Brooke Harrington
banner
ebharrington.bsky.social
Brooke Harrington
@ebharrington.bsky.social

Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words
@washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian.
All at brookeharrington.com .. more

Elisabeth Brooke Harrington is an American academic, scholar, author, and professor of economic sociology at Dartmouth College.

Source: Wikipedia
Economics 34%
Business 23%
Pinned
Here's everything I've done so far on broligarchy, all in one place, starting with my Inauguration Day interview on @thedailyshow.com with Jon Stewart, through multiple BlueSky threads on the subject, some other interviews & a couple articles in @theatlantic.com. 1/9
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvCm...
Brooke Harrington - Trump’s “Broligarchy” of Tech Billionaires | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com

Doesn't he look like the cat who got the cream?

this goes in the online supplementary material

YES. Would you please run for POTUS?

A student recently failed one of my classes for attempting to use AI to "summarize" readings. It spit out the most ludicrous crap, which found its way into her in-class blue book exams and oral exams.
Garbage in, garbage out.

"chose not to work"

Gosh Adam, did you have any input on that decision? Let's roll the tape!
edition.cnn.com/2024/06/01/o...

Joyce Carol GOATs

Reposted by Brooke Harrington

We have discovered the antidote to Elon Musk's tyranny—his truest nemesis.

First of Her Name, Queen of the Bookstores and Libraries, Daughter of the Literature Department and Humanities, The Breaker of Billionaires...

@joycecaroloates.bsky.social

lithub.com/elon-musk-ge...
Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…
lithub.com

attending his own wake, savoring the eulogies

needs moar snail

lamprey mouth: it's even the same color

We look upon your mighty works and despair!
bsky.app/profile/noco...
Eat a Snickers mate.

If you're going to exploit and oppress other living creatures on an industrial scale, it is very helpful--necessary, some might say--to regard them as not fully human, or human-adjacent at best.

This was also the moral point of departure for slavers.

Reposted by Brooke Harrington

Eat a Snickers mate.

There was a gas station near Soledad that had the best carnitas I've ever tasted.

"Pretty please show ID?" is not the usual approach taken by the FBI.

CORRECT

Oh, okay. I'm starting to get it.

A HUGE segment of the male pundit class seems animated by a shared psychological grievance which they project onto the public sphere.

"Don't tell me what to do, Mom...but throw some Hot Pockets in the microwave for me!" becomes "Hands off my Social Security!"

Oh geez, you're the brilliant Quantum Kayfabe Guy! I didn't recognize your handle. How are you? Long time no online convo!

wooooowwwww

that's like Kim-Kardashian-says-NASA-didn't-reach-the-moon level Looney Toons

That's the way it is in an oligarchy. All we can do is use this information to find more points of leverage: find a way to make every issue of political importance to the majority of Americans ALSO somehow an inconvenience for the wealthy and corporate business class.
Hence the success of boycotts.

Why are they so hung up on social distancing? How did it harm them that they bear this unquenchable grudge?

From the journal's FAQ section. It's such a restrained smackdown of economics that I may just put this on a Day 1 slide for my intro to economic sociology course:

In case it's not clear, I'm not trying to be argumentative with you personally.

I'm just having trouble decoding why a seemingly harmless public health measure during a global emergency makes some pundits (even some of my academic peers!) so very angry.

Like, how did social distancing hurt them?

So my question is: how did "doing the right thing" get lumped in with lattes as a symbol of luxury & clueless privilege?

afaik, no one drinks lattes to signal virtue.

Social distancing was a requirement in many places, like getting vaccinated; the other symbols Nate uses are consumer choices.

But why is social distancing--a public health effort--such a lightning rod for these guys?

Priuses and lattes, like Brie and Chardonnay 25 years ago, can be termed luxury goods...and therefore used as metonyms for an out-of-touch elite.

How is social distancing in any way a luxury or elite?

Little did Mussolini know how perfectly on the nose he was by saying fascism should really be termed corporatism. A broken clock moment for the ages.

All civilized people agree on this.

New Hampshire just covering itself in...whatever the opposite of glory is.

Elias, you're good at translating Dipshit Pundit to English: can you help me understand what Nate is trying to say or signal with his reference to social distancing?

Why take umbrage at a somewhat helpful public health response to a deadly & novel virus that killed millions of people?

Me to Nate: