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Whenever my extended family asks me about @laurabucci.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

A New Deal for Higher Ed where you and all your academic friends go to work at community colleges.

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A year ago, I'd have guessed that widespread AI adoption into white collar work is going to bifurcate the labor force, with only the most prestigious layers still getting meaningful training in reading and writing. Now, looking at the Ivies, I was probably way too optimistic.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

It's weird when adults say hi to your baby but not to you. What are you supposed to do? Say hi for them? Say hi for yourself? Smile and keep walking??

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

One of the lasting insights from postwar scholarship on authoritarian regimes where the rule of law no longer holds up is that they encourage internal radicalization, as mid-tier operatives scramble to outdo each other to impress the leader.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Basically everyone who talks about 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 regularly ends up going insane because it is considered completely unacceptable to acknowledge things like "A country where some people are denied the right to vote based on their ethnicity is not a democracy" that are objectively true statements.

submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

If interwar fascism was a modernist phenomenon, turning to myth as a response to the uprooting of metaphysical foundations, its American cousin is thoroughly postmodernist, playfully and consciously embracing the lack of any meaning apart from that measured by capital.

submitted 62 days ago • 3 comments

Pulling up to the Capital reading group with this

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

submitted 71 days ago • 79 comments

Can you please think for a second how this data is about to be used by people without great intentions? You’re playing with fire.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

I am once again asking you to join @aaup.bsky.social

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

I never knew Michelle Trachtenberg, but she went to junior high in my neighborhood (Bay Academy) and we literally had common acquaintances/friends of friends. This, plus growing up a Nickelodeon kid, really does feel like hearing a former classmate died.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

750 political scientists in support of democracy* *unless there’s a networking event and you “have to” cross a picket line

submitted 118 days ago • 2 comments

Philly, come out to 2000 Market right now and say it loud: hands off our healthcare, hands off our research, hands off our jobs!

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

another Thing I Will Keep Saying: there is of course an important moral case for internationalism. but the practical case for it can start by simply noticing how internationalist the people robbing you are (however nationalist their rhetoric might be)

submitted 119 days ago • 7 comments

Maybe it was a bad idea to combine presidentialism with a FPTP duopoly in which one party, against conventional wisdom, has been colonized by its extreme wing.

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm a snake oil man

submitted 126 days ago • 3 comments

Brainstorming poli sci course proposals at a university under the right wing microscope 🫠

submitted 134 days ago • 1 comment

At last RFK Jr can reboot the real family business: rum running from Canada

submitted 135 days ago • 6 comments

It is 2027. "The cruelty is the point!!" I sob, as I am herded into an AI-run Kyle Rittenhouse Reeducation Center at Hillsdale College-Philadelphia.

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

My kid is finally realizing they are a sentient human being and is not having it.

submitted 144 days ago • 1 comment

Something that's central to (orthodox) economics' claim to be a science in its core domain is its ability to generate predictions based on systematic relationships (laws) of some kind. Yet what it actually has been very good at is translating non-systematic common-sense intuitions into its own terms

submitted 145 days ago • 1 comment

There's a historical dialectic where, while US racial politics anticipated European fascism, its course of development insulated from the interwar crisis, only for it to then facilitate the global right during the Cold War, whose neo-fascist descendants are now in turn influencing the US right.

submitted 146 days ago • 1 comment

Snyder and Shore have taken jobs in Canada, skipping ahead to the "government in exile" stage of the Resistance.

submitted 146 days ago • 1 comment

"USSR attacks leading German political rights group over its defense of Lebensraum"

submitted 148 days ago • 0 comments

As Biden is swept into the dustbin, Charlotte E. Rosen wonders: what was the Resistance “Twitterstorian”? Well-paid liberal “attack dogs” of democracy like Heather Cox Richardson proved to be all too willing to turn to Democratic Party apologia—especially on Gaza. proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t...

submitted 148 days ago • 13 comments

MAGAs whole schtick is drug-addled grown ass men getting off on "transgressive" acts that boys find passé by 6th grade.

submitted 148 days ago • 1 comment

It would only be fitting if Biden's political career, which began the same year as the Yom Kippur War cemented America's special relationship with Israel, will end by also marking its disintegration.

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Harbingers of the end of an empire.

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

This closeness to tech and finance capital is why I think dismissal of the fascism claim on the grounds of weakness, incoherence, minoritarianism, etc is too premature.

submitted 162 days ago • 0 comments

The mirror stage

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

Happy New Year. Despite Gramsci:

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

I replied:

submitted 169 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely insane policy.

submitted 170 days ago • 3 comments

Once again, I am asking you to donate to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund before the end of the year: www.pcrf.net

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