Louise Seamster
@louiseseamster.bsky.social
debt, development, infrastructure, the economics of racial inequality, and the myth of racial progress. I express my own views
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Ok I see you UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, pushing your university to be better and creating the space for this to happen!
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Ok I see you UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, pushing your university to be better and creating the space for this to happen!
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Great news. Note how the party that sued here was not the University of California but its faculty and staff unions.
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Great news. Note how the party that sued here was not the University of California but its faculty and staff unions.
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happy to see this news.. still mad that UCLA’s workers had to sue to stop this because our well-paid administrators were too spineless to fight for us
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:58 AM
happy to see this news.. still mad that UCLA’s workers had to sue to stop this because our well-paid administrators were too spineless to fight for us
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Once more: Columbia could have fought; it chose not.
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Once more: Columbia could have fought; it chose not.
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Dr. Valerie Wilson shows that COLLEGE EDUCATED BLACK WOMEN have face the greatest employment losses.
Significant declines in LFPR (share of BW looking for work or working) and EPOP (share of BW that are employed). This isn't good because BW are the economic backbone of (Black) communities.
Significant declines in LFPR (share of BW looking for work or working) and EPOP (share of BW that are employed). This isn't good because BW are the economic backbone of (Black) communities.
I'm staring at this graph and I'm like okay they clown Black women for all the degrees we get but like numbers don't lie?
Smallest job losses among some college and graduate degree holders. May change this year but like this is nuts.
Smallest job losses among some college and graduate degree holders. May change this year but like this is nuts.
February 14, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Dr. Valerie Wilson shows that COLLEGE EDUCATED BLACK WOMEN have face the greatest employment losses.
Significant declines in LFPR (share of BW looking for work or working) and EPOP (share of BW that are employed). This isn't good because BW are the economic backbone of (Black) communities.
Significant declines in LFPR (share of BW looking for work or working) and EPOP (share of BW that are employed). This isn't good because BW are the economic backbone of (Black) communities.
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This morning, check me out on @bloomberg.com Everybody's Business with @svaneksmith.bsky.social and @chafkin.bsky.social! ✨
We discuss how rising Black unemployment and America's Double Tax problem go hand in hand to shrink the economy for all of us, and what we can do about it. #blacksky #econsky
We discuss how rising Black unemployment and America's Double Tax problem go hand in hand to shrink the economy for all of us, and what we can do about it. #blacksky #econsky
Black Unemployment and America’s ‘Double Tax
On Everybody’s Business, we unpack the job market challenges faced by women of color, and the rising standard of luxury as disposable income becomes more scarce.
www.bloomberg.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:47 PM
This morning, check me out on @bloomberg.com Everybody's Business with @svaneksmith.bsky.social and @chafkin.bsky.social! ✨
We discuss how rising Black unemployment and America's Double Tax problem go hand in hand to shrink the economy for all of us, and what we can do about it. #blacksky #econsky
We discuss how rising Black unemployment and America's Double Tax problem go hand in hand to shrink the economy for all of us, and what we can do about it. #blacksky #econsky
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
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Read and tremble. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
February 11, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Read and tremble. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
looking forward to this Avengers confluence
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ALT: a large group of people are standing in a field with the words tannerfrizzell on the bottom right
media.tenor.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:36 PM
looking forward to this Avengers confluence
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This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s.
www.statesman.com/news/educati...
www.statesman.com/news/educati...
UT to consolidate gender and ethnic studies programs into one new department
Affected departments include those that focus on African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American Studies, Women and Gender Studies and American Studies.
www.statesman.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:26 PM
This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s.
www.statesman.com/news/educati...
www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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Dell has been on this beat since the very beginning and points out a thing often missed: the cost to all of us for Amazon’s loss prevention strategy is a nationwide surveillance network.
Ring is first and foremost a scheme to charge Amazon customers to deter crime that costs Amazon (not the customers themselves) billions annually in refunds, returns, double shipping, and customer service overhead.
February 12, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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They are dismissed as hysterical or non-expert or irrationally cautious.
Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process.
Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.
Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process.
Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.
February 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
They are dismissed as hysterical or non-expert or irrationally cautious.
Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process.
Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.
Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process.
Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.
also you have to keep trying to use the dried out marker five times in a row. even more mystique
February 11, 2026 at 8:18 PM
also you have to keep trying to use the dried out marker five times in a row. even more mystique
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More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.
When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.
February 11, 2026 at 2:35 PM
More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.
When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.
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This Day in Labor History: February 11, 1937. The Flint Sit-Down strike ended after General Motors recognized the United Auto Workers at the bargaining agent for GM employees. This legitimized the CIO, ushering in the nation’s great period of industrial unionism. But soon, sit-downs would be illegal
February 11, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This Day in Labor History: February 11, 1937. The Flint Sit-Down strike ended after General Motors recognized the United Auto Workers at the bargaining agent for GM employees. This legitimized the CIO, ushering in the nation’s great period of industrial unionism. But soon, sit-downs would be illegal
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massive. catapult.
Elon Musk told employees at xAI, his artificial intelligence company, on Tuesday that the company needed a factory on the moon to build A.I. satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space.
Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon
In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.
nyti.ms
February 11, 2026 at 1:43 PM
massive. catapult.
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
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Word choices matter. Like saying “scientists and philosophers have come to understand” is very different from “scientists and philosophers are claiming“
One primes your audience to respect authority and the other primes your audience to question
One primes your audience to respect authority and the other primes your audience to question
Researchers working with the A.I. system Claude have come to understand that the model’s selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kEX1vV
February 11, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Word choices matter. Like saying “scientists and philosophers have come to understand” is very different from “scientists and philosophers are claiming“
One primes your audience to respect authority and the other primes your audience to question
One primes your audience to respect authority and the other primes your audience to question
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Jesus
“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”
UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty
The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”
www.insidehighered.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Jesus
not willing to look up the children ages! it seems no addendum makes it less creepy given the “nannies”!
February 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
not willing to look up the children ages! it seems no addendum makes it less creepy given the “nannies”!
and bringing. your. kids. to do that.
February 10, 2026 at 4:20 PM
and bringing. your. kids. to do that.
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Not to mention the way SEO fucked with online searching in addition to Boolean searches no longer being effective.
suggesting online search > using a medical AI chatbot may underestimate how many websites are now full of AI slop (not to mention how AI has permeated online search)
this is why people are comparing AI to microplastics or a virus—there are no uncontaminated parts of our info ecosystem.
this is why people are comparing AI to microplastics or a virus—there are no uncontaminated parts of our info ecosystem.
"People are better off using online searches or their own judgement" is an unbelievably harsh indictment of AI chatbots
February 10, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Not to mention the way SEO fucked with online searching in addition to Boolean searches no longer being effective.
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The first draft of my effort to theorize the political/coalitional characteristics of student debt is out for review.
It's really the first step in an effort to think through how to design a free college program with durable long-term coalitions
It's really the first step in an effort to think through how to design a free college program with durable long-term coalitions
February 10, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The first draft of my effort to theorize the political/coalitional characteristics of student debt is out for review.
It's really the first step in an effort to think through how to design a free college program with durable long-term coalitions
It's really the first step in an effort to think through how to design a free college program with durable long-term coalitions