It always amazes me how not wanting to do something is a powerful motivator to do all these other things I don't want to do slightly less

Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package bit.ly/3LHpin8

Larry Summers (Nov. 10): The trustees need to investigate the Harvard Crimson! Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention... www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Hooray for an introvert!

What would 2015 Shabana think of 2025 Shabana?

2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood

Lmao. No, we just don’t understand why you’ve spent a year telling people “hold up, this ain’t fascism, lemme tell you about real fascism” when no one serious is saying “we live under fascism” but we are saying “this regime is fascist and wants to make America fascist.” Easy, really.

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W46 | The Complete Sherlock Holmes . 🔗: stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali... . #rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2

It's a revealing moment... J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost. The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.

This is such an own goal too, Labour had no need to try to be reform

Mo Farah would not have been a British citizen for the 2012 Olympics if Labour had introduced their new asylum plan.

Let's sue the White House for $50 billions

Despicable

“Is it possible that you could have a life here, a job here, maybe kids going to school, a family here, then after 19 years if your country is then considered safe you get booted out and sent home?”

Me: the government probably can't have much worse policies The government: hold my beer

How messed-up is the current UK income tax system? How much worse could it get? And how much more will you pay? Other tax calculators tell you the tax you pay. Ours also shows the *marginal* rate - how much you'll pay on the next £. For everyone. taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/11/12/t...

Truthfully, the most exciting proposal to improve parliament that I have ever seen

Moral: Be careful what you ask for.

New release of my llm-anthropic plugin adding support for structured outputs (via the new official API - previously I faked it with tool calls) and Anthropic's web search feature github.com/simonw/llm-a...

Don't make me pull out another meme. 😅

Says the whining world champion

Let's hope he does! He will lose, as always

On the blog: visualize massive spatial datasets — fast and performantly, and even in 3D — with PMTiles. Also, keep an eye out: a follow-up post on deploying PMTiles mapping apps is in the works!

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

“data show an increase of 10% in submissions & 23% in funded projects from female applicants with the lottery-first approach compared to a previously used procedure. Additionally, the lottery-first approach was estimated to have 68% lower economic costs compared to single-stage peer review approach”

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.

can't believe people were more concerned with one-based indexing of void's identifier than they are about spawning shared conciousness

New Data Scientists when they find out their job is mostly dashboarding and data engineering

common mistake, really, but they are only "letters of reference" if they are from the référer region of France. Otherwise they are just sparkling bullshit.

I was on board until the zero indexing 🤪

The official @bsky.app account is back doing carpet bombing on Threads www.threads.com/@bluesky_soc...

Thanks, Sarah! @sarahotner.bsky.social Lovely visit, and a great rolling conversation with @antoinevernet.com and the colleagues at Sussex. (Those signed books are very rare 😂 -- gotta hold onto them)

Fabulous day with @philipncohen.com, hosting two talks @sussexunibusiness.bsky.social. @antoinevernet.com and I (big nerds that we are 🤓) even had our books signed! Thank you so much for including us on your sabbatical tour.

For lovers of @ourworldindata.org - we have improved our search functionality! Great work by the team at the backend to improve user experience. Enjoy! ourworldindata.org/introducing-...

You think that would be easy, but apparently not

This is why they will IPO at a crazy valuation! 🫠

Don't wanna pile on. But. To the general public it will just be implausible to suggest that journalistic standards meant a lead suggesting a Trump-Epstein link wasn't worth pursuing when the NYT did run with "Mamdani said he was African American in an application to a college he didn't get into".

jmp pitch for the brave: how well does presence of faculty in this dataset predict university *jmr IP shares

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

Thankfully for us, Liz Truss is the past and no one cares what she thinks

How to use LLMs in research work - a really nice introduction to coding with LLMs for research by Kohei Kawaguchi. Code and docs available in a github repo #linkoftheday note.com/mixingale/n/...

FWIW Americans can go to college in Sweden, studying in English, while enjoying things like safety, gender equality, quality of life, and constitutional rights – and without breaking the bank: utbildning.su.se/english/educ...

BTW, I wrote a novel with a Bayesian statistician as the protagonist. No, I'm not joking. It's called THE BAYESIAN HITMAN. And you can buy it on Amazon. 👇 Rave reviews have said "it's not bad for a stats novel" and "I only fell asleep twice." A truly unique gift 😁 www.amazon.com/Bayesian-Hit...

There is a spot in my department where people put books that they do not want anymore. Yesterday, I found a copy of Galbraith's Organizational Design from 1977

What a loser

The 2026 Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Conference will be held in Bordeaux July 1-3, 2026 Submissions by Dec 16: sase.org/events/2026-...

New working paper up on SocArxiv! osf.io/preprints/so.... I use the 1940 Census and linked mortality records in combination with an IV-design to study the causal effects of racial segregation on longevity. I show that segregation reduces both Black and White longevity.

The universal agreement among commenters throughout was that our collective time to shine is represented by the bottom right cell. Congrats to all of us for making it on to the alignment chart! Thus concludes reality distraction strategy #822.