Both the Muslim and Christian Lebanese that I know are so sick of this shit www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

“ I have a towel on my head” is pretty much peak dog humor

I missed this earlier. New article out in Marine Resource Economics shows that consumers will pay $3.42 more for a lobster roll caught with whale friendly ropeless gear.

Yay natural experiments. Ireland had birthright citizenship and took it away, Germany didn’t have it and then decided to add it. And what did they find? Birthright citizenship is good for kids, good for the economy, lowers crime, increases cultural assimilation, this is straightforward folks.

“ should you accept to review this manuscript, your report would be due within 10 days” Oh COME ON

me anytime a biologist asks me for a simple econ index for a time series: well there is no straightforward answer to this, it depends me anytime I ask another economist for a simple index for a time series: what do mean you can't give me a straightforward answer to this

Sir, there is another strait

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed.

May 31, 1926: Memorial Day is observed across the country. In Los Angeles, crowds gather at the Spanish-American War monument at Pershing Square and march at the Coliseum. 1/6

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Review of the different inflation indices www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

Time to send in Tim Duncan

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

Charli XCX never disappoints, what a banger

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Oh, I felt this. ❤️

Column: There's a large scale fish fight going on in #Florida over red snapper, and the governor is in the thick of it. My latest column for the @floridaphoenix.com features a whole school of fish puns. floridaphoenix.com/2026/05/28/r...

A new paper in Nature finds that engagement-based algorithms on social media amplifies intergroup, moralized and emotional (IME) information + toxic content relative to reverse-chronological feeds, with the largest increases in moral outrage and political content. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wife: come see this Matlock scene Me: no [Woman on show] you don’t understand Me: can I leave Wife: no [Woman on show] he was wonderful Me: seriously [woman on show] Mr Matlock I LOVE DICK SO MUCH Wife [smirks] Me: ok that was worth it

OK now I really wanna read this thing

My first half of the story is literally this

I’m not gonna put up the video because he’s not in it. But if you know “ waiting on a friend” by the Rolling Stones, yeah that’s Sonny Rollins on the saxophone solo And I assure you, he’s a whole lot more important than that.

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

Wife: come see this Matlock scene Me: no [Woman on show] you don’t understand Me: can I leave Wife: no [Woman on show] he was wonderful Me: seriously [woman on show] Mr Matlock I LOVE DICK SO MUCH Wife [smirks] Me: ok that was worth it

I read an overview of the speech and a lot of it is about tech oligarchs eroding human dignity. That’s very intentional. badfaithtimes.com/you-are-valu...

A papal encyclical is a *very* big deal www.wsj.com/world/pope-l...

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

She’s a sociologist she’s not a medical doctor

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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back to the weirdo cult-adjacent post-leftist grifter grievance mills with you

Ok I’ve had a few so I’m going to make the post thread I’ve been putting off all day 28 years ago today - May 21st, 1998 - was the worst day of my life 🧵

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DID YOU KNOW: Lane Kiffin is the same age now as Rue McClanahan was on season 1 of The Golden Girls

Over grabbing diesel prices from the eia.gov website this morning for some analysis and yeah I see why the fishing industry is taking it on the chin right now

10 bands that I have seen live seems to be popular here right now so Fugazi Deafheaven The Hold Steady Black Sabbath The original Guns N’ Roses (2x) INXS Dinosaur Jr Torche Bon Jovi (who I hated, but went bc a girl wanted to go) The Grateful Dead (10x)

😂😂😂 An Australian man inadvertently appeared on the runway during an Australian Fashion Week show at Tamarama Beach in Sydney on May 12, 2023.

What a useful website. Bookmarked. www.inspectfl.org

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I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

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I asked Gemini Pro this morning to predict a policy outcome, and it was quoting my own published paper back at me in in support of its argument THAT WAS 💯 IN OPPOSITION TO WHAT THE MODEL PREDICTS. I told it that I was a co-author and it got meek and asked me what it got wrong. We are doomed.

The annual Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED) offers insight into the financial well-being of U.S. adults and their families & provides important information about how people are faring in the economy: (1/4) www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p... youtu.be/Eh4eFnUt1mk

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gonna go log back into Twitter for the first time in a year and leave this image with the caption "Tommy Tuberville praying to Mecca mid-game"

Oh goodness, Duolingo is now offering to show my winning chess game

Meta comms guy brings up the historical record. Ok let’s go. I revealed: —FB allowing ad targeting of “Jew-haters” —FB allowing ads to block being shown to Black users —FB promoting Stop the Steal groups prior to J6 —FB guidelines showing “white males” as protected class but not “black children”

had an all-time classic the other day telling me that my post celebrating the sixers and knicks taking Amtrak failed to consider that the pro teams were likely taking spots from everyday travelers who would have to fly instead

n.b. This story is 20 years old. Still cool af (no paywall)