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Nick Wilson
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Sociology (Historical, Political, Cultural, of Science, etc.)
Modernity's Corruption: https://tinyurl.com/y596p54t
After Positivism: https://tinyurl.com/3nrfakrj
nickwilsonsoc.org
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It is my long held belief that Top Secret! is the better ZAZ movie than Airplane! even as so many people I know disagree.
November 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Why hello there former US Treasury Secretary, president of Harvard, and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers.

Sharing with alt so we can all bask in his hidden insights that we are NOT allowed to share.

And here's the source link:
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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The best comparison case for LLMs I can think of pre-coffee is pumpkin spice. LLMs are the pumpkin spice of the corporate world. Pumpkin spice can be lovely in very limited quantities and proper recipes. But not when it’s on absolutely every single friggin food group in the supermarket.
No one can tell me a single good use for it, for me. I have asked. Not a one.
What am I supposed to use it for? To summarize my emails? Too long, wrong. To write things? Too long, wrong. To plan trips? Planning is FUN and why would I outsource that? I played with it a bit six months ago, it was meh.

Also, I hate its enshittification of search results with my whole soul.
November 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Last night is gonna be a real thinker for Ezra Klein
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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NYMag blew up its story about ICE's increased presence at 26 Federal Plaza, and pasted it on a wall a few blocks away on Broadway
November 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
November 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Statement from United University Professions President Frederick E. Kowal regarding the detainment of a UUP Upstate Chapter member by ICE:

Statement in following posts. (1/6)
October 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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My father worked on an offshore wind farm. Woke up early every morning before dawn to wrangle the zephyrs out to pasture, then he had to milk the breezes. Sometimes one of the gales would get a little rowdy.

He died of whale-lung at the age of forty two.
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Here we go! Awesome new edition of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS from @beehivebooks.bsky.social! Kickstarter is live NOW!
⛵LIVE on @kickstarter.com! Lorenzo Mattotti & @pattonoswalt.bsky.social reimagine GULLIVER’S TRAVELS as a blazing art book. Swift's satirical tale takes aim at imperial violence, the savage pomposity of the "civilized" and the twisted heart of modern man... themes more relevant now than ever. ⬇️
October 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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auntifa
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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When you don't use virgin olive oil in your kitchen
October 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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President Trump said he had an MRI earlier this month, telling reporters Monday that the results had been “perfect” but declining to say why his doctors had ordered the scan. He also reiterated that he was interested in serving a third term.
Trump Says a Recent M.R.I. Scan Was ‘Perfect,’ and He’d ‘Love’ a Third Term
President Trump made the comments on the second day of his trip to Asia. The Constitution limits presidents to two terms, but Mr. Trump has suggested he might try to circumvent it.
nyti.ms
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
So....later?
October 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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get your math politics jokes here, folks.
If the administration approaches an infinite number of universities to sign on, but it still can achieve its goals if only a finite number of them do, I guess it really would be a “compact.”
October 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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In the latest episode of Moral Matters, the @AMSS_Section podcast, ASA member Nicholas Hoover Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social @stonybrooku.bsky.social discusses his book Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India @columbiaup.bsky.social.
Modernity's Corruption with Nicholas Hoover Wilson
Moral Matters: Conversations with Sociologists on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity · Episode
bit.ly
October 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
October 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Known from The Bugle!!!!
Known from All Fantasy Everything and Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
This weekend I’ll be telling jokes in New Orleans if that’s the kind of thing that’s interesting to you! Tickets: www.sportsdrink.org
October 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I am proud to say: I am that T-Rex! ;)
Port Jefferson Station. The crowd was about the same as last time. Perhaps a little bigger?

I saw no violence from protesters. They had face painting and bubbles.

The only "violence" was a few Maga people giving the finger or shouting "things" that of course incites a reaction.
October 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM