Brooke Harrington

ebharrington.bsky.social

20 October 2026 00:51

Trying a new thing here, hope to make it a regular feature: Economic Sociology Cool Paper of the Week. This 1 argues that offshore finance isn't just for *escape* from law--it can be a tool of governance. Sovereign states like China use it to project power globally. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Dave B

mrplowthatsmyname.bsky.social

19 October 2026 02:28

The slogan “Free Palestine” is intentionally designed to be divisive and cause chaos because it’s vaguely undefined. Does it mean a peaceful two-state solution? Or a call to genocide “from the river to the sea”? Activists know it could be either or anything in between and that’s the whole idea.

R. Souissi

rsouissivibes.bsky.social

19 October 2026 02:27

I really need y'all "Free Palestine" folks to understand something: I couldn't give two shits about Bibi or Hamas. I've been very clear on that, but I'm not going to drink y'all's Kool-Aid that all Israeli Jews are bad, and I'm not going to accept that Hamas are Freedom fighters.

Brooke Harrington

ebharrington.bsky.social

19 October 2026 00:27

Whenever I see articles about alleged "indoctrination" of teenagers by professors, I wonder: "Has this writer ever met a teenager or tried to get a teenager to do something?" Reality: professors are possibly the least influential people in the teens' lives. We can't even get them to do the reading.

Brooke Harrington

ebharrington.bsky.social

19 October 2026 00:27

The internet was built as a public good--like a public library, using taxpayer $...including the NSF grant that went to grad students Page & Brin in the 90s, giving them the means to build Google. Then guys like them privatized public goods--stole what we paid for & made themselves billionaires.