Year-end output review: Down the hatch, 2025 familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/d...

This story is amazing. I did not know Oliver Sacks fictionalized his early case studies (or that he was gay, though that's not news) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

What we're really using are automation and/or computation tools. Calling everything "AI" is just advertising for the industry.

Genius at work

ChatGPTzero says my abstract (written preLLMs) has a "high" probability of being written by AI: "consistently formal tone, smooth logical progression...lack of idiosyncratic stylistic variation...coherent and well-structured" IOW written by an editor... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

New, at Can We Still Govern? Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it. A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...

Tell me again how schools are biased against boys? "Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled" apnews.com/article/scho...

The phrase "America is a Christian nation" appeared after Reconstruction, rose again in the Civil Rights era, and our current massive wave started in the 1980s (shown deflated by all references to "America").

Wayback Machine has the David Duke source material for JD Vance's speech at America Fest, a tweet from 2016: "They hate White men who won't apologize for being - White men" web.archive.org/web/20161116...

Handy declining Elsevier template - nice!

The use of the phrase "raising doubts" is raising questions about that are already answered by this unceasing war of aggression

the vice president is a klansman

Congrats again to everyone for pretending the far right authoritarian party’s assault on higher education was really about fighting antisemitism

The one problem that rules them all is taking away the wealth of oligarchs, whose personal holdings dwarf entire social problems for everyone else.

I think I need to step away from social media for a few minutes and spend more time complaining to my family

What's also funny is his jaw was broken in two places and he had to have surgery to install titanium plates in his face

Our culture is in a stupidity death spiral on "generations" where you can't get rid of them without talking about them and you can't talk about them without perpetuating them. This is not a joke. That this is 100% certain to never end is emblematic of many more serious information problems.

Dropped by Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge this morning. Nice for birds! 🪶

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. 💥

The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester. A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:

Stop complaining. They had to leave the second THE there or the whole thing would be off-center. (On the plus side, it's ambiguous whether "memorial" refers to both of them.)

Freedom is slavery. The arts are Trump

A 700% increase from $13 is $104. So cutting from 100 to 13 is a 700% cut, round numbers. Fair enough. So if you cut $12 more, to $1, that's a ~10,000% cut.

With a potential dependency shift this fast, the idea that increasing birthrates now would help is bonkers

The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries. In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas. www.iza.org/publications... 🧵 thread—>

Hey sociology lovers! After losing our program to Hurricane Katrina and a 20-year hiatus, Tulane University is re-launching its PhD in sociology! If you'd like to learn more, please reach out at [email protected]. I'd be happy to chat to prospective students or faculty who might send some our way.

Surprisingly many people in the early 1980s thought the one-child policy was reasonable because of rapid population growth. But get this: China's population is bigger today than it was ever supposed to get under that policy -- and yet (the same?!) people are now freaking out about population decline

My forthcoming book— For which I began research in 2006. Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press. Cover will be added soon. The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery

Refusing to submit required materials (diversity statement) makes it easier to not hire this guy - otherwise it would be a minor hassle to come up with a reason to not hire someone with "strong moral opposition to DEI ideology"

Here is the percentage of white males age 30-39 working in professional, technical, and managerial jobs between 1850 and 2024. The current generation has not been squeezed out of such jobs. If there is any lost generation here, I would say it is boomers who were 30-39 in 1990. (@ipums.bsky.social)

Shot

And no regulatory action or lawsuit in US will change Tesla behavior, but China might be different.

The networks could say, "He tells lies that he has been told are lies, so we're not going to air his speeches live." By any journalistic standard that would be reasonable and easy to defend. The fact that they don't tells us where we are.

"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million." Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.

America First, at America’s first public university.

I wrote 134,000 words in 4100 posts on Bluesky so far this year. You're welcome! Thank you for your attention to this matter. www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Last time I was in Chicago I got a ride from an Indian driver. He was a pharmacist back home but couldn't get his license here because of the time/cost commitment for the requirements. Somehow I didn't get the sense he was here to harm Americans. Fuck these guys and the Nazi they rode in on.

Cinnamon clementine pear, a bright yellow jam which I found particularly delicious, paired with a bright yellow Because Internet that I wrote myself! Day 17 of #BooksAreMyJam, in which I pair linguistics-y books from my shelves with each day's jam from the Bonne Maman jamvent calendar

I love that they couldn't fit the text on one plaque so they just tacked on a second plaque. Top quality plaque work.

Marrying late has many advantages (Chinese poster, 1975) chineseposters.net/posters/e15-...

It's not just me. I know of many Black people who land jobs in highly visible or prestigious places and become scapegoats for the resentments of others.

I'm about 18 months and 20,000 words into the "pronatalism" tag on Family Inequality. Surely this means my book is almost done. familyinequality.wordpress.com/tag/pronatal...

WATCH: “I was lucky enough to have him on this program a number of times and to get to interact with him in person,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Rob Reiner. “You simply cannot overstate what a jewel of a human being this man was.”

Trump thinks he will easily win the war and people like winners, so he will be more popular (including with the military). Also, wartime justifies domestic emergency powers for all kinds of uses. Also, plunder.

One compulsion I have is going through all the hassle of using Stata code to arrange text in figures like this even when I know I'm never going to use it. (Those two y-axis titles are ... not y-axis titles, and when you move one the other moves although they technically unrelated, etc.)

“…health disparities research is within the NIH’s priorities only if the area of research is “directly influenced by healthcare or biomedical science.” It gives poverty, employment and immigration as examples of areas that “would not be directly influenced by healthcare or biomedical science.””

This seems bad