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Sam Workman

@sam-workman.bsky.social

🍸cocktails 📜 policy 📊 data 📍Morgantown, West Virginia, Appalachia 🌎 https://samuelworkman.owlstown.net 🌏 https://open.substack.com/pub/samuelworkman

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Sam Workman@sam-workman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Flock cameras in WV, courtesy of deflock.org.

DeFlock Maps | ALPR Camera Map & Privacy Routes

Explore ALPR camera locations and plan privacy-optimized routes across the United States.

maps.deflock.org

Sam Workman@sam-workman.bsky.social · 2d ago

The WV Legislature is looking like they will, thankfully, weigh in on the debate over Flock cameras. I don't think a lot of folks realize that even the most progressive towns or cities are undermining privacy with these contracts - and unwittingly or dimwittedly abetting the surveillance state.

Justin Gerdes@justingerdes.bsky.social · 5d ago

@energyinnovation.org on the impact of federal energy policy decisions since Jan 2025: 152GW lost clean energy capacity additions through 2030 and 637GW through 2040, an extra $650bn in energy costs for households, and $2.3trn in lost GDP 2026-2040: thepowerline.substack.com/p/federal-en... 🔌💡

Federal Energy Policy Will Increase Energy Bills, Cut Off Affordable Electricity Generation Additions

More emissions, higher consumer costs, dirtier air, and less power when we need it most

thepowerline.substack.com

Sam Workman@sam-workman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Yes, too many people miss that point. For folks that just think the administration is inept in everything, you'd be hard pressed to find a president in the last 200 years who was better at getting what they want. You could also say no president learned the lessons of his first term better.

Jill Lawrence@jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 4d ago

"The goal isn’t programs that work well, it’s to save money for their priorities—military interventions, tax breaks for rich people and corporations, and immigration dragnets, deportations, and detentions." www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-making...

Sam Workman@sam-workman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Gonna be a lot more of this - even here in Morgantown (where I'm on our water utility board), we have thousands of attempts to breach the systems governing drinking water and wastewater.

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)

Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.

nytimes.com

Sam Workman@sam-workman.bsky.social · last wk.

Yes. And I think on the ground, we're going to be studying gambling soon the same way we study the cocaine and opioid epidemics in a future decade. It saturates life for a few generations younger than me, especially among young men.

Brian Cook@2ndadminstate.bsky.social · last wk.

Professional sports worldwide have gotten so corrupt and infected by the likes of Draft Kings that they make thoroughbred horse racing look relatively clean by comparison.

Michael Paarlberg@mpaarlberg.bsky.social · last wk.

An irony of the current discourse about standards of social science research is it reproduces the very shoddy practices it decries: confirmation bias, correlation-causation fallacy, ecological fallacy, over-generalization, cherry-picking anecdotal evidence, advocacy over empirics

Essay | Is It Time to ‘Liquidate’ the Study of Sociology?

Sociology has long been tasked with investigating society’s most pressing challenges. But these days, sociologists’ greatest obstacle may be themselves.

wsj.com

Doug Thompson@dithomps.bsky.social · 3w ago

The earliest surviving Egyptian papyrus is the daily logbook of a bureaucrat named Merer (ca. 2550 BCE). Merer supervised the production of limestone for the outer shell of the Great Pyramids at Giza. Many of the “great achievements of civilization” have indeed “come from government bureaus.”

Cato Institute@cato.org · 3w ago

"The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus." — Milton Friedman. They were driven by individual liberty and free markets. And they always will be.

Marcella Alsan@marcellaalsan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Open access in QJE!📢 Using newly assembled archival data, we show how the AMA's nationwide campaign against national health insurance, labeling it "socialized medicine" and promoting private insurance, helped steer the U.S. away from universal health care academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association

Abstract. This article examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical

academic.oup.com