Mark Igra

@markigra.bsky.social

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Sociology PhD at the University of Washington, studying altruism and morality. Former software guy. Started sciences.social.

Mail header: Katherine Courage, Vox "Ultra-processed" foods aren't as bad as you think. To: Mark Igra,
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World Cup watch party at Seattle Center. Man in foreground watching on his phone. Screen and base of space needle in background
Photo of 2 boxes of books. Mostly sociology: M ATLAS OF MORAL PSYCHOLO MEAD MIND, SELF & SOCIETY Religion and Volunte Calhoun CRITICAL SOCIAL T IDEOLOGY an introduction TERRY EAGLET THE GENESIS OF VA Elsenberg Reykowski Staub SOCIAL AND MORAL VALUES MCADAM FREEDOM SUMMER An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology Pierre Bourdieu ond Loit J. D. THE PEOPLE'S LOB Handbook of the SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTION Vasauez MORE THAN BELIE MATERIALIST THEORYof RELIGI WUTHNOW LOOSE CONNECTIONS Living "Illegal Michèle Lamont Money, Morals, & Manners SELF, IDENTITY, AND SOCIAL MOVEME Menjívar Kanstroom CONSTRUCTING IMMIGRANT "ILLEGALITY" WELLMAN EVANGELICAL US. LIBERAL WONG BOUNDARIES OF OBLIGATION IN AMERICAN POL The CIVIC LIFE of AMERICAN LICHTERMAY & POTTS Hans Joas PRAGMATISM AND SOCIAL THEO DOVIDIO • PILAVN THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR Advances in IDENTITY THEORY and RESEA 43071 2003 ON JUSTIFICATIO 2022 YUKICH ONE FAMILY UNDER GOD
Me wearing purple PhD getup being hooded by Kate in UNC Blue (I think)
NYT Recipe Cucumber, Melon and Watermelon Salad By Martha Rose Shulman Total Time 2 minutes
Photo of Joe McCarthy with text from Wikipedia Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin While the hearings went on, a photograph of Schine was introduced, and Welch accused Cohn of doctoring the image to show Schine alone with Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens. 14! On the witness stand, Cohn and Schine both insisted that the picture entered into evidence (Schine and Stevens alone was requested by Stevens and that no one was edited out of the photograph. Welch then produced a wider shot of Stevens and Schine with McGuire AFB wing commander Colonel Jack Bradley standing to Schine's right. A fourth person also edited out of the picture (his sleeve was visible to Bradley's right in the Welch photograph) was identified as McCarthy aide Frank Carr. 15]
From article: In December, state lawmakers passed a bill that forbids the release of information submitted by companies seeking tax breaks or other economic development incentives. That has made it more difficult for the public to weigh in.
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But another shift is also happening around celebrity, influence and getting ahead that does not favor the liberal feminist advice-giver. A girl boss is a boss first, girl second. And, bosses aren't very popular right now.
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Cover of Statistical Rethinking A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan by Richard McElreath, showing charts of march temperature and Day of first cherry blossom bloom from 900CE to 2000 CE
Just outside the hall, 20-somethings in rumpled suits were gathered in clusters, debating the merits of a ground invasion in Iran, the conservative backlash against those who were "J-pilled" (far-right slang for skepticism of Israeli influence), the backbreaking costs of American life, and what they saw as the slow demise of the Trump era.
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Each of these data companies touts its stable of pedigreed experts. Mercor says around 30,000 professionals work on its platform each week, while Scale Al claims to have more than 700,000 "M.A.'s, Ph.D's, and college graduates." Surge Al advertises its Supreme Court litigators, McKinsey principals, and platinum recording artists.
On the first part of the journey I was looking at all the life There were plants and birds and rocks and things There was sand and hills and rings The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz And the sky with no clouds The heat was hot, and the ground was dry But the air was full of sound
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The Supreme Court tried to address the gap in 1971 in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, allowing the victim of an unconstitutional search by federal agents to sue them. But the court has essentially abandoned that approach, saying instead that Congress must act if suits against federal officials are to be allowed.
"I think he must be doing something right when there are so many people opposed to him," said Paul Minihane, 77, a real estate broker who lives in Dedham, Mass. "I mean, Donald Trump could look at me in the face and tell me to go screw myself. And I'd say, "Thank you. I think that's good. I don't think he's looking to kiss everybody's ass. I think he's going to do what he thinks is the right thing. And I think that's a positive thing"
NYT Headline: Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by 'My Own Morality' Subhed: On topic after topic, President Trump made clear that he would be the arbiter of any limits to his authorities, not international law or treaties.
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So that's really the great question. I always think back to my series of interviews with this great Russian sociologist Lev Gudkov, who would show me these graphs of Putin's subjective economic well- being and Putin's popularity. And for about the first dozen years of Putin's being in power, they moved in concert. So subjective economic well-being dips, Putin's popularity dips. It rises, Putin's popularity rises — which is normal. And then subjective economic well-being takes a dive, and Putin's popularity skyrockets. And his interpretation was that this is when people accepted a trade-off: You are going to be poor, but in exchange for being poor, you are going to belong to something great. And that's the totalitarian trade-off. People made it in the Soviet Union; people make it all over the world. Are people going to make it in this country?
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Highlighted text: We are indeed witnessing Polanyi's "double movement" again, but this time the anti-market swing of his pendulum lacks centrist and left-wing components: Society's self-protection is challenging deep liberalization, as Polanyians have predicted, but the only strong counter-liberal voices emerge on the far right.
Shelves with kosher wine, grape juice, and matzo in the store display. I think there’s some honey on the top shelf.
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STATE OF WASHINGTON — OFFICE OF GOVERNOR BOB FERGUSON - August 19, 2025 Pamela Bondi Attorney General 950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Attorney General Bondi: I am in receipt of your letter dated August 13, 2025, which purports to notify me that Washington State "has been identified" as a "so-called sanctuary jurisdiction" — on grounds that your letter makes no effort whatsoever to explain. You refer to unidentified "policies and practices" within Washington State that violate federal law-again, without any explanation. You baselessly invoke federal obstruction, conspiracy, and harboring statutes that carry criminal penalties with prison time. You even threaten that state officials "operating under the color of law, using their official position to obstruct federal immigration enforcement efforts and facilitating or inducing illegal immigration may be subject to criminal charges." You are hereby notified that Washington State will not be bullied or intimidated by threats and legally baseless accusations. In the America that I love and have taught my children to revere, we resolve our differences peacefully through public discourse and, if necessary, through the courts—not by threatening political opponents with imprisonment. You take a different approach. You threaten me, police officers, state troopers, sheriffs, judges, and other officials with prison time. Why? Because our state legislature passed a bipartisan law that appropriately and lawfully limits the diversion of our state and local resources to federal immigration enforcement. Your threat to criminally prosecute state officials embarrasses and disgraces the office of the United States Attorney General.
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Around two thirty, class let out, and he'd walk over to MacArthur Park to spend the rest of his afternoon getting to know his new surroundings. The Salvadorans in the park-all men—had each narrowly escaped murder, unlike so many of their friends, relatives, and spouses. Other family members had stayed behind because traveling north was too dangerous, expensive, and uncertain. A large contingent of the men drank and raged and lurched around in a fog. Others drifted into a quieter, nightly oblivion, having spent the day working menial jobs to the point of exhaustion.
Screenshot from Dobbin 2009: Current diversity measures face little overt opposition in corporate America, in large part because the human resources profession has done such a good job of framing them as promoting efficiency, of depicting the problem as one of outdated personnel systems rather than as one of prejudice, and of making the case that the workforce is in the midst of becoming dramatically more diverse. [These successes suggest that corporate diversity programs will continue to flourish even in the absence of new legislation.](red highlight)
"People watch the news," Zavala said, referring to masked federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining persons off the street. "It's definitely having an impact. "I don't care about that stuff. I just know that this is affecting the growers directly whether they are Democrat or Republican or whatever. These growers will lose a lot of money and are risking losing their farms because of a lack of labor."
"No, no. We're not a king," Mr. Trump said. "We're not a king at all, thank you very much." In February, Mr. Trump likened himself to a king in another fight with Democrats in a blue state. As Mr. Trump sought to end congestion pricing for vehicles in New York City, the president declared on social media "CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!"
Senator Padilla being handcuffed by 3 officers laying on the ground.
From “Welcome to the Wretched” García Hernández 2024. p 115: But there's also an ideological commitment. Karp is a unique character. He's the company's CEO, a workaholic with a law degree and a Ph.D. in social theory who studied under the influential German philosopher Jürgen Habermas
Quote from García Hernández 2019 "Migrating to Prison", itself citing Dan Baum, Legalize It All: How to Win the War on Drugs , Harper’s (April 2016), https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/. : “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” the disgraced Nixon official John Ehrlichman told a reporter years later. “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
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Screenshot from wikipedia: Lurie attended Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, then earned a B.A. from Clark University, a master's degree in psychology from Boston University, and a doctorate in social policy from The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, where he wrote his thesis on the depiction of women in Hollywood movies. He has spent his adult life as a non-practicing Jew.l41 Prior to entering business, Lurie served as an adjunct assistant professor of social policy at Boston University.
These kinds of markets are conventional wisdom processors. That’s kind of a reference to Friedrich Hayek and the idea of markets as an information processor…there's a general idea among a certain rarefied group of people who are the most active participants in these markets and what is conventionally believed among them is really what drives things… The stock market would change very differently if suddenly, a week from now, all the major stock traders were scientists. What they would price in, especially around things like climate change, would be very, very different from the current set of participants.
= The Seattle Times "There's nothing you need to do - we've deducted the funds from LEONARD A. JOHNSON's account." Uh oh. It itemized how $5,201 had been stricken from their bank account, on the grounds that Ned wasn't justified to get those benefits - because he was dead. That was for payments he'd received in December and January. Ned found that his February Social Security check hadn't been paid, and he's yet to receive his March check, either. His Medicare insurance had been canceled. He also learned that when you die, your credit score gets marked as "deceased, do not issue credit," which makes it tough to get a loan.
The exchange ended with Mr. Trump telling Mr. Duffy that he had to hire people from M.I.T. as air traffic controllers. These air traffic controllers need to be "geniuses," he said.|
Highlighted text: "With one- sided visual identification, other-regarding behavior is more pronounced if dictators are provided with some information on who their respective recipient is, supporting Schelling's (1968) claim that "the more we know, the more we care."
Screenshot from R console: > xx <- "2025-02-01" > parse_datetime(xx) [1] "2025-02-01 UTC" > ifelse(is.null(xx), NA, parse_datetime(xx)) [1] 1738368000 > if_else(is.null(xx), NA, parse_datetime(xx)) [1] "2025-02-01 UTC" >
But according to the documents seen by Reuters, the tariffs on battery materials will be applied globally, something that should significantly increase the cost of a new EV. The transition team plans to allow individual countries to try to negotiate exemptions to the tariffs, Reuters wrote.