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UBI was the thin silver lining of the global pandemic -- relatively generous unemployment, eviction moratoria in many places, child tax credits. Some folks were able to walk away from bad jobs.

Many people got relief, so rich people balked, even though they profited most in the K-shaped recovery.

Transgender Healthcare: Timeline — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

Hospitals are folding to administration demands to cancel gender-affirming care, particularly for minors. We’re up to five since the new year. You can find our updated timeline here: unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

Bad Bunny said, “I’m working seriously. It’s not like I’m here trying to do crazy things. That’s why I didn’t upload songs until I felt as prepared as possible, at the flow level, at the rhythm level, at the lyric level.”

Gonna share this with my classes to encourage them to proofread more, lol.

Will be extra cool when every classroom has this and ai cameras just to make sure no one is teaching forbidden ideas or producing degenerate art. They could even link student phones and have each classroom feed data to a real time thought crime center.

UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”

“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”

That's exactly it. Time for someone to write a methods textbook titled Putting the Friction into Research

The global enmeshment of data extraction and capital means the ship is long sailed. But I’m still thinking about what meaningful data privacy regulation might produce and this near-past case is one way I am thinking about that.

I have had approximately 32 customer service jobs in my life (true story). I remember this transitionary period very well — the dawn of enterprise software when we will had high touch human interface for data and it hadn’t yet been monetized. I have been thinking about that era lately.

Agree. I think removing all that friction in the service of increasing scope and reach has degraded the quality of the data. First principles indeed.

Between mturk and the replication crisis, it's been growing clear that those of us doing human subjects, social science research need to go back to first principles on recruitment and data collection. As far as I'm concerned, there's no question about that now.

About the same as Boston. Almost exactly.

Okay, this is really weird

No medevac, no UPS, no USPS? No organ transplant, no blood deliveries? I guess UTEP won't be attending their basketball games? What the actual hell

being against vaccines pisses me off so much. like cmon. we solved this

Our own government has done extraordinary damage to the economic and social fabric of this region, wreaking havoc for no discernible reason. It’s a terror campaign, not an immigration operation. It’s still happening.

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

This is by design. They know (or at least people like Miller know) that if they crank the violence up to 11, most of the public will stop caring--and maybe even praise them--when they dial it back to a 10.

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

We’re way past 1950s-era McCarthyism.

Also for my birthday, if you live in/near any of these towns you can start agitating against these concentration camps NOW (or keep on, if you've been doing it) & tell the motherfuckers in charge of them to eat 10000 metric tonnes of shit bsky.app/profile/reic...

The economic need has not changed but the fundraising on a national basis has dropped off at least to some extent, leaving us relying on local networks which are a bit tapped out right now. Local networks were always going to be robust but it was good when national resources were pouring in.

My sense of Minnesota today is that there’s less tear gas and the same amount of unlawful detention, destruction of families, loss of livelihood, people in hiding.

There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.

I definitely blocked the person who called it an "edgelord" trait, but this is why I use USian when referring to people of or from the United States.

We share N America, and then there's a whole 'nother America! It's more accurate & the tiniest way to respect the rest of our part of the world.

Same same same same

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

1) Donate to rent relief in MN www.standwithminnesota.com or to a community defense effort near you. If you don't have $ rn, sit down w/someone you trust & talk about what you can offer OR what support you'd need. Receiving care in a network of care = being part of that network. People do both

Overdueing It: The Rhode Island Library Podcast | rhode island library podcast Overdueing It is a podcast that brings you conversations with library workers, authors, community superstars and other neighbors around Rhode Island and beyond about their current favorite books, TV a...

3) Listen to this nice podcast episode I recorded with @davebrarian.bsky.social, or buy my book (in my pinned post). I have felt sort of weird about calling people's attention to what I make In These Times, but you know what, it's fine. www.overdueingit.org/home/episode...

2) Try something new. As someone who got pretty good at a few things very early & got a lot of praise for them, I'm always fighting myself on this. It slows down my learning & makes me miss out on stuff! This is my year of trying things and being bad at them at first, small ones to start. Join me!

Happy happy happy birthday you absolutely glorious unicorn of a human being

100,000% thrilled to celebrate Kate in one or more of the following ways today 🎂🥳

Poking my nose back in to say it's my birthday! I am 47. I'm glad that my elements are still in this form, on the best planet to ever do it. You can celebrate with me by doing one of the following 3 things: