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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 23h

- put down the damn AI.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 7h

MAGA wants cultural power so badly, but they'll never get it.

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United States Department of Homeland Security Responds to Anti-ICE Lyrics in Zach Bryan Song Snippet

DHS assistant secretary of public affairs Tricia McLaughlin told Bryan that he should “stick to ‘Pink Skies,’” referencing a song from his last album

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 7h

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 12h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 16h

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 16h

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
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Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 16h

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Debora Thome @deborathome.bsky.social · 23h

Na onda do momento, chegou hoje à Editora FGV o nosso livro "Como Pesquisar Elites no Brasil". Com Matias López e Graziella Moraes Silva, em artigos de diversas/os autoras/os pesquisadoras/os, reunimos experiências de campo, dilemas e aprendizados sobre como acessar e entrevistar quem está no topo.

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 1d

Renewables have overtaken coal in the global electricity mix for the first time, @ember-energy.org has found
www.linkedin.com/pulse/renewa...

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

The It's Always Morally Correct meme, saying you can always mock AI sloppers. It's always morally correct.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Sports Illustrated looked at college football coaches contracts and found that University of Georgia coach Kirby Smart would be owed over $118 million. Former University of Oklahoma head football coach Lincoln Riley, who fans love to hate, purportedly stands to make $90 million if he’s fired from the University of Southern California. The University of Alabama would be on the hook to pay its coach, Kalen DeBoer, around $70 million if he’s fired. Texas Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian would receive $64 million. And Mike Norvell, who coaches at Florida State, has a negotiated buyout of $63 million

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 1d

Students talked about this today… the amount these coaches are paid when they’re fired

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Mike Gundy got $15M to leave with a losing season. Think what that money could do for higher ed • Oklahoma Voice

Obviously someone in high places is looking out for Mike Gundy, but who is looking out for the rest of us? Imagine how many scholarships $15 million could pay for.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike Gundy got $15M to leave with a losing season. Think what that money could do for higher ed • Oklahoma Voice

Obviously someone in high places is looking out for Mike Gundy, but who is looking out for the rest of us? Imagine how many scholarships $15 million could pay for.

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 1d

Can I create a moderation list of the people who subscribe to this moderation list so I can block them all?

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Spoken like a true AI booster.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on AI: "In terms of medical, in terms of medical costs, in terms of knowledge, it's basically information. And information at a level that nobody thought possible before. So we'll see."

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

Love this from Robin Williams' daughter about AI:

"for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future'. AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed." 🔥🔥

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 1d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Bolsonaro family group chat can't be going well today.

Serge Katz @sk-serge.bsky.social · 1d

Crise no Bolsonistão...
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Lula ofereceu uma saída para Trump. Com o fechamento do governo, a perda do mercado chinês para os exportadores de soja, etc., a inflação, Brasil se posiciona como uma oportunidade para o governo Trump aliviar a pressão na economia. Simples.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Bolsonaro family group chat can't be going well today.

Serge Katz @sk-serge.bsky.social · 1d

Crise no Bolsonistão...
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Lula ofereceu uma saída para Trump. Com o fechamento do governo, a perda do mercado chinês para os exportadores de soja, etc., a inflação, Brasil se posiciona como uma oportunidade para o governo Trump aliviar a pressão na economia. Simples.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Jun 7

Astronaut meme

Wait states rights and local control are just bad faith arguments to stall racial and gender progress?

Always have been

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Lula outlining his productive phone call with Trump this morning. They talked for 30 minutes and repeated their "good chemistry" from the UN meeting. In the rest of the thread he details forthcoming diplomatic steps to restabilize relations between Brazil and the US.

Lula @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Recebi, nesta manhã (6/10), telefonema do presidente Trump. Conversamos por 30 minutos e relembramos a boa química que tivemos no encontro em Nova York por ocasião da Assembleia Geral da ONU (+)

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Lula outlining his productive phone call with Trump this morning. They talked for 30 minutes and repeated their "good chemistry" from the UN meeting. In the rest of the thread he details forthcoming diplomatic steps to restabilize relations between Brazil and the US.

Lula @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Recebi, nesta manhã (6/10), telefonema do presidente Trump. Conversamos por 30 minutos e relembramos a boa química que tivemos no encontro em Nova York por ocasião da Assembleia Geral da ONU (+)

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