Ariel Ducey

the united states is currently being led by a bunch of little david dukes with a senescent outer-borough grand dragon at the top

My mom's really been pestering us for Christmas ideas for our kids, who can be tough to get stuff for.

But I hadn't thought of steel.

Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?

The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

Wired for Companionship: A Meta-Analysis on Social Robots Filling the Void of Loneliness in Later Life AbstractBackground and objectives. Loneliness is a significant public health concern affecting over a quarter of older adults worldwide. Emerging research

doi.org/10.1093/gero...
Fahimeh Mehrabi examines social robots helping to alleviate loneliness in later life! #sociology #gerontology #openaccess @itds-csa.bsky.social

i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake

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Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

You still want to believe the political fuel that powers the American collapse into authoritarianism isn't the deep, abiding resentment of white men who pine for an America that sees and services only them? Gaze upon Leni Riefenstahl's recent work for Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Labor.

Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

Opinion: Alberta undermining public education — and democracy Any government that undermines ... the project of improving public school education in the face of difficulty is undermining ... democracy.

Opinion piece from David King, former Alberta Minister of Education in a Progressive Conservative government, published in the Edmonton Journal (of all places), addressing the conduct of the UCP towards our public education system.

It is absolutely worth reading.
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Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...

@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump

“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”

www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Thank you for sharing your research with us @raulpachecovega.bsky.social !

"Welcome to the era of what critics call 'the Kavanaugh Stop'" #KavanaughStop

That same Friday, October 3rd, I will be presenting on ethnographic studies of climate mobility. Thanks to @ucalgary.bsky.social Department of Sociology, Dr. Laura Montes de Oca, and Dr. @aducey.bsky.social for the invitation to share some of my newest work.

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Folks in Calgary: I will be presenting new work on climate mobility October 3rd. Feel free to circulate among your networks.

events.ucalgary.ca/arts/sociolo...

We are looking forward to your talk and visit!

@pallavib.bsky.social @tedmccoy.bsky.social @yyz2yyc.bsky.social @zensurfer.bsky.social

My department, University of Calgary Sociology, is hiring four assistant professors. Part of our Faculty of Arts renewal plan. Please read all details here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

Episode 2: Cora Voyageur | The Sociological Imagination @UCalgary Our second episode features Dr. Cora Voyageur, a full Professor who joined the Department of Sociology at The UofC in 1989, and is currently the longest serving faculty member in our department. Cora ...

Episode 2 of The Sociological Imagination @UCalgary features Professor Cora Voyageur - listen here: the-sociological-imagination-ucalgary.simplecast.com/episodes/epi...
#sociology #coravoyageur #ucalgary

@aducey.bsky.social

A veteran US Navy SEAL reflects on Gaza dbarkhuff.substack.com/p/i-should-b...

Opinion | He Was the Face and Voice of Gaza. Israel Assassinated Him.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

Congratulations!

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...

Alberta public health system losing staff, funding as province increases spending on private facilities Analysis shows provincial spending on private surgical facilities increased nearly three-fold in 2023-24 from 2019-20, while spending in public facilities increased marginally

Private surgical facilities in Alberta are starving the public system of staff and funding to perform priority procedures, according to a new report that concludes the province has yet to increase surgical capacity or reduce wait times as pledged. #ableg www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.

This article shook me. I knew but did not know. Fuck trump.

Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

This piece so perfectly captures what I feel as a department head, about my colleagues & the work in public higher ed to provide the highest quality education to thousands upon thousands of students at an “astonishingly fucking low cost”, in these times. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...