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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 08/10/2026

Who profits when investing starts to feel like a game? Even losing money can become something to post about, laugh at, and try again. In Contexts, Kobe De Keere examines “hype finance” and how platforms benefit from keeping people playing. doi.org/10.1177/1536...

Opening page of Kobe De Keere’s Contexts essay “Hype Finance and Casino Capitalism.” Beside the introductory text is a blurred photograph of brightly lit red and blue casino slot machines. The caption explains that prediction markets allow people to bet on almost anything with a clearly defined outcome.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

B- effort to out-do Greenfield’s nighttime economy discourse.

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Catch up with ASA’s Contexts Magazine, publishing cutting-edge sociology research that’s accessible to journalists, policymakers, sociologists, and general readers. Open access to featured articles and podcast interviews with authors. bit.ly/ASAcontexts

image of hands typing on laptop next to text: see what's new! contexts magazine

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/08/2026

I cannot begin to count the amount of technology tools I have been told in the last 20 years that I need to teach my students how to use because they were the future. 95% of them are gone. A tool is a tool.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Literally yelled at the screen “NOOO!!!” When I saw it.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Literally yelled at the screen “NOOO!!!” When I saw it.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New from me: More than a trillion dollars flow through the federal government in grants. We have more and more evidence that the Trump administration has been directing those grants on purely partisan grounds, denying them to blue states. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

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Governing without Accountability

Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Reading this is the closest I’ve gotten to going on Reddit… glad I can avoid it…

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

For a cool $10, you can grab my novel, The Set Up, on sale. Supercool author of Scorched Grace, Margot Douaihy, calls it: "An M-80 of Vegas noir through an intersectional lens." Link here:

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The Set Up

Ally, an aspiring actress, is about to give up on getting her big break. But then, after another disappointing audition, a charismatic scene partner says he has a fun gig for her. Soon, Ally is making...

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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

How about at the start of very class sesh, my dude.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Another great program on hold thanks to our federal govt. I am super proud to have helped with it, and hope it’s reinstated soon.

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Musa al-Gharbi @musaalgharbi.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#Sociology has been in the news a lot lately. A new piece just dropped in @wsj.com, featuring some comments from me. Per usual, they only used a few sentences from the hour+ conversation. Let me to expand a bit below. tldr: my answer to the titular question is an emphatic "no"🧵

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I feel like this guy and Terry Crews should do a masculinities podcast.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Criminal that Weird Al hasn't received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

From my experience, the three professional voice actors authentically gave voice to my characters and gave them each a depth I couldn't have imagined! I heard my own novel in a new way. A+ experience, would recommend.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I know I know. I'm heading out to see Weird Al w/my eldest! #priorities Wynnshopping still exists!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I dont think you’d want to go through with the intensive Gollumification that is clearly required for the position.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I’ve tried to engage with these people a little and they just have nothing to say when I ask them about Jane Goodall or Carl Sagan. Some advocacy is, assuredly, acceptable to them.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The 1st clue is that they ~probably~ wouldn't dress like this.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Inconsolable to learn that "lefebrvrists" aren't followers of Henri Lefebvre.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Aw, shucks! I hope you check it out and let me know what you think….

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

And, as a reminder: If you've read a great recent fiction book or memoir and want to write a ~900 word piece for the books section, reach out to meeeeeeeeeee.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The new issue of Contexts is out! As the new Books Editor, I'm particularly jazzed about @joyamisra.bsky.social's banging review of RF Kuang's Katabasis, but lots of great public-facing work in here!

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Billy Wilder with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon during production on THE APARTMENT (1960). “We started with 29 pages, and he wanted to see the interpersonal reactions of Lemmon and me,” MacLaine said. “He was a great sociologist.” #BOTD #FilmSky

Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon dine with writer/director Billy Wilder during production on THE APARTMENT (1960).

Wilder has apparently said something funny, which should surprise nobody. (Photo by Richard C. Miller)

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The world's first trillionaire did this

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Great news, nerds. (The candy, not academics.)

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 27/05/2026

scam likely

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"The researchers warn that as more people rely on AI systems instead of traditional web searches to understand politics, health, ethics, and public affairs, society could gradually lose exposure to the messy but deeply human diversity of reasoning that shapes public discourse."

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

More like “phoning a genius”. Thank you for your service

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We are waaaaaaaay closer to having a President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho than we should be.

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