Angela Taylor
@angieptaylor.bsky.social
Jersey-born. Currently a NC academic.
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I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago.
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago.
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
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"The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide." boltsmag.org/voting-right...
Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS. - Bolts
The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.
boltsmag.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide." boltsmag.org/voting-right...
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Among other things, you cannot win over ideologically committed fascists by saying you are going to address their legitimate concerns (unclear whether this works for “protest votes” either, but probably with a different mechanism.)
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Among other things, you cannot win over ideologically committed fascists by saying you are going to address their legitimate concerns (unclear whether this works for “protest votes” either, but probably with a different mechanism.)
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It feels like it takes different strategies to deal with support for fascist parties driven by cynicism/disaffection vs that driven by straightforward ideological embrace.
But I bet the commonality is something like “know what you believe in and actively contest for it.”
But I bet the commonality is something like “know what you believe in and actively contest for it.”
❗ Our findings show that AfD youth support is not only strikingly stable, but also closely linked to #partyidentification and #nativist attitudes - pointing to broader partisan realignment and #normalisation underway (rather than 'protest' voting).
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It feels like it takes different strategies to deal with support for fascist parties driven by cynicism/disaffection vs that driven by straightforward ideological embrace.
But I bet the commonality is something like “know what you believe in and actively contest for it.”
But I bet the commonality is something like “know what you believe in and actively contest for it.”
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13k comments on one tweet is a massive payout. All of the tweets follow a certain formula, so the content is likely automated using AI technology (e.g., AI generated images and text). Basically running it as a money printing machine. But for those in the US, it translates to low simmering rage.
November 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
13k comments on one tweet is a massive payout. All of the tweets follow a certain formula, so the content is likely automated using AI technology (e.g., AI generated images and text). Basically running it as a money printing machine. But for those in the US, it translates to low simmering rage.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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The entire concept of such a book is fatally flawed from the start.
And though I don't think this point comes up in the podcast, I think there is a major selection-bias problem here too: the only ppl willing to write a book like this are the ones must vulnerable to bad-outcome overconfidence.
And though I don't think this point comes up in the podcast, I think there is a major selection-bias problem here too: the only ppl willing to write a book like this are the ones must vulnerable to bad-outcome overconfidence.
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The entire concept of such a book is fatally flawed from the start.
And though I don't think this point comes up in the podcast, I think there is a major selection-bias problem here too: the only ppl willing to write a book like this are the ones must vulnerable to bad-outcome overconfidence.
And though I don't think this point comes up in the podcast, I think there is a major selection-bias problem here too: the only ppl willing to write a book like this are the ones must vulnerable to bad-outcome overconfidence.
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This was the first If Books Could Kill podcast I listened to, and it was phenomenal.
It's not jus a good takedown of one book, but it's a good takedown of this entire genre of "sprawling history of the world" type books.
Think it nails two critical points that plague all punditry.
It's not jus a good takedown of one book, but it's a good takedown of this entire genre of "sprawling history of the world" type books.
Think it nails two critical points that plague all punditry.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This was the first If Books Could Kill podcast I listened to, and it was phenomenal.
It's not jus a good takedown of one book, but it's a good takedown of this entire genre of "sprawling history of the world" type books.
Think it nails two critical points that plague all punditry.
It's not jus a good takedown of one book, but it's a good takedown of this entire genre of "sprawling history of the world" type books.
Think it nails two critical points that plague all punditry.
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We only caught this bc one of our tech-law ppl, the late, great, Scalia-scarring Joel Reidenberg, caught it and brought it to everyone’s attention. No one even thought abt that risk uni-wide.
(And here’s Joel making Scalia sad for being ignorant: www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/t...)
(And here’s Joel making Scalia sad for being ignorant: www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/t...)
Law Students Teach Scalia About Privacy and the Web (Published 2009)
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November 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We only caught this bc one of our tech-law ppl, the late, great, Scalia-scarring Joel Reidenberg, caught it and brought it to everyone’s attention. No one even thought abt that risk uni-wide.
(And here’s Joel making Scalia sad for being ignorant: www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/t...)
(And here’s Joel making Scalia sad for being ignorant: www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/t...)
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When Fordham (the whole uni) moved our email over to a Gmail-based system, the law school needed a special arrangement.
Bc gmail stores your emails all over the world, and we needed to make sure our clinics’ emails weren’t on servers in places w laxer discovery laws.
Bc gmail stores your emails all over the world, and we needed to make sure our clinics’ emails weren’t on servers in places w laxer discovery laws.
It is important for you to realize that you have probably never once in your life sent a private email. That’s just not how email works. Sure, turn off whatever Gmail features you want, but you’re just playing whack-a-mole with the technical realities of email as a concept.
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
When Fordham (the whole uni) moved our email over to a Gmail-based system, the law school needed a special arrangement.
Bc gmail stores your emails all over the world, and we needed to make sure our clinics’ emails weren’t on servers in places w laxer discovery laws.
Bc gmail stores your emails all over the world, and we needed to make sure our clinics’ emails weren’t on servers in places w laxer discovery laws.
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Any Dem think tanker who harks back to a Clinton's welfare "reform" as the way forward should be put in a pod and launched into deep space.
More from my interview with WNYC's On The Media about whether Democrats need to substantially moderate their issue positions (the claims are especially re: social policy) to win elections: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
The Battle for the Future of the Democratic Party | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Progressive and centrist Democratic candidates had big wins in the 2025 elections. On this week’s On the Media, a data scientist fact-checks the claim that Democrats need moderate vot...
www.wnycstudios.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Any Dem think tanker who harks back to a Clinton's welfare "reform" as the way forward should be put in a pod and launched into deep space.
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Lot of Saturday morning quarterbacking happening now, and it seems clear Trump sought to use his meeting with Mamdani in part to try to co-opt the affordability agenda and boost his own support in a moment where his numbers are in freefalll.
November 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Lot of Saturday morning quarterbacking happening now, and it seems clear Trump sought to use his meeting with Mamdani in part to try to co-opt the affordability agenda and boost his own support in a moment where his numbers are in freefalll.
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I think the Trump-Mamdani photos are a Rorschach Test.
To anti-doomers like me, they look like a guy too impulsive and easily swayed to consolidate authoritarian power.
To more-doomer types, they show that he still knows how to use the media to coop opposition.
To anti-doomers like me, they look like a guy too impulsive and easily swayed to consolidate authoritarian power.
To more-doomer types, they show that he still knows how to use the media to coop opposition.
November 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I think the Trump-Mamdani photos are a Rorschach Test.
To anti-doomers like me, they look like a guy too impulsive and easily swayed to consolidate authoritarian power.
To more-doomer types, they show that he still knows how to use the media to coop opposition.
To anti-doomers like me, they look like a guy too impulsive and easily swayed to consolidate authoritarian power.
To more-doomer types, they show that he still knows how to use the media to coop opposition.
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AI: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
"...disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom that were never encoded yet remain essential, human ways of knowing.
What's lost: "the resilience & diversity of knowledge itself."
"...disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom that were never encoded yet remain essential, human ways of knowing.
What's lost: "the resilience & diversity of knowledge itself."
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
AI: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
"...disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom that were never encoded yet remain essential, human ways of knowing.
What's lost: "the resilience & diversity of knowledge itself."
"...disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom that were never encoded yet remain essential, human ways of knowing.
What's lost: "the resilience & diversity of knowledge itself."
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Trump welcoming Mamdani and being photographed together in front of FDR's portrait is driving the MAGA universe insane.
Trump also just posted these photos to Truth Social, including the one with Mamdani standing next to a portrait of FDR. Trump mentioned Mamdani asked if he could have his picture taken there.
"It's an amazing portrait in the cabinet room," Trump said. "So he's a big fan of the New Deal, I guess..."
"It's an amazing portrait in the cabinet room," Trump said. "So he's a big fan of the New Deal, I guess..."
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Trump welcoming Mamdani and being photographed together in front of FDR's portrait is driving the MAGA universe insane.
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So often, boring stuff like pension dates and pension formulas or other boring wage stuff plays such big but overlooked micro and macro roles in things.
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
So often, boring stuff like pension dates and pension formulas or other boring wage stuff plays such big but overlooked micro and macro roles in things.
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Ahhahahah! Pensions. It’s always pensions (if you have them).
Almost no cops QUIT post-Floyd protests, despite what unions said. But a lot RETIRED, bc pensions are often based on end-career income, and Covid + protests = record OT and thus record pay and thus record pensions in 2020-21.
Almost no cops QUIT post-Floyd protests, despite what unions said. But a lot RETIRED, bc pensions are often based on end-career income, and Covid + protests = record OT and thus record pay and thus record pensions in 2020-21.
Noting the congressional pension is based on service time, it kicks in at 5 years and her retirement date - Jan. 5, 2026 - will be the first business day after she passes five years since her first swearing in. bsky.app/profile/heli...
Any idea why she's quitting then? Her statement isn't very coherent (big surprise), although it would make more sense as an explanation of just not running for re-election.
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Ahhahahah! Pensions. It’s always pensions (if you have them).
Almost no cops QUIT post-Floyd protests, despite what unions said. But a lot RETIRED, bc pensions are often based on end-career income, and Covid + protests = record OT and thus record pay and thus record pensions in 2020-21.
Almost no cops QUIT post-Floyd protests, despite what unions said. But a lot RETIRED, bc pensions are often based on end-career income, and Covid + protests = record OT and thus record pay and thus record pensions in 2020-21.
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As a non-historian, this has been what I’ve been feeling too.
The wildest things from history both seem more probable and less explicable.
“Maybe they did it, and did it bc human leaders are far too often just chaotic neutral or evil.”
(Esp since they were all more lead-addled too.)
The wildest things from history both seem more probable and less explicable.
“Maybe they did it, and did it bc human leaders are far too often just chaotic neutral or evil.”
(Esp since they were all more lead-addled too.)
It’s been eye opening. I’m an ancient historian and there is an entire industry working out rational explanations for imperial behavior. Now I tend to think, hmm, maybe he did castrate a boy to replace the wife he murdered while winning the Olympic Games just by showing up. I call it doing an Elon.
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
As a non-historian, this has been what I’ve been feeling too.
The wildest things from history both seem more probable and less explicable.
“Maybe they did it, and did it bc human leaders are far too often just chaotic neutral or evil.”
(Esp since they were all more lead-addled too.)
The wildest things from history both seem more probable and less explicable.
“Maybe they did it, and did it bc human leaders are far too often just chaotic neutral or evil.”
(Esp since they were all more lead-addled too.)
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If you had told me Mamdani and MTG would both be in the news today, and gave me eleventy thousand guesses as to why, I’d … still be guessing.
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
If you had told me Mamdani and MTG would both be in the news today, and gave me eleventy thousand guesses as to why, I’d … still be guessing.
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Trump beaming at Mamdani and saying sure, call me a fascist.
MTG announcing her retirement.
The thing abt Trump administrations is that future historians will write detailed books on single days, and readers will find them too preposterous to believe.
MTG announcing her retirement.
The thing abt Trump administrations is that future historians will write detailed books on single days, and readers will find them too preposterous to believe.
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Trump beaming at Mamdani and saying sure, call me a fascist.
MTG announcing her retirement.
The thing abt Trump administrations is that future historians will write detailed books on single days, and readers will find them too preposterous to believe.
MTG announcing her retirement.
The thing abt Trump administrations is that future historians will write detailed books on single days, and readers will find them too preposterous to believe.
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Mandami owned the president in the Oval Office today. Nobody on here is saying Trump earns brownie points for fawning over the mayor-elect. Trump threw a bunch of Republicans’ messaging under the bus because Trump has no principles beyond himself and Mandami is a good politician with charm to burn.
No it isn't. That traitor ass was calling for executions yesterday. And today everyone is gufawwing at his smiling shit smeared mouth.
Mamdani called the bluff of a meeting, but looks like trumpy got his hail mary distraction from his behavior yesterday.
This shit isn't cute.
Mamdani called the bluff of a meeting, but looks like trumpy got his hail mary distraction from his behavior yesterday.
This shit isn't cute.
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Mandami owned the president in the Oval Office today. Nobody on here is saying Trump earns brownie points for fawning over the mayor-elect. Trump threw a bunch of Republicans’ messaging under the bus because Trump has no principles beyond himself and Mandami is a good politician with charm to burn.
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We'll see.
We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
We'll see.
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My guys at the Harvard Management Company absolutely never miss
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
My guys at the Harvard Management Company absolutely never miss
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This is highly misleading. CMS exercised significant discretion in the design of the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) and made a number of substantive choices which were not compelled by Congress. Here are just a few examples. 1/6
Kennedy is getting grilled by governors on the Rural Health Fund and concerns about the fairness of how the $50 billion will be distributed. He responded by distancing himself from it, saying that the House and Senate decided how the program works and he won't be able to change it.
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This is highly misleading. CMS exercised significant discretion in the design of the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) and made a number of substantive choices which were not compelled by Congress. Here are just a few examples. 1/6