Eric Brown
@ericbrown13.bsky.social
Political philosophy/ethics, climate ethics, political economy (esp. finance).
Going to give a talk on global financial systems and power relations tonight. Harrowing, but fun I hope!
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Going to give a talk on global financial systems and power relations tonight. Harrowing, but fun I hope!
Markets, the central feature of microeconomics and macroeconomics, are a theoretical artifact mostly irrelevant to how the economy of the world works.
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Markets, the central feature of microeconomics and macroeconomics, are a theoretical artifact mostly irrelevant to how the economy of the world works.
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Trump is pushing private equity and crypto into YOUR 401(k) – putting your retirement savings at risk.
These shadowy markets lack strong guardrails to keep your money safe.
We can’t let Wall Street gamble with Americans’ hard-earned savings.
These shadowy markets lack strong guardrails to keep your money safe.
We can’t let Wall Street gamble with Americans’ hard-earned savings.
October 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Trump is pushing private equity and crypto into YOUR 401(k) – putting your retirement savings at risk.
These shadowy markets lack strong guardrails to keep your money safe.
We can’t let Wall Street gamble with Americans’ hard-earned savings.
These shadowy markets lack strong guardrails to keep your money safe.
We can’t let Wall Street gamble with Americans’ hard-earned savings.
ok, roasted chick peas with honey and sesame seed are excellent
October 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
ok, roasted chick peas with honey and sesame seed are excellent
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Well, Fam, just found out our health insurance is jumping from $1700 to over $3000 a month. And we still have to wait till Nov 1 to see more options—when the site will probably crash because everyone will be freaking out at the same time.
October 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Well, Fam, just found out our health insurance is jumping from $1700 to over $3000 a month. And we still have to wait till Nov 1 to see more options—when the site will probably crash because everyone will be freaking out at the same time.
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Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.
trib.al
October 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.
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You shouldn’t be allowed to have an opinion about The Economy if you haven’t worked a service / retail job before.
October 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
You shouldn’t be allowed to have an opinion about The Economy if you haven’t worked a service / retail job before.
I think the only real step forward for innovation to get all the SV techbro elite off Tolkein and into Lovecraft.
October 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I think the only real step forward for innovation to get all the SV techbro elite off Tolkein and into Lovecraft.
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Bartolomé de las Casas would probably be doxxed by and hiding from right wing Christian organizations if he were around today.
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
October 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Bartolomé de las Casas would probably be doxxed by and hiding from right wing Christian organizations if he were around today.
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Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
US intervention in South America, what could go wrong?
Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:
October 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
US intervention in South America, what could go wrong?
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You've probably seen this. But it's a great, quick intro into his work and how to do research. I use it every semester.
youtu.be/g3bBajcR5fE?...
youtu.be/g3bBajcR5fE?...
Social Networks and Getting a Job: Mark Granovetter
YouTube video by Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
youtu.be
September 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
You've probably seen this. But it's a great, quick intro into his work and how to do research. I use it every semester.
youtu.be/g3bBajcR5fE?...
youtu.be/g3bBajcR5fE?...
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Two reasons to click through: because Petri is always terrific, and for the unaccustomed, almost bracing sensation of seeing something in The Atlantic that's worth reading.
Alexandra Petri's writing has such punch to it, not only in terms of content but form. In her best stuff, you can *hear* her voice, and this is one of her best.
Are You Laughing Yet?
Everyone can say exactly what they want, free of the fear of censorship, except by the government.
www.theatlantic.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Two reasons to click through: because Petri is always terrific, and for the unaccustomed, almost bracing sensation of seeing something in The Atlantic that's worth reading.
"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."
that one week of OceanGate content feels like madlibs when you go back and read the articles from then
July 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."
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that one week of OceanGate content feels like madlibs when you go back and read the articles from then
July 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
that one week of OceanGate content feels like madlibs when you go back and read the articles from then
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Growing up in the '70s I'd read about strongman rulers in far-off places like Asia or Africa who had billion-dollar Swiss bank accounts and mansions in the French Riviera while their citizens were mired in poverty, and wondered how that could be allowed to happen
Now I know
Now I know
May 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Growing up in the '70s I'd read about strongman rulers in far-off places like Asia or Africa who had billion-dollar Swiss bank accounts and mansions in the French Riviera while their citizens were mired in poverty, and wondered how that could be allowed to happen
Now I know
Now I know
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In the spirit of Mother’s Day, here’s a clip of Björk two-piecing a reporter who was stalking her and her baby.
May 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In the spirit of Mother’s Day, here’s a clip of Björk two-piecing a reporter who was stalking her and her baby.
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much of machine learning research is motivated by the idea of 'humans and the human condition as a problem,' with researchers assuming the authority and legitimacy to solve it
May 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
much of machine learning research is motivated by the idea of 'humans and the human condition as a problem,' with researchers assuming the authority and legitimacy to solve it
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“This is probably the single most significant aggregated repository of data about American air travelers,” said Edward Hasbrouck, an expert in travel data privacy. “That the government has gotten access to it is a very big deal.”
www.levernews.com/airlines-are...
www.levernews.com/airlines-are...
Airlines Are Collecting Your Data And Selling It To ICE
An aviation industry clearinghouse is collecting passenger information from billions of past and future flights and selling it to Trump’s immigration enforcers.
www.levernews.com
May 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“This is probably the single most significant aggregated repository of data about American air travelers,” said Edward Hasbrouck, an expert in travel data privacy. “That the government has gotten access to it is a very big deal.”
www.levernews.com/airlines-are...
www.levernews.com/airlines-are...
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the entire point of the piece (and the related book) you're replying to and didn't read is that your great-grandparents were eating formaldehyde milk and gypsum flour and arsenic jam because there were no food safety laws. Keeping food safe is a society's job, not an individual's!!!
April 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
the entire point of the piece (and the related book) you're replying to and didn't read is that your great-grandparents were eating formaldehyde milk and gypsum flour and arsenic jam because there were no food safety laws. Keeping food safe is a society's job, not an individual's!!!
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The hopium is wild to see. No, Trump isn't "fucked." He is in a moment many fascists were, which is to say losing popularity once in power.
But that is why authoritarians take power: so no one can take it from them. Popularity doesn't matter as much when you're in complete control.
But that is why authoritarians take power: so no one can take it from them. Popularity doesn't matter as much when you're in complete control.
April 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The hopium is wild to see. No, Trump isn't "fucked." He is in a moment many fascists were, which is to say losing popularity once in power.
But that is why authoritarians take power: so no one can take it from them. Popularity doesn't matter as much when you're in complete control.
But that is why authoritarians take power: so no one can take it from them. Popularity doesn't matter as much when you're in complete control.