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thelasttheorist.bsky.social

Social scientist, project manager, engineer Kansas, New School, and Tufts alum Still running

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Watching the colonial colleges sort themselves into cowards and patriots and wondering what their colonial forbears would think.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

"Oh, I went to school in Boston." "Really?" "Well, not in Boston but nearby. Where they stood up to Trump."

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

In this Op-ed for Scientific American, Asmelash Teka Hadgu and I discuss one of the many reasons the idea of replacing US federal workers with so-called generative AI systems should terrify us. 🧵 www.scientificamerican.com/article/repl...

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

Happy Moskva sinking anniversary to those who celebrate

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

I don’t think they’re going to make tips tax free folks

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

"Dear your Judgness, the submission link for the report doesn't seem to be working. Can you check the BlackBoard system or can I text it to you instead?"

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Okay, it's genuinely good news that they're resisting, but I can't believe the NYT has Harvard at the top of the page and not "Trump defies Supreme Court" or "Trump plans to send Americans to foreign gulags"

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

A calm look at tariff implications in the aviation business. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMC-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

My new #OpenAccess article on statelessness and stateless people's resistance movements is now out in International Theory! Check it out below! #PolTheory #PoliSky #FirstView @internatltheory.bsky.social

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Looking for non-terrible things that happened this weekend and what do you know, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot won the Paris-Roubaix Femmes in absolute style. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdDC...

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Thinking back to how evil I thought Rumsfeld and Jose Rodriguez and John Rizzo were, it's astonishing that there were people more evil, more ignorant, and less capable. And that suddenly a bunch of them would be in charge of everything.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Has he considered it was just his hair gel off-gassing in the heat?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Sure, why not. Eff everything.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The tulips are up and the sun is out but of course when I have a fancy NY friend visiting on Friday it's gonna snow. Fortunately it's like the United Nations of outerwear flagship stores up and down our main street here.

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Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

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