New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Good on Point Park University. If Ohio doesn't want to keep its bright students, they're welcome over here in PA

If we removed SNAP work requirements employers would have to (very slightly) increase wages

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Is there a name for this fallacy: "I hate X. I hate Y. So therefore anyone who likes X must like Y." Polarization fallacy is the best name I can come up with... but I don't love it.

Potassium-deficient zombie desparately looking for someone who’s thinking about bananas

Leibnizians only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting

College has gotten cheaper in real terms and much more affordable relative to incomes, but good luck trying to convince anyone to ignore the nominal price ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sandwich thing, criminal law thing. Boom that’s the tweet

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

Listening to the first panel on history of #philsci in CEE. Inspiring that so many colleagues around the world tuned in. A wonderful first talk by Marta Sznajder on Janina Hosiasson (her heartbreaking story below). Now Angela Potochnik on the role of Marie Neurath (Reidemeister) in the Vienna Circle

Tomorrow 6 November is the first of three meetings of the PSA Around the World! A fantastic online program with plenary panel and parallel sessions. All welcome! Note: time zone is 3pm CET.

In vernacular British English, any noun can be used as an insult if it feels right. Just looking around my immediate surroundings, 'you teacup' and 'you plant pot' work, but 'you subwoofer' and 'you mousepad' don't. Same with pastries: donut works, cheese lattice doesn't. Nobody knows why.

Not even Noam Chomsky!

Should I visit NYC on Friday or has everyone already fled?

The Court clamps down hard on presidential power—fearing that a Democrat might hold it.

And if you're in Pittsburgh, you get to enjoy being part of making Tony Moreno sad again. Make Tony sad. Vote.

Voting accomplished. (Friends in PA, please do vote today for retaining the supreme court judges. It's important.)

[P] he has slipped the surly bonds of Earth / and shot the face of God

A New York style bodega is distinguished by the thin, crispy crust. Chicago style convenience stores are deeper.

Did my civic duty. Then I ate a croissant.

Dick Cheney was responsible for so much death and suffering, and he should be remembered for that. But somehow, this morning I'm thinking about when he publicly disagreed with Bush about marriage equality during an election no less. Can't imagine a Republican VP doing that today

u shaped AND inverse u shaped!!!!! holy regional heterogeneity batman

Day 12 of inserting a random Muppet into a random Star Trek screenshot #StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager #TheMuppets #SesameStreet

got to fulfill a lifelong dream of dressing as velma and getting to talk philosophy of scooby doo for halloween! 🎃 🎃

Getting ratio’d is about to be a differential equation.

Does every event conflict with itself?

Ghosts say “boo!” because they’re moral emotivists

"My candy is more of a comment"

They're calling him the most French man in history

ME: Hahaha look at all these people anthropomorphizing machine learning. Dummies ALSO ME: I brush my teeth for at least 2 minutes, because otherwise my electric toothbrush flashes a frownie face at me and I don't want to disappoint the little guy

I do worry that democracy is in danger from issue rankings. Rankings force respondents to prioritize. But they can be misleading if the issues aren't separable. Also, ppl say "voters only care about their #1" -- but that's just one interpretation. The opposition needs to walk *and* chew gum.

I built a DAG diagram with garden hoses for teaching. Pictured: a collider bias diagram, inspired by a blocked pipe situation I experienced (which I credit with giving me the intuition though it also ruined my belongings in the flooded cellar).

me: a guy here was arrested for assaulting a woman while he was cosplaying as a nazi officer Dad: what is cosplay me: *explains* Dad: sounds like a nazi who stopped "cosplaying" as a normal person This man's ability to randomly say insightful thing while also putting cosplay in quotes is a trip

Posting is correlated with affective polarization: 😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics 🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)

In short, the ANES data shows: 📉 Social media use is shrinking 💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~50 points to the right 🧩 Platforms are splintering 🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme

Even Hank Hill manages to do this. I mean, sure, there’s a Laotian family next door, but the real language barrier is that almost no one can understand a thing Boomhauer says

If you can, support and contribute to @wikipedia.org, do it. donate.wikimedia.org

When I was in grad schools, we did an analysis that showed you could do better than random by always betting against big market teams. I wonder if you could beat the truth social market by just figuring out what maga doesn't like and always betting on that

The probability of performing well in a marathon is determined by your long-run frequency.

Your answer cannot be biased if you never specified a question.

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Writing a whole movie about a failed Bayesian bank heist so I can give my detective the line “well, that’s one way to update your priors.”

Seven of Nine was a great character because they added someone who is genuinely and for principled reasons sympathetic to a culture that seems horrifying to the audience, and have her hold her ground to defend it against the Federation pilled main characters.

Folks, if we had sectoral bargaining with wage boards and the best anti-trust imaginable, we'd still need a welfare state. If we had a fully socialist economy we'd still need a welfare state. There is a lot we can do to empower workers but poverty is a household level phenomenon.

Meanwhile, in philosophy

Bluesky, I walk by this sign everyday. Would you like to guess how many children I have seen playing there?