Tim Recuber

My most recent book, The Digital Departed (2023, NYU Press) has been reviewed in Nature, Contemporary Sociology, Social Forces, American Journal of Sociology & many more. nyupress.org/978147981496...

The Israeli government has displaced a total of 6 million people from their homes. (3 million Iran, 2 million Gaza, 1 million Lebanon). 6 million people. The equivalent of the entire population of Maryland displaced from their homes. By one government.

“Congress needs to impeach Kennedy now and put a stop to this grotesque circus”. My friend and fellow @defendpublichealth.bsky.social member, @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy, nails it in this article about the continuing ACIP goat rodeo.

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

When reporters would ask me about "how will the public see the effects of DOGE?" my answer was pretty unsatisfying. 1. Performance declines in orgs that deliver direct and measurable services (e.g. IRS, VA, SSA) 2. Emergencies reveal lack of expertise when you need it. The Iran war is a #2 case.

Things are going great fortune.com/2026/03/17/r...

Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

Kinda wild that the industry that has given us 27 Marvel movies and 6 Scary Movies got so mad over one small comment about ballet. Looks like the LA Ballet folded after its first decade and was dormant from 1985-2004 too. They just hate Chalamet that much!

The comments on this Reddit post are amazing. AI is destroying the corporate world and yet all we hear about in education is how we need to incorporate AI into our lessons now www.reddit.com/r/technology...

Companies never returned their prices to normal after 2-3 months of slowdown in global manufacturing during COVID so this time ought to be great too!

Excellent thread.

This is the true promise of AI: allowing people to live in a fantasy world of their own design. Just psyching yourself up with nonsense images that reflect a completely deranged worldview with no connection to actual events at all. Your life gets worse and worse but the images get better and better

Protesting students were arrested, expelled, and beaten up for an entire year while Democrats were in charge. Now Democrats expect them to keep protesting? Gtfoh

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

This can’t be real why are people treating it like it’s real it’s not real right?!

Almost every Democratic response to this shit right now starts with five sentences about how bad the Ayatollah was and how it was obviously good to destroy him with a missile and thanking our brave men and women in uniform before uttering a single criticism

Truly astounding how many really evil people there are in the world, and how in the US we have created a system that elevates the worst of them into positions of tremendous power

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters." www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

There are obv so many impeachable things to choose from but a nice simple one is “started a war without congressional approval AND has absolutely no idea why he did it”

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter www.statesman.com/business/art...

Going great

The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.

Every Democrat running for office in the next three years needs to make putting the people responsible for this brutality behind bars a center piece of their campaign. No “looking forward not backward” bs this time

Small price to pay to have a machine that can automatically write emails three times as long as a human would

The majority of America’s teachers — a whopping 71% — have at least one side job because they’re so underpaid. Meanwhile, the country is about to be launched into a long, drawn-out war that has already cost an estimated $2 billion. Priorities.

If basic standards of consent were applied to most AI systems they would all collapse. It’s just easiest to see it sometimes with this kind of ghoulish death tech

Big W from Tish James here.

10 years ago, Bernie Sanders warned America of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a regime change war with Iran. Watch.

Add it to the list but if Democrats ever return to power every one of these end times freaks needs to be removed from govt service. Go run a church or whatever but no one who thinks like this should be in charge of waging war ffs!

Flipping through this today for no particular reason

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

But we were assured* that robo cars were so much safer!! *by people who would profit from the implementation of robo cars

In my younger days I thought pro-war Dems were just spineless capitulators but over time I learned they really just love war. Even now, when Trump is wildly unpopular & this war is wildly unpopular, they just can’t quit loving war.

How long until we start hearing that holding midterm elections would be playing right into the Iranians hands?

I feel much safer now that the supreme leader of Iran is dead, don’t you?

Democrats fail to meet the moment, once again.

“The Ayatollah was a very bad man, and we are glad he’s gone, but we have sent a strongly worded letter to President Trump reminding him about the high price of groceries and gasoline.”

There really are not many more prescient quotes than this

Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.

“In 2003, the road to war in Iraq was paved with lies about nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. The path to a new conflict in Iran 23 years later has been lined largely with incoherence or silence.”