James Iveniuk
@iveniuk.bsky.social
Happy dad. Torontonian. Sociologist. I study heath inequality across the life course, and social networks/relationships.
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Businesses, associations, and places of worship are key aspects of immigrant community life. Why do some groups build dense organizational ecologies but others don’t? A new analysis of 25,117 ethnoreligious organizations in 4900 communities suggests that culture—not social structure—drives density
Local Communities, Distant Origins: How Cultural Distance and Local Context Shape Immigrant Ethnoreligious Infrastructures | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Businesses, associations, and places of worship are key aspects of immigrant community life. Why do some groups build dense organizational ecologies but others don’t? A new analysis of 25,117 ethnoreligious organizations in 4900 communities suggests that culture—not social structure—drives density
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Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.
CBP agents held this U.S. citizen for hours until he agreed to let them search his electronic devices
A federal lawsuit argues that perusing travelers' personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.
reason.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.
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The "D" in D-Day stands for Day. It was called D-Day because that was the Day it was happening on.
the land raider and land speeder aren't called that because they go over land
they're called that because they were invented by a guy named arkhan land.
dees favorite joke about this is the emperor is named jimmy space and those are his space marines
they're called that because they were invented by a guy named arkhan land.
dees favorite joke about this is the emperor is named jimmy space and those are his space marines
One of my favorite brick stupid 40k things is that the Ultramarines aren't "ultra marines," they're called that because they are from a place called Ultramar
December 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The "D" in D-Day stands for Day. It was called D-Day because that was the Day it was happening on.
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Winnipeg's population density in 2021
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Winnipeg's population density in 2021
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This is why I say that the p*lice are defunding YOU
In all, taxpayers have spent more than $300M so far in 2025 to resolve lawsuits alleging Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News.
The city budgeted just $82.5M to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.
The city budgeted just $82.5M to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.
Since the start of the year, Chicago taxpayers spent $204.6 million to resolve lawsuits brought by 22 people wrongfully convicted based on evidence gathered by the Chicago Police Department, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News.
https://to.wttw.com/48PCrlM
https://to.wttw.com/48PCrlM
December 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is why I say that the p*lice are defunding YOU
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I did not have "The US government wages war against computer fonts because of DEI" on my 2025 bingo card and i did not because it's so fucking stupid that I can no longer think or see straight
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I did not have "The US government wages war against computer fonts because of DEI" on my 2025 bingo card and i did not because it's so fucking stupid that I can no longer think or see straight
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Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
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Ideology as aesthetics strikes again.
@drkath.bsky.social studied this very question and found that yes Times New Roman is perceived as more conservative and sans serif fonts as more liberal- (likely because they are seen as less traditional and more modern):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@drkath.bsky.social studied this very question and found that yes Times New Roman is perceived as more conservative and sans serif fonts as more liberal- (likely because they are seen as less traditional and more modern):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Ideology as aesthetics strikes again.
@drkath.bsky.social studied this very question and found that yes Times New Roman is perceived as more conservative and sans serif fonts as more liberal- (likely because they are seen as less traditional and more modern):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@drkath.bsky.social studied this very question and found that yes Times New Roman is perceived as more conservative and sans serif fonts as more liberal- (likely because they are seen as less traditional and more modern):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Credit where credit is due, @duncanrobinson.bsky.social wrote a column pointing out how British politicians (who much like generals, are always fighting the last war), have spent a decade chasing a voter who doesn't exist
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Zombie politics: how Dead Man dominates British politics
Britain’s parties are catering to a voter who is, often literally, dead
www.economist.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Credit where credit is due, @duncanrobinson.bsky.social wrote a column pointing out how British politicians (who much like generals, are always fighting the last war), have spent a decade chasing a voter who doesn't exist
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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1/4. The U.S. continues to be a place where people’s life experiences and outcomes differ dramatically by social positioning. How does that affect the way people make meaning of what is happening around them? Those questions guided this new paper. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
1/4. The U.S. continues to be a place where people’s life experiences and outcomes differ dramatically by social positioning. How does that affect the way people make meaning of what is happening around them? Those questions guided this new paper. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
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The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow.
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow.
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
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Read this twice.
“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Read this twice.
“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
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Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award
Also Boomers:
Also Boomers:
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award
Also Boomers:
Also Boomers:
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"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
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Very much agree. If science behaves anyway close to what Kuhn understood it to be (paradigms, normal science, etc), then LLMs would be particularly bad at discerning the quality of contributions that don’t fit standards of practice, both very good and very bad.
Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research.
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
Equilibrium effects of LLM reviewing
Equilibrium effects of LLM reviewing
bryanwilder.github.io
December 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Very much agree. If science behaves anyway close to what Kuhn understood it to be (paradigms, normal science, etc), then LLMs would be particularly bad at discerning the quality of contributions that don’t fit standards of practice, both very good and very bad.
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What kind of sick fuck could be opposed to eliminating prison rape?
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
What kind of sick fuck could be opposed to eliminating prison rape?
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I have come to the conclusion that all gambling should be made illegal again; or at the very least, must all be conducted in person at bookies.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I have come to the conclusion that all gambling should be made illegal again; or at the very least, must all be conducted in person at bookies.
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this really isn’t an exaggeration
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
this really isn’t an exaggeration
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Freshman year: took soc 101, couldn't even figure out what soc was, cried
Senior year: graduating with a soc major, still didn't get what soc was, cried
Grad school: cried a lot just because
Asst prof: What is sociology? What a fascinating question that we'll get to explore together this semester
Senior year: graduating with a soc major, still didn't get what soc was, cried
Grad school: cried a lot just because
Asst prof: What is sociology? What a fascinating question that we'll get to explore together this semester
"What *is* sociology, exactly?"
Sir I have no idea.
Sir I have no idea.
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Freshman year: took soc 101, couldn't even figure out what soc was, cried
Senior year: graduating with a soc major, still didn't get what soc was, cried
Grad school: cried a lot just because
Asst prof: What is sociology? What a fascinating question that we'll get to explore together this semester
Senior year: graduating with a soc major, still didn't get what soc was, cried
Grad school: cried a lot just because
Asst prof: What is sociology? What a fascinating question that we'll get to explore together this semester
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I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
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No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
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Looking back to the good old days of sumptuary laws.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK asylum seekers to be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments
Move, which is part of crackdown on costs, comes after it emerged Home Office spends £15.8m a year on service
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Looking back to the good old days of sumptuary laws.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...