Sethandrew61
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Sethandrew61
@sethandrew61.bsky.social
Bassist, roboticist, professor.
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For the rare jobs that do exist, faculty get to vote on who to hire. Many have an unofficial “no assholes” rule, which makes the working environment so much more pleasant for everyone. If you’re a grievance-obsessed weirdo, and there are 10 equally-qualified normal people, the decision is easier.
I have so much empathy and solidarity for those struggling with the painful and structurally unjust academic labor market, but this racial grievance shit is simply not the way.
December 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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‘We Ain’t Buying It’ — anti-Trump groups call for a full economic boycott over Thanksgiving weekend, urging consumers to skip Target, Amazon & Home Depot from Black Friday through Cyber Monday.
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Pretty proud of my new city and my mayor y today.
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
August 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.
March 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I'm pretty angry about my government kidnapping students who are here legally, with no judicial process, and not even an accusation of criminal behavior.

This is entry level Pinochet shit.
March 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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This is horrifying. She co-wrote an OpEd at her school, then was grabbed by masked people, put into an unmarked black van, is now detained in an ICE facility over 1000 miles away.
youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
Trying to limit the topics I post about, but this is my country and this one shook me. =(
Surveillance shows Tufts graduate student detained
YouTube video by WCVB Channel 5 Boston
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March 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.

This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”

University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
January 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM