It is with a heavy heart that I tell that the Michigan Econ community learned yesterday about the death of our chair John Leahy. He was such a bright economist and cheerful human being. I personally owe him a lot. RIP, John, the world today is darker without you. 🖤

This OpenAI + Disney deal is completely stupid. In a nutshell: DIS gives OAI a billion dollars now (which solves some genuine and immediate cash flow issues). OAI, in return, gives them equity and the ability to buy more. Also, their slop app can now erode the brand value of Disney. Iger u drunk?

This is a fantastic example of false balance. In an article about administrative review of course materials, the art history professor provides a pretty cogent argument against the Texas approach. But, hey, calm down: the math professor says it won’t affect him and therefore seems fine!

I was able to replicate this behavior across OpenAI’s product offerings. Therefore I am an AI researcher please give me $100 million.

OpenAI designed the affirming tone of ChatGPT to goose engagement because their business model depends on it. Blanket affirmation and encouragement is how we get people turning to ChatGPT as a therapist AND how we get suicide instructions, deepening delusions, and this shit. It's the business model.

Fascinating. And ya gotta love a good Stata figure.

How did the President get a transcript of my Thanksgiving toast?

WTF is this?!

What in the actual f*#% it's been Amy the whole time?!

Planes Not Uggos™️. Thank you for your attention to this matter -Very Serious Thinker and Road Rules Alumn Sean Duffy (Okay hot take: I agree with some of these general principles and would appreciate if people didn't treat close-quarters planes like their private spaces. But this guy is a clown.)

Hi Bitcoin fans just wondering how that digital store of value is doing? Like, it’s a replacement for gold right and totally not about the crime or scamming right? Hello? Guys?

I'm not a lawyer, but I *am* a person who studies people's beliefs and the only thing that strikes me as clear from the transcript is that the foreperson was confused as heck.

Gang, I don't think Grandpa's doing so hot...

Was.... was anybody actually asking this? C'mon WSJ. This is a joke, right? (If so, it's both well executed and funny!)

First impressions, Gemini 3 Pro: the AI (Stock) Apocalypse is still on as scheduled.

I’ve gotten “Yo” four times. This is an epidemic. I suspect this is so much worse for female instructors, who likely get the “Ms” or “Mrs” treatment on the regular; though I have no direct evidence of this.

Boy if I had a nickel for every time I heard a guy use that as a pickup line...

This isn’t the amazing takedown that the President thinks it is. Go ahead! Charge all criminals with crimes! I love it.

GPT 5.1 is based.

This is some horrific sludge from Alphabet / YoutubeTV. In order to "claim a credit" you have to click a single button. That's it. Nothing else. Why not, you know, automatically apply the credit?

Reason #654 why we need to move past Tom Barrett, my Congressman in the Michigan 7th: although I never signed up for email from him, it still comes. On trying to unsubscribe, I found he has a CAPTCHA. On the unsubscribe. A CAPTCHA. I can't think of a better metaphor for Republicans at the moment.

Sandwich Guy can go back to prowling the street and seasoning the doers of injustice with mustard.

"They were careless people. [T]hey smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

Justice Alito lamenting the speed of a case going through the Court is RICH.

"We have to figure out what regulate importations means." -Justice Kavanaugh, while sipping on beer* *Probably.

"If a tariff is imposed on automobiles, who pays them?" - Chief Justice John Roberts GOOD QUESTION. GOOD QUESTION.

Lol someone is freaking out

What's up with all these folks gargling rocks? D. John Sauer is... a difficult listen. www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

Something something martingale

Despite the constant negative press covfefe, indeed. (Sadly this newest one was deleted, but the internet remembers) trumpstruth.org/statuses/33487

In a livestreamed Q&A, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman put up this aspirational slide (verbally targeting the year 2028 or so). This is embarrassing. It's laughable. We should be increasingly skeptical and wary that ~$1.4T in near-term investments are directed by a man with such a tenuous grasp on reality.

WSJ finally noting some skepticism towards the AI buildout, including this gem: "Nvidia ended up signing an agreement to lease up to 5 million of its chips to OpenAI, costing $350 billion by today’s standards. It also has the right to invest up to $100 billion to help the startup pay for the deal."

“Please don’t print this but also you suck and your job is a joke.” Good luck with that type of approach in court, counselor.

IS IT REALLY ABOUT THE TAX CUTS??????

Random Sunday thought: what happened to Apple Intelligence? Are we just ignoring it? So... it's fine for the world's largest company (at the time) to announce non-existent "features" to sell incremental upgrades to real products? Am I... are we... is this gaslighting? NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THIS.

I’m out in Boston Common exercising my 1st Amendment rights. Good crowd but would love more younger folks. Come on down, it’s a beautiful day.

Can confirm... I love it. Glad we're using all the world's electricity for this! (And, coming soon... porn!)

Just curious: are we still pretending that all of this is about a slightly lower personal income tax?

Hashtag diplomacy.

My man, WWII ended less than 100 years ago...

I find it interesting that both Sec. Bessent and Sec. Duffy discussed the upcoming protests on Fox this morning. It suggests that attention is being paid at the highest levels not just to the vacuous threat of "Antifa" but to genuine discontent amongst the voting public.

It's been said a thousand times but is worth repeating: the political question of our era is the relatively simple "Who was president in 2020?"

Highly significant effects (p=.049)

Absolute focus on the mission is one of many things that makes Anna a legend.

Huge news. Congratulations, Zurich.

I genuinely thought this was going to be a parody article.

This is the quintessential example of complete crap writing in the face of authoritarian takeover. "But it’s not clear that a coin could legally feature an image of Trump..." It *IS CLEARLY ILLEGAL* you dummies. Just write like human beings and be honest. 🤦‍♂️

C’mon this MUST be the Bad Place.

I have a hard time with the Democratic strategy right now and this OpEd highlights its flaws. The "it's about healthcare" frame treats the public as if we were asleep for the past 8 months. We're not stupid. This is about a government gone rogue. Just state in plain words what you believe is true.

In his latest post, Sam Altman shows that he is at best irresponsible and at worst a hostage taker. "Let us steal data, use colossal amounts of energy, and generally restructure the world without safeguards or careful thought. You *might* get a cure to cancer!" This is absurd and embarrassing.