Dan Immergluck

Yes, @mark-carney.bsky.social explained that pretty clearly in Davos...

The academics who kissed up to
Epstein to try to get $$, even after they knew who he was, are (willing) products of the hypervalorization of funding & building up large labs as a key driver of academic prestige & leverage (ability to get more $$ from their uni or to move). It’s not a surprise.

Xi Jinping calls for China’s renminbi to attain global reserve currency status Latest commentary details ambitions for ‘powerful currency’ to play a greater role in trade and forex

One year ago, the idea that RMB would be positioned to replace the USD as a lead global reserve currency was all but unthinkable. But one year of Trump monetary policy has trashed the greenback and assured the rise of RMB. There is no more astonishing story of monetary mismanagement in modern times

The academics who kissed up to
Epstein to try to get $$, even after they knew who he was, are (willing) products of the hypervalorization of funding & building up large labs as a key driver of academic prestige & leverage (ability to get more $$ from their uni or to move). It’s not a surprise.

To: Jeffrey Epsteinljeevacation@gmail.com] From: Christakis, Nicholas Sent: Thur 9/26/2013 1:56:03 AM Subject: Re: Thanks You are hilarious. My sense of humor. Yiddishe kop N Please excuse brevity and orthography and this fine print -- since this has been sent from my iPhone. Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD http://www.HumanNatureLab.net On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:40 PM, "Jeffrey Epstein" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: great first date On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Christakis, Nicholas < wrote: Dear Jeff I've been on the road and in meetings literally since leaving your house [sic] yesterday light and just got to DC. I greatly enjoyed the company and the setting (amazing of course) and the many good questions, especially yours. Josh was terrific; bu you already know that. Best regards, Nicholas Please excuse brevity and orthography and this fine print -- since this has been sent from my iPhone. Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD http://www.HumanNatureLab.net

From: Sent: Christakis, Nicholas Jeffrey Epstein Sun 9/8/2013 6:22:14 PM Subject: Re: meeting again no back until the 21, but lets definitely schedule after On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Christakis, Nicholas wrote: dear jeff: thanks for the kind words. i enjoyed meeting you; i had not known you were connected to john brockman, but i should have guessed! as luck would have it, i am slated to be in NYC this coming thursday for a dinner and could meet before that, any time between 2 and 5, if that happened to work for you. otherwise, i could surely come back again within the coming weeks. my lab has a number of foci at present: 1) the evolutionary biology and genetics of social networks and social interaction; 2) the experimental exploration, using online tools, of network structure and function in humans (how does network structure affect phenomena like cooperation, innovation, health, etc.); and 3) randomized controlled trials in the developing world of network 'targeting algorithms' aimed at enhancing spillover effects, so as to facilitate population-level behavior change by identifying and targeting influential people. let me share three papers with you (one unpublished) that flesh out some of our work (specifically [1] and [2] above): best, nicholas On Sep 8, 2013, at 3:41 AM 9/8/13, Jeffrey

From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> To: "Christakis, Nicholas" = Subject: Re: introduction -- follow-up Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:26:20 +0000 great I will be back in sept. lets try then On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Christakis, Nicholas < nicholas.christakis@yale.edu> wrote: Dear Jeff: The editor wrote the provocative title, but this NYT Op-Ed from last week captures some of my thoughts about how the social sciences are evolving, and must evolve, given developments in the natural sciences. I thought I would share it: I don't want to swamp you with links because I know you are terribly busy, but if you want more nuance than 800 words allows, 1 make the argument at greater length here (in the first 8 minutes): http://www.edge.org/conversation/a-21st-century-change-to-social-science Also, as I mentioned in the piece, various labs, including my own, have continued to spearhead the move to use Amazon Mechanical Turk workers as a pool of research subjects in diverse projects; for example, here is a recent PNAS paper that shows how the topology of interactions between members of a group can be affirmatively manipulated to elicit desirable properties (such as cooperation): http://humannaturelab.net/wp= content/themes/human-nature-lab/media/pdf/publications/articles/126.pdf We have also been developing ways that AMT workers can be used as a ready pool of subjects for real-time pedagogic purposes, with novel software (as alluded to in the piece). I'd still welcome the chance to meet with you (and Linda?) to discuss some of our ideas, if you have the time and interest, and I can easily come into NYC since I have now moved to New Haven.

I guess the best-available defense to this sort of thing—lots of friendly emails and visits with someone recently convicted of procuring a child for the purposes of prostitution, I mean—is something like “He seemed to have lots of money and connections and I would have liked a little piece of that”

It's easy to see these academics as individual bad actors. But I'd argue--they were enabled by "elite" schools' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name abusers, and by the fact that, societially, we treat people associated with "elite" schools as automatically deserving of deference.

Posting this shit as they pull guns on roofers….

I guarantee you those ICE goons can’t lay shingles or hang drywall.

DHS: Want affordable housing? Help report illegal aliens in your area. Call 866-DHS-2-ICE. If you are an illegal alien, you can take control of your departure using DHS.GOV/CBPHOME.

straight up Gestapo shit

I am going to Springfield, Ohio this week to report. If you are involved in community action to support immigrants or prepare for ICE in Springfield, I would like to be in touch with you. Please DM me here or email Hamilton.Nolan@gmail.com. Thank you.

1/ Ian Austin has since been re-arrested along with Don Lemon, which he believes is bc the video we made of him (below) criticizing the Trump regime and encouraging fellow vets to wake up had gotten millions of views.

It's not just journalists. It's ANYONE. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

DM me? We used to get hundreds of highly qualified applicants for a single job posting. Good prosecutors are increasingly hesitant to work for this DOJ.

Minneapolis Residents Wear Their Passports, Desperate to Ward Off ICE

NYT: Minneapolis Residents Wear Their Passports, Desperate to Ward Off ICE

By Talya Minsberg

ICE agents can stop anyone they suspect of being undocumented. Now, residents are weighing their rights and their pride against their own safety.

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TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years

Police say they’ve identified the juvenile driver involved in Fremont student protest pedestrian crash The Fremont Police Department has released an update after a protestor was hit by an SUV on Thursday.

Nebraska student protester sent to hospital by Trump supporter hit-and-run.

www.wowt.com/2026/01/30/d...

Kirkwood NPU rejects 47-microunit complex for elderly unhoused Atlantans The chorus of “no” votes doesn't mean the plan to build long-term housing for unhoused people is finished.

Gentrification, without lots of long-term affordable housing in place to maintain diversity, is likely to lead to resegregated exclusion and NIMBYism. Example #3496

(Kirkwood is a mostly gentrified, formerly predominately-Black neighborhood on the east side of Atlanta.)

(3/3) It can't go on forever because it would eventually wreck FEMA and airports. But it means we aren't putting SSI or Section 8 recipients in the crossfire of a govt shutdown. It's a position where Ds can hold out much longer, so it's a place that maximizes leverage, if Ds are willing to use it.

Kirkwood NPU rejects 47-microunit complex for elderly unhoused Atlantans The chorus of “no” votes doesn't mean the plan to build long-term housing for unhoused people is finished.

Gentrification, without lots of long-term affordable housing in place to maintain diversity, is likely to lead to resegregated exclusion and NIMBYism. Example #3496

(Kirkwood is a mostly gentrified, formerly predominately-Black neighborhood on the east side of Atlanta.)

The arrest of my friend and colleague Don Lemon is an outrageous attack on the First Amendment and free speech in America. This cannot stand.

You don’t get to f’ing decide what is bad state public policy and then choose not to enforce it because of that opinion.

Regardless of any merits of his argument, he should be fired.

www.axios.com/local/atlant...

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Who could have guessed that Cobb County Schools would take the most aggressive position in metro Atlanta on this (at least publicly)?

Everyone in metro Atlanta basically.

Hey @npr.org, please stop calling ICE/DHS, “law enforcement,” especially right before you describe how they are abducting and imprisoning 5 year olds.

Colleague at Red State public uni is awaiting approval to teach about segregation and redlining in their *housing policy* course, approval they may not get, and I’m begging you to advise students not to go to school in such places if possible/feasible.

*they plan to teach material “offline”

3. Democratic Senators are not demanding that ICE leave MN.
4. Despite some head fakes, Republicans in Congress and Trump apologists outside aren't defecting in any meaningful way.
5. So Trump's mass deportation and mass intimidation efforts chug ahead.

Where we are:
1. With the action in GA, the FBI has been mobilized as part of the plan to steal the 2028 election. And the DNI being on the scene is beyond ominous.
2. After bring chaos and illegality and killings to MN, the ICE assault on that city and others will continue with minimal changes.

I’m all for folks boycotting the World Cup.

It will disappoint a whole lot of growth machine boosters around the country. And yes it will mean fewer hotel and sales taxes, although less than what the boosters will claim. But will also mean less displacement from short term rental conversions.

I’m all for folks boycotting the World Cup.

It will disappoint a whole lot of growth machine boosters around the country. And yes it will mean fewer hotel and sales taxes, although less than what the boosters will claim. But will also mean less displacement from short term rental conversions.

Yglesias is the one being dumb about this. Trump was at -10 on deportations by May 2025 — a full month before Matt stood in front of a centrist Super PAC audience and said “bad groups” wanted Dems to talk about deportees. He ignored data until recent events made it impossible to

you can’t fucking dox a public official!