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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 1h

Moi's 2003 piece on theory boys:

www.torilmoi.com/wp-content/u...

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 2h

Stumbling on the fact that, for this man, peace is good iff there’s an award in it for him personally.

Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 5h

Indonesian president reportedly to visit Israel after Sharem summit. Trump is really pushing to get his peace to happen.

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 2h

That’s FIFTEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN, you guys.

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 4h

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 3h

Etsy recommended for me, but
@jeremylsinger.bsky.social & @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social, it has your names on it

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

“Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts. Without that foundation, regardless of the hundreds of billions we pour into developing superintelligence, we’ll keep erasing knowledge systems that took generations to develop.”

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too

aeon.co

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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 4h

Sweeping layoffs announced by the Trump administration landed another body blow to the U.S. Department of Education, this time gutting the office responsible for making sure states provide special education services to the nation's 7.5 million children with disabilities.

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

www.npr.org

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Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social · 23h

"Auf der Konferenz wurde vor diesem Hintergrund die Frage intensiv diskutiert, warum ... sich [viele] vom 'Möglichen' abwenden. Und sich für eine Politik entscheiden, die teils gar nicht ihren eigenen Interessen entspricht, ja ihnen sogar oft entgegensteht."

www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/amlin...

Soziologie-Kongress in Basel: Was hat Trumps Aufstieg ermöglicht?

In Basel versucht die Prominenz der Kritischen Theorie drei Tage, sich den Aufstieg autoritärer Tendenzen zu erklären. Ihre Debatte zeigt aber auch: Ideen, wie dem Backlash begegnet werden kann, sind ...

www.sueddeutsche.de

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 4h

Romantic comedies are so, so philosophically rich.

Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 5h

Great reconsideration of beloved American film wh/ gifted women the terms “high/low maintenance.” Occurs to me, theory as such is “high maintenance:” never satisfied with what’s offered, putting the sauce on the side, thinking harder about what presents as “obvious”, always (re) considering.

The Quiet Cruelty of 'When Harry Met Sally'

The classic rom-com invented the “high-maintenance” woman. Thirty years later, its reductive diagnosis lives on.

www.theatlantic.com

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 5h

A new NBER working paper by @jscottclayton.bsky.social and colleagues shows that about two-thirds of the unexplained gap in post-college earnings by family income may be due to challenges in finding that first job. Family connections and resources matter.

Who Rides Out the Storm? The Immediate Post-College Transition and its Role in Socioeconomic Earnings Gaps

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 5h

Public services around care work cannot — CANNOT — continue to be run on a for-profit basis for the simple reason that the business of business is business.

The most reliable route to profit is essentially scamming the gov't while betraying the vulnerable.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 21h

Drug Rehabs Lure In Patients for Insurance Money—Then Leave Them on the Street

Operators promise high-end treatment, help addicts sign up for insurance then pile on charges for little in return, say former patients and insurers.

www.wsj.com

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 9h

Very excited to have this launched.

historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 10h

Jefferson on Race by @agordonreed.bsky.social | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Jefferson on Race

From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should read

press.princeton.edu

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, you should quit to save your immortal soul.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 13h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 14h

Oh. Fuck.

Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 15h

Without knowing a thing about DC’s actual politics, I’m just saying I think he’d be Bizarro Tuberville

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 15h

Kinda want Dan Campbell to run for president

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16h

The faux feminism at work here is exactly the kind of shit that @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social was writing about when he wrote Elite Capture, the essay and book!

www.bostonreview.net/articles/olu...

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 19h

The Mar a Lago Wall begins to rise

Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 21h

Mali has announced that US nationals visiting the West African country will be required to post a bond of up to $10,000 (£7,500) for business and tourist visas, in response to a similar requirement the Trump administration has imposed on its citizens.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Mali imposes $10,000 visa bond on US visitors in reciprocal move

The West African state says it has introduced an "identical visa programme" for US travellers.

www.bbc.com

Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 1d

From! The! Rooftops!

Ginny Vitiello @gvitiello.bsky.social · 1d

#SREE2025 had a really thought-provoking keynote Thursday evening by UVA Law professor @meganstevenson.bsky.social, on why so many RCTs fail to find effects (or fail to replicate when they do show initial effects).

This is basically what she said at SREE:
www.law.virginia.edu/news/202403/...

Professor’s Research Shows Many Criminal Justice Reforms Don’t Work

Most interventions and reforms in criminal justice have little enduring impact, argues University of Virginia School of Law professor Megan T. Stevenson in a new article that reviews 50 years of data.

www.law.virginia.edu

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 1d

This work is really important. I see the language in the 2nd ad all the time — “you’re not alone.”

But the subtext is: “You’re absolutely alone."

Whatever this “Crimson” organization is offering, it DEPENDS on you feeling alone.

That’s what makes it predatory.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 1d

Realizing that we decided to turn our country over to basically the crew at the Gas N Sip

youtu.be/rxTHeNHEG7M?...

Say Anything, "Bitches, man." (Gas n Sip Scene)

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 1d

@billbarnwell.com's thing about these guys hitting finishing moves off the couch on each other is bar none the best characterization of this energy, may it live immortally.

Dianna Russini @diannarussini.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a looseness to the Giants’ offense again, a confidence that’s been missing. Jaxson Dart’s not perfect, but you can see why the building believes in him.

More after New York’s big Thursday night win: www.nytimes.com/athletic/670...

Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 1d

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 1d

That’s the right framing. ChatGPT shows up to work drunk every morning.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 1d

For many of the tasks where they're being pushed, LLMs' effect on student learning and worker productivity is roughly the same as that of alcohol

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

www.bloomberg.com

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 1d

I’m sure you’ve got somebody for it if it needs it, but JUST IN CASE you don’t, I want to index this book. I promise to listen to Midnite Vultures on repeat while I do, just like I did that one whole week in the summer of 2000.

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