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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Okay, based adam smith making an appearance

“In a republican government it will scarcely ever happen that it should be abolished. The persons who make all the laws in that country are persons who have slaves themselves. These will never make any laws mitigating their usage, whatever laws are made with regard to slaves are intended to strengthen the authority of the masters and reduce the slaves to a more absolute subjection. The profit of the masters was increased when they got greater power over their slaves” (Smith 1762-63 [1981]:181).5

profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh I'm so glad that there's been at least some scholarship. Now let me just take a tall drink of water while I look at the author's name..

A screenshot paper Gordon tulloco and the economics of slavery in the journal public choice

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hey did anyone see that the Council on Social Work Education has some red flags on their financial audit? projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

An independent audit commissioned by this organization for the fiscal year ending June 2025 identified:

Material weakness in internal controls
Audit identified a deficiency in internal financial or governance controls that could limit the organization's ability to track and report financial data reliably. The deficiency could lead to failure to prevent or correct noncompliance with requirements.
Significant deficiency in internal controls
Audit identified a deficiency in internal financial or governance controls that could limit the organization's ability to track and report financial data reliably. The deficiency is less severe than a material weakness but warrants attention from management.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My windows experience in a screenshot. Crashing the fucking taskbar when I attempt to locate why all tabs stopped loading. A feat I accomplished by looking at my wifi. I have 16gb of RAM. Easy to forget!

My dusty laptop screen with the damn taskbar expanded to reveal...a blank aquare

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

When my midlife crisis hits, there will be very obvious signs.

Subaru Sanbar kei car with two open sunroofs, making the worlds most awesome creation...a convertible minivan.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Currently reworking video discussion boards to use GChat instead of Canvas/Panopto. Google was kind enough to bring it back for my millennial heart. Still not a 1-for-1 replacement for Flip(grid) but hopefully better than Panopto

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

By the way, which one of you is up next in the cat share?

Tuxedo cat in a shipping box on my house floor. He fits. He sits.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Always a good day to remember Virginia's state flag is metal af.

The state flag of Virginia. Some mythical lady representing Justice standing over a defeated tyrant looking all cool and regal. Surrounded by like some flowers within, I guess, it's the state seal? That's in the middle of this flag. I don't know. The person in it is rad and she beat this tyrant.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

@summoningsalt.bsky.social thank you for dropping. I have a safe place to be for 80 minutes.

Youtube screenshot of summoning salt's new video titled the history of Spyro world records with an image of Spyro

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Congrats! You can put the accepted manuscript on your personal website now or your unis repository in a year! openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/publication/...

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Joan Tronto's Caring Democracy remains an essential read during these times. If people would like to re-dedicate themselves to contributing to the care necessary to sustain democracy, it's one of many frameworks they could adopt to build effective empathy.

Tronto's 5-dimensional framework for feminist care ethics.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

How should Democrats talk about ICE? ft. Matt Yglesias episode of the New Liberal Podcast Is something I could not be paid enough to listen to. Godspeed to anyone who clips it My kid asked from the back seat of the car why I snort laughed

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Beyond parody. Found the Democrat messaging.

House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., heralded the Financial Services portion of the bill for increased funding for entrepreneurship programs at the Small Business Administration.

“At a time when so many families are feeling the weight of the affordability crisis, and job prospects feel few and far between, we must do everything in our power to increase economic opportunities in the communities that need it most,” she said.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Why are these my two options, marketing man.

A photo of two bottles of coffee. One says death wish coffee company cold brew and white lettering on black with red lightning bolts. The other one says punch in the face cold brew coffee and has a llama on it. It also is black and white.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I FINALLY found the study on openAI use dips after the end of the school year. "In May, ChatGPT users generated an average of 79.6 billion tokens per day — compared to 36.7 billion for the same period in June, when schools typically let out." futurism.com/openai-use-c...

Bar graph. In May, ChatGPT users generated an average of 79.6 billion tokens per day — compared to 36.7 billion for the same period in June, when schools typically let out.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

How many on this website I ask thee

Former libertarians for civic virtue in Zohran style font

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

See how this graph has a real zero point? SO MUCH BETTER. Also, Sci-Hub's largest collections are in medicine...worth considering from an EBP/EBM perspective! doi.org/10.54857/iji...

Figure 3: Collection status of Sci-Hub. Medicine has 25 million articles, the next highest is chemistry at over 15 million. The figures are rough. Link to full text in skeet.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I wish this dedication extended to these #GraphCrimes. Literally anything would have been better than this.

Graph of a gender distribution of visitors Sci-Hub and LibGen (shadow libraries for scholarly works). The percentages appear to show massive differences but the differences are miniscule...the creator zoomed in on one specific part of the number line for an unexplained reason.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Lol, I forgot they labeled them! Too bad Sam cooked his brain. I miss this wonkery. I think the backlash to tariffs might actually realign liberalism for once.

A 4 x 4 matrix with anti-pro transfer on the left and anti-pro market on the top. There are four boxes. Pro-transfer anti-market is pro-government. Prot-transfer Pro-market (preferred by the author) is the Free Market Welfare State. Anti-transfer, anti-market is reactionary populism. Anti-government is pro-market, anti-transfer...and that's where the US is (Canada, less so)

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

www.niskanencenter.org/the-free-mar...

An X-Y graph with larger income transfers on the Y axis and more economic freedom (as measured by Heritage Foundation). It shows a pretty clear positive correlation

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Absolutely my favorite slide for orientation... Zero textbook cost means we can all see the same resource. There is no scavenger hunt for required resources, and I will never give up collaborative annotation.

Orientation slide saying "We post PDFs for students" with a screenshot of Canvas Modules with arrows pointing to links. The module is Week 2: Introduction to generalist social work. The links are to two case studies and a textbook chapter.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Dude, I was only half joking evidently

There are fewer cops on the beat today than since the era of Mayor dinkins. Even though our population has surged by 1 million. Under my safety plan, we will hire and retain 5,000 more police officers in the additional forcible paper itself by reducing overtime. Public confidence and safety must be restored

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Immigrant rights protest, Norristown, PA.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Social workers, do you know these cats? I need to be friends with these cats.

CHAPTER 6 Reframing Social Work Education Using OER Jennifer Wood and Mary Jo Orzech Social work is, by definition, a profession devoted to the pursuit of social justice and the eradication of oppression, inequity, disparities, and other forms of injustice. Social workers are focused on the empowerment of marginalized people and communities and are expected to adhere to clear standards of ethical and competent practice. Additionally, the title of “social worker” is earned through the successful completion of social work education, either on the undergraduate or graduate levels. These social work programs are, in the United States of America, accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), which periodically revises and updates its Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS)1 and monitors the adherence of each accredited program to these standards. Essentially, CSWE determines the learning of every social worker in the United States.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Omg, it's a not-evil author's agreement. I have never seen such a thing before... #openaccess #creativecommons #CCBY

ADVANCES IN SOCIAL WORK Author Agreement Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms: a. Authors grant to Trustees of Indiana University on behalf of Advances in Social Work a non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, and publicly distribute, perform, and display the work, with or without a subscription or access fee or other charge, in any medium now known or hereafter developed, separately or with other material, including making the work available through a keyword searchable database. This license includes the right to sublicense others to do any of the above. b. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal. c. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access). Author’s Name ______________________________________________________ Author’s Signature ___________________________________________________ Date _______________________________________________________________

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Does anyone know whether videos of state meetings are public domain in Maryland? I would like to apply the 5Rs... Seems like a fun video case study...

5Rs - Permissions of Open Education Resources
OER are materials used for education whose license provides anyone with permission to use the materials through these 5R activities:
RETAIN make, own, and control copies of the content (you may download, duplicate, store, and manage copies)
REUSE use the content (you may use it publicly or privately)
REVISE adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content (you may edit or translate the content for your purposes)
combine the original or revision with other material to create something new

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Once I satisfy my oustanding publishing obligations to community stakeholders, it's over for you fools

Henry George taming the dragon of landlordism atop the horse of free trade wearing a banner of justice

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Bahaha I mean, it's hard to be mad at baron von bullshit

This Bluesky post has one like by baron von bullshit

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Welp, commissions have decided to adopt it without addressing any of these concerns. There was only one *nay* vote on the commission

Screenshot of Zoom Q&A

Matthew DeCarlo (You) 10:37 AM
Legally, do commissioners inherit any legal liability for requiring an examination that is later found to violate testing standards?

According to the testing standards, "It is the user who must take responsibility for determining whether scores are
sufficiently trustworthy to justify anticipated uses
and interpretations for particular uses."
Kaitlyn Bison - CSG 10:56 AM
Private answer
Since the public comment period has ended, please save your question for the next meeting. Thank you!
Matthew DeCarlo (You) 10:59 AM
you sure you don't want to answer that before voting? :)

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The commission is planning to mandate ASWB examinations in the rulemaking process. MO & ME speak against.

The commission is requiring ASWB examinations at the LBSW, LMSW, and LCSW level in their draft language.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I'll be liveblogging the #SocailWork Commission Rules Committee Meeting discussing the qualifying national exam rule.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Qween, Alexandra Elbakyan wrote a preprint on guerilla oa!!! www.preprints.org/frontend/man...

Phone screenshot of the abstract of the linked article

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Here is a copy of my poster on unpaid fieldwork & social work student wellbeing. More students lose weight from food insecurity than earn any $$ for their hundreds of hours of practicum labor. It's horrific. We need industrial planning for care workers.

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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Since we are realigning on economics... I'd start here

Cover of the book national economic planning: what is left? By Don Lavoie

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