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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno

@tzraick.bsky.social
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Columbia Sociology & Sustainable Development… Fan of math, science, evidence based practice & nuance… Pragmatic realist & autodidact… R/ts are NOT endorsements, all standard disclaimers apply.

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Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · 6h
NEW: We dive deep into Trump "shadow president" Russ Vought in the new episode of PAPER TRAIL, @propublica.org's podcast. I'm so excited about this. You will hear Vought - on tape! - in a way you haven't before. Pls listen — and subscribe to PAPER TRAIL www.propublica.org/podcast/who-...
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Who’s the Shadow President?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h
I’ve known many other defense secretaries, starting with Cap Weinberger, who served as defense secretary under Reagan. I can say without fear of contradiction that Pete Hegseth is the stupidest and least qualified of them all. He is a danger to the entire world. He must be impeached.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 3h
Mortgage Rates Keep Climbing, Leading Some Buyers to Riskier Loans www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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As Mortgage Rates Hit Highest Level Since 2023, Buyers Look at ARMs
The average 30-year, fixed-rate home loan rose to 7.28 percent, up from 6.34 percent a year ago. More buyers are now turning to adjustable-rate mortgages.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 5h
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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I Read Iran’s 14,390-Word Letter to Americans So You Don’t Have To
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has published a letter to the American people ahead of midterm elections in the US. Suffice to say that this remarkable document ends with Jesus Christ and the...
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 5h
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Just wait til everyone wakes up that it’s not *just* sweet treats… Maybe it’s easier to sleep at night imagining sugar than it is to imagine, idk, rice, or wheat…
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Super El Niño is Set to Turn Sugar Glut to Deficit This Season
El Niño is hitting world’s biggest sugar producers, exposing the crop’s acute vulnerability to the climate phenomenon but also providing an early glimpse of broader threats to farmers and global food ...
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 7h
Shared in the group chats lol
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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 21h
🚨Come work with us! 🚨 We're hiring a postdoc for Stanford's AI for Public Benefit Lab (ai4pb.stanford.edu), in partnership with @stanfordhai.bsky.social Open to PhDs from psych, poli sci, sociology, CS, econ, HCI, data science, etc. Please share! Position: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 7h
theconversation.com/we-can-final...
theconversation.com
We can finally measure the damage each new coal, gas or oil project will do to people and nature
For decades, we couldn’t trace the link between new fossil fuel projects and their damage to people and planet. But now we can.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
"The mainstream media, is, unsurprisingly, not covering itself in glory as it struggles to avoid saying that either the president’s brain has completely left the station or that he’s a mendacious liar who knows no bounds, or both."
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The muted response to Trump 9/11 fantasy is a media failure
It’s not “disputed.” He’s delusional.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What we call AI isn't intelligent and it doesn't have opinions. It doesn't guess answers, it is a complicated autocomplete. It does not work.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18h
righteous among the nations
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 15h
Sorry but something tells me this guy would be the project manager from hell. I don’t want this guy anywhere near classified anything, he’s a walking liability. Has anyone ever ran serious coint on him? Like, for real? He’s just casually meeting with xi and Putin and nobody blinks?
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 15h
Most lower federal judges have to go on what’s called “senior status” after a certain age. They get to keep their office, and a small staff to manage their affairs. They get to keep their title and pay. But they don’t get to continue making rulings long after they’ve lost their faculties.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h
slightly hotter take: software people are going to regret not building their unions on their own terms and not the terms of traditional labor
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 15h
bought t shirts from @paulhbeckwith that do the same thing. One says “I ❤️ climate scientists.” Another says “what happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic.” I get random people coming up to me on the street to tell me how much they love it and ask where they can buy one.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 15h
When I was at SUNY there was an “underground fraternity” called AEP, aka “Apes.” Their not so unofficial motto and nickname was “Apes Rapes” because of how often they were known to spike their punch with benzos. This is not an isolated phenomenon.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h
When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-dep…
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common Dreams
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h
if you are a republican vp and you’re pulling the fire alarm about fucking idaho before the first day of october, you are in very, very bad shape
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 15h
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/o... The unnecessary churn in agriculture markets will turn into mass scale famine if we don’t act now. The last time this happened, millions around the world starved to death. We know exactly what’s coming. We will have no excuses.
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Super El Niño Is About to Unleash Weather Chaos. Get Ready Now.
There’s still time to prepare.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h
See what I mean when I say the system is rigged?
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 30/09/2026
this is a man who knows he’s getting canned or impeached after the election and who is trying to set up a future political career
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a pretty stunning thing to admit
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 20h
www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/fix...
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Fixing the Wrong House: Disparities in Homeowner Energy Insecurity and Energy-Related Remodeling
Sophia Weeden and Diana Hernández will present new research drawing on multiple data sources to describe disparities in energy use, energy insecurity, housing affordability, and home renovation activi...
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Stiglitz is on the circular economy train? Wow. Good for him. Someone had to call the kettle black.
theguardian.com
We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others
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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s many things all at once.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh, it's just economics, phew... I'd be worried/mad but honestly the economics lit has been dogshit for so long that I don't know how much damage this can do...other than institutionalizing bad ideas and reproducing biases across time. But how long until someone uses this in the social sciences?
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone who'd agree with the word "improves" makes me instantly suspicious of how much of their own work is actually original, vs scraped from the accumulated work of others.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is serious, but also the no-context reading of this image and caption is way more fun
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
OpenAI Ignored Employees Who Warned It Wasn’t Doing Enough About Security www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t... I see they’re setting up to throw Brockmann under the bus.
nytimes.com
OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL Social Research Institute recruitment poster for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science at the Centre for Quantitative Social Science. Applications close 30 October 2026.
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🌿🌞Sarah🌛🦋 @legndofphoenix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seeing a bunch of white men saying they wont vote this November cause they can't find a job woahhh did your guy fuck the economy???? who could have seen that cominggggg?
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is this what @allisonpugh.bsky.social meant by “better than nothing solutions?” Maybe we can move beyond this false paradigm of austerity and actually, idk, fund essential government services? Nobody wants an ai chatbot public defender, be so for real. -face palm & deep sigh-
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like everything else Trump “fixes,” the reflecting pool (along with the war in Iran, gas prices, beef prices, and mortgage rates) is in exponentially worse shape than when he started.
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Increasingly concerned re: people offloading vital cognitive processes by using GIF replies. Expressing snark with words is a core part of being human, don't let some GIF picker widget a startup preloaded with clips of mid range TV shows take that from you!
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyway, as always, there are very good arguments for prioritizing partition as opposed to democratization, but the actual immediate steps needed in both cases are the same; an arms embargo, sanctions, and international coercion to shift the internal logic of Israel away from occupation and hegemony.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You will notice that at no point in this thread is there any engagement with actual Israeli policy, or the response of various Palestinian national movements, or how international law should be applied, etc, because it's mostly about his discursive enemies, rather than anything real or concrete.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How many strokes has he had covered up just while he’s been in office?
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At what environmental cost? "Spacecraft is being landed in the sea with no plan to recover and recycle it...exploded in a huge fireball once it had hit the water" #PlanetaryBoundaries www.independent.co.uk/tech/spacex-...
independent.co.uk
SpaceX’s Starship dramatically explodes after first orbital trip
Mission was hit by technical problems as it flew around Earth
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
HAHAHA wouldn't it be hilarious if Judge Cannon's illegal ruling in the documents case was the thing that stopped the trump deep state grand conspiracy probe?
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Good Samaritan @goodsamaritanhq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Many of the proposed solutions have already been implemented somewhere and could, scientists claim, rapidly repair the planet within five years if they are scaled.
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51 ways to get the planet tipping the right way
Researchers have identified 51 positive tipping points that could save the planet. Here are five of the most promising
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.wired.com/story/data-c... This is the comms failure or the millennium and the dems have nobody to blame but themselves.
wired.com
The Data Center Backlash Should Also Be a Climate Reckoning. It Isn’t Yet
Climate groups are latching onto the data center opposition movement, but it remains to be seen if they can get people to care about the facilities’ impact on the atmosphere.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I CANNOT WAIT to read this.
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/09/2026
Robert Reich just dropped a Rahm Emanuel diss-track and it goes hard af. Not saying it’s a Kendrick / Drake level beef, but it’s close.
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Tim Raupach @timraupach.com · 29/09/2026
Carbon Impacts Tracer (carbonimpactstracer.com) traces carbon emissions from individual projects to quantified impacts across eight areas, including heatwave deaths in Europe. The makers explainer is here: theconversation.com/we-can-final... @sarahinscience.bsky.social @wesmorgan.bsky.social
theconversation.com
We can finally measure the damage each new coal, gas or oil project will do to people and nature
For decades, we couldn’t trace the link between new fossil fuel projects and their damage to people and planet. But now we can.
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