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Spencer M Ross

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• 5% associate professor: consumer welfare, marketplace justice, marketing, tech, fulbright scholar on equitable coffee markets (🇨🇴) • 95% infodumping flaneur: politics, ND xennial, specialty coffee, judaism, bebop, #GoHabsGo 🏡 Boston area, views mine

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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · Nov 11

"[Rabbi Tarfon] used to say: It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it." (Pirkei Avot 2:16)

"That which is hateful to you, do not do to another. That is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary; go and learn." (Hillel, Shabbat 31a:6)

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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 44m

Yes cynical, but historically (and psychologically) grounded.

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 50m

Anyways imagine him getting the Peace Prize for basically squeezing Bibi to return to essentially a 10/6 status quo (but with even more opportunity to enrich himself and Jared).

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 59m

After waking up in the middle of the night, Did he win yet?

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 5h

Mere hours away from the biggest tantrum you ever saw.

Even though, the only way your institution will survive this administration is if you counterpunch it in the clams and tell it to fuck itself.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5h

Norway is bracing for the aftermath of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on Friday, as the Nordic nation has faced increasing pressure from Donald Trump to award it to him. Read more: bloom.bg/4nIPT18

📷️: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 5h

Mere hours away from the biggest tantrum you ever saw.

Even though, the only way your institution will survive this administration is if you counterpunch it in the clams and tell it to fuck itself.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5h

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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 6h

None of this is normal. Except in the context of white supremacy.

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 7h

The best part of this #GoHabsGo game-- even better than the 4-1 lead-- is listening to Pierre Houde.

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 8h

In the current market of ideas, who are some good culture critics (not 3 min NYT explainers) or popular outlets of cultural criticism (I might be able to follow here)?

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 8h

Given HuGo's shrewd accrual of cap space with the open 23rd roster spot, do you think he'd be aggressive in targeting an asset in December as teams start to aim for McKenna, but with less cap accrued? Or targeting closer to February/March as the trade deadline approaches, but with more cap accrued?

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 8h

Hear me out: Kapanen for Kalder #GoHabsGo

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 8h

Someone just sent me an AI slop Eminem track that disses Trump and was like "but it's good slop" and I mean, if we start using motivated reasoning to rationalize the slop, then no one's got a moral high ground in the info wars (see what I did there?).

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 9h

"It's not about what you earn, it's about what you're worth. And who's worth the most? Companies that lose money."

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 10h

TJ Miller and Tom Middleditch big asides, Mike Judge was a genius with this show, as much as he was with Idiocracy. Apply this to the AI companies.

Silicon Valley No Revenue | Radio On Internet

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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 12h

I dunno folks, this feels antisemitic to me...

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 10h

I'm old enough to remember this nonsense happening.

U.S. completes first airdrop in Gaza; Israel agrees to cease-fire framework

U.S. will airdrop aid into Gaza, cease-fire talks continue in the wake of outrage over deaths at aid convoy violence.

www.nbcnews.com

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 10h

I'm sure the US-as-reliable peacekeepers will go well after the past month of DOD news... and also past history. /s

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10h

BREAKING: The U.S. says it's sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor Gaza ceasefire deal.

US sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor ceasefire deal in Gaza

The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and private sector players, U.S. officials say.

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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 10h

I was on campus all day and I've been walking around the track at my son's soccer practice and after 45 min, I can no longer keep up with news in my feed.

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 10h

a little girl in a blue shirt is standing in front of a shelf in a pink room .

Alt: a little girl in a blue shirt is standing in front of a shelf in a pink room, grinning devilishly

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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 10h

Did you send Laine to Laval?

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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 10h

Anyways, it goes without saying that everything out of the totalitarian state is hypocritical.

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 10h

Whatever happened to this EO from Inauguration Day?

Ending The Weaponization Of The Federal Government

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and section 301 of title 3, United States

www.whitehouse.gov

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 10h

A client (photog) came to my social media marketing class today. ELL speaker. Used ChatGPT to write captions for posts because of the English fluency. Found the captions weren't really unique to her business.

I tried hard to tease out to the students that AI output failed to differentiate her.

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 12h

This is really good, really important for the non-echochamber folks to hear about the problems with philosemites (those instrumentalizing Jews for antisemitic ends) and antisemitism.

Ben Gerstein @bwgerstein.bsky.social · 12h

Per the Trump playbook, Jews who do not adhere to fascist tendencies are categorized as "bad Jews" alongside the enemy "other." Investigating these Jewish orgs. also tracks the targeting of JVP featured prominently in the Heritage Foundation's Project Esther: lpeproject.org/blog/how-the...

Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 12h

February 2017.

How the fuck is this guy still president.

Trump: Frederick Douglass ‘is being recognized more and more’ | CNN Politics

Donald Trump, at a breakfast with African-American supporters marking the start of African-American History Month, described famed 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass as “an example of somebo...