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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Resurfaced: Only With Difficulty Thomas Kuhn | The Cycle of Management Models In science, novelty emerges only with difficulty. | Thomas Kuhn www.workfutures.io/p/resurfaced...

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Resurfaced: Only With Difficulty

Thomas Kuhn | The Cycle of Management Models

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am growing weary of Substack. The stream there has become more like LinkedIn. I want to retreat, but to where?

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No Natural Predators Katherine Alejandra Cross | Capitalism Run Amok The greed-is-good consumerism endemic to capitalism, particularly the post-1989 variety has, without the danger of communism keeping it in check, run amok like a species with no natural predators. | Katherine Alejandra Cross

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A Species With No Natural Predators

Katherine Alejandra Cross, The End of History and the Final Girl | Capitalism Run Amok

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Eric Blanc | 'Politicians used to understand the power of a good time.' Let's party! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Resurfaced: No Work. @thetrudz | I Don’t Dream Of Labor | What Leaders Do My ‘dream job’ is… not working. No work. I don’t dream about labor. | @thetrudz www.workfutures.io/p/resurfaced...

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Resurfaced: No Work.

@thetrudz | I Don’t Dream Of Labor | What Leaders Do

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rick Pildes | 'Since 2000, in every election but two, either the House, the Senate or the White House has changed partisan hands. That’s really incredible.' Partisanmaxxing. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...

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Opinion | How Worried Should We Be About the Midterm Elections?

And how we learn to trust elections again.

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Former Fidelity fund manager George Noble says the artificial intelligence boom looks like "dot-com and subprime all merged in one," warning that massive spending on AI may fail to generate adequate returns. digital.fidelity.com/prgw/digital...

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NVDA - NVIDIA CORPORATION | Stock Quotes from Fidelity Investments

Get the latest NVDA - NVIDIA CORPORATION quote information including top holdings and analyst ratings. View now.

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Michelle Cottle | [Susan] 'Collins is not delivering for Maine so much as she is delivering up Maine to the Trump agenda.' The last Republican senator in a blue state. It's over. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...

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Opinion | Susan Collins’s Luck May Be Running Out

The independence and moderation of Maine’s Republican senator hardly matters anymore.

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

PMC COVlD Update, Sep 21, 2026 (US) 🔥13th COVlD wave 🔥40 states/territories with outbreaks (see Alt text) 🔥3.8 million estimated weekly infections 🔥Outbreaks in NYC 🔥Extremely high levels on the Big Island of HI Mask up and get boosted. 🧵THREAD (1/4)

The US has at least 34 states and territories with COVlD outbreaks. These include Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawai'i, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. Levels on the Big Island of Hawai’i are particularly high. Note also, the NYC area is seeing outbreaks.

There are likely outbreaks in additional states. The summary statistic of 40 only includes counties with observed data, rather than estimated data. For example, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, and Tennessee likely have outbreaks, but monitoring is poor.

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Resurfaced: The Business Of People W. Edward Demings | Overemployment | Greedflation | Class Ceiling The problem with business is that it is afraid of dealing with the business of people. | W. Edward Deming www.workfutures.io/p/resurfaced...

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Resurfaced: The Business Of People

W. Edward Demings | Overemployment | Greedflation | Class Ceiling

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/09/2026

one of the 21st century’s great tragedies is seeing a media industry gutted by decisions made by the tech industry elevate a bunch of industry shills as the people meant to help the public understand how tech works and what impacts it’s having on the world

one of the 21st century's great tragedies is that millions of smart people were convinced to bury their heads in the sand by either stochastic parrots discourse or Zitron-style capabilities denialism and haven't updated based on new evidence. nature is healing but it's so late.

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Resurfaced: The Business Of People

W. Edward Demings | Overemployment | Greedflation | Class Ceiling

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Blex @blexious1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Working from home in a walkable city is great because you can walk past a petrol station without having a cardiac incident

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Resurfaced: Things That Happen, What We Do Annie Ernaux | Hofstadter on The Paranoia of American Politics | Anne Helen Petersen on Death of the Corporate Job What counts is not the things that happen, but what we do with them. | Annie Ernaux www.workfutures.io/p/resurfaced...

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Resurfaced: Things That Happen, What We Do

Annie Ernaux | The Paranoia of American Politics | Anne Helen Petersen on Death of the Corporate Job

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I looked at the exchanges yesterday to see what it would cost my family of three to get basic health insurance. The cheapest package was $2200. It is insane that anyone in this country opposes universal health care because they might be taxed at a fraction of what they pay for for healthcare now.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Where is lawbreaking not just visible, but designed to be seen? Where is antisocial behaviour worn as a badge of honour? Where is pleasure gained directly from causing distress? And where is reckless endangerment often ignored by the police or treated with the mildest of punishments?" A: The roads

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 17/09/2026

president trump deserves full credit for europe offering its first ever associate member status to canada. never would have happened without his efforts.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Andrew Wyeth. Winter. 1946. This is the first painting Wyeth made after the death of his father, the illustrator N. C. Wyeth, in a car accident just over this same hill.

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NY Times | 'A majority of voters disapproved of Mr. Trump’s handling of every major issue included in the poll: the economy, immigration, tariffs, the war and, especially, the cost of living.' Time to impeach. Although that would put Vance in the White House. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...

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Democrats Gain Edge as Trump Drags Down G.O.P., New Poll Finds

Even some Republicans are losing faith in Trump’s economy, a New York Times/Siena poll found, and Democrats were favored on the top issues as the sprint to the midterms gets underway.

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Donald Trump | 'Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty.' Trump's paranoid nonsense about Dems as communists read like Hofstadter's 1964 'The Paranoid Style in American Politics'. He's trapped in a hall of mirrors: the paranoid mindset. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

To express pro-system sentiment publicly and anti-system sentiment privately is not to be inauthentic, but to make a strategic choice from the limited discourses you have available to you in a certain place, at a certain time. | Fiona Tribe www.whiteowl.net.au/blog/2019/2/...

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Poetry at the water cooler — WhiteOwl

Aziza is a Bedouin woman. A member of the Awlad ‘Ali tribe living on the northern edge of the Egyptian Western Desert. The Bedouin are a semi-nomadic people. Theirs is a patriarchal system born of, an...

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Carlos Lozada | 'The entire Trump presidency is a celebration of the Trump presidency.' Of promises not kept? Of lies and corruption? Of losing his base? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

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Opinion | His Act Is Getting Old

The $5,000 election promise shows how afraid Trump really is.

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nick Kristof | '7 out of 10 Americans oppose data centers in their communities, according to Gallup, and they have good reason to be wary of artificial intelligence and all that comes with it.' And there is a lot lurking in that 'all that comes with it'. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...

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Opinion | The Data Center Conundrum

Let’s learn from Nordic Countries: If America actually supported workers, we’d have a better shot at embracing technological change.

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sarah Mervosh | 'The reading scores of American 15-year-olds have fallen sharply since 2022 and are near their lowest point in 25 years.' Reading is the most critical skill, and we'll be living with the consequences of this drop for a generation. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

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U.S. Reading Scores Plummet on Global Exam

Students in Singapore and parts of China had the highest scores on the test known as PISA. Scores for American students were near a 25-year low.

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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have one thing to say to the people who drive those Jeeps without doors. Monsters are going to get your feet

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Job of Thinking People Albert Camus | Be Yourself, Or Not? In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners. | Albert Camus www.workfutures.io/p/the-job-of...

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The Job of Thinking People

Albert Camus | Be Yourself, Or Not?

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Kristin Kobes Du Mez | 'White evangelicals are the only religious group in which a majority scores high or very high on the PRRI’s “Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale.”' www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

'The big joke on democracy is that it provides its mortal enemies the means to its own destruction.' | Joseph Goebbels 1928 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/b...

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What the Third Reich Can Teach Us About America Today

In “53 Days,” the historian Timothy W. Ryback shows how the Nazis used democratic means to destroy German democracy.

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Short Takes #37: Power Concedes Nothing Frederick Douglass | Quit versus Grit | Sidetracked Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. | Frederick Douglass www.workfutures.io/p/short-take...

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Short Takes #37: Power Concedes Nothing

Frederick Douglass | Quit versus Grit | Sidetracked

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wendell Berry made the world a better place and it is less now that he’s gone.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.

Looking into bookstore from
The street at night

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Resurfaced: Personal Nostalgia Eula Biss | From Ground Water To Enclosure Whereas personal nostalgia peoples the mind with real memories, political nostalgia often travels back to a time that is as unreal as time travel itself. | Eula Biss, The Theft of the Commons

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Resurfaced: Personal Nostalgia

Eula Biss | From Ground Water To Enclosure

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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Resurfaced: Personal Nostalgia

Eula Biss | From Ground Water To Enclosure

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’ve Been Substacked: Where Is It Headed? AI gumming up the machine | Substack Creator Match | Publications? Advertising? | Dying the death of a thousand unsubscribes The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do. | Walter Lippman

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I’ve Been Substacked: Where Is It Headed?

AI gumming up the machine | Substack Creator Match | Publications? Advertising? | Dying the death of a thousand unsubscribes

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

William Dalrymple | 'Gallup found that nearly four in 10 Americans said A.I. did more harm than good, up sharply from a year earlier, and nearly eight in 10 expected it to reduce the number of American jobs.' and 7/10 want no data centers near them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Robin Wigglesworth | 'Artificial intelligence is no longer primarily a stock market story. It is a story of debt, and that should worry us. Unfortunately, manias fueled mainly by credit almost inevitably end badly.' Tulip mania all over again? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/o...

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Opinion | The A.I. Debt Binge Is Endangering the Economy

The A.I.-fueled debt bubble will likely result in a painful downturn.

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ezra Klein | 'Democrats paid a price for forming their politics on Twitter; the right will pay a price for forming theirs on X.' The price we paid was losing to Trump in 2024? And their price will be the Blue Tsunami headed their way in November? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/o...

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Opinion | Twitter Broke the Left. X Will Break the Right.

Democrats paid a price for forming their politics on Twitter; the right will pay a price for forming theirs on X.

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Paolo Gerbaudo (2021) | 'Neoliberalism is caught in a crisis that is not merely political, but also epistemological: it can no longer explain reality.' Protection from the market's depravities can be and must be extended to all.

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Roger Cohen, Putin's Forever War (2023) | 'Nationalism is not fascism, but it is an essential component of it. Its perennial essence is a promise to change the present in the name of an illusory past in order to forge a future vague in all respects except its glory.'

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 'I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land.' He was dead on.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Trump said again today some countries “are just gonna have to pay tariffs.” The news is reporting that Japan, and possibly Scotland, may have to pay a “baseline 15% tariff.” COUNTRIES DON’T PAY TARIFFS. AMERICANS BUYING THE GOODS FROM THOSE COUNTRIES PAY THE TARIFF. Anyone STILL not get that?

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A More Sophisticated Despair Lough For Ever | FOBO | AI Shock A diagnosis with no way out is just a more sophisticated despair. | Lough For Ever www.workfutures.io/p/a-more-sop...

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A More Sophisticated Despair

Lough For Ever | FOBO | AI Shock

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Claudia Sahm | 'The question I would put to Warsh: how does confusion, sold as regime change, improve monetary policy?' The FOMC consensus was to wait til Sept before raising the Fed rate, to move toward 2% inflation. That's not what Warsh said. stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/read-the-m...

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Read the Minutes, Fade the Presser

Warsh's explanation of the July hold was not the Committee's. Heading into September, the FOMC minutes have the reaction function that matters.

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Someone tell DOGE they really fucked up.

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