The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Busy day today but note the U of Michigan consumer sentiment survey just reported its lowest reading in its 65 year history. Well done Donald!

Great (albeit hard) read! In all my time on the job market (which granted is not a lot), now feels particularly excruciating and demoralizing. www.thecut.com/article/job-...

No one can tell me a single good use for it, for me. I have asked. Not a one.

Because, as I have said, it’s only good universal use case is disciplining labor.

This! The extent to which people don’t actually enjoy thinking has been eye opening.

The older I get, the more complex friendships become, and unfortunately the more I need them.

My writing is shit, but it's *my* writing.

same! This is my biggest fear and thank God I am not alone, because …. it’s wild here!

100 faculty must be the magic AI number because that’s supposedly how many we are also hiring. Which is basically 20x more than we have studying climate change.

This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.

Once again, we need to define what “feminism” is here. Not everything any woman ever does—not even in the political realm, and not even concerning gender—is “feminism.” Opposing the rights of women as a class to equal status and dignity is in fact called “antifeminism.”

New Episode! On @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, @adriandaub.bsky.social talks me through one of the thornier questions of Third Reich historiography: was Nazism good for the economy? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

And in Europe too!

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

mamdani is going to break 50% and centrist pundits are going to convolute themselves in new ways to say he doesn’t have a mandate

Just finished the IBWTR latest epi on 1933 October, and my God the last 10 minutes were SCARY! “Work is anyways shit, I might as well quit and just do child caring fulltime” (I am paraphrasing but this is in essence.) that is such a popular opinion now among mothers, masked as a choice.

We should be cautious in interpreting claims filings right now, several hundred thousand people have been fired from the federal govt but most will be ineligible for UI because layoffs were either structured as voluntary deferred resignations (Fork in the Road) or for cause (provisional workers)

This👇🏻

The section where econ meets sociology is the reason why I decided to pursue my studies in econ! 🌟 (My (immigrant) parents discouraged sociology as not seen as a field where you can earn, ha jokes on them, I am unemployed now anyways 🙃)

I am still in search of books and any other recs/stories, but I did purchase the Anti-Planner and so far it has been great! I think it was following a recommendation from Dr Tressie MC! (Online rec from her ofc, I don’t know her personally, if only!!) anti-planner.com/shop/the-ant...

Hot take: More sociologists and economists need to work together.

just read this powerful essay. I forgot who shared initially but made me think of this! (Re our safe keeping our institutions and universities &how the side of righteousness does not guarantee a win AND despite that we MUST continuously and actively choose it) www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

Same, girl, same.

Same! and for what??? Should’ve been at the club!

But greed knows no limits so we rather all be dumber and more shallow. Not looking great folks!

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

*big fat face palm*

A decline in remote work flexibility over the last year is widening the gender pay gap and dragging down the labor force participation rate of college-educated mothers. Employers who can offer at least hybrid work arrangements can attract some great talent.

A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.

Yes. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Made the colossal mistake of going on ig for a bit too long and saw an acc talking about Hollywod’s exploitation of marginalized groups and the conclusion was ”that’s why I believe AI will democratize the movie space”, WHAT? Girl, please be serious 😭 like does no one these days read???

I am still without a job and in an even deeper shock that my career ended abruptly due to the us cuts, and am finding myself feeling bitter… which is a normal albeit ugly emotion. What is helping (very marginally however) is to define unfairness well (in my case).

Same goes for institution!

That U.S. academics didn't collectively develop strong labor consciousness is really going to bite them in the ass as universities bend the knee to this administration. Politely worded letters to presidents and trustees are not going to count for much of anything.

Ah was at an event where the amazing @roxanegay.bsky.social spoke and she said she learned something new from my question 😭😭😭😭😭 omg week/month/year MADE!! Such a great chat!

In the last 70 years, federal jobs fell from 4.5% of all employment to below 2%. Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

What’s frustrating is, none of these companies have viable pathways to profitability so they’re giving this crap away for free to get lock-in so we’ll accept massive price hikes later. It’s drug dealer logic, but the “innovation” is too much to resist for a lot of leaders and they force it on us.

“Students continue to believe that brainstorming with AI helps them get to good arguments, but I have not seen any proof of that.” Industry reps tell students (accurately) that they won’t get jobs if they don’t use AI, and no amount of critical thinking instruction will change that. It’s maddening.

Lol “the economy is strong” sounding more & more like gaslighting

The latest #UIClaims show much higher continued unemployment insurance claims for federal workers, up 156% for the week ending October 4—compared to the same week last year. The growth this year are due to federal layoffs, exacerbated this month by workers leaving federal payrolls and the shutdown.

A new NBER working paper by @jscottclayton.bsky.social and colleagues shows that about two-thirds of the unexplained gap in post-college earnings by family income may be due to challenges in finding that first job. Family connections and resources matter.

The problem with this discourse is that it reveals something that nobody with a stake in their own academic or professional discipline wants to own up to, which is there is no particular educational paradigm that automatically makes you a good person

What we should be asking is why somebody like Thiel, whose fortune was subsidized by massive public investments at University of Illinois, & humanities granting organizations at Stanford, wants to dismantle that educational infrastructure now that he’s rich.

I don’t need therapy, I just need everyone to stop being wrong.

Was at the coffee place in Amsterdam for work and it happened, I was told to go back from where I came from. Trumpism has arrived in Europe, or perhaps has always been here but is becoming more global now?

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