“I hope we’ll all find a new place to call home again soon” she says to a rotting restaurant that will soon have 166 apartments, 24 for very low income tenants.

SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

alright it’s a Friday afternoon, let’s do Speculative 2028 Candidates as Super Smash Bros Fighters

Uh, I guess light rail is a type of plug-in electric vehicle, for some definition of "plug" It would be nice if AQMD took seriously the idea that people take transit though

Instead of hobbling down the road to the station, I easily do a fast 20km round commute to work on my bike (only to hobble around the office once I’m there!) People struggle to believe it, and frankly I must look like a fraud as I pack my folding walking stick into my pannier and zoom off

Cleaning data may not be sexy... or exciting... or enjoyable... or lucrative... or respected... or rewarded... or recognized... but at least it's... sorry, what were we talking about?

I sort of love how many articles these days are "Here's a counterintuitive take - what if conventional economics is applicable to the modern world?"

*WOULDN'T NEED HORMUZ IF CONTAINER SHIPS COULD FLY

New: Around the world people are turning to low-carbon EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps as the Iran war upends oil and gas markets. Bloomberg journalists, including yours truly, filed dispatches from San Francisco to Lagos for this story. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

We need to bring back the ideal of masculinity focused on quiet self-sacrifice for the sake of others. Alpha shit is for losers. Be a man and humbly forgo the shit you want for years so you can provide for your family, you indulgent little wuss

I am always with you, in spirit, to remind you that thou art mortal. profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday/

Dating mining data data-mining

this is insane

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Had been waiting for evidence from a network of public universities on the High School GPA versus SAT scores debate. Credit to the authors Joyce, Khosroshahi, Truelsch, Gentsch, and Du. www.nber.org/system/files...

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5 hour early arrivals means the amtrak crescent is now time competitive with any atlanta–northeast corridor flight as a bonus, you get to sleep those 5 extra hours away instead of standing in the tsa line

This -- our PhD program this year only was permitted a token number of places. We had to reject applicants we normally would expect to have multiple competing offers.

The one thing that my students remember from stats

While lifting sanctions on Iranian oil In response to the oil supply crunch the US war caused The US is threatening ground troops to take Kharg Island Which Iran uses to export oil To pressure Iran to ease the oil supply crunch By reducing Iran's ability to sell oil Which the US is allowing more of

US lifts sanctions on Iranian oil Which US did to get concessions from Iran Which didn't work so US bombed Iran Which hasn't gotten concessions from Iran But did cause Iranian retaliation and an oil supply crunch Which the US hopes eases if Iran can sell more oil Which will fund Iranian retaliation

Policy options to reduce gasoline demand

I've lived a couple miles from the Pacific Ocean for over a decade now. In a typical year we've turned on the air conditioner for a few days-weeks in late summer and early fall. It is running right now

Here are those two upgrades in a 'volume per unit of distance' metric instead: A. From a 8 gallons/100 miles truck to a 5 gallons/100 miles truck B. From a 3 gallons/100 miles sedan to a 1 gallon/100 miles PHEV Extremely clear anyone capable of the most basic arithmetic.

I am excited to organize this conference with Yana Gallen. Please submit, repost, and also circulate to your networks.

Merz on Trump: “He’s not exactly on very good terms with me at the moment.”

Maddening how we are in a dual climate crisis and energy crisis and old rich people around SoCal devote their final days to making transit as slow to ride and to build as possible. Rail advocates need to get organized.

Holy cow, rates up to 6.53% today! A borrower putting 20% down on a $600,000 home would pay $168 more now than they would have the day before the U.S. bombed Iran when rates were 5.99%. War is costly in innumerable ways, including the cost of homeownership.

I didn't know about the island loophole. If the invaders take Manhattan, they aren't in the US until they cross over into the Bronx or New Jersey. The more you know!

I can live with the design, but it should have a face value of $1 trillion and be made of solid platinum.

Created my first software package to solve a problem, now dogfooding my own code to solve my problem for the first time ever. Frequent lurching between feeling a new flavor of pride and wanting to hurl the Macbook into a bonfire

Btw the UK story differs outside London - most British cities suffer from the worst of both worlds. Dataviz from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

"It’s not that you don’t drive to work because the price of gas is too high, it’s you don’t drive to work because you lost your job."

Muppet Apocalypse Now.

Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi's reaction as Trump says "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour?" Undoubtedly the worst American diplomatic gaffe in post-war US-Japan history.

"You do not have local control" is exactly the type of one-sided conversation California needs to have with segregationist cities like Los Angeles if our state is ever going to cease losing residents to Texas and serving as the unsheltered homelessness capital of the planet.

Remarkable story from Denmark's nat'l broadcaster. "When Danish soldiers were flown to Greenland in January...they brought explosives so they could destroy, among other things, the runways in Nuuk & Kangerlussuaq [to] prevent US mil aircraft from landing" www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...

Bryce Harper stuck around to congratulate Team Venezuela after the game ended

You: <looking at software credit waiting for it to default> Chemicals credits: <quietly melting down in the background>

The issue is not just the strait of Hormuz but impacts on production.

ME: oh a little Zohran video for St Patrick's Day, probably just celebrating Irish culture, maybe a few green beer jokes ZOHRAN (2 minutes in): ...and that's why King Leopold I of Belgium is a big wet bitch. Furthermore...

All of these are policies they're already supposed to be following. So why would anyone believe they'll start following them in exchange for DHS funding. I mean, come on. The proper response to "We won't deport U.S. citizens if you fund DHS" is, "Are you fucking kidding me?"

Oof, not Churchill

update: *MACRON: FRANCE WON'T JOIN OPS TO FREE HORMUZ IN CURRENT CONTEXT

This is a nice essay by Paul on upsides of LLMs. IMO LLM shocks to research can be divided into 1. Previously impossible tasks become possible 2. Previously slow tasks become fast 3. Previously fast tasks become slow 4. Previously possible tasks become impossible Paul emphasizes 2, hints at 1.

A problem with teaching social science and policy is that I'm never sure where to point out that a tool was created by people with vile agendas. The tragedy of the commons is a racist idea and a poor description of the commons, but a very useful tool for thinking about other social dilemmas...

Has anybody tried nailing a gold doubloon to the mast as motivation?

These rates and trends track rates of giving in the US as well.