Now this is an abstract.

Compare that to Waymo, whose automated taxis crash less than once ever *10 million* miles. Waymo > humans >> Tesla.

Getting our first Shake Shack here in Greenville, only to have it placed 20 minutes from downtown on that gridlocked big box mile every growing small city has is some real monkey's paw shit

I currently have accounts on Twitter and Facebook largely for squatter's rights - I own the account of my identity so no one else can. They are effectively dead accounts, inactive for years now. I am open to arguments I should deactivate them, but not sure that I should.

The best way to start making Bluesky more culturally polycentric is through sport. Only six out of 30 NBA franchises have a Bluesky account. The World Cup is coming to North America in 7 months but it's crickets here. Fans should demand change from their respective teams, leagues, and federations

Quite a chart!

Training people to use AI? Fine, but it's probably going to be more important to train managers to spot half-assed AI slop economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/12/15/i...

“He doesn’t regret what he did. He said he’d do it again. But the pain has started to take a toll on him,” Sam Issa, Ahmed’s migration lawyer, said on Monday night after visiting him.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

My research super power is calling government employees with a phone

The harder it is for people with criminal records to get jobs, the easier it is to recruit them for jobs like this.

The Canada Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative will support the recruitment of top researchers over the next 12 years, with $400mn earmarked for research infrastructure on.ft.com/3Kn9RAn

The most GenX-coded thing about Stranger Things isn't the absentee parents, it's Robin and Steve always having jobs.

After watching a bunch of fixtures, I'd love to see someone regress injury rates on the pitch dropoff around the edges of different PL homegrounds. I think rapid downhill deceleration may be stressing hamstrings et al. @profspur.bsky.social @george-miller.org @tottenhamhotspur.com

Every week they find a way to be just a little more evil. Sometimes a lot more.

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

Cracking down on a single doctor who overprescribes opioids significantly reduces dispensing. We spoke with Adam Soliman of Clemson University about what his findings mean for combating drug epidemics that begin in the legal pharmaceutical market. www.aeaweb.org/research/dru...

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com is intellectually serious, philosophically pluralistic, and politically responsible. Above all it is a voice for liberal principles, at a time when that is urgently needed but frustratingly difficult to find. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...

"Companion" is a great film. If you have HBO max, don't read about it or watch a trailer. Just watch it.

Tom Stoppard holds a special place in my heart and, I suspect, in the heart of everyone else who was ever told they thought too much to be an actor. R&G may be the best play of the 20th century, but Arcadia is, for me personally, the best play of the last 400 years.

Making sure developers don’t make a dime is more important than building homes for people

A roundtrip LAX-JFK flight in the late 60s was around $3K in today’s dollars. The people who wore suits on those flights were the people who regularly wore suits. Complaining about informally-dressed fliers is complaining that the wrong sorts of people are flying today.

While I am of course rooting for Spurs, I cannot deny that any success of tactics this negative is net bad for fans everywhere. This is actually worse than the Chelsea match

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Now forthcoming at Quarterly Journal of Economics Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis Available at: digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_... (See thread below for an overview)

One of the most upsetting articles I've read in a long time www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-grade... UCSD report senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347... We are failing a generation of kids.

For every surveillance state to function, there must be a critical mass of people who willingly act as snitches to further the regime's ideology. I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

I think the main lesson is: PR matters. See, many forget, and not in this wp, that Brits voted for Brexit not once, but three times. - Brexit ref - GE of 2017 - GE of 2019 3 time Brexiers won using the same rhetoric. And when Labs won, they embraced xenophobic antiglobalism.

Flew to the UK on a packed flight, flew home surrounded by entire empty rows. The flight attendant said it was a persistent pattern across her shifts for a while now. "A lot more people seem to be leaving the US than entering. Not sure why." 🤔

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

America & the world can never trust the US Presidency & our calcified, two-party Congress again. In @liberalcurrents.com, I argue we need to reform the executive (limit it), make the legislature supreme, & institute multiparty proportional representation. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

This is worth reading. Each step on the path from young person intoxicated by their first exposure to political identity and ideology to adult whose responsibilities and obligations depend on a career in the political marketplace. Humans can be boiled just like frogs when you have kids to feed.

Dartmouth joins in www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...

Courage is contagious….. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

I’ve decided not to post my annual “women on the Econ job market” thread this year. Social media has splintered too much, and now that I’ve left academia I’m focused on other priorities.

“What is the ‘Denver model’?” “Well, it’s a relatively simple concept. We’re treating a non-fatal shooting incident like we would a homicide.”

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

"Many people still have an elderly relative who survived a bout of severe childhood illness; not one of us has an elderly relative who did not." This is the best and perhaps most important illustration of sample selection i have seen in a good long while.

There's arguably no greater inflection point in a constitutional crisis than if and when a general refuses to follow an unlawful order from a President. They have a "duty to disobey", but the due process and fallout will determine the future of the country. That's all. Just, you know, everything.

No Liberal or Conservative President has authority under law to pervert our federal law enforcement into a weapon against his political opposition—explicitly! If you wondered what life under Orbán was like, it has arrived. Americans will suffer from authoritarian rule and we reject it.

They're racists & they're fascists but above all they are the pettiest two-bit criminals you've ever seen

You can't hide players in modern basketball who can't shoot, modern hockey who can't skate, and modern soccer/football who can't pass. They're always net negatives.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Anxiety and indirect tariff impacts are contributing to a decline in a visible area of American softpower, musicial gear: "The combined effect is eroding demand for US musical instrument exports, an industry where US firms are undeniable leaders in brand recognition and product innovation."

BREAKING: "After a summer characterized by masked federal agents detaining immigrants in Los Angeles, the California Legislature passed two measures Thursday that seek to force law enforcement officers to identify themselves."