Ryan Quinn

Familiars Union Local 785: The folks who brought you the Vampire Weekend.

Histories of technologies that don’t also consider the impact on the lives of the workers that developed, used, and were displaced by them are not worth reading. Labor histories and histories of technology are inextricable linked fields of inquiry.

The idea that a market crash will correct the behavior of the ultra wealthy corporate class responsible for developing the conditions under which the crash occurs requires blinding oneself to the history of almost every other crash.

Yeah, you could say I use the Socratic Method (asking annoying questions until the state puts me to death)

🚨New programming alert! We're excited to announce the Law and Political Economy Junior Faculty Forum, to be held at the University at Buffalo School of Law on Thursday, July 22, 2027. If you are a pre-tenure, tenure-track faculty member, you can apply here: forms.gle/GJpqYrrdfeXU...

Weekly Roundup: Omer Ein-Habar on the original sewer socialists, Ioannis Kampourakis on law as a produce force, and Yochai Benkler on the legal transformation of capitalism. Plus, a junior faculty forum, a call for book reviews, democracy's death by consultancy, and more!

One more reason to consider a 200-judge SCOTUS.

Great discourse on intellectual community this morning, and I just want to add that pushing course caps, teaching loads, and the institutional churn of structural precarity increasingly forces scholars into narrower, lonelier working conditions.

If we can’t democratize our professional association, how will we democratize our universities?

The socialist Left has no vision for what the content of publicly funded education should be. Universal, free access to what, exactly? "Free college," but what are you supposed to learn there? If you defer to institutions, then they'll use taxpayer dollars to make everything into a business school.

Rockstar Announces ‘GTA VI’ Soundtrack Contains 10,000 Songs By Randy Newman https://theonion.com/rockstar-announces-gta-vi-soundtrack-contains-10000-songs-by-randy-newman/

Annual reminder that “The Monster Mash” is about real events that happened in Teele Square.

It should cost money to send an email.

“The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.” Marx and Engels unbelievably vindicated

The city of Cambridge has moved to decriminalize sex work! Thank you @csindie.bsky.social @mhlevy.bsky.social for the great coverage. csindie.com/cambridge-de...

VICTORY!!! Last night, the Cambridge City Council voted 8-1 to pass a policy order that deprioritizes the arrest and prosecution of persons for consensual adult sex work. We are one step closer to statewide decriminalization. When we fight, we WIN.

Professor Elettra Bietti joins Alba Ribera Martínez on The Binary Agora podcast to discuss her new paper Technological Capture — how digital platforms shape antitrust and regulatory discourse. Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNLX... Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3F2o...

Absolutely. I think of slop as an explicit rejection of a mode of production

Beautiful sight this evening at North Station: Boston and Maine livery.

If he can’t appreciate the union difference, how is he going to appreciate you? #UnionsForAll #unionmemes

Union workers on Mars submitting their demands: 8 hours 13 minutes and 11 seconds for work 8 hours 13 minutes and 11 seconds for rest 8 hours 13 minutes and 11 seconds for what we will

A major new ProPublica investigation into sports betting apps’ “responsible gaming” practices references the symposium hosted by the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern Law. #NUSLPride www.propublica.org/article/draf...

Ask your doctor if turning off the lights and turning up Dwight Yoakam is right for you.

Just brought my kids to see Coyote v Acme and it’s great except kind of unrealistic about litigation. The movie vastly underplays the amount of dynamite used in trying a typical civil case.

Our nurses are the backbone of Massachusetts, and they deserve fair pay and good conditions. They fight tirelessly for us—we need to fight tirelessly for their rights. I stand with the Brigham Nurses and the Massachusetts Nurses Association and I urge all parties to come to the bargaining table.

Not going to gawk at western mass communities that I am not a part of, but it's beautiful how people go to great lengths to create community with very difficult people. The Globe's closing quote: "we just hope that there’s more repair than conflict...that’s the price you pay to be in community."

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

hell yeah! who are we doing labor law to next?

Had a lovely chat with @psychedelicbabymag.com where we discuss the making of "Jason To Jason" and the origins of my boots. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/jaso...

and all these celebs are promoting the gambling to kids and teens, no matter how hard they try to deny it

Where’s the write-up for people who are politically homeless because they have anarchist tendencies the more rigorous marxists reject? Why is it always center-right weirdos who get features?

Hm, pretty sure I can think of a bigger theft of labor in our history www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/t...

A minimum population size for local government in general would solve literally hundreds of problems. Lots of cities should be annexed or disincorporated.