erika lynn has made a bluesky
@elschumacher.bsky.social
History/Human Rights PhD Candidate at UC Davis
Rice University (Duncan College) alumni 2019
head down, do the work. if i forget i made a bluesky, my apologies <3
Rice University (Duncan College) alumni 2019
head down, do the work. if i forget i made a bluesky, my apologies <3
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If you say this in a speech, NYU will withhold your diploma
May 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
If you say this in a speech, NYU will withhold your diploma
teaching is really fun, it is characteristic that my students have had to reassure me a few timess fbshgsyajwrb
April 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
teaching is really fun, it is characteristic that my students have had to reassure me a few timess fbshgsyajwrb
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“Tell me the wretched truth about America” is inspired rhetoric. Don’t tell me we were great. Tell me what’s wrong, what demands repair & redress. Show me what needs work.
Tell me, in short, the truth. I can take it. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Tell me, in short, the truth. I can take it. bsky.app/profile/atru...
April 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
“Tell me the wretched truth about America” is inspired rhetoric. Don’t tell me we were great. Tell me what’s wrong, what demands repair & redress. Show me what needs work.
Tell me, in short, the truth. I can take it. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Tell me, in short, the truth. I can take it. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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gf sent me this, took like 10 seconds to type "I fully support this initiative" and submit it
Lisa Kalayji (@LisaKalayji@infosec.exchange)
A ballot initiative in CA, provisionally called the "Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act", would enable people to sue their health insurance companies for significant damages if coverage denials ...
infosec.exchange
April 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
gf sent me this, took like 10 seconds to type "I fully support this initiative" and submit it
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This may be the most important thing he's said if only because it's very hard for people to admit they were wrong and seeing someone else do it makes it so much easier
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This may be the most important thing he's said if only because it's very hard for people to admit they were wrong and seeing someone else do it makes it so much easier
performative yea ok i kinda want my politicians to perform tho. kinda want them to do things.
April 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
performative yea ok i kinda want my politicians to perform tho. kinda want them to do things.
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if nothing else credit to cory booker for the longest speech a stanford guy has ever given without announcing a product that will doom us all
April 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
if nothing else credit to cory booker for the longest speech a stanford guy has ever given without announcing a product that will doom us all
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Cory Booker has just broken Strom Thurmond's record for longest Senate filibuster ever, which stood for 68 years.
Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism.
May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.
Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism.
May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.
April 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Cory Booker has just broken Strom Thurmond's record for longest Senate filibuster ever, which stood for 68 years.
Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism.
May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.
Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism.
May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.
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It may feel slightly corny sometimes but I think it's important for people to see that resistance is actually an option
April 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It may feel slightly corny sometimes but I think it's important for people to see that resistance is actually an option
thinking about the one political scientist who once shared a very compelling argument that the death penalty should only be for crimes exclusively committed by the ultra-wealthy
April 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
thinking about the one political scientist who once shared a very compelling argument that the death penalty should only be for crimes exclusively committed by the ultra-wealthy
constant whiplash between the intense short-term happenings and the fact that a phd is such a long-term project where im constantly making plans for years away while also not knowing what tomorrow will look like.
February 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
constant whiplash between the intense short-term happenings and the fact that a phd is such a long-term project where im constantly making plans for years away while also not knowing what tomorrow will look like.
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This was my view as soon as it happened which is why I spent some of Tuesday and all of Wednesday writing about it and then gave my editor a couple days to edit it. Had it out Friday January 31st. THEN all hell broke loose.
www.crisesnotes.com/everything-a...
www.crisesnotes.com/everything-a...
February 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This was my view as soon as it happened which is why I spent some of Tuesday and all of Wednesday writing about it and then gave my editor a couple days to edit it. Had it out Friday January 31st. THEN all hell broke loose.
www.crisesnotes.com/everything-a...
www.crisesnotes.com/everything-a...
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"The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break."
Tech bros love to say "move fast and break things." But whose things? Did they ask permission? And who suffers the consequences?
Tech bros love to say "move fast and break things." But whose things? Did they ask permission? And who suffers the consequences?
It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break.
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
February 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break."
Tech bros love to say "move fast and break things." But whose things? Did they ask permission? And who suffers the consequences?
Tech bros love to say "move fast and break things." But whose things? Did they ask permission? And who suffers the consequences?
"there are no stupid questions" is really a philosophy that gets smashed to bits in the 24 hours before students turn in their first paper of the quarter
February 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"there are no stupid questions" is really a philosophy that gets smashed to bits in the 24 hours before students turn in their first paper of the quarter
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CNN with an absolutely gigantic story:
"Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system."
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"Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system."
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...
Musk associates sought to use critical Treasury payment system to shut down USAID spending, emails show | CNN Politics
Four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using...
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February 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
CNN with an absolutely gigantic story:
"Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system."
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...
"Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system."
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...
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Now up on @lawfare.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/elon... "Musk is seemingly doing to the U.S. government what the U.S. government once did to the rest of the world: refashioning the plumbing ... into a political weapon against his adversaries. "
Elon Musk Weaponizes the Government
The billionaire is turning the U.S. government’s own strategy against itself.
www.lawfaremedia.org
February 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Now up on @lawfare.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/elon... "Musk is seemingly doing to the U.S. government what the U.S. government once did to the rest of the world: refashioning the plumbing ... into a political weapon against his adversaries. "
i like reading theory but my god. it is so hard to care about theory these days.
February 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
i like reading theory but my god. it is so hard to care about theory these days.
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This is a good way to put it. The only thing we're debating here is the terminology to describe the type of far-right eugenicist psycho we're dealing with. Even if Elon is not "technically" a Nazi he is something equally bad on the merits.
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If we define "Nazi" as an early 20th Century political/social movement then nobody is a Nazi. They're all dead.
But if you promote devout neo-Nazis, make Nazi salutes and espouse theories of ethnic purity and segregation, then you are whatever a Nazi would be called today.
But if you promote devout neo-Nazis, make Nazi salutes and espouse theories of ethnic purity and segregation, then you are whatever a Nazi would be called today.
January 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is a good way to put it. The only thing we're debating here is the terminology to describe the type of far-right eugenicist psycho we're dealing with. Even if Elon is not "technically" a Nazi he is something equally bad on the merits.
bsky.app/profile/pcol...
bsky.app/profile/pcol...
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No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
January 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
"multiculturalism" increasingly sounds like "cosmopolitanism" whenever i hear it
January 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"multiculturalism" increasingly sounds like "cosmopolitanism" whenever i hear it
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The RFK Jr. confirmation hearing has been scheduled for 1/29/25. The nomination is on shaky ground.
Here's the call to action: Reach Out To Your Senators and Urge Them To Oppose RFK Jr's nomination to be HHS Secretary
Here's how to do that, step-by-step:
Here's the call to action: Reach Out To Your Senators and Urge Them To Oppose RFK Jr's nomination to be HHS Secretary
Here's how to do that, step-by-step:
CTA: RFK Jr Nomination Hearing Scheduled - Time To Reach Out To Your Senators | Matthew Cortland
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January 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The RFK Jr. confirmation hearing has been scheduled for 1/29/25. The nomination is on shaky ground.
Here's the call to action: Reach Out To Your Senators and Urge Them To Oppose RFK Jr's nomination to be HHS Secretary
Here's how to do that, step-by-step:
Here's the call to action: Reach Out To Your Senators and Urge Them To Oppose RFK Jr's nomination to be HHS Secretary
Here's how to do that, step-by-step:
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Interesting call for papers from the British Library, English Heritage, and Kew 🗃️
'Gardens and Empires', deadline 17 February
gardensandempires.tiiny.site
'Gardens and Empires', deadline 17 February
gardensandempires.tiiny.site
January 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Interesting call for papers from the British Library, English Heritage, and Kew 🗃️
'Gardens and Empires', deadline 17 February
gardensandempires.tiiny.site
'Gardens and Empires', deadline 17 February
gardensandempires.tiiny.site
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As Trump prattled on about Mars, expansion, and "manifest destiny," I could not help but think of Cecil Rhodes's quote: “Expansion is everything...these stars . . . these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could.”
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Returning to Origins
Trump's Inauguration and the Ideology of Endless Expansion
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January 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
As Trump prattled on about Mars, expansion, and "manifest destiny," I could not help but think of Cecil Rhodes's quote: “Expansion is everything...these stars . . . these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could.”
www.unpopularfront.news/p/returning-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/returning-...