My new article in APSR is out, where I engage critically with Yuhua Wang's (2022) study on the political geography of Wang Anshi's Reform, and explore the inherent limitations of quantitative history.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · last wk.

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - Is Blood Thicker Than Water(-and-Earth)? Partisanship Geography in Imperial China and the Limits of Quantitative History - https://cup.org/4h3uBLm - @linsantu.bsky.social #FirstView

我和林垚老师聊聊世界杯 @linsantu.bsky.social youtu.be/29o5Vldl8NY?...

EP84与林垚博士聊聊世界杯

YouTube video by 涵瞰世界 Devil's Advocate

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My article, "Philosophy as a Normative Discipline", which was accepted by Philosophy @triphilosophy.bsky.social last year, is finally online (& open access)! It outlines my "normative" account of the nature, point & peculiarities of philosophy. Dare I say it's the best metaphilosophical paper ever?😜

This is so funny

Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · last mo.

Read this whole story 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...

Asked a contractor pal about the $13M paint job peeling off the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Him: I knew that was going to happen. Me: How? Him: You can't rush that kind of job. The pool bottom has to be really dry or it'll exude water. And you have to clean it like a mofo first...

The slave power was the social power that accumulated to the big plantation owners, by extension their states, and through those states, their influence on the federal government

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Enemies of slavery referred to the institution as "the slave power." Republicans like Lincoln recognized quite clearly that they needed to fight slavery not just to save the slaves, but to liberate the country as a whole from the grip of the slave power.” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

Trump has his own party so absolutely flip-fucked, pretzeled and upside down over this that they're on TV arguing we actually *wanted* Iran to win the war

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

KAITLAN COLLINS: Are you okay with Iran having missiles? SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I prefer that they not, but they have to defend themselves COLLINS: You think Iran needs to be able to defend itself? MARSHALL: I do, otherwise we turn this into a forever war

If an undergraduate at Columbia said something like this the NYPD would immediately napalm the campus

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

367/ “I think [Israel] could do better … I'm not saying they shouldn't protect themselves. I'm saying when two drones are shot into the desert and drop harmlessly, you don't have to knock down buildings in Beirut. They could behave better…”

CHOTINER oh my god

Mayor of Funkytown@quasarfunk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

lol

OK... I wasn't going to do a thread about this, but after trying to draft something short and pithy, I'm going to. It's a thread from my perspective, as someone who was a student of Paul Boghossian, an analytic philosophy acolyte, who abandoned the views of this about 15 years ago. 🧵

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very awkward for the presidents of two major US universities, as well as a series of highly regarded scholars (Keane Anthony Appiah!) to publicly shit in their own their trousers like this: www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

One problem is that, even if this works in theory/narrow settings, in practice it faces a severe collective action/partial compliance problem: for various reasons, many people are going to engage/platform them anyway, which might make partial non-platforming ineffective or even counterproductive.

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Research finds the most effective way to combat extremism is just to refuse to platform it. Resist the temptation to engage, which will draw your followers into a fray that could have been quietly ignored (and stigmatized through a refusal of attention).

That's why you find a variation of this theme in all working cities (that work for people). Because there is a sweet spot for height, density that makes cities great.

Jonathan Berk 🏠@berkie1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A new @pewresearch.org study finds that infill housing near jobs, stores, and transit costs governments ~$21,000 less per home to serve, cuts long term infrastructure maintenance costs in half, and generates 13% more in annual property tax revenue per acre than sprawl.

The Board at chapel hill denied tenure without justification (written or otherwise) in move that cannot help but appear to be politically motivated, based on “DEI.” Add your name to a petition here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/hi...

Hire Dr. Asher, Follow UNC Rules

I signed a petition calling on the Board of Trustees of UNC Chapel Hill to reverse their decision to deny hiring and tenure to a university-approved candidate. The Trustee “no” vote contradicts unive...

actionnetwork.org

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026

When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...

journals.sagepub.com

rude af

Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂@rude1.blacksky.team · 2mo ago

in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that

The absolute fucking insult to injury here is that he's using the language of reparations re: these traitors. THAT'S the headline. "Just compensation for people who were mistreated by their government" oh you mean like a Constitution protecting slavers? FHA's redlining? Mass incarceration?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Q: The price tag of this DOJ fund -- $1.8 billion. You have people that can't afford groceries, gas is high. How can you justify this? JD VANCE: I reject the idea we can't walk and chew gum at the same time

That's right. Our single member districts are another anachronism that was, at the time it was introduced, a wholesome innovation. Congress forced states to use them starting in the mid-1800s to end the unfair practice of states allocating all seats to the party who controlled the state legislature.

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Don't print lies in the newspaper. (At the time of the founding, at-large statewide elections were more common than districting, and it remained very common although steadily declining until 1842.)

Surprise!! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres

Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar error

theguardian.com

Truly not a day has passed in a political science department in the UK for the last two years where we are not all turning to each other in the hallways and going "WTAF are they smoking." We are not a discipline with a lot of consensus research findings, but there is absolute consensus on this.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Breaking: it turns out that a strategy that literally every political scientist went 'No, don't do that. That's nuts!' is, in fact, nuts.

《催稿拉黑》上新 open.spotify.com/episode/41nF...

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Florida's new congressional map is officially on the books. The map aims to pick up 4 Democratic-held seats, which would expand the GOP's edge across Florida's 28 district from 🔴20-8🔵 to 🔴24-4🔵.

“The danger of Callais, then, goes beyond the VRA, too. It was not enough for the Roberts Court to kill the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement. Callais hollows out the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment in order to ensure that no other civil rights law gets the chance to live.”

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

so far, much of the analysis of Callais out there is focused on what the Court's rulings did to the Voting Rights Act, which is reasonable but now I want to talk about what the Court did to the Constitution bc the threat of Callais goes far beyond the VRA alone ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

Cook Co prosecutors are trying to block nearly every exonerated person who is seeking a certificate of innocence, which can help w/ getting jobs, housing and modest state compensation More great digging by @injusticewatch.org on the changing approach to innocence claims by the new state's attny

In Chicago, Prosecutors Fight to Keep Exonerated People from Clearing Their Names - Bolts

Under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, Cook County prosecutors have tried to block nearly every exonerated person who has sought a court declaration of their innocence. It's another stark sign o...

boltsmag.org

This is kind of brilliant. You know Donald's watching.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

CROW: Is it true that Parlatore disparaged President Trump? HEGSETH: Ah -- No C: Is it true that Parlatore was accused by Trump of lying? H: This is going nowhere C: It's going somewhere. You are repeatedly going behind his back, appointing people he accused of lying, & you're not being honest

Republicans can accuse Democrats of anything they want to, regardless of propriety or truth value, without repercussion, but Dems are consistently forced to use measured tones to describe Republicans no matter how outrageous their actions.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

CNN's Phil Mattingly offers zero pushback after Jim Jordan claims Democrats have "a grand plan" to flood the country with undocumented criminals and that's why they don't want to fund ICE

My intellectual hero is George R. R. Martin. Whenever I procrastinated, he would save me from self-pity by not completing The Winds of Winter.

上个月在纽约文化沙龙的两场讲座录音。 论自由： www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/69d6... 论民主： www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/69ee...