Forest Gregg

A friend recently assured me that polymarket could beat any polls, because more people meant more information was integrated in the "prices". I guess that's their bet, but yesterday… it didn't work observablehq.com/@fil/polymar...

i like to hear the fans on my laptop spin, because that's how i know i am amortizing my investment.

simple question worth asking: why would the Dallas Cowboys, of all teams, voluntarily recognize a worker union, and to what extent will an independent union be able to bargain against one of the wealthiest sports franchises in the world? seems worth digging into that one.

best thing i read this week: bernard william's "persons, character and morality" people.whitman.edu/~frierspr/Pe...

the dallas cowboys doing what most progressive non-profits seem unable to do: voluntarily recognize a union

what's your guess of how non-nlrb routes compare to nlrb routes for getting new workers covered by a union contract? 1. about half of the nlrb route 2. about the same 3. about twice the nlrb route

we've had at least two decades of debate about state of the labor movement without having really much of an idea of how much organizing is really happening.

papa, how do you write maniple

@danielpinkwater.bsky.social's /the snarkout boys and the avocado of death/ is the ultimate text on lower wacker, but not everyone acknowledges that yet.

in a professional setting, some people are simply goobers.

the local running store doesn't carry yaktrax anymore. climate change is real.

nice website by @jonnekamphorst.bsky.social and his collaborators. unionelectionstats.com

historical agencies should not have changed the way they track things during the exact same period that something changed that you are trying to understand. that's my opinion.

So the eighth grader took her CPS admissions test on Saturday with scores of other non-CPS students. Admissions to selective enrollment high schools in Chicago are 50% 7th grade grades and 50% test score. A selective enrollment school admissions falls into five tranches:

anybody have experience FOIAing for NLRB form 502?

it's very hard to really know anything.

getting emotional over setting up this website banner.

just really thinking about reciprocals today.

fowler was really on it with the data mapper pattern

when i see david strathairn on screen, "that's david strathairn"

lots of good jokes out there. not here though.

i love that how andrew clements has made a career of writing kids stories about children going on strike and taking other forms of collective action

the subtext of the @histphilosophy.bsky.social podcast that a western civ class that doesn't include al-farabi, ibn sina and ibn rushd is indefensible is really working on me.

there sure are a lot of phone numbers.

i think it was only in my early 40s that i really understood dialectics

need a chart of the delay between putting on my running shoes and going for a run over time.

In San Francisco controversial stances on 8th grade algebra and selective schools basically nuked the progressive block citywide (there were also other factors). It's politically savvy to avoid emphasizing issues that divide your base.

the sunday's "wild horses"

if unions had CRMs that actually had competent role based access control, then that would be marginally worse for internal democracy. the general practice of emailing around lists of members is a small facilitator of internal organizing.

i like mayor of kingstown, but no part of michigan looks like pittsburgh. pittsburgh is really the only place that looks like pittsburgh.