 20-30 MPH with gusts up to 50 MPH. Very rapid fire growth is possible with any new or existing wildfires. The areas included in this warning include the Waterville Plateau, Okanogan Valley, Western Columbia Basin, Colville Reservation, Spokane Area, Palouse, and Snake River.

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_...

Text: Often a colorful personality, Barnes once refused to board a plane from Louisville to St. Louis. Because the flight was scheduled to arrive (Central Time) before its departure time (Eastern Time), Barnes famously said, "I ain't getting in no damn time machine." He rented a car instead.

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

B/c we can't be subtle: op-eds like this are a major CAUSE of the phenomena they PRETEND to describe at a distance. This is (big word) DISINGENUOUS, at best. We teach students how to think (brace yourself) CRITICALLY so they can detect when someone pretending to be an everyman has a narrow AGENDA

Headline, with drawing of the author M McArdle: "The interview that exposed academia’s cluelessness:
A leading academic’s bizarre response shows how insular college campuses are"

July 19, 2026
Washington Post

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you're wondering, does the article cite that f*%k!ng Vandy/WashU "you can't handle the truth" report, the answer is, you betchya

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Broke: big ass data centers making it hot Woke: big ass batteries keeping it hot

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@mcslimjb.bsky.social or anyone else familiar with food and drink in #boston : Who has the best negroni in the North End?

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Sam Lair @slair.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Such a blast a write this with Aaron and to feature in Aviation Week!! Really thrilled!

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Whay is money? The opening essays of Oxford UP's _Philosophy of Money and Finance_ offer some answers--my take on those answers is available to read as of today: journalofsocialontology.org/index.php/js...

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What’s a Good Value? A Review of Hindriks, Passinsky, and Dick in The Philosophy of Money and Finance | Journal of Social Ontology

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm writing a gay romance about two distillers on Islay. It's called Peated Rivalry

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Reading recs please: do you have any favorite economic writing about casino capitalism? I would love recommendations from Keynesian/Marxian/Money and Banking econ about trends in financial markets that look like gambling (meme stocks, coins, prediction markets, etc), and critiques of the idea, too!

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Super helpful, esp the end, after "If you take one thing from what I've written here...". And the very end is the most helpful. As long as there is easy financing & demand, someone will profit--but the question of who profits is what's got everyone on edge:

Text: And this, perhaps, is the point where the macro perspective needs to give way to the micro one. Because it may be that, yes, in the aggregate, an ease in financing brings forth additional investment, which generates enough profits to justify the initial financing. But debt must be paid back not in the aggregate, but by the specific companies that incurred it. If the investment is one place and the profits are somewhere else, then at some point somebody’s survival constraint is going to be violated.

And I think I will end this post here.

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Audrey Dutton @audreydutton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Idaho AG's office sent a fiery letter to the US DOJ on Friday, in response to the Trump administration's recent message to state election officials. "Your insinuations of criminal violations of the federal election laws are not well taken," wrote a deputy AG who represents Idaho's SOS.

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Are all of these people high all the time

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Droppin' science like Galileo dropped the orange

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I'm movin', but I'm goin' no place I'm thinkin', but my mind's in space Fucking timeless www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RNO...

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Losing Touch with My Mind

YouTube video by Spacemen 3 - Topic

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Contrast the first two paragraphs of this article with the way Platner has been behaving, throughout, but especially this week

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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is useful. It def helps explain how presidents/chancellors/etc often operate, but also how uni middle management, like deans, often behave. They don't listen to their units, and so they lose negotiating power...sometimes by choice www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Text: As the game theorist Thomas Schelling observes, “the power of a negotiator often rests on a manifest inability to make concessions.” Applying this insight to international diplomacy, political scientist Robert Putnam has argued that when the leader of a nation-state faces only loose domestic political constraints, “the more he can be ‘pushed around’ by other leaders in interstate bargaining. A leader gains a ‘bargaining advantage’ vis-à-vis foreign counterparts when she can credibly say: ‘I’d like to accept your proposal, but I could never get it accepted at home.’”

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