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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 35m

Cash’s work is theologically deep and profound. Probably my favorite musical artist.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 51m

‘Kupperman called that gulf between tech industry spending and actual revenue in 2025 “astonishing.”’

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1h

Everyday now there is new information detailing just how economically unviable AI is. Data centers will be the new abandoned Walmarts, but on an even larger scale.

futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 1h

I feel exactly the same.

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 1h

Here’s my prediction: in the same way Covid was THE event that defined and unmasked the first DJTrump term, the AI bubble popping will be THE event of his second term that destroys all pretense.

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 1h

Not gonna lie, I pray hard for this bubble to burst.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 2d

Most people have a tolerance threshold for fake reality. It appears MTG's has kicked in.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House & Senate & have the WH."

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 2d

A dark and potentially rainy day in Savannah. We could use one of those.

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 2d

Uh oh.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. Foreclosure rates have surged across the country and are up almost 20% from this time last year.”

www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 2d

Ok that helps. I thought it was much shorter.

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 2d

I actually baffled by how that thing can weigh that much. Is it 20 ft tall?

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 2d

Also get a glimpse into who stores files on the hard drive of their computer as a backup to cloud storage.

Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 2d

I have been connected to the Political Science community, a connection that my schools simply have not had the money to fund. It is truly wonderful.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 2d

Still no internet on campus for Faculty and Staff. It’s fun to see who can adapt and who can’t.

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 2d

A common hardcopy of a text and a discussion.

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 3d

We cannot negotiate our way out of this. The strategy should be to unmask their brutality and hatred for everyone to see by engaging in non-violent civil disobedience. Show the world who they are.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 3d

Organizers are the most powerful people in the US at the moment.

Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a good plan.

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 3d

No internet on campus this morning, so my old school approach to teaching is winning. Good preparation for the apocalypse.

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 4d

PunkFace!!!

Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 4d

“Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: The Orangeys aren’t concerned about your healthcare. That’s not a talking point. I wish you ill.”

Reposted by Geoff Bowden

Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 4d

Historian here, this was a long interview on how Trump is criminalizing political dissent, politicizing the armed forces and civil service, asserting unchecked executive power, as a path to create the dystopian world of Project 2025. A couple of sentences made it to the final clip!

UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 5d

Check out @profmsinha.bsky.social ‬⁩ on the CBC this week! Link here:

history.uconn.edu/2025/10/06/p...

Prof. Manisha Sinha Interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Department of History

Prof. Manisha Sinha was recently interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Topics of discussion include President Trump and Project 2025. Open p ...

history.uconn.edu

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 4d

Went to the grocery store tonight. It’s getting ex-pen-sive.

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 4d

I have a student, who is now a junior, who is trying to let microsoft word assign names for all of his written assignments for his entire college career. I just graded "Document (137)" in the dropbox. I appreciate students like this.

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 4d

Just spent 50 minutes trying to convince college freshmen that the university will take your money and give you a degree AND let you cross that stage completely unprepared for what is coming next. The learning and shaping who they want to be is really up to them. Professors are here to help.

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 5d

My goodness. We are in a fight.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 5d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 6d

Are “religion” and “church” the same thing? One is fairly clearly identifiable. The problem is that the First Amendment is talking about the more opaque one.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Nobody — not legislators, not judges, not scholars — can quite agree on what religion is,” the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah writes in a guest essay. “How can you address church-and-state controversies if you’re not sure what the ‘church’ part refers to?”

Opinion | The Problem Lurking Beneath the Church-and-State Debates in Texas

What exactly is religion, anyway?

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