RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

Honestly, I wonder if some of the disgust is people who don't realize how effing bizarre the Kindle porno/romance underground self-publishing universe is? Like there are already people who do a novel a week. It's not surprising that AI can slot right in.

Maybe I'm wrong, but on some deep level I just have trouble being bothered by the idea of AI being what writes the billionaire impregnation fantasy novels? This does not seem to me to intrude upon human connection or whatever.

This is, however, a perfect paragraph

In light of Trump’s post yesterday, some history: “On Memorial Day 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...

#EconSky: Tymofiy Mylovanov from the Kyiv School of Economics is a simply a hero. While Trump is busy allying with Putin, Tymofiy is out in the cold working for his students and his country. I will match all donations to KSE, up to $1K total (link below). www.youtube.com/shorts/RgDXI...

He's 100% right, and I'm not going to caveat every 300 character post about what the law is or why something's wrong with repetitive "but of course they try anyway and might succeed." Which people inevitably chime in with to repeat ad nauseum, often in a stupidly hostile way that merits insta-block.

On Bayesians, alarmism, and wolves economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/02/02/u...

More like this.

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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Read this statement and tell me we're going to lose

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

From politics to theater to outright evil. I don't know when we made each transition, but politics and theater are in the rearview now.

Yes - they all know this could happen and they do it anyway. The reason it’s so unambiguous what happened is that the call had gone out and many people instantly rushed to the scene. Running towards danger. Heroes

This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.

Holy crap. This is the most damning video yet. It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face. Murder.

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

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The grimness of US history should encourage us. Yes, people used to send lynching postcards. And other people saw that, worked towards building a more just society anyway, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. There's more work to be done. What's our excuse for choosing despair instead?

This is kidnapping. What children walk around with any form of identification, let alone proof of citizenship? I didn't walk around with any form of ID before I first got a driver's license.

The number of confirmed #measles cases in South Carolina has hit an astonishing 558 in an outbreak that started in October. For context: that is more cases in 4 months than the entire US racked up most years in the past 30+ years. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

if ICE can’t handle will stancil tailing them in his Honda Fit, they’re going to be in for a rude awakening when tens of thousands of New Yorkers bike and take the subway to their location in a matter of minutes

Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers “We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.” (Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

Good for these prosecutors to put their principles first, but my GOD what a ghoulish, soulless regime MAGA voted for. But also why it is so important for the Newsoms and the Pritzkers to start talking TODAY about how they'll come for these thugs TOMORROW. So they feel fear TODAY.

Friends, thank you for stepping up! Over $40,000 worth of dash cams have been ordered so far for ICE observers in the Twin Cities! Early orders are trickling in, but we’re getting them packed and deployed ASAFP - several were installed yesterday, these are ready, and 300+ are on the way!

David Levy was fired this year, but it's pretty clear his power within the club had been declining for some time. This is one more piece of evidence that he was the only person in management who at least had a plan and overarching strategy. You may not have liked it, but it at least existed.

Pluribus is a fascinating meditation on an extreme solution to the crux of all political economy: what's the best way to facilitaton cooperation among strangers? Anyway, here's a book I was going to write collapsed to 2500 words. economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/01/12/t...

OK, YOU should still absolutely not release a video talking about the charges against you. Powell gets the one-in-a-million exception because he knows what he’s doing and is resisting authoritarian trash.

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

“get to keep your life”

Wow

Cut and dry murder. Arrest the officer right now.

also Reddit

Alabama had 717 murders in 2023, with a population around 3.5 million less than NYC.

Being an insufferable David Lynch fan but for Tim Robinson is itself a Tim Robinson skit, which makes it a perfect David Lynch movie. Anyway, The Chair Company is cool lunacy.

"Why agent-based modeling could happen in economics. Eventually." Good piece by @mikemakowsky.bsky.social economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/12/29/p... I'd argue that the "new era of theory" is already underway, though, led not by economists, but by comp social sci/cultural evolution folks.

They are just petty street criminals with badges.

My own little boxing day tradition remains spending the day writing reviews that I've been agreeing to but othewise ignoring since Thanksgiving.

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.