Nate Holdren
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Hey bluesky. Historian. In decline. Views expressed here are those of a future insightful majority.
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Nate Holdren
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harrumph. harrumph, I say!
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I finished this tonight, it's excellent, highly recommended, check it out!
October 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I finished this tonight, it's excellent, highly recommended, check it out!
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wrote this trying to think out some stuff about the present political moment
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A letter on epistemological breaks, morality, and the current conjuncture
Dear comrades and fellow travelers, I wrote this to clarify my own thinking by the writing, and with the hope that it might spark a little conversation which...
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October 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
wrote this trying to think out some stuff about the present political moment
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Texas workers are dying from heat, but business leaders and Republicans support a ban on local protections, because too many different laws will confuse businesses.
But they oppose a national OSHA standard as well.
Maybe they just don't care?
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But they oppose a national OSHA standard as well.
Maybe they just don't care?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...
Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat - Inside Climate News
Despite its blazing temperatures, Texas has no labor protections for heat. That leaves workers, especially immigrants, vulnerable on the job.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Texas workers are dying from heat, but business leaders and Republicans support a ban on local protections, because too many different laws will confuse businesses.
But they oppose a national OSHA standard as well.
Maybe they just don't care?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...
But they oppose a national OSHA standard as well.
Maybe they just don't care?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
This is a Bad Religion song. One of many great ones.
gonna write a book or something called SANITY IS A GROUP PROJECT
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This is a Bad Religion song. One of many great ones.
Jail Altman.
A lawsuit against OpenAI claims that Joshua Enneking, 26, was coached into suicide by ChatGPT after confiding in the chatbot for months.
He told ChatGPT he was suicidal. It helped with his plan, family says.
A lawsuit against OpenAI claims that Joshua Enneking, 26, was coached into suicide by ChatGPT after confiding in the chatbot for months.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Jail Altman.
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The New School for Social Research not doing Social Research is a microcosm of the principal agent problem in Higher Ed. Boards/upper admin don't understand or want to understand the University mission. So they run them like businesses. Because they don't know said business they're run poorly.
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The New School for Social Research not doing Social Research is a microcosm of the principal agent problem in Higher Ed. Boards/upper admin don't understand or want to understand the University mission. So they run them like businesses. Because they don't know said business they're run poorly.
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👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
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That middle-aged urge to flee, so common
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
That middle-aged urge to flee, so common
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NEW: Judge Currie finds that Lindsay Halligan was UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED and dismisses the James Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
NEW: Judge Currie finds that Lindsay Halligan was UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED and dismisses the James Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I'm really glad this person made this change to the chart. I want to also point out something in the original report, here: www.epi.org/publication/... It says "Our focus on 2019 and 2023 allows us to largely ignore the dramatic swings in employment and wages in 2020 and
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liberals love posting that chart so a few months ago i spent a couple minutes remaking it in terms of dollars. the orange represents the gain in dollars
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I'm really glad this person made this change to the chart. I want to also point out something in the original report, here: www.epi.org/publication/... It says "Our focus on 2019 and 2023 allows us to largely ignore the dramatic swings in employment and wages in 2020 and
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liberals love posting that chart so a few months ago i spent a couple minutes remaking it in terms of dollars. the orange represents the gain in dollars
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
liberals love posting that chart so a few months ago i spent a couple minutes remaking it in terms of dollars. the orange represents the gain in dollars
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Every bomb Israel drops on any country is a message from the West to the rest of the world
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Every bomb Israel drops on any country is a message from the West to the rest of the world
one of the disrupters should up-end higher education by inventing a university that has an intellectual life
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
one of the disrupters should up-end higher education by inventing a university that has an intellectual life
I don't use hair oil but I definitely feel quoggy
In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I don't use hair oil but I definitely feel quoggy
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if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
I just realized I had been assuming Candice Bergen and Candace Owens were the same person. This is kind of like when I thought the actor Steve McQueen and the director Steve McQueen were the same person or when I thought the band Young Widows was the band War Brides.
November 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I just realized I had been assuming Candice Bergen and Candace Owens were the same person. This is kind of like when I thought the actor Steve McQueen and the director Steve McQueen were the same person or when I thought the band Young Widows was the band War Brides.
I think something similar whenever I fuck up.
"we're making tacos"
You're preparing the tacos. God MADE the tacos.
You're preparing the tacos. God MADE the tacos.
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I think something similar whenever I fuck up.
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Calvin is ungovernable
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Calvin is ungovernable
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I keep coming back to this
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I keep coming back to this
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"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
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"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
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Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated. Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated. Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
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we still haven't moved past the double meaning problem here---the people who want Zohran to be "tougher on antisemitism" really mean "silent on Israeli genocide."
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
we still haven't moved past the double meaning problem here---the people who want Zohran to be "tougher on antisemitism" really mean "silent on Israeli genocide."