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Dan Silver @dsilver432.bsky.social · 14h

Have you seen John Levi Martin's response to a recent review of the basic situation of sociology? No, not that one! This one: thesilverlining3.substack.com/p/john-levi-... Here, JLM responds to my review of his magisterial book, "The True, The Good, and the Beautiful." Stay tuned for my response!

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John Levi Martin Fires Back

Further discussions on The True, the Beautiful, and the Good

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Alliance for a Better Utah @betterutah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Remember, vote NO on Amendment B this November! This is just another version of the ongoing ballot initiative saga that we've been dealing with for eight years. Only this time, they've dressed it up in fancy tax language to make it seem like it's not what it actually is.

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's not just a revision--it's a revolutionary reimagining.

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good to see the LDS Church speaking out against gambling today, including sports betting and preduction markets (and citing @mckaycoppins.bsky.social 's work)

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Random Friday fact: in the U.S., people say that cats have nine lives. In Italy, the say is that they have seven lives. American cats must be tougher, I guess.

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fatties/trannies is a terrible slant rhyme. Should be either fannies/trannies or fatties/tatties. And wimps/simps was right there. SMH can't even craft a proper rhyming taunt.

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Jacob S. Rugh @jakerugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have never seen such a blue wave in voter registration here in Utah like this cycle in 2026: Net Diff. in DEM - REP new active voters: 🔴2016 +34K R 🔴2018 +13K R 🔴2020 +97K R 🔴2022 +34K R 🔴2024 +21K R 🔵2026 +19K D Net (DEM+UNA) - REP 🟣2026 +35K By either measure, 2026 is totally unparalleled

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I felt the shift this morning when it was raining and cool in the valley. My snow brain woke up

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love Pioneer Theatre! Some of the best shows I've seen in Utah have been there.

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So when are the guzzoline warriors gonna slap the new "I did that" stickers on the local pumps

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ZZT! The 1991 engine created by Tim Sweeney (yes, that one) featured a world editor and a simple programming language that pulled me and thousands of others into gamedev and online communities. There are now thousands of free games created over the last three decades! museumofzzt.com

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Museum of ZZT

The Museum of ZZT is an online archive dedicated to the preservation and curation of ZZT worlds. Explore more than 4000 indie-made ZZT worlds spanning its 35+ year history

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 19/09/2026

"A Reader’s Guide To The Rubin Report." John Levi Martin on @ashleytrubin.bsky.social's disciplinary report on sociology: "focused on whether she actually marshaled evidence to support her arguments, and whether she correctly represents her sources." osf.io/preprints/so... @socarxiv.bsky.social

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Thomas Talhelm @thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨 It's published! 🚨 This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If I had to answer these questions every day I would go full Robert Pattinson

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"We want special government subsidies and protections"

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Friendship Paradox states that your friends have more friends than you do. "common friends" tend to be the hubs of social networks. A friend who is connected to 2-3 randomly sampled people is likely to be a highly connected "hub" of the social network. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I mean it would be so easy to interpret this and get the opposite conclusion. The man standing in the back, gun tucked signals he is the person in charge and she is more of a bodyguard. You have to have prodigious brain rot to ignore all common culture and focus on weird conspiracies.

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My wife and I were in New York earlier this month and we were surprised that we weren't parched all the time 😂

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is a great piece by Utah journalist McKay Coppins. We should probably talk more about sports gambling in the U.S. He gambled for a year as a journalistic exercise. The article tells his experience. Fun fact: he’s LDS, a religion that prohibits gambling.

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My Year as a Degenerate Sports Gambler

Practically overnight, America made wagering on a game as frictionless as checking the weather. I was determined to understand the consequences—for my country, and for myself.

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I don't know if you saw but he's speaking about it at universities in Utah next month! Including the U.

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The deepest cut is Jolene was actually Carl Dean's favorite sushi roll

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Going home to read books from the Imagination Library to my children.

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good read on racialized marketing:

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wow, this is great and includes a really important point about reproducing racialized classification!

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Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NEW @ JSSR👇👇 White & multiracial church members are more likely to adopt colorblind interpretations, downplay structural privilege. In contrast, members in predominantly Asian, Black, Latine churches are more likely to recognize structural privilege, tho minimizing claims of white discrimination.

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Revisiting Racialized Religious Contexts and Perceptions of White Discrimination and Privilege

This study examines the relationship between racial composition of religious congregations and individual-level perceptions of white discrimination and white privilege. Current framings suggest that ....

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Time for the TRE (Tenure Record Examination)

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Siding with the President over some of your most powerful constituents is a choice.

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Messed up that “ho ho ho” is a perfectly good sound for describing a laugh but Santa Claus has exclusive claim to it.

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Looking forward to a great week of sociology research talks, meetups, and good food! #ASA2026

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Absolutely abysmal and depraved the way this administration has so completely turned its back on those most in need (this plus USAID). Not to mention targeting the most vulnerable within our borders.

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Your total is $38.24. Would you like to make a bet for little Johnny at St. Jude's? Part of the proceeds probably funds cancer research."

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Weber remains undefeated here. It's a reaction against increasingly being ruled by the bureaucratic ethos. Experts! Principles! Doing away with special favors! The horror!

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Honey come quick we've got Durkheim on main again

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 01/08/2026

This has been the most important institution that has held throughout the past 10 years in the face of Trump's constant assault. It isn't invincible -- SCOTUS could nuke it -- but it helps that even state GOPs haven't surrendered this prerogative

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It does make me wonder how many of the political elite class in Utah are alfalfa farmers

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Oh cool! Yeah I was around in the early aughts but didn't finish much of anything until 2019. Haven't made too much in zzt post Phoebus. I do recommend On A Distant Moon if you didn't pick that one up yet.

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Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My gradius-at-30 phase was picking up zzt again

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