Dan Hirschman
@asociologist.bsky.social
Sociologist @Cornell. Currently interested in the history of inequality statistics, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy. “Venceréis, pero no convenceréis.”
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
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again for everyone insisting—whether out of ignorance or malice almost moot at this point—that this is a “good deal” for UVA: why would you “deal” at all?
November 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
again for everyone insisting—whether out of ignorance or malice almost moot at this point—that this is a “good deal” for UVA: why would you “deal” at all?
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Mazda’s vision is combustion engines with carbon capture fueled by microalgae and using AI to create an emotional bond between you and the car.
Can’t decide which of those two is more problematic. Why not both I guess?
Can’t decide which of those two is more problematic. Why not both I guess?
November 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Mazda’s vision is combustion engines with carbon capture fueled by microalgae and using AI to create an emotional bond between you and the car.
Can’t decide which of those two is more problematic. Why not both I guess?
Can’t decide which of those two is more problematic. Why not both I guess?
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Huh
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Huh
A fake Department named after a joke currency whose work was responsible for thousands and thousands of deaths. Really encapsulates a lot of what’s simultaneously awful and unnerving about the present moment.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A fake Department named after a joke currency whose work was responsible for thousands and thousands of deaths. Really encapsulates a lot of what’s simultaneously awful and unnerving about the present moment.
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the only thing musk should be remembered for
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
the only thing musk should be remembered for
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THIS
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
THIS
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Precisely what's missing from Cowen's post, which confuses the first and the second bsky.app/profile/nich...
In normal democracy terms, we've in bad shape and things are getting worse.
In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.
Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.
In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.
Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.
It is good to see the pushback on Trump lead to real losses for him. But it's hard to be optimistic when he still wields the enormous power of the presidency. ICE is still rampaging, HHS is harming people, the U.S. may be about to sell out Ukraine, the boat strikes...he's still doing so much damage.
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Precisely what's missing from Cowen's post, which confuses the first and the second bsky.app/profile/nich...
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New publication just out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social: using household panel data from Germany, I show that residential moves are associated with declines in local-level engagement but have no effect on national-level engagement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
New publication just out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social: using household panel data from Germany, I show that residential moves are associated with declines in local-level engagement but have no effect on national-level engagement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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It is a hard time for multilateralism but the emphasis on the adaptation “win” really projects the type of “climate realism” that we discuss in this paper — clearly something we need to seriously wrestle with:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump - Volume 79 Issue S1
www.cambridge.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It is a hard time for multilateralism but the emphasis on the adaptation “win” really projects the type of “climate realism” that we discuss in this paper — clearly something we need to seriously wrestle with:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Sounds like COP30 was, as expected, a transitional meeting and that the only thing that found some tiny margins was adaptation funding…
With the exception of setting triple multilateral adaptation funding by 2035, very little novelty is left in the final text.
unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
With the exception of setting triple multilateral adaptation funding by 2035, very little novelty is left in the final text.
unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
unfccc.int
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Sounds like COP30 was, as expected, a transitional meeting and that the only thing that found some tiny margins was adaptation funding…
With the exception of setting triple multilateral adaptation funding by 2035, very little novelty is left in the final text.
unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
With the exception of setting triple multilateral adaptation funding by 2035, very little novelty is left in the final text.
unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
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A question for scientists (construed as broadly as you like) of BlueSky: What makes something data?
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A question for scientists (construed as broadly as you like) of BlueSky: What makes something data?
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
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Big Oil is using native advertising to "disguise their ads in news outlets" and promote "controversial technologies like carbon capture as climate solutions, portray fossil fuel companies as climate-friendly, or misrepresent their role in the energy transition" finds author @commscholar.bsky.social.
These ads are poisoning trust in media
‘Native advertising' allows fossil fuel companies to disguise their ads in news outlets. A new book argues the practice undermines journalistic credibility.
www.exxonknews.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Big Oil is using native advertising to "disguise their ads in news outlets" and promote "controversial technologies like carbon capture as climate solutions, portray fossil fuel companies as climate-friendly, or misrepresent their role in the energy transition" finds author @commscholar.bsky.social.
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Devastating.
We are telling women:
You can have bodily autonomy only when you are sick enough you know you will die.
Maybe not even then.
(It’s not just OBs. Docs of all stripes treat pregnant patients or those for whom pregnancy is risky. Our research shows many are afraid to discuss abortion.)
We are telling women:
You can have bodily autonomy only when you are sick enough you know you will die.
Maybe not even then.
(It’s not just OBs. Docs of all stripes treat pregnant patients or those for whom pregnancy is risky. Our research shows many are afraid to discuss abortion.)
While pregnant, Tierra Walker had a cascade of health complications that threatened her life.
Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Devastating.
We are telling women:
You can have bodily autonomy only when you are sick enough you know you will die.
Maybe not even then.
(It’s not just OBs. Docs of all stripes treat pregnant patients or those for whom pregnancy is risky. Our research shows many are afraid to discuss abortion.)
We are telling women:
You can have bodily autonomy only when you are sick enough you know you will die.
Maybe not even then.
(It’s not just OBs. Docs of all stripes treat pregnant patients or those for whom pregnancy is risky. Our research shows many are afraid to discuss abortion.)
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So, below is EU President von der Leyen saying that the EU is "not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions."
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
November 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
So, below is EU President von der Leyen saying that the EU is "not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions."
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
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We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History of American Politics, 1865-2025
With every passing day, America needs a bigger third reconstruction.
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History of American Politics, 1865-2025
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If someone told me this were AI, I would believe it, because, wut?!
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If someone told me this were AI, I would believe it, because, wut?!
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We're in a bad legal / moral space where it's possible for things to expect to be treated as persons (e.g. corporations having speech rights) and yet be protected (by their insubstantiality) from the punishment, censure, and consequences humans face
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
We're in a bad legal / moral space where it's possible for things to expect to be treated as persons (e.g. corporations having speech rights) and yet be protected (by their insubstantiality) from the punishment, censure, and consequences humans face
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I'm not against the idea that some sort of silicon intelligence *might* arise at some point--we're not even nearly there as far as I can tell--but humans are SO programmed to regard things that do not have human agency as if they do have human agency, that this seems like a necessary move
my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I'm not against the idea that some sort of silicon intelligence *might* arise at some point--we're not even nearly there as far as I can tell--but humans are SO programmed to regard things that do not have human agency as if they do have human agency, that this seems like a necessary move
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Speaking of things that were trendy despite being basically poison and got shoehorned in where they were unwanted and unneeded during the 20's, one of my local friends has begun referring to genAI as "radium"
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Speaking of things that were trendy despite being basically poison and got shoehorned in where they were unwanted and unneeded during the 20's, one of my local friends has begun referring to genAI as "radium"
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you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
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This seems like a crazy important story that is getting very little coverage here - especially if it destabilizes the regime
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This seems like a crazy important story that is getting very little coverage here - especially if it destabilizes the regime
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this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference
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A growing number of lonely young men are blaming women for their problems. @milleridriss.bsky.social explains why:
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/authoritarian-propaganda-and-toxic
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/authoritarian-propaganda-and-toxic
Authoritarian Propaganda & Toxic Masculinity: Cynthia Miller-Idriss explains the Connection
"We don’t tell people what to think, we teach them how to think."
contrarian.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A growing number of lonely young men are blaming women for their problems. @milleridriss.bsky.social explains why:
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/authoritarian-propaganda-and-toxic
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/authoritarian-propaganda-and-toxic