Sociology PhD and Providence RI busybody. The views expressed here are my own, with no organizational affiliations. Low on pithiness.
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Alongside many other transphobic billionaires and politicians, at least three people covered in my article about anti-trans Epstein associates are listed in what appears to be an attendee list of Peter Thiel private society conference attendees: Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, and Steven Pinker
I am no connoisseur of the Epstein list, but I saw three names that are in the middle of that cabal venn diagram.
"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...
but! but! how do you sell the students a piece of paper that doesn’t have explicit metric of their economic value that they can try to exchange for a job??
getting rid of grades entirely would be much more effective at curbing surreptitious use of genAI than any amount of surveillance, would do vastly less harm to the pedagogical relationship at the heart of education, and wouldn't be another massive economic windfall for the creepiest people you know
A long-overdue name change recognizes PMOS as a complex metabolic and endocrine disorder—but meaningful progress will require far greater investment in women’s health research.
In other - lighter, local - news: I'm on the board of the Seekonk (MA) Land Trust, and we have a job opening.
👉🏻 Please share with anyone who might be interested.
🍃(It's very in person, so RI & MA especially.)
www.seekonklandtrust.org/news
Gift link.
@davidmoralespvd.bsky.social for Mayor!
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/u...
Gift link, bc @tressiemcphd.bsky.social does not miss. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
