Kudos the the tenure-letter author who just made me legit chuckle with a parenthetical joke.

Nighttime kitchen view.

I feel like people aren’t engaging with the challenge of a grand unified theory of today’s Noah tweets.

A downside of TikTok knowing I love Surfer Rosa is getting way too much Taylor Swift rn.

Excited for Taylor’s Verhoeven era.

“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”

Definitely identify as a political scientist today.

Proposal: no pundit may be called “wonkish” when they’re currently in the discourse mixing up margins and averages.

Why is there a bad remake of Patton on my tv?

A difficulty I have as a teacher is a complete inability to relate to a preference for a simulation over a proof.

3. Delgado-Vega, Álvaro, and @bartonelee2.bsky.social. 2024. ‘When Growth Leads to Zero-Sum Conflict’. t.co/MjBZ9BUCI3

2. Seabright, Paul, and Sergey Gavrilets. 2025. ‘The Evolution of Zero-Sum and Positive-Sum Worldviews’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 122(n° 32): 1–11. t.co/IHbIM1EwF6

My three favourite papers on the political economy of zero-sum politics (aside from the well-known Chinoy et al. paper). 1. @snageebali.bsky.social, Maximilian Mihm, and Lucas Siga. 2025. ‘The Political Economy of Zero-Sum Thinking’. Econometrica 93(1): 41–70. t.co/LoCepP3L1L

If you want to read a good book with Klein and Coates as characters:

This, to me, is punishment.

When did people start saying ‘Schelling point’ for focal point? It stops me short every time I read it.

It will always be that much research is bad, and bad for some reason or another. This is a problem to the extent users of research are unable to filter out the bad. The solution is more gatekeeping and less social media/journalistic discussion of individual studies and researchers.

Fun idea: Use this site to find your account's score and then find a matching review out there on the web for any media of your choosing. bluefacts.app

yea him = teaching, as should be obvious to anyone familiar with apple’s autocorrect

Sunstein is going to negatively polarize me into not being a liberal.

I just heard it‘s tomorrow!!!

Is Kimmel going to make it on the air before the rapture?

facts don’t care about your feelings ross

no thank you

for the millionth time i am reminded that bluesky is inheriting tumblr's legacy as much or more than twitter's

Klein and Douthat doing god’s work, reminding us all that Geuss is right about Habermas.

If only Jimmy Kimmel had followed the spirit of the AAUP’s advice.

Timeless excerpt from the book that first got me interested in philosophy of science.

Does anyone willing to give these people money want to try convincing me this gets less stupid in the paywalled bit?

Old Troc shit for you Philly folks look at this schedule. Back when I was going to like 3 shows a week. Dead Milkmen, Pavement, GBV, Ween, Dee Lite, and you gotta love the Dinosaur Jr and Sebadoh separated by a week after Mascis booted Lou Barlow from Dinosaur a few years before

A solid review of Abundance imo. Improving governance is important, and Klein and Thompson have some good ideas for doing so. But that only addresses a part of our political crisis.

So Happy to Announce I Have A Job

Good reminder that the very best outcome consistent with Schumer as leader is a clean CR with no ask from dems.

The single best thing I’ve read about the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Homework: Suppose Pr(meme|groyper)=1. What values can Pr(groyper|meme) take?

I’m going to stop explaining lines from the news about the shooter to my mom. Her heart’s too weak for this this level of crazy.

I wonder what Klein would think about a Pundit Watchlist.

We, all of us, are born free from the burden of having a Take

Backtrack to @tompepinsky.com’s OP to read through a useful discussion between Tom and Matt.

I’ve got a scoop for the Free Press.

Blueskyism

Did not expect a Jon Levin reference on college gameday.

Once again urging people interested in the attack on universities to read God and Man at Yale.

I feel like @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social should’ve been the one to turn me on to Kenny Rogers & the First Editions rendition of Elvira.

Toys in the Attic

Should i answer the REM thing seriously or jokingly?

This book is so weird and funny. It concerns a girl who happens to be filming a meme video behind Shinzo Abe when he gets plugged, so all the internet crazies think she's the mastermind behind the assassination. The first work that truly captures the spirit and texture of our profoundly stupid era.

Interesting that the @eigenrobot.bsky.social prompt makes ChatGPT much more righter in response to “what’s your take on popularism?”

Today’s book

Proving Betteridge’s Law of Headlines false with my headline “Is Betteridge’s Law of Headlines true?”