We had one right across the street from our first apartment. It was the first real meal we had after arriving in the U.S. I still vividly remember thinking, “So this is America.” 🙂 The very next meal? White Castle. I kid you not. It's been almost two decades now.

All summer grades are entered. Time for some beach reading. One of these is my kids’ recommendation ;)

‘We need to keep suffering such that people don’t forget about the big problem’ is a very privileged position.

No cooking. No dishwashing. Happy father’s day!

From April 2026 - Null by Design: Statistical Dilution in Immigration-Crime Research - https://cup.org/4vDBgkh - @riazsascha.bsky.social #OpenAccess

sad to see a relationship losing its steam this way.

‘I didn’t read the textbook. Nor did I care about the lecture. But there was a midterm that I had to pass’ kind of situation.

I know Spurs are ahead. But their defense continues to be a problem, it seems. Young players struggle finding what to do when toughening things up doesn't work.

- Replace soy sauce with oyster sauce for more flavor (particularly if using frozen meat). - I am usually all for veggie varieties but a simple onion + green onion combo is better for this. Instead, veggies could be served as a salad on the side. - Pork belly also works, with less oil added.

Spurs ability to defend is nowhere to be found in this series. No team defense. No individual defense.

Introduced kids to the Dead Poets Society. Liked the fact that enjoyed it so thoroughly.

K-19 hits differently now for obvious reasons. The early 2000s when this was made feels like an ancient history (My teenagers found the narrative *strange*).

All these shooting fouls that SGA gets — had it been Curry, would ANY of them have been called? #NBA #WCF

Going to children’s basketball games and writing in the parking lot ;)

All these controversial internet figures that people have problems with. Me: Really though, who?

Sitting at the airport early in the morning and wondering if it is ever worth all this.

no 🏐/ 🏀 practice two days in a row as schools needed to be prepared. This referendum brought some much needed smiles to us Northern Va suburban dads.

Reuters says Tisza has at least 135 seats: 133 is the constitutional supermajority! Live by highly disproportional electoral systems (which Orbán made even more disproportional with the extra compensation votes awarded to winners), die by highly disproportional electoral systems.

That's surprisingly swift. Expected the whole 'election fraud' allegations. Pleasantly surprised.

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem. The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.

Completely forgot that it is April 1st today. So that was what it was about? 😅

"There's gotta be a reason for this" is something I hear a lot right now.

I don’t know if I am just lucky. But the security screening at Columbus airport took less than 5 minutes. I have three hours on my hand now. #isa2026

Dulles Airport security took 5 mins.

If democratic backsliding is well-contained, would that relieve the financial market stress? I say yes. Using augmented synthetic control, I show that S. Korean stock market rallied more (24%) than its counterfactual once Yoon's fate was semi-sealed. Presenting this at ISA. *8:15* Mon.

Came home immediately upon this alert. It’s spring break and there are fewer ppl on campus, but that doesn’t mean that this isn’t serious. #GMU

(talking to myself too) Going over time while giving a talk/presentation is rude. Few of us have so many important things to talk about. 15 minutes mean 15 minutes.

Iran fired 1200+ projectiles at 5 countries in the first 48 hours. Most were drones. These saturation attacks aim to overwhelm air defenses and drain interceptors. $20-50K Shaheds vs. $4.19M air defense interceptors put US partners on the wrong side of the cost curve.

Yoon is sentenced to life imprisonment. While the sentence itself is not much surprising, Judge Ji (whose political neutrality has been in question all along) pointed only to the deployment of troops to the National Assembly, not really highlighting all other aspects of the failed insurrection. 1/2

Some of the 🥘 I made in the past week.

Assigning this gem by @mcopelov.bsky.social & @tompepinsky.com to my grad class. Sold on the title alone. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.

Cooked almost all lunches and dinners in the past 6 days. Exhausted the repertoire now.

In many (not sure if most) cases of democratization, the major opposition party joins the resistance very late in the process. Just an empirical statement.

When it seems like something happened and yet the post has been deleted:

In sentencing former Prime Minister Han to 23 years, a South Korean court clearly defined Yoon’s actions as an *insurrection*. There is now no need to refer to it euphemistically as ‘the martial law case,’ if you ever wondered.

What to know as a national security trial for former organizers of Hong Kong's Tiananmen Square vigil opens Thursday.

We are so not okay.

The first of these has been rolled out. For obstructing arrest, Yoon is sentenced to five years, which is half of what the SP asked for. Word on the ground is that it is too lenient given that he has shown no repentance at all. First of many, anyway. I probably need to keep track of this. #SKorea

Special prosecutors demand a death sentence for Yoon on insurrection charges. Under Korean law, insurrection entails either the death penalty or life imprisonment. It seems that his consistent refusal to acknowledge wrongdoing led to the former.

Comment sections of news posts in FB are bad. So bad that your confidence in humanity is challenged.

I guess StackOverflow is done.

Things I remain shocked by: -People in industries like journalism and education that are going to be turned upside down by AI who barely use or understand it -People in those industries (often the same ones) who still feel comfortable making sweeping claims about AI's capabilities and limitations

Anybody interested in S. Korean politics or policy might have already been watching this -- the Korean government is currently hosting the National Policy Report Conference. Almost all government branches, government-sponsored projects, institutes, and public firms are subject to it. 1/3

Seems bad www.cnbc.com/2025/12/17/m...

What a week it has been. No, really.

14. Far too much literature is unnecessarily abstract, difficult, and defensive. There is, of course, a massive alternative literature, "critical" and "interpretive", which can be a good antidote. But it often also has a lot of jargon or is too fundamentalist in its anti-positivist position.

My latest on the AI bubble in finance: 6 charts that tell the story in ways that are hard to put into words. 1. U.S. data-center build-out. Notice the explosion in 2025. That's the permitting gold rush happening now. Would be shocking if 1 in 20 of these get built, but they factor into projections.

so inflation really does matter.