Dan Greene
@dmgreene.bsky.social
Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
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Job Description Summary & Additional Information Organization's Summary Statement: Position Summary The College of Information at the University of Maryland, College Park (INFO), invites applicati...
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UMD's College of Information is hiring lecturers in five areas: networking fundamentals, information design, security, programming and databases, and experiential learning. 3-3 load, $95k-$102k. I love working here. Asshole-free environment. Spread the word! Not on the committee but happy to talk.
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up now on @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I wrote about the New Masses call for working class writers
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Go Left, Young Writers!
A century ago, a socialist magazine published a manifesto calling for workers to pick up the pen, heralding the dawn of America’s proletarian literary movement. Our society’s need for working-class wr...
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February 8, 2026 at 8:12 PM
up now on @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I wrote about the New Masses call for working class writers
jacobin.com/2026/02/new-...
jacobin.com/2026/02/new-...
Has anyone written up the layoff/vacancy trends in the higher ed over the last two years (Trump assault/inflation/CARES expiry)? Everything I've heard suggests that most of the layoffs and permanent vacancies are in lower level admin work--payroll and that sort of thing. But I've not seen real data.
February 9, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Has anyone written up the layoff/vacancy trends in the higher ed over the last two years (Trump assault/inflation/CARES expiry)? Everything I've heard suggests that most of the layoffs and permanent vacancies are in lower level admin work--payroll and that sort of thing. But I've not seen real data.
The age bans are not great but I'm not sure what else we get to rein in the socials. Obviously I want a Robin Hood tax on ad impressions to just euthanize the industry. Durbin, and presumably his caucus, are going in on ending §230. I presume this ends in euthanization bc common carrier won't scale.
February 9, 2026 at 7:37 PM
The age bans are not great but I'm not sure what else we get to rein in the socials. Obviously I want a Robin Hood tax on ad impressions to just euthanize the industry. Durbin, and presumably his caucus, are going in on ending §230. I presume this ends in euthanization bc common carrier won't scale.
Roy Ayers is as such a badass that he founded a whole other band with his name in it and never performed with them
February 9, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Roy Ayers is as such a badass that he founded a whole other band with his name in it and never performed with them
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Higher rents lead to higher prices for rental housing. Higher prices for rental housing do *not* lead to higher rents.
Like how higher profits lead to a high stock price, but a high stock price does not lead to higher profits.
Confusion on this basic point leads to a lot of bad housing policy
Like how higher profits lead to a high stock price, but a high stock price does not lead to higher profits.
Confusion on this basic point leads to a lot of bad housing policy
February 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Higher rents lead to higher prices for rental housing. Higher prices for rental housing do *not* lead to higher rents.
Like how higher profits lead to a high stock price, but a high stock price does not lead to higher profits.
Confusion on this basic point leads to a lot of bad housing policy
Like how higher profits lead to a high stock price, but a high stock price does not lead to higher profits.
Confusion on this basic point leads to a lot of bad housing policy
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My "LOWER JOBS NUMBERS SHOULDN'T TRIGGER PANIC" shirt has lots of people asking questions already answered by my shirt
🇺🇸HASSETT: SHOULD EXPECT SLIGHTLY LOWER JOBS NUMBERS. LOWER JOBS NUMBERS SHOULDN'T TRIGGER PANIC
February 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM
My "LOWER JOBS NUMBERS SHOULDN'T TRIGGER PANIC" shirt has lots of people asking questions already answered by my shirt
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"The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that gambling was the second-highest service-sector industry for GDP growth between 2019 and 2024, behind only software publishing."
Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ.
Very annoyed at the people who decided to open the floodgates to online sports betting, it is absolutely a scourge. Great piece from Gabrielle Gurley on people spending hours a day on these predatory apps.
The Scourge of Online Sports Betting - The American Prospect
States and leagues must face up to the damage from app-based gambling for the next generation of bettors, most of them young men.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
"The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that gambling was the second-highest service-sector industry for GDP growth between 2019 and 2024, behind only software publishing."
Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ.
Huge victory for workers and patients
BREAKING: ~10,500 NYSNA nurses at Montefiore, Mount Sinai, & Mount Sinai Morningside/West reached tentative agreements late Sun/early Mon.
Nurses won: enforceable safe staffing, maintain their health benefits, workplace violence protections, and more!
www.nysna.org/press/victor...
Nurses won: enforceable safe staffing, maintain their health benefits, workplace violence protections, and more!
www.nysna.org/press/victor...
February 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Huge victory for workers and patients
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Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night
We're updating all UMD curricular materials to abide by new ADA guidelines (good). Canvas can spit out an accessibility score for every course (also good). Every item it scores is weighted equally, including unpublished items from prior iterations and student-produced content (bad).
February 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM
We're updating all UMD curricular materials to abide by new ADA guidelines (good). Canvas can spit out an accessibility score for every course (also good). Every item it scores is weighted equally, including unpublished items from prior iterations and student-produced content (bad).
We're about to force Mr market to give this guy a trillion dollars
Elon Musk (you may recognize him from the Epstein files) has just given up on Mars.
February 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
We're about to force Mr market to give this guy a trillion dollars
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 AM
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
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Doocy: "The new face of RealFood .gov is Mike Tyson. How did you settle on someone who was most famous for eating Evander Holyfield's ear?"
RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."
RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."
February 8, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Doocy: "The new face of RealFood .gov is Mike Tyson. How did you settle on someone who was most famous for eating Evander Holyfield's ear?"
RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."
RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."
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My aunt and uncle went without power for 2.5 months after Maria. My grandfather who lives in San Juan went even longer. The power lines were the most impactful image of many tonight.
Bad Bunny is telling the world that the people in Puerto Rico are American citizens and deserve reliable and resilient electricity and infrastructure investment from the U.S. government.
February 9, 2026 at 2:47 AM
My aunt and uncle went without power for 2.5 months after Maria. My grandfather who lives in San Juan went even longer. The power lines were the most impactful image of many tonight.
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Echoing James Baldwin, Ocean Vuong said that “talent is real,” but “it’s really about endurance … because everything outside of your desk, outside of your home, conspires to destroy you.”
February 9, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Echoing James Baldwin, Ocean Vuong said that “talent is real,” but “it’s really about endurance … because everything outside of your desk, outside of your home, conspires to destroy you.”
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Not the best performance but maybe the best stage show. He's such a cutie.
February 9, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Not the best performance but maybe the best stage show. He's such a cutie.
Dookie was maybe the first CD I bought, around the same time as Definitely Maybe
February 8, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Dookie was maybe the first CD I bought, around the same time as Definitely Maybe
Tie between Didion and Younger David Lynch
Ok time for another round of discourse: who’s the best conservative artist of the past 75 years?
The whole controversy over Bad Bunny boils down to the simple fact that extreme social conservatism is incapable of producing interesting and compelling art of any kind, and so its adherents must use inferior artists to try to convince themselves that they aren't out of touch.
February 8, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Tie between Didion and Younger David Lynch
Is this about raw milk
Mack Hollins arrives for the Super Bowl in a prison jumpsuit and cuffs.
February 8, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Is this about raw milk
The thing about having no positive vision is that there's nothing to hold onto when things get tough, no incentive for your erstwhile allies not to stab you in the back.
Work and Pensions Secretary, Pat McFadden has claimed there would be “no point” in removing Morgan McSweeney “if the Prime Minister stays”.
“In fact, I think if the Prime Minister stays there, I don’t think that would make any difference at all,” he said.
“In fact, I think if the Prime Minister stays there, I don’t think that would make any difference at all,” he said.
February 8, 2026 at 10:05 PM
The thing about having no positive vision is that there's nothing to hold onto when things get tough, no incentive for your erstwhile allies not to stab you in the back.
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I never noticed this either.
February 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I never noticed this either.
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"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.
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February 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"