Political scientist at UMBC. I study U.S. public opinion, media & politics, political psychology & the scholarship of teaching & learning.
Dad, husband, author, Tar Heel, baltimore enthusiast
www.iananson.com
Ian Anson
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Had a baby in 2026; we can receive a $1k deposit in a so-called #TrumpAccount.
What they don't tell you until you get this email is that "Trump Accounts" are managed by #Robinhood. They provide "educational resources" to help invest...
Robinhood is a giant retail investor money vacuum. Yikes! 🙃
Ian Anson
Tired parent brain: baby was born in 2025.
Anyway, Robinhood is bad... www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/t...
We attached a giant inflatable dinosaur sprinkler to our house so the kids could play. Then we lost the normal hose nozzle.
So now we water the garden by hugging the dinosaur and swaying to and fro.
I find it revealing that so many Americans conceive of success in terms of ever more cartoonish *scale* rather than new *objectives.* A truck. No, a bigger truck. No, the biggest truck you can imagine. A house. No, a bigger house. No, the biggest McMansion of all. A boat. No, a bigger boat. No...
I could go have an iced tea and read a magazine, or I could hover over my desk and watch a glmm struggle to converge. Sadly, I know exactly what I'll be doing for the next half hour.
The prevailing drive in tech is to "remove friction" from our lives, eventually transforming us into frictionless spheres floating through a vacuum of loneliness
