Dan Seel

@danseel

Economic sociologist, PhD candidate, Wisconsin Badger, writing on: labor, elites, and economic development in the American South. "Above this ridge, new peaks will rise" 🌹🍉🦡

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Dan Seel@danseel· 5d

Archival pamphlets flip-flop between micromanaged corporate briefs and unhinged artistic fever dreams. Did someone actually request a creepy knowledge-foundry, or is this someone who just really wanted to draw something weird?

a graphic for a section titled "education and training as industrial policy" with a stylized drawing of a book as a foundry ladle presumably pouring knowledge into a head drawn below

Dan Seel@danseel· 5d

Every once in a while bluesky decides to resend me every notif I've gotten in months, all at once, and it always makes me jump

The bluesky notification button indicating 30+ unread notifs

Dan Seel@danseel· 29d

Every time I hear dudes say that I remember this tweet

Confident in my ability to properly
tennis, I take the court. I smile at my
opponent. Serena does not return the gesture. She'd be prettier if she did,I
think. She serves. The ball passes
cleanly through my skull, killing me instantly
YouGov @YouGov- 7h
One in eight men (12%) say they could win a point in a game of tennis against 23 time grand slam winner Serena Williams yougov.co.uk/opi/surveys/re One in eight men think they could take a point off Serena Willams plyng terris.

Dan Seel@danseel· Mar 11

And with that, the tariff question was forever put to bed, never to disrupt politics or trade again.

Through Tariff Walls

Higher, Higher Up They Climbed

The Republican Hawley-Smoot Tariff almost DOUBLED our tariff rates. Since foreign nations could no longer sell their goods here, they had no money to buy our goods. And, in return, 60 nations struck back at us by raising their own tariff walls.

By 1932 American foreign trade had shrunk to less than a third of what it was in 1929. Our farm exports declined 82 per cent between 1929 and 1933.

Factories closed Workers lost their jobs. Surplus farm crops went to waste. A chief cause of depression was the loss of foreign markets from Republican policy.

Three Steps Back to Neighborly Trade

1. THE RECIPROCAL TARIFF ACT giving the President authority to alter existing rates by as much as 50 per cent and to develop foreign markets by trade agreements with other countries.

2. MOST-FAVORED-NATION POLICY whereby we extend the benefit of a low duty on goods imported from any one country to similar goods from all countries which do not discriminate against American trade. Since imports of a country are usually its "specialties" this does not result in a flood of competing imports. On the other hand, each country pledges itself to extend to us any future concessions it may give another nation so that our trade is safeguarded and expanded automatically. Secretary of State Hull regards this principle as the "heart" of our trade program because it tends to lower world tariffs and to turn international commerce back into normal channels.

3. RECIPROCAL TRADE PACTS with 14 countries with which United States transacts more than one-third of its foreign trade, including such major countries as Canada, France, Sweden, Brazil, Belgium, the Netherlands. Several more pacts are being planned.

Pacts of Mutual Profit

WHAT WE GIVE: The new Trade Pacts cut

duties on about 12 per cent of American im-ports. Most of these imports do not compete closely with American products and, wherever competition does exist, safeguards are set. Thus, a…

Dan Seel@danseel· Dec 21

Wish I could be there my friend, eating fondue and learning from the teachings of the Foucault Gremlin

Dan Seel@danseel· Nov 3

I do really appreciate that the ASA grant application form takes direct aim at Ohio State's weird affectation 🦡🦡🦡

" Scholar Institution*
Please enter the full name of your institution, spelling out where applicable state and campus names, but omitting preceding "The" (e.g., University of State - Campus; or Example University). "

Dan Seel@danseel· Oct 24

I found this bizarre study yesterday while looking through some Philip Morris documents and I can't stop thinking about it...

An academic article titled "the beagle dog as an animal model for marijuana smoking studies"

Dan Seel@danseel· Sep 26

To pick a random transportation project, the $60bn in metaverse investment would've covered a decent chunk of the funding gap for road and bridge maintenance www.pew.org/en/research-...

24 states reported a combined $86.3 billion funding gap over 10 years. These states already expect to collectively spend $194 billion on TAMP roads and bridges over the next decade and would need to increase spending by 44% to reach the $280 billion required to close the shortfall. Only nine states projected adequate funding, and 17 did not report sufficient information to evaluate whether their spending would be sufficient. Because TAMP reporting requirements cover only NHS roads and bridges—though some states voluntarily report on all state roads—the total funding gap excludes the bulk of the shortfall for non-NHS roadways.

Dan Seel@danseel· Sep 26

Since the omerta on criticizing LLM infra investment appears to be breaking can we go back and maybe, acknowledge that there were some indicators that these guys have long been pretty cavalier about throwing money into the void? Money that could have been better spent on actual infrastructure?

Meta's Reality Labs division continues to bleed billions of dollars — crossing $60 billion in losses since 2020.

"This is also going to be a pivotal year for the metaverse," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg confidently told investors on Wednesday.

Dan Seel@danseel· Sep 24

Came upon some predictions from a southern studies edited volume from 1985 and man, what a swing and a miss there

Indeed, as racism declines, a durable
coalition of white and black voters based upon common economic inter-
ests is already developing, and it holds more promise for success than did
similar political cooperation between the two races during the Recon-
struction or Populist eras.

Such alliances and shifts will aid in the conversion of the South into
a bona fide two-party region. Thus, southern politics, long an aberration
on the national scene, will be characterized as more rational, as more in
keeping with the national norm. To be sure, political parties do not al-
ways develop logically.

Dan Seel@danseel· Sep 22

Going through the archives you run into plenty of articles about apartheid that sound eerily familiar (and, unlike today, have no compunction about analogizing I-P to South African apartheid). Here's some selections from October 1977.

Dan Seel@danseel· Sep 18

Baseline opinion is much more negative towards him in the segment they're actually trying to recruit (only 24% of 18-20s have a favorable view) vs The Olds (43% of over 65s have a favorable view). No way this brings in anyone who wasn't already gonna sign-up. today.yougov.com/politics/art...

yougov poll breaking down favorability of CK

Dan Seel@danseel· Sep 15

Here's a bigger chunk of the crosstabs (from carolinaforward.org/blog/the-sep...)

Dan Seel@danseel· Sep 15

Here are Hasan Piker's avg concurrent viewership figures, for comparison. There have been some stories on him recently, but I still think journalists are underrating the influence of him+his fellow politics streamers. "Online isn't real" doesn't cut it anymore, the center of gravity is shifting.

Dan Seel@danseel· Jul 30

I had (wrongly) assumed that once I got out of reports produced on typewriters into modern documents that OCR would have an easier time but alas...