@carnes.bsky.social
Co-Author of Keeping Workers Off the Ballot (Oct. 2026) Author of White-Collar Government and The Cash Ceiling Co-Editor of The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe 1 & 2 Bio/Foster/Adoptive Parent Boycott "a.i." Opinions my own (not my employer's)
@ketanjoshi.coReposted by @carnes.bsky.socialDriving at 5x the speed limit next to a primary school saves me 5 minutes on my commute to work
@anthonymoser.comReposted by @carnes.bsky.socialsome potential usefulness here for the ai / cigarettes analogy
@noamlupu.bsky.socialReposted by @carnes.bsky.socialMy book with @carnes.bsky.social is finally out! We explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics.
@emilymbender.bsky.socialReposted by @carnes.bsky.socialAnthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
@techpolicypress.bsky.socialReposted by @carnes.bsky.social“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.
@scholars.orgReposted by @carnes.bsky.social🤝 How can climate advocates build coalitions with labor?
In this brief, Geoffrey Henderson (@umich.edu) shares lessons on coalition building from interviewing labor & climate advocates. Key takeaway: coalitions need well-designed policies and inclusive processes.
@princetonupress.bsky.socialReposted by @carnes.bsky.socialIn Keeping Workers Off the Ballot, @carnes.bsky.social and @noamlupu.bsky.social explain why the underrepresentation of the working class in political office is an inevitable side effect of electoral democracy itself.
Available now.
Learn more: buff.ly/qR0EshP
@carnes.bsky.socialSaying that you learned what a book has to teach from an LLM summary of it is like saying you got the full effect of the song "Hey Ya!" by never listening to it but just reading the sentence "Relationships are hard."
@carnes.bsky.socialThat's awful. So sorry. Thanks for sharing -- I think it can be hard for people who didn't grow up with parents like this to understand the severity of the parental behavior that prompts kids to cut their parents off.
@marisakabas.bsky.socialReposted by @carnes.bsky.sociali feel this more and more every day
@carnes.bsky.socialI would encourage people to email. These guys can be kind of rough on people who ignore them :)
@aeporreca.orgReposted by @carnes.bsky.socialThe Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements
@chrislhayes.bsky.socialReposted by @carnes.bsky.socialNo AI for kids. Full stop.
@gregpak.netReposted by @carnes.bsky.socialAt Monday's hearing, City Councilmember Eric Dinowitz repeatedly asked an OpenAI rep if this tech would write entire essays for students and she repeatedly avoided answering. The entire company is predatory trash run by obfuscators and liars.
@carnes.bsky.socialIt’s another beautiful day to be boycotting this whole silly mess.
@edswaine.bsky.socialReposted by @carnes.bsky.socialIt's nicer when the feed doesn't run over with posts mocking someone's appearance.
@carnes.bsky.socialThanks so much. I didn't know this was a thing. Just updated settings. I really appreciate you saying something!
@burrata.bsky.socialReposted by @carnes.bsky.social“Universities must stop falling in love with every new piece of software … that the tech industry pitches as essential. Administrators spend on software as if it is a durable investment, when all of the evidence shows that it … makes bloat worse.”
@carnes.bsky.socialReposted by @carnes.bsky.socialIt's finally publication day for this decade-in-the-making book. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics.
@comixaction.comReposted by @carnes.bsky.socialLet's GOOOO NYC! Please sign this petition and tell @mayor.nyc.gov to CANCEL the "A.i." pilot programs that would turn up to 50,000 NYC high schoolers into guinea pigs for tech companies!