Oh boy

I had missed this news. Really sad to learn about John's passing.

Frank Gehry, the most celebrated architect of his time, dies at 96

Research indicates that traditional drug testing and approval processes threaten to prevent many promising personalized medicines from ever reaching the market. www.chicagobooth.edu/review/regul... #econsky

Thankfully, this only lasted two years

Dang

Every once in a while, The Onion really hits it out of the park

Yay!!!!! news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

Referee 2 recommends rejection

With the passing of Jane Goodall today, we lost one of the most consequential voices in environmental science and animal behavior. In 2002, she said, “We have found that…there isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom.” (Continued in comments)

Remember when Microsoft invested in Apple in 1997? I'm getting similar vibes.

We lost a real one to day. Heaven will be looking pretty stylish for a while

Spotify recommendations are funny sometimes

Random LLM success story. We live in the future.

Good to know we're not the worst

Would be great to do this for academic journals

How about President Pope Leo XIV?

I know nothing about chip design, but I'd love to have a line that says "FuriosaAI" on my CV

Belatedly doing my best to amplify this. Refine works, and I can totally see it becoming part of my pre-submission routine.

Dang

We were promised jetpacks

🤦‍♂️

One of my favorite musicals... which I never was able to catch live, unfortunately.

Bsky is on fire today

It gets better!

You win the internet today

I rank the all the papal contenders using my VARP (Value Above Replacement Pope) metric. And I tell you the best place to get cacio e pepe near St. Peter's. All that and more in the next Silver Bulletin.

Best gelato anywhere. No contest.

H/t @pietrobiroli.bsky.social

One day late, bit still good dev.to/alvaromontor...

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Writing a new paper in a literature that you haven't written in is like going to a party with all new people and trying to act cool to fit in. Oh yeah, Ferman (2019)? Totally!

GUYS GUYS GUYS MARK CUBAN JUST REPOSTED #econsky!!!

Extraordinary scenes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade right now. Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government. What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising. 🇷🇸

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

Oopsie www.theguardian.com/business/202...

End of an era

God knows we need some good news every once in a while

Michigan Ave. today

Roma today. Thank you for standing with #Ukraine! 📹:@MarcoFattorini

WHY DID I GET THIS IN THE MAIL

Phillip Strack celebrated in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. #Econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/02/phil...

I found this year's Superbowl ads quite underwhelming. The only one that stood out IMHO was Lay's youtu.be/gmzklpZFNiE?...