Luke
@elmas12.bsky.social
History PhD candidate studying deindustrialization and job training in the Rust Belt/Appalachia.
Another day, another unfortunate instance of that one Jesse Farrar tweet continuing to be The Most Correct Anyone Has Ever Been About Anything
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Another day, another unfortunate instance of that one Jesse Farrar tweet continuing to be The Most Correct Anyone Has Ever Been About Anything
tl:dr Dems trying to appeal to more conservative voters not only doesn’t work most of the time, but it wouldn’t improve the country’s situation even if it did.
November 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
tl:dr Dems trying to appeal to more conservative voters not only doesn’t work most of the time, but it wouldn’t improve the country’s situation even if it did.
@lawcha.bsky.social Kindly published my review of Abundance on their LaborOnline blog
Abundance: a Labor History Critique | LAWCHA
What remains to be said about Abundance, the book that’s launched a thousand takes? Authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson cast their book as a novel
lawcha.org
August 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
@lawcha.bsky.social Kindly published my review of Abundance on their LaborOnline blog
The response to this specifically (“But his family gave permission!”) and the strike in general by self-identified “gamers” and others who worship at the altar of pop culture is not surprising, but it is disappointing. And makes my desire for furthering labor/political education all the stronger.
James Earl Jones's estate approved the AI remix of his voice in Fortnite but SAG-AFTRA voice actors filed an unfair labor practice charge because it's scabbing-by-ghost
Video game voice actor union takes Fortnite's Darth Vader chatbot to court
Epic Games and Llama Productions are the subject of an unfair labour practice charge from the SAG-AFTRA union.
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May 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The response to this specifically (“But his family gave permission!”) and the strike in general by self-identified “gamers” and others who worship at the altar of pop culture is not surprising, but it is disappointing. And makes my desire for furthering labor/political education all the stronger.
Reading Brent Cebul on supply-side liberalism and it’s abundantly clear the extent to which “Abundance” advocates are merely New Democrats warmed-over. As the saying goes, first as tragedy, then as farce
May 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reading Brent Cebul on supply-side liberalism and it’s abundantly clear the extent to which “Abundance” advocates are merely New Democrats warmed-over. As the saying goes, first as tragedy, then as farce
Today I found a brief article in a 1979 issue of Steelabor lamenting the tendency of certain journalists to swoop into blue-collar areas and declare themselves working-class whisperers. I’ll post a screenshot later. They call it “shot and beer journalism”.
February 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Today I found a brief article in a 1979 issue of Steelabor lamenting the tendency of certain journalists to swoop into blue-collar areas and declare themselves working-class whisperers. I’ll post a screenshot later. They call it “shot and beer journalism”.
Got symphony tickets for my birthday, but in a turn of events that would make Adorno roll over in his grave, the orchestra will be performing music from an anime soundtrack.
December 5, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Got symphony tickets for my birthday, but in a turn of events that would make Adorno roll over in his grave, the orchestra will be performing music from an anime soundtrack.
Reading some Bifo this evening and then maybe a bit of Liedman’s Marx biography before bed.
December 4, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Reading some Bifo this evening and then maybe a bit of Liedman’s Marx biography before bed.