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7 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
For the millionth time, I’m begging non-profits to help me help you. For the love of 21st century god, figure out a mobile payment option.
“You should care enough about our mission to get up and get a credit card!”

I should…but do I? That’s the question you should be asking.
I give up on all these for-profit online business hustlers who don’t have PayPal or something similar. You just not about that life and it’s okay if we part ways.
Got time to make TikToks about how they’re grinding but I have to manually enter my address and credit card number. Okay.
Grind less and UX test more.

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8 Nov
Okay, here is one that needs translating. Someone in my neighborhood had an issue with a roofing company. Said company took 1/2 the roof off her house before realizing they had the wrong house. She posts about it online & people are mad at the homeowner. AM I TRIPPING?!
The general response - of hundreds - is that the homeowner should be glad to get a “free” roof. The second general response is that they’re unfair to the business. I feel like I’m losing my mind. THEY REMOVED HER ROOF.
Like, a person came home and half their roof was gone and yeah the company would patch it BUT THEY REMOVED YOUR ROOF.
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3 Nov
What @louise_seamster does in our conversation about student loan debt is an exemplar of public intellectualism and sociology at work. She connects observations about how tired her students are to macro wealth inequality.
Why are so many traditional aged students in fairly selective traditional 4 year colleges so exhausted? They are taking course overloads to double major and add a certificate or three to an internship and business incubator and a job.
Why are they doing this opportunity hoarding? Because the pressure of indebtedness shifts their relationship to time and achievement. They are trying to individually turn their debt into “good” debt, or the kind that will pay off.
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2 Nov
I am thrilled to talk to @louise_seamster for my guest host stint w/ the @ezraklein show. A lot happened as we tried to capture lightening in a bottle. But like all good sociology, context prevails. The Life-Altering Differences Between White & Black Debt nytimes.com/2021/11/02/opi…
The Biden Administration’s Build Back Better plan would increase PELL, limit 4profits’ access to the means-tested program, but drops things like free community college.
On debt forgiveness, the long rumored memo on whether the President can cancel debt without congressional approval has existed for months. A redacted version released just this week. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
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31 Oct
The latest installment touches on two things that are very important to me 1. your creative lifespan may be longer than that of a contractor but it isn’t infinite. Protect it. 2. If you go to court, you already lost. A court “win” is like winning an expired case of cheese.
Unless you’re part of some kind of class action suit, there is rarely such thing as a symbolic win in a civil case. And that’s the kind of case you are generally bringing in these matters.
It sucks so hard but number one is the baseline. Your future earnings are far more resilient than your past earnings. You know why? Your future earnings reflect what you learned from your past earnings. If given a choice, I always choose to protect my future earnings
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28 Oct
I feel like bragging about my class discussion a bit. We were talking about how and why information communities ask questions and judge new information. Really relevant, right? #vax #etc
Well, I started class with a "current events" item, which I try to do almost every week. This week it was close to home (which is more true than I would like these days). UNC is cutting $5 million dollars from its library budget. wunc.org/education/2021…
I may know more than the typical professor about higher education funding and structural changes in higher ed finance. You will also want to look for a new book from @CharlieEatonPhD on financialization of higher ed press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/auth…
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25 Oct
For those new to the Hallmark Christmas Movie Universe (HCMU, as it were), don’t fall for the early start. They dump all the duds early in the season with a few exceptions to tease you. It’s starts getting good next week.
One notable HCMU event:

Christmas in Harmony has to be the first time the romantic leads are two dark-skinned Black actors

You will also notice Luke James, which is way out of the HCMU comfort zone. You also get Loretta Devine and Michelle Williams. Totally out of HCMU league
Another HCMU tidbit: a generous schedule of all Black holiday content from
@ReadInColour
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