Cool! I drive past this cemetery every day, had no idea

AI first-game studios focus on business/user needs rather than technical approaches -- demand pull innovation

If anything will save us, it will be innovation

When people use AI for writing assistance, it can shift their political attitudes by autocompleting sentences in biased ways. Yet people are often unaware of the AI bias & it's influence This is not merely about the facts presented, but how autocomplete worlds www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Mamdani!

Update: The US Auto industry has retreated from EVs. That strategy will relegate them to the domestic market only or to extinction. The world is shifting to EVs. Global sales of fully internal combustion engine vehicles peaked in 2017. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Paywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Sheesh! I've been saying for years that AI will reduce employment in the short term. In a state of collective hallucination, economists incl those cited in the article claimed it's "complementary." But economists should have been able to think it through 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/b...

Since Liberation Day, a year ago today: * US foreign direct investment is lower * US factories employ 89,000 fewer people * US goods trade deficit is UP 2% @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

2025 is very bad but why 2020-2024?

I think I saw this movie 🍿

The key idea in game theory, the mathematical framework for analyzing strategic interactions in business, politics, ecology..., is to think through: "if I do X, what will my rival do?" It seems we don't have nearly enough of that kind of thinking going around. Admittedly, it requires "thinking"

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

Must-read book

The s is s awesome

For 50 years, the entire energy world has gamed out this exact scenario, and yet, there doesn't seem to be a plan? Seems bad. rdcu.be/ehooz

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Bicycle is still magic

How I arrived on Bluesky

Do people understand that there is insider trading on unregulated prediction markets? If you're not "inside" you're going to get fleeced

Money talks

Give us your model or else...

I think this is correct. Much of commercial social media is already Gen AI. The sad part is there are lots of naive humans who "like" AI content w/o realizing. BlueSky doesn't depend on "engagement" so not entirely sure how this will play out here. But people are moving to private chats for sure.

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NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

My colleague Eswar Prasad visiting with Prof G

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

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What could go wrong?

Hats off to Zoe Ziani

Despite the reported skepticism of higher education, Americans “still recognize the value of a degree for themselves and their children. And they’re correct to do so,” @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes.

The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!

Inflection point!

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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Humanity emitted more Greenhouse Gases in 2025 than any year ever

Amazing opportunity for young scholars to move from US to Europe

Wow this is a shockingly poor driving performance. We're not very close to autonomous driving, friends

This is massive

That didn't take long

What he said

So epstein was a mentor to summers in abusing young women. In 2018.

Who Exactly Ruined the Workplace, Including the Economics Profession?

Wow this is an incredible paper! Frontier knowledge exposure can narrow socioeconomic disparities. It actually matters what you teach!

This absolutely nuts. I'm not sure there is a single scientist in the US who has not advised a Chinese graduate student in the past 5 years.

Whoa! According to Jason Furman the only US industry to grow this year has been data centers & IT

Electrify! Electrify! Electrify! And develop cheap green hydrogen.

Did The New York Times soil itself? Some people say. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Cornell's agreement actually explicitly restored academic freedom but it allows gov access to anonymized admission data (but not set the criteria). Now would be a great time to stop legacy admission practices across the ivies and other top private universities.

It looks bad because it is bad #EconSky