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Mike Isaacson

@vulgareconomics.bsky.social
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Writer. Ex-economist. Working on a book about the only nazi labor union in the US. Comms director Justice4Demi.org Philly sports. COYS. Anarchist politics. He/him or she/her not they/them.

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 2h
French students disrupt mandatory distance learning Virtual classrooms flooded with noise and fake profiles after government shuts down schools • 5,000 arrests since Friday, police brutality nationwide Contre-Attaque 6 October 2026 freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/06/f...
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French students disrupt mandatory distance learning - Freedom Press
Virtual classrooms flooded with noise and fake profiles after government shuts down schools • 5,000 arrests since Friday, police brutality nationwide
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Headcrab Thanksgiving @nicktatorship.bsky.social · 4h
That seems like a waste of time. You could just get AI to generate a whole fantasy league that you always won /s
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Wildstyle @mrwildstyle.bsky.social · 22h
The city says those benches they're removing generate trash because there aren't always trash cans nearby And that makes PERFECT sense because you wouldn't litter without having a bench to sit down on first And I'm sure ppl who litter would have taken their trash with them until they saw the bench
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 12h
will you people shut the fuck up
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 15h
Yes, admiration is the goal of...*checks notes*...the woman who chose to remain anonymous
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 23h
Today's @primavera-sound.bsky.social lineup revealed an exciting surprise: Math-rock legends Don Caballero are reuniting, just as the subgenre they pioneered enjoys a mainstream breakout via Angine de Poitrine. Get the inside story in our new Don Cab interview:
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Don Caballero Return, Just In Time For Math-Rock's Spotlight Moment
The band has a busy 2027 in store.
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 23h
Feel like the title here gets it backwards: AI isn't equipped to hand our minds
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23h
hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 23h
Touting "trauma informed" prisons for the ladies just fills me with rage and irritation. truthout.org/articles/inc...
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Incarcerated Women Are Pushing for Decarceration, Not “Trauma-Informed” Prisons
Organizers discuss how they are fighting new women’s prisons in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Illinois.
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Soap with an odor unknown to nature: Cool splash scent
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The cool thing about putting emails, phone calls, and letters on prison tablets is that if your tablet is fucked up, you have no communication with the outside world
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One thing I don't understand is AI fliers because no other fliers looks like that
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why is reducing ideological bias a goal? To what end? Politics is almost always a fight over values, not facts. I don’t care if I am “biased” towards social justice, whatever that means.
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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.
Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 04/10/2026
it remains bizarre that israel is keeping track of the green party of england and wales.
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sam Altman testifying to Congress with text over his face reading "Bro this is a different model bro uts a different this is a frontier model this will not givetou psychosis bro this is front this is frontier not gpt-4 gpt-4 is more error prone bro this is going to tell you the truth there are different models please
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Matt Lichtenstadter @mattsmusings1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Eagles/Jags, at 9:30 AM, at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium next week is the absolute perfect combination of Bluesky existential sports dread and I'll be awake and ready for that...
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Brady is being brutal to these DBs
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Up by 10 in the middle of the 4th. Why do you need a 4th and goal touchdown try? Go for 3 idiot
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When someone talks about "ideological bias" I know that means they just genuinely don't think about politics and think that policy is just a game of locating averages
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Hard pass
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
4 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026
Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.
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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Neo-nazi Aryan Front relaunches under new name after charges against activists dropped Aryan Front has returned under a new name, just five months after arrests, raids and bail conditions forced the neo-nazi group to shut down searchlightmagazine.com/2026/10/neo-...
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Neo-nazi Aryan Front relaunches under new name after charges against activists dropped | Searchlight
Aryan Front has returned under a new name, just five months after arrests, raids and bail conditions forced the neo-nazi group to shut down.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is very weird that there needs to be a company to put this on. This seems like something we would have done in my grad departments for fun
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 03/10/2026
MY NAME IS INIGO MONTOYA
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 03/10/2026
do these come in roll form
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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 03/10/2026
all of these examples are just an opportunity to uncover some preexisting psychological wound that needs tending to here the headline should be Parents Strapped for Cash Who Lack Aesthetic Discernment Are Grifted by Opportunists
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also QA is like the one thing you specifically do not want to replace with an error prone technology
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i don't think you should be allowed to call your business a speakeasy if it has a yelp page
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
These are not crimes
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This kid was mixing stuff with hydrogen cyanide but somehow did not die
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Senne @lammens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes please
Therapy is cool but I need societal change
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Do people actually understand even the tiniest bit what actually happens in a prison? Like even at all? If you're going to compare something to the fucking prison system I think you should at the BARE minimum have SOME fucking idea of what it's like in there Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Intense protests at a Real Estate Summit in València. Some of the protesters managed to get into the building!
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Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Raids Across Europe Target Far-Right Network Accused of Producing Neo-Nazi Music
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Raids Across Europe Target Far-Right Network Accused of Producing Neo-Nazi Music
Authorities searched premises across Germany, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy and Poland in an investigation into a suspected criminal organization accused of producing and distributing music with ...
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I love my cat Frantz Fanon
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or an AI agent its hacking prompt
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Another aspect of the Cornell case and also every sexual assault case that has come up in political work I’ve done: who actually cares about D.A. win ratios? Voters don’t. They do care about whether they see a D.A. fighting for what they think is important, even if they lose
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Best thing a Pope has done since the Cadaver Synod
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Your honor we fired everyone who knew how to do that"
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/10/2026
The digital silencing and extractive control over communications of inmates is so inhumane and indecent it's absolutely disgusting.
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The first place I experienced this phenomenon was not social media at all but actually emails from inmates on JPay
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I would advise people not to talk to USA Today for any reason, about anything ever, based on this thread. It's bad enough that the whole profession is circling the drain, but for a remaining publication to feed interviews into a slopifier without telling sources? When it's about SA? I just.. 🌋
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