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Christina Wallace
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HBS entrepreneurship prof | human Venn diagram
Author, The Portfolio Life (‘23) & New to Big (‘19)
Entrepreneur | Musician | Broadway producer

www.christinawallace.com
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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maladroithe.bsky.social
This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jun 18
Vice-President JD Vance confirms he has joined BlueSky.

@jd-vance-1.bsky.social
JD Vance V @JDVance Just set up my page on @bluesky, hope to see you guys there! un valive @jd-vance-1.bsky.social Follow Hello Bluesky, I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you. States" supports this position). The implication of these arguments is that courts should defer to so-called expert con- There are several problems with appealing and deferring to the authority of the expert class. First, so-called experts have no license to countermand the "wisdom, fairness, or logic of legislative choices." FCC v. Beach Communications, Inc., 508 U. S. 307, 313 (1993). Second, contrary to the representations of the United States and the private plaintiffs there is no medical consensus on how best to treat gender dysphoria in children. Third, notwithstanding the alleged experts' view that young children can provide informed consent to irreversible sex-transition treatments, whether such consent is possible is a question of medical ethics that States must decide for themselves. Fourth, there are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here, as recent revelations suggest that leading voices in this area have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ide-logy to influence their medical guidand Taken together, this case serves as a useful reminder that the American people and their representatives are en- JD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social • 47s To that end, I found Justice Thomas's concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating. He argues that many of our so-called "experts" have used bad arguments anc substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth. JD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social • 46s I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids. What do you think?
June 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
Holy shit, New York!

Here’s the full view.

#NoKings #50501Movement
June 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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denisedwheeler.bsky.social
Today in Boston.

Over a million people turned out.

Even the drone couldn't get it all.

#NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest
June 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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drodrik.bsky.social
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
May 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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authorkaraj.bsky.social
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
May 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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anildash.com
Really like @albertatech.bsky.social’s humor videos, but this latest serious one explaining what we *don’t* know about how LLMs at a tech level is a great example of what can help enable better AI criticism. (For example, LLMs are *not* “just better autocomplete”.) youtu.be/nMwiQE8Nsjc
No one actually knows why AI works
YouTube video by Alberta Tech
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May 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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nytimes.com
Breaking News: Trump officials blame a mistake for setting off the tectonic confrontation with Harvard.
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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kenjennings.bsky.social
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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silencedogoodbos.bsky.social
These are precedented times. The cradle of liberty has witnessed the revolutionary spirit of generations of Bostonians. Boston has taken on tyrants before, and we’ll do it again.
#boston #silencedogood #nokings #resist
April 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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samwang.bsky.social
Princeton-area scientists, there will be a teach-in, Tuesday February 4, 4:30-6:30pm, to give everyone basic knowledge on what is happening to science, to individual rights, and to the federal government.

Target audience: faculty, graduate students, postdocs, staff.

In-person only. Ask around.
February 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
as profound a meditation on attention as anything I've read
mishellbaker.bsky.social Mishell Baker thankfully @mishellbaker.bsky.social · Jan 21
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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ericajoy.astrel.la
you know the rules
January 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014.
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
December 8, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
bashar al-assad won't read your posts celebrating his downfall, but all your friends who have deployed chemical weapons against children might. watch what you say and remember, be best.
December 6, 2024 at 10:07 PM
cmwalla.bsky.social
Ha! That's literally where I am right now. 2000 words due next week... and I haven't started. I mean, I have ideas of a plan for an outline of a draft.
ncrenic.bsky.social Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · Dec 4
Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 4, 2024 at 10:44 PM
cmwalla.bsky.social
Broke my rule by putting up the Christmas tree today (before Thanksgiving) and the universe punished me by making none of the twinkle lights work.

I replaced bulbs. Fuses. Untangled things. Jumped on one foot and sang a song. No dice.

Let this be a warning if you were considering early 🎄cheer.
November 23, 2024 at 10:17 PM
cmwalla.bsky.social
Today is my third annual improv training for Harvard business school professors!

When I started teaching case method five years ago I realized it wasn’t like public speaking or even conducting an orchestra but rather like doing improv comedy.

Close listening, staying in the moment, “yes, and…”
November 21, 2024 at 1:20 PM
cmwalla.bsky.social
This is the single best editing work I’ve ever seen. Also it brings me joy. Whether you’re a Swiftie or not, take a peek.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYeTdGoT/
We 🫶🏼 you @Taylor Swift ✨The Eras Tour (Group Chat Version) [10 Minutes Version] ✨ Starring: @Manon ✨ @micherable @Melinda Zimmerman @_heidijune @Carla (Era’s Version) @Irina Doman-Devine @annepoltor...
TikTok video by Tash (Taylor’s Version) ⸆⸉
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November 15, 2024 at 1:29 AM
cmwalla.bsky.social
@markjosephson.bsky.social one by one, we reassemble here.

Made me smile to see your face in my notifications. Would love to catch up someday soon!
November 14, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Hi everyone.

The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.

We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.

We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.

I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social Popehat of Serious Proportion @kenwhite.bsky.social · Nov 13
In the spirit of “actually Nero was quite good with that fiddle,” some parts of society collapsing will be funny.
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Nov 13
Had to check that this was real and it is

thehill.com/homenews/hou...
November 13, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it. Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM
cmwalla.bsky.social
I made two apple pies for our 2016 election party to be eaten when they called it for Hilary.

After everyone staggered out, drunk and in tears, I took the pies to my super and I haven’t eaten apple pie since.

In 2020 I took a double dose of NyQuil and went to bed early. A much better choice.
hellafitzgerald.bsky.social Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · Oct 22
listen I know nothing about basically anything, but one of the few pieces of categorically iron-clad advice I can offer from my own terrible past choices is: do not do this, do not under any circumstances do this, do not throw an election night party, please just trust me
a screenshot of an NYMag headline that reads “The Parties You Can Throw on Election Night: Two weeks from tonight? You still have time.”
October 22, 2024 at 10:46 PM