Dan Finn
@danfinn9000.bsky.social
I teach sociology at UMass Boston. He/him
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Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
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I adored #InYourDreams and desperately need more filmmakers to be brave enough not to talk down to the children who will be watching their films.
www.slashfilm.com/2024107/netf...
www.slashfilm.com/2024107/netf...
Netflix's In Your Dreams Is The Best Pixar Movie They Never Made - SlashFilm
The animated film In Your Dreams feels like it takes lessons from early Pixar movies by balancing jokes with heavier themes than you might expect.
www.slashfilm.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I adored #InYourDreams and desperately need more filmmakers to be brave enough not to talk down to the children who will be watching their films.
www.slashfilm.com/2024107/netf...
www.slashfilm.com/2024107/netf...
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'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
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I appreciate that the main takeaway from this lesson is that science can't ever really be "apolitical."
11-year-old: Our new science project is so frustrating!
Me: How so?
11: We're designing an earthquake warning system, and we could only get it to 59 minutes and 2 false alarms, and it still cost $123M, which means cutting road and school budgets. It's impossible!
Me: Sounds like that's the point.
Me: How so?
11: We're designing an earthquake warning system, and we could only get it to 59 minutes and 2 false alarms, and it still cost $123M, which means cutting road and school budgets. It's impossible!
Me: Sounds like that's the point.
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I appreciate that the main takeaway from this lesson is that science can't ever really be "apolitical."
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To me, Christmas isn't about perfection or consumerism. It's about love and togetherness. It's about teaching Krampus how to slow dance. It's about trapping malicious spirits in ectoplasmic baubles. It's about conducting a yule worm choir as they wheeze in harmony at the moon.
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
To me, Christmas isn't about perfection or consumerism. It's about love and togetherness. It's about teaching Krampus how to slow dance. It's about trapping malicious spirits in ectoplasmic baubles. It's about conducting a yule worm choir as they wheeze in harmony at the moon.
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You’ll never find a better distillation of how technology and capitalism fit together in the 21st century.
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
You’ll never find a better distillation of how technology and capitalism fit together in the 21st century.
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This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.
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New byline!! Got to shout out some of the disabled movies worth watching for @letterboxd.social!!
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
Disability Visibility: a starter pack of twenty depictions of disability on film • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
With her book Popcorn Disabilities soon to hit shelves, author Kristen Lopez offers a starter pack of twenty films about disability—from the good (The Best Years of Our Lives) to the not-so-good (Rain...
letterboxd.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
New byline!! Got to shout out some of the disabled movies worth watching for @letterboxd.social!!
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Social studies teachers (especially in New England): Check out this new documentary on activists in Boston's Chinatown who fought and continue to fight for community, housing, and against gentrification. #sschat #edusky youtu.be/Ex9uk7HQ9bM?...
LOVE, CHINATOWN (full documentary)
YouTube video by GBH
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November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Social studies teachers (especially in New England): Check out this new documentary on activists in Boston's Chinatown who fought and continue to fight for community, housing, and against gentrification. #sschat #edusky youtu.be/Ex9uk7HQ9bM?...
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NISHAANCHI debuts on Prime, and JOLLY LLB 3 comes to Netflix (along with a bunch of other Indian movies and brand new season of DELHI CRIME). Links to all in today's Streaming Video News: accessbollywood.net/2025/11/13/s... #DesiWatch
Streaming Video News: November 13, 2025
I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with a bunch of new additions. Besides the premiere of Season 3 of Delhi Crime, the 2025 films added today include: Dude (Tamil), Jolly LLB 3 (Hindi…
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November 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
NISHAANCHI debuts on Prime, and JOLLY LLB 3 comes to Netflix (along with a bunch of other Indian movies and brand new season of DELHI CRIME). Links to all in today's Streaming Video News: accessbollywood.net/2025/11/13/s... #DesiWatch
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A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.
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Anyway me and Baldwin are at the nail salon. A privilege. A reminder to do try to something nice for yourself — whatever that looks like — when the world tightens around you.
November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Anyway me and Baldwin are at the nail salon. A privilege. A reminder to do try to something nice for yourself — whatever that looks like — when the world tightens around you.
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People who did not grow up here will never understand the tears that just erupted seeing TOM SKILLING's name on this
"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights
The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
People who did not grow up here will never understand the tears that just erupted seeing TOM SKILLING's name on this
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Been walking around my house going "if you're so poor, why aren't you in black and white?!"
the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Been walking around my house going "if you're so poor, why aren't you in black and white?!"
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For me personally, the weirdest part of Christmas is when all the mall Santas join together by their beards and form a giant Santa-king. And then they roll around town, collecting materials for the elves to use for toys next year.
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
For me personally, the weirdest part of Christmas is when all the mall Santas join together by their beards and form a giant Santa-king. And then they roll around town, collecting materials for the elves to use for toys next year.
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“I am a full-time college student from a low-income family, and I rely on these benefits to buy groceries — as do many of my close friends.“
Mia Vesely | I use SNAP benefits, and many other college students do too
Senior columnist Mia Vesely discusses the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and dispels the notion that such programs are misused or unessential.
www.thedp.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“I am a full-time college student from a low-income family, and I rely on these benefits to buy groceries — as do many of my close friends.“
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I’m thrilled to be co-hosting a digital event with Sarah Jaffe – journalist and author of Work Won’t Love You Back (among several other books).
🗓️ Join us on December 9th at 12pm (EST) for a candid conversation about work and intimacy.
Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗓️ Join us on December 9th at 12pm (EST) for a candid conversation about work and intimacy.
Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I’m thrilled to be co-hosting a digital event with Sarah Jaffe – journalist and author of Work Won’t Love You Back (among several other books).
🗓️ Join us on December 9th at 12pm (EST) for a candid conversation about work and intimacy.
Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗓️ Join us on December 9th at 12pm (EST) for a candid conversation about work and intimacy.
Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Housing First approaches to homelessness, that prioritize getting a stable roof over people's heads before addressing trauma from the streets & other issues, prove to lead to long term stability. Rounding every homeless person up for forced mental health care which is incarceration is not the way!
I'm a mad person who's lived on the streets & knows a lot of mad people & I know that people like me are disproportionately inclined to homelessness & I don't like when that gets taken out of the conversation. But our reality is that late stage American capitalism can push anyone to the streets.
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Housing First approaches to homelessness, that prioritize getting a stable roof over people's heads before addressing trauma from the streets & other issues, prove to lead to long term stability. Rounding every homeless person up for forced mental health care which is incarceration is not the way!
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The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?
February 4, 2024 at 6:41 PM
The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?
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I've done it! I've finally done it! I've created a meme scientifically designed to ensure that no single generation will get the entire joke!
October 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I've done it! I've finally done it! I've created a meme scientifically designed to ensure that no single generation will get the entire joke!
Jamelle's videos are great! He's a fantastic lunchtime companion.
made a video on the filibuster — its history and why it's bad — for my youtube channel. check it out!
What's the deal with the filibuster?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Jamelle's videos are great! He's a fantastic lunchtime companion.
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A big thanks to the @nytimes.com for featuring us today in their article about bookstores stepping up to help food banks during the shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
To Help SNAP Recipients, Bookstores Set Up as Food Banks
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A big thanks to the @nytimes.com for featuring us today in their article about bookstores stepping up to help food banks during the shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
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it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon