Dael Norwood
@dael.bsky.social
Historian of America's old, weird political economy. Unincorporated but proudly unionized citizen of Delaware. Adding “levity to discussions of financing and high politics” since 2022. Wrote Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America.
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Dael Norwood
@dael.bsky.social
· Jul 14
The Best Thing to Ever Happen to the State of … Delaware?
This post argues that the forces pushing DExit – and thus the death of the corporate franchise –cannot be appeased by Delaware, so we must consider the future without the franchise ourselves,…
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A moderate-length but immodest proposal: it's time for Delawareans to start planning for a future beyond the corporate franchise – and we need to do it before angry billionaires force it on us first.
Gene Simmons of KISS once held the front door open for me and a friend at Serendipity 3 on the UES.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Gene Simmons of KISS once held the front door open for me and a friend at Serendipity 3 on the UES.
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THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
That Kate Hudson / Hugh Jackman movie is really quite something. It’s a Neil Diamond jukebox musical biopic…but not about Neil Diamond’s life.
I’ve never felt more anxiety watching a scene where someone plants flowers, and uh American medical debt is a main character? It’s really quite something.
I’ve never felt more anxiety watching a scene where someone plants flowers, and uh American medical debt is a main character? It’s really quite something.
December 29, 2025 at 5:46 AM
That Kate Hudson / Hugh Jackman movie is really quite something. It’s a Neil Diamond jukebox musical biopic…but not about Neil Diamond’s life.
I’ve never felt more anxiety watching a scene where someone plants flowers, and uh American medical debt is a main character? It’s really quite something.
I’ve never felt more anxiety watching a scene where someone plants flowers, and uh American medical debt is a main character? It’s really quite something.
been out of range for a minute and the first thing I see logging on is an digital humanities AI booster claiming all his critics are Tipper Gore wooo bluesky never change
December 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
been out of range for a minute and the first thing I see logging on is an digital humanities AI booster claiming all his critics are Tipper Gore wooo bluesky never change
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@ajhasocial.bsky.social Please spread the word about the Charles R. Eisendrath Fellowship at the Clements Library. The fellowship supports research on the relation of journalism to US history before 1900 in both pictorial and written reportage and commentary. See clements.umich.edu/research/fel...
Apply for a Clements Library Fellowship - UM Clements Library
clements.umich.edu
December 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
@ajhasocial.bsky.social Please spread the word about the Charles R. Eisendrath Fellowship at the Clements Library. The fellowship supports research on the relation of journalism to US history before 1900 in both pictorial and written reportage and commentary. See clements.umich.edu/research/fel...
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it was not so much the fear of striking hidden rocks, as the fear of that hideous whiteness that so stirred me
December 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
it was not so much the fear of striking hidden rocks, as the fear of that hideous whiteness that so stirred me
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who up forging they chains
How much are you going to pay doctors?
Which current hospitals get shut down ?
What happens if doctors opt out of the system ? Who is going to invest in new curative therapies. You ?
How much in taxes pr year do you think it's possible to collect if you took every penny from billionaires?
Which current hospitals get shut down ?
What happens if doctors opt out of the system ? Who is going to invest in new curative therapies. You ?
How much in taxes pr year do you think it's possible to collect if you took every penny from billionaires?
Half the amount that everyone currently pays could provide universal healthcare. Private health companies don’t need to exist. Eliminate them. And use your collective buying power and economies of scale to get it done. Every cent of their profit is healthcare denied.
December 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
who up forging they chains
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For Christmas Eve, here are some bank note vignettes of Santa in his sleigh being pulled by reindeer. Plenty of different antebellum versions of Santa floating around. Central Bank, New Ulm, MN, $1, 18--, Saint Nicholas Bank, New York, NY, $5, 18--, and Saint Nicholas Bank, New York, NY, $2, 18--. 🗃️
December 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
For Christmas Eve, here are some bank note vignettes of Santa in his sleigh being pulled by reindeer. Plenty of different antebellum versions of Santa floating around. Central Bank, New Ulm, MN, $1, 18--, Saint Nicholas Bank, New York, NY, $5, 18--, and Saint Nicholas Bank, New York, NY, $2, 18--. 🗃️
Upon reflection, structuring a whole society to prop up nincompoop executives does seem a bit silly.
December 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Upon reflection, structuring a whole society to prop up nincompoop executives does seem a bit silly.
This is an excellent but deeply distressing forum to read while perched in Delaware, the place where so many of these oligarch-sovereigns domicile their company-states, where the bipartisan political class is wholly at their service, & where corporations can even vote if they own local real estate.
Curious about the tech billionaires' claims to sovereignty mean for the international order?
Check out our @risjnl.bsky.social forum on this topic, organized by the brilliant @maharafiatal.bsky.social!
Check out our @risjnl.bsky.social forum on this topic, organized by the brilliant @maharafiatal.bsky.social!
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order
www.cambridge.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This is an excellent but deeply distressing forum to read while perched in Delaware, the place where so many of these oligarch-sovereigns domicile their company-states, where the bipartisan political class is wholly at their service, & where corporations can even vote if they own local real estate.
Hey Bluesky, got any food or sights recs for the Houston area? Raves requested.
December 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Hey Bluesky, got any food or sights recs for the Houston area? Raves requested.
Consolidation in every industry, chickens edition
First State ag: Since 2000, more production but fewer farms - Bay to Bay News
DOVER — Change has been inevitable in Delaware’s agricultural landscape over the first quarter of the 21st century. In 2000, there were approximately 2,600 farms on about 560,000 acres. …
baytobaynews.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Consolidation in every industry, chickens edition
Delaware’s biggest slush fund is hiring a new CEO for the state’s top patronage gig.
Want to “invest” millions in public money in businesses that won’t ever provide meaningful revenue or employment? Eager to try your hand picking politically-connected “winners” who only lose? Come head the DPP!
Want to “invest” millions in public money in businesses that won’t ever provide meaningful revenue or employment? Eager to try your hand picking politically-connected “winners” who only lose? Come head the DPP!
DPP to launch national search for next CEO
The Delaware Prosperity Partnership Board is quietly developing plans to hire its next president and CEO with the help of a national search process.
delawarebusinesstimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Delaware’s biggest slush fund is hiring a new CEO for the state’s top patronage gig.
Want to “invest” millions in public money in businesses that won’t ever provide meaningful revenue or employment? Eager to try your hand picking politically-connected “winners” who only lose? Come head the DPP!
Want to “invest” millions in public money in businesses that won’t ever provide meaningful revenue or employment? Eager to try your hand picking politically-connected “winners” who only lose? Come head the DPP!
“Climate change and sea level rise aren’t going to make the First State fall into the ocean overnight.
But the slow creep of salty tides is showing that change is happening…”
But the slow creep of salty tides is showing that change is happening…”
Sussex’s lost wetland habitats are ‘coal mine canaries’ of climate change
The rise of saltwater into previously freshwater habitats has killed biodiversity in some of Sussex County, Delaware's most unique wetlands.
spotlightdelaware.org
December 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“Climate change and sea level rise aren’t going to make the First State fall into the ocean overnight.
But the slow creep of salty tides is showing that change is happening…”
But the slow creep of salty tides is showing that change is happening…”
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Will Bunch: This is the essence of crypto -- a total scam. Yet our government continues to promote this grift. A great story by @jessebunch.bsky.social
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CEO of South Philadelphia Bitcoin mining company defrauded investors out of $48.5 million, regulators say
Dahn C. Vo, founder of the now-defunct VBit Technologies Corp. based in South Philly, was accused by the SEC of misappropriating more than $48 million of investor funds in a nationwide scheme.
share.inquirer.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Will Bunch: This is the essence of crypto -- a total scam. Yet our government continues to promote this grift. A great story by @jessebunch.bsky.social
share.inquirer.com/rE94Vo
share.inquirer.com/rE94Vo
Behind every (alleged) great crime lies a Delaware business entity registration form, a continuing series…
VBit Technologies Corp, a firm the SEC alleges owner Dahn C. Vo used to misappropriate $48.5m in a bitcoin mining scheme, is DE corp, file no. 6987702 (reg agent Legalinc Corporate Services)
VBit Technologies Corp, a firm the SEC alleges owner Dahn C. Vo used to misappropriate $48.5m in a bitcoin mining scheme, is DE corp, file no. 6987702 (reg agent Legalinc Corporate Services)
December 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Behind every (alleged) great crime lies a Delaware business entity registration form, a continuing series…
VBit Technologies Corp, a firm the SEC alleges owner Dahn C. Vo used to misappropriate $48.5m in a bitcoin mining scheme, is DE corp, file no. 6987702 (reg agent Legalinc Corporate Services)
VBit Technologies Corp, a firm the SEC alleges owner Dahn C. Vo used to misappropriate $48.5m in a bitcoin mining scheme, is DE corp, file no. 6987702 (reg agent Legalinc Corporate Services)
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Another case of a judge ordering ICE not to deport someone, and ICE doing it anyway. This time a US citizen, with a Maryland birth certificate & immunization records.
Her family has not heard from her.
May everyone at DHS have the Christmas they inflicted on her.
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
Her family has not heard from her.
May everyone at DHS have the Christmas they inflicted on her.
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
www.newsweek.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Another case of a judge ordering ICE not to deport someone, and ICE doing it anyway. This time a US citizen, with a Maryland birth certificate & immunization records.
Her family has not heard from her.
May everyone at DHS have the Christmas they inflicted on her.
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
Her family has not heard from her.
May everyone at DHS have the Christmas they inflicted on her.
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
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ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people … with a smaller facility holding up to 1,500 people in Woodbury. wapo.st/4axtwZ4
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
wapo.st
December 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people … with a smaller facility holding up to 1,500 people in Woodbury. wapo.st/4axtwZ4
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Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lyin… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
"The company Fraud Inc. “strives to validate our clients’ suspicions,” according to its website ..."
December 24, 2025 at 4:41 AM
"The company Fraud Inc. “strives to validate our clients’ suspicions,” according to its website ..."
"Who among us hasn't looked out at the great edifice of human civilization in all its complexity, and thought "Yeah okay but I could do it better"?"
December 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"Who among us hasn't looked out at the great edifice of human civilization in all its complexity, and thought "Yeah okay but I could do it better"?"
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if the president of the American Federation of Teachers—a union which represents not just primary and secondary school teachers, but also many college professors—cannot meaningfully distinguish between AI ed tech sales pitches and responsible pedagogy, she has no business representing educators.
December 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
if the president of the American Federation of Teachers—a union which represents not just primary and secondary school teachers, but also many college professors—cannot meaningfully distinguish between AI ed tech sales pitches and responsible pedagogy, she has no business representing educators.
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NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
theintercept.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
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Respectfully, the courses in your AI Academy seem designed to push "A.i." use on teachers. I see phrases like "You will leave with AI resources you can use tomorrow."
I see no focus on handling cheating and no mention of the cognitive or suicides associated with LLMs.
aiinstruction.org
I see no focus on handling cheating and no mention of the cognitive or suicides associated with LLMs.
aiinstruction.org
December 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Respectfully, the courses in your AI Academy seem designed to push "A.i." use on teachers. I see phrases like "You will leave with AI resources you can use tomorrow."
I see no focus on handling cheating and no mention of the cognitive or suicides associated with LLMs.
aiinstruction.org
I see no focus on handling cheating and no mention of the cognitive or suicides associated with LLMs.
aiinstruction.org