Derek Gottlieb

all the staffers at teen vogue who just got laid off I hope yall feel how appreciated your work has been by so many.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

US income inequality Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature by Alyssa Battistoni

Alyssa Battistoni

@alybatt.bsky.social has two UK events this week! Hear her discuss her book Free Gifts and her critique of capitalism's persistent failure to value nature

Tomorrow (4 Nov) at 5:30pm GMT at @blackwelloxford.bsky.social: hubs.ly/Q03QkpRl0
6 Nov at 7:00pm GMT at Housmans Booksellers: hubs.ly/Q03Qkp_F0

Me: “The fixation on causal estimates is not the appropriate direction social science…What descriptive analysis provides us with are facts. Facts are nouns. Causal analysis gives us contextual estimates. They are adjectives. In the grammar of social science, we should prefer nouns to adjectives.”

"Why don't people support welfare programs?"

Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.

White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

Kelce’s pretty obviously not okay right?

Cangrejeros de Santurce

46yo here, ready to grimly say he already knows the answer

Lowkey the best part of being on bsky during World Series games is watching people hate on Smoltz

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Yes, actually! There's a deep political theory thing going on here: the demand to be utterly free from the exercise of power by others is ultimately a demand to exercise arbitrary power over others

Gonna tell my doc students that this is elaborative coding

A useful framing! Billionaires are policy failures, sure, but they’re also personal failures.

What’s the Holderlin quote?

"Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst
Das Rettende auch."

I regularly index for PUP, and so have gotten to read some of these for free (as it were), but because I’m a sicko, I’ve now also loaded up on all of these that I HAVEN’T read.

$87 total, in the end. Today’s the last day.

Unhoused people are too visible in our communities, interrupting the daily lives of other citizens with their presence. What if we created more — what would you call it, something like “living space?” — for ourselves by appropriating remote areas to, I don’t know, “concentrate” these undesirables?

I know technically Let’s Get Free came out in 2000 and Barrio Fino not till 2004, but I don’t

I’m from the government and I’m here to help = dystopia
I’m from the government and I’m here to gas and deport = utopia.

Is that right?

Like…. what…?

"Das Projekt richtet sich vor allem an muslimische Schülerinnen und Schüler mit Migrationsbiografien. Sie sollen lernen, antisemitische Vorurteile zu reflektieren, zum Beispiel in Theater-Workshops und Rollenspielen."

“A transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers” is, quite literally, the EXACT phenomenon that Hannah Arendt was referring to when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”

the revolt of the bosses is probably the single most important social movements since BLM and its actually massively under covered in media (which is not surprising at all)

When he talks about why he’s proud of Chicago, man, that’s the vision.

We don't cast off one segment of society to save ourselves. It's a betrayal of everything we're trying to defend. It's a cowardly kind of self-preservation.

If your plan for escaping this bank robbery involves deliberately killing a few of our fellow hostages, maybe sit this chat out for a while?

Aerial view of a large park with a lagoon and a couple of structures with trees suggesting autumn

Washington Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA — 2025

“Made them strong enough to stand, yet free to fall” is… Milton, right? Not god?

JD Vance does not fuck, come on

If you see someone stealing food - no you didn't.

The last panel gives me life