Generic white guy SysAdmin
@westbynoreaster.bsky.social
#HPC #SysAdmin & aspiring #DevOps headed to Charlotte in the new year. #dHTC evangelist, and labor history nerd. #BLM! Opinions my own. he/him
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Look if Minnesota is the hub then it's a Purple Revolution.
If we're gonna have to have a color revolution, we should pick a good color.
January 28, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Look if Minnesota is the hub then it's a Purple Revolution.
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Higher ed peeps:
On February 20 we'll host two events @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social to celebrate the upcoming release of _The Campus Crisis Toolkit_ (SUNY Press).
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social and Lisa Di Bartolomeo will be joining us for a day of reflection, connection, and solidarity.
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social and Lisa Di Bartolomeo will be joining us for a day of reflection, connection, and solidarity.
January 27, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Higher ed peeps:
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Referring to the US as a "homeland" was always creepy as fuck, always nazi-adjacent, and creating a Dept. of Homeland Security was an obvious lurch toward authoritarianism that should have been strenuously resisted from the beginning.
(Oh weird the hippies were right again.)
(Oh weird the hippies were right again.)
January 27, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Referring to the US as a "homeland" was always creepy as fuck, always nazi-adjacent, and creating a Dept. of Homeland Security was an obvious lurch toward authoritarianism that should have been strenuously resisted from the beginning.
(Oh weird the hippies were right again.)
(Oh weird the hippies were right again.)
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“Yes, it’s expanding the surveillance state, and yes, it’s destroying the education system, and yes, it’s being trained on copyrighted work without permission, and yes, it’s being used to create lethal autonomous weapons systems…but…I forget my point, but ultimately, I think you should embrace it.”
Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In
“[Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI” — Headline from Gizmodo
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Guys, enough is enough. Bullying is a s...
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 27, 2026 at 8:36 PM
“Yes, it’s expanding the surveillance state, and yes, it’s destroying the education system, and yes, it’s being trained on copyrighted work without permission, and yes, it’s being used to create lethal autonomous weapons systems…but…I forget my point, but ultimately, I think you should embrace it.”
Also one cannot drive three block without being exposed to some deranged RW political pronouncements. Why should I subject myself to more of the same slop, but this time from a Yale educated history major with a RP inflected Hudson Valley accent?
my perhaps puritanical opinion is that this stuff is brain poison and exposing yourself to it makes you stupider. I'm sure there are right-leaning historians and classicists who contribute worthwhile research to the commons but right-wing political theory is ex post facto practically by definition
these people seem like idiots
January 27, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Also one cannot drive three block without being exposed to some deranged RW political pronouncements. Why should I subject myself to more of the same slop, but this time from a Yale educated history major with a RP inflected Hudson Valley accent?
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Does anyone have a good *recent* history/sociology on closing of English common lands in the early modern period? The “closing of the commons” metaphor is in heavy rotation these days and I’d like to understand its antecedent better.
January 27, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Does anyone have a good *recent* history/sociology on closing of English common lands in the early modern period? The “closing of the commons” metaphor is in heavy rotation these days and I’d like to understand its antecedent better.
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cue a great shout of laughter from academics and students all over the country
Matt Goodwin to run for Reform in Gorton and Denton
January 27, 2026 at 2:20 PM
cue a great shout of laughter from academics and students all over the country
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GIFT ARTICLE (no paywall). Masterpiece reporting here from Adam. He deserves awards for this.
“This is my first occupation,” Olsen said as I climbed into the truck. “Welcome to the underground, I guess.”
“This is my first occupation,” Olsen said as I climbed into the truck. “Welcome to the underground, I guess.”
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:16 AM
GIFT ARTICLE (no paywall). Masterpiece reporting here from Adam. He deserves awards for this.
“This is my first occupation,” Olsen said as I climbed into the truck. “Welcome to the underground, I guess.”
“This is my first occupation,” Olsen said as I climbed into the truck. “Welcome to the underground, I guess.”
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AI boosters see the trolley problem and choose the track with the most people because it’s more efficient🙃 “We’re all going to die anyways! And someone else would’ve done it if I hadn’t!”
January 27, 2026 at 12:00 PM
AI boosters see the trolley problem and choose the track with the most people because it’s more efficient🙃 “We’re all going to die anyways! And someone else would’ve done it if I hadn’t!”
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"OpenAI, Meta, Google, donated large sums.That money is supporting a government overseeing the execution of American citizens in the streets, the detainment of children as young as 5, the filling of concentration camps with families wailing “let us out.” www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-lines-...
The lines have been drawn
Silicon Valley must decide which side it's on
www.bloodinthemachine.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:36 PM
"OpenAI, Meta, Google, donated large sums.That money is supporting a government overseeing the execution of American citizens in the streets, the detainment of children as young as 5, the filling of concentration camps with families wailing “let us out.” www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-lines-...
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How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year?
My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.
www.science.org/content/arti...
My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.
www.science.org/content/arti...
January 26, 2026 at 11:39 PM
How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year?
My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.
www.science.org/content/arti...
My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Please see the DEI backlash where across corporate and journalism most DEI pledges in 2020 have been rescinded and Black women are now at levels of unemployment
LOWER than White women were during the Recesssion 19thnews.org/2026/01/blac...
LOWER than White women were during the Recesssion 19thnews.org/2026/01/blac...
January 27, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Please see the DEI backlash where across corporate and journalism most DEI pledges in 2020 have been rescinded and Black women are now at levels of unemployment
LOWER than White women were during the Recesssion 19thnews.org/2026/01/blac...
LOWER than White women were during the Recesssion 19thnews.org/2026/01/blac...
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the southern aristocracy was built on pedophiliac rape and that was the thing that more than anything else converted Northerners who encountered it from begrudging soldiers to crusaders.
"By G-d I'll fight till bell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on"
January 26, 2026 at 9:59 PM
the southern aristocracy was built on pedophiliac rape and that was the thing that more than anything else converted Northerners who encountered it from begrudging soldiers to crusaders.
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National Nurses United, largest nurses' union in US, are holding actions over the coming week in honor of Alex Pretti and all others killed by ICE
www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...
www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...
Week of action in honor of Alex Pretti, RN and all others killed by ice
Join National Nurses United RN members in a week-long series of actions to honor Pretti and all who have been murdered by ICE, as well as demand that Congress vote to immediately abolish this violent,...
www.nationalnursesunited.org
January 26, 2026 at 9:31 PM
National Nurses United, largest nurses' union in US, are holding actions over the coming week in honor of Alex Pretti and all others killed by ICE
www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...
www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...
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"Machine learning research is not serious research & therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees prestigious group of ML researchers"
I ❤️ when the titles write themselves
But seriously, I don't think there's much to debate statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/26/m...
I ❤️ when the titles write themselves
But seriously, I don't think there's much to debate statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/26/m...
Machine learning research is not serious research and therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees a prestigious group of machine learning researchers | Statistical Modeli...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
January 27, 2026 at 12:31 AM
"Machine learning research is not serious research & therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees prestigious group of ML researchers"
I ❤️ when the titles write themselves
But seriously, I don't think there's much to debate statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/26/m...
I ❤️ when the titles write themselves
But seriously, I don't think there's much to debate statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/26/m...
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And the fact that they’re working so hard to smear Renee Good and Alex Pretti should be an object lesson in itself about how contingent membership in the dominant caste of whiteness is
January 26, 2026 at 6:19 PM
And the fact that they’re working so hard to smear Renee Good and Alex Pretti should be an object lesson in itself about how contingent membership in the dominant caste of whiteness is
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More to the point, they see the MN resistance as insurgency *because they see themselves as an occupying military force* and not as a law enforcement mission.
January 26, 2026 at 5:15 PM
More to the point, they see the MN resistance as insurgency *because they see themselves as an occupying military force* and not as a law enforcement mission.
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you should not share a post that's a screenshot without a link to a news item. you should not share a post that's a video or picture without some kind of sourcing. we're in a new bad era and these are now basic practices.
... also photogs and journos gotta eat so share their work.
... also photogs and journos gotta eat so share their work.
January 26, 2026 at 3:04 PM
you should not share a post that's a screenshot without a link to a news item. you should not share a post that's a video or picture without some kind of sourcing. we're in a new bad era and these are now basic practices.
... also photogs and journos gotta eat so share their work.
... also photogs and journos gotta eat so share their work.
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The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
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The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)
Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:15 AM
The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)
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"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
January 25, 2026 at 11:01 PM
"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
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in general, i actually suspect this means their business case is deteriorating at a rapid clip
The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI
January 26, 2026 at 1:08 AM
in general, i actually suspect this means their business case is deteriorating at a rapid clip
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RT again because this is a great thread about American authoritarianism. Just in case you didn't hear what I was trying to say today.
Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x
January 25, 2026 at 9:11 PM
RT again because this is a great thread about American authoritarianism. Just in case you didn't hear what I was trying to say today.
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unlike all the strident leftists who were correct too early, i am correct at exactly the right time
January 25, 2026 at 8:01 PM
unlike all the strident leftists who were correct too early, i am correct at exactly the right time