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Yeah, but Substack is fairly limited on customization, too.

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I read it in 'mathematical topics in linguistic theory' as an undergrad at UMass. I was planning to do a PhD in liguistics there, but computer science had different plans for me.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Isn't that John Ross' thesis, Constraints On Variables In Syntax? The Fucking Infix Rule? babel.ucsc.edu/~hank/ross67...

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Fox News really giving Trump the middle finger here with this graphic (remember, the only reason Ken Paxton is the GOP nominee is Trump ordered GOP voters to choose him instead of Cornyn)

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 30/09/2026

Did you leave it? If so, for what?

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In 2014, though it now applies now more than ever, @stoweboyd.bsky.social wrote: "It is not at all clear that society is prepared for the fallout from this radical shift to [...] a precarious — work economy, where only the most skilled and educated are likely to have [employment]...

Right now, the future isn’t so bright for most employees of almost any type. As Stowe Boyd sums up in the earlier linked GigaOm article:

It is not at all clear that society is prepared for the fallout from this radical shift to a contingent — or perhaps better, a precarious — work economy, where only the most skilled and educated are likely to have full-time, stable employment, and the majority are left to scrabble for low wage contingent task work.

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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...

Resurfaced: Only With Difficulty

Thomas Kuhn | The Cycle of Management Models

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Looks like leaflet is Alpha testing subscriptions

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The math just doesn't work for Ghost: I would have to pay too much for all the free subscribers.

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Beehiiv looks like a serious alternative, although I would have to reenter all the paywall blocks in my imported Substack posts. But otherwise, maybe the best solution.

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Leaflet does not support subscriptions, yet.

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

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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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

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 · 26/09/2026

I recently wrote on the topic Be Yourself, Or Not in www.workfutures.io/i/214458158/... I contrast Chamorro-Premuzic's argument that we need to be intentionally inauthentic to appear competent & leaderlike with Week's attention to demanding better work conditions where we don't have to play games.

The Job of Thinking People

Albert Camus | Be Yourself, Or Not?

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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...

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

Resurfaced: No Work.

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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...

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...

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...

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

Resurfaced: The Business Of People

W. Edward Demings | Overemployment | Greedflation | Class Ceiling

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do not feed the trolls. Note even decaying fish.

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

Eula Biss wrote about 'political nostalgia' that Trump and Hegseth seem to be suffering from: '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 www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

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The Theft of the Commons

Across centuries, land that was collectively worked by the landless was claimed by the landed, and the age of private property was born.

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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...

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...

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...

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 · 13/09/2026

Amazing work. Deserves wide attention and close reading.

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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...

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...