Back in the cesspool to make this subtle comment: "Let's use the task-based framework of labor market analysis, only simplify its key insight--different tech has different impacts--into the assumption that technology merely presents an upward threshold for expertise that ain't automated."

Yeah I’m done with this cesspool for a good while. Peace.

The pivot to blaming companies for the obvious consequence of your tariffs has begun

Lol

WASH POST: “Many of the major changes DOGE pushed at Social Security have been abandoned or reversed after proving ineffective, while others are yielding unintended consequences and badly damaging customer service and satisfaction.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Since I recently died of sudden cardiac arrest and was brought back to life five minutes later it makes me think about how our assumption that death is a terminal event, while convenient and mostly true, is in reality false. When I die for good, I will have died *at least twice*.

I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason

Nearly every higher ed-related provision in the House’s proposed reconciliation bill will make higher ed more expensive for students. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Sort of seems like it's not regrettable to you at all if you don't think the officer ought to regret that "just doing his job" means locking a person up arbitrarily and wrongly in a private detention center.

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

My number of followers is meaningful only in the sense that it’s like only twice the number of people that Robin Dunbar purports with scant evidence that humans could possibly know personally.

No Twitter users are not okay. Neither are BlueSky users.

It’s a hipster cliche at this point. But yes, I am a liberal white man from a large west coast metropolitan area and I do love the show Mo.

“Please lower prices. For reasons.”

This is not an AI hate post. Do not interpret it like that. Interpret it at face value.

Here is a thought: Arguments about which president is worse or better are a waste of time when we should be concentrating on what current presidents are doing that we either want to encourage or discourage.

I told my daughter about the fundamental problem of causal inference and it blew her beautiful young mind. Hell yeah.

Good god I want to talk about something technical other than generative AI.

Sen. John Barrasso leaves the door open to voting to support the suspension of Habeas Corpus

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years

Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.

Good thing we have <checks notes> a non-functioning state led by a mad king authoritarian. I'm sure they will help prevent this conflict from getting out of control.

Imagine being a cadet at West Point now--some of the most elite future officers in the world--and being told you can't read an American Nobelist, Toni Morrison, even as the government you're to serve decides that the only refugees it'll permit--indeed, seek--are white Afrikaners.

Why are they wearing masks?

HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center

Smartwatch data

I don’t understand why no one in congress has proposed amending The Federal Reserve act to include the following addition among the mandates “Reducing the number banger Khoa memes to sustainable levels.” Keep inflation and employment the same , just add to the equation I'm sure Cuban agrees

DOOTIE, DON’T START! 😂

Want to trust federal statistics, like jobs & inflation? If so, you should object to a rule to make senior federal stats staff more like political appointees. Find out more & how to comment on it here: (www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...). Deadline: 5/23/25. Quantity matters, so repost.

Reminder: Nurse practitioners are basically doctors.

If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating! (First haircut and beard trim after surviving cardiac arrest.)

The decline in child mortality in many low- to middle-income countries in the last 30 years has been quite remarkable. Ethiopia's rate fell from 20% to 5%. Improvements in child mortality in rich countries look pretty meagre by comparison. But that's only when looking at it in absolute terms. 1/

Nothing hard about this.

Believe it or not, there are some extremely brilliant people who decided not to become venture capitalists and instead decided to do basic science.

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

Tired of the “X is all you need” trope and it needs to end now.

Your monthly reminder that today we get to see one month and only one month of new data and, importantly, we don’t see any *future* months.

Your regular reminder that NSF grants built the internet and helped the U.S. dominate tech.

The average American has three friends. Wait.

Love how the whole AI is taking our jobs thing is still 100% confounded with the sharp downturn in the labor market after one of the biggest economic shocks in a century thing and how these two things probably interact and thus their effects cannot neatly be decomposed into two components.

This disgusts me

I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown of JAMA Pediatrics until we can figure out what is going on goodscience.substack.com/p/the-resear... I mean, come ON

This needs to stop. If I think people breaking are into my house, my machete comes out. If it were ICE breaching the wrong house, I would possibly be dead.

None of this chaos is necessary. NONE OF IT.

this is a literal attack ad running in Australia right now lol

But seriously: have you ever *tried* milk and honey?