Catching up on AI pieces from the past couple of weeks. Recommendations: 1. End Stage Enshittification awardsforgoodboys.substack.com/p/end-stage-... 2. AI Psychosis investigation from A More Perfect Union www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGk... 3. Open AI compute costs www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

@zacharybartsch.bsky.social wrote an article for econ profs: economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/09/19/w...

#Econsky check the Economics Department at the University of Arkansas is hiring two open-rank Economics professors, including an opening in public economics and public policy. Public Economics/Public Policy: lnkd.in/eQTEgPM9 Macroeconomics: lnkd.in/ewxxNSh8

For friends who teach statistics economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/09/06/t...

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

Top posts from our blog so far in 2025 @mikemakowsky.bsky.social economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/08/09/t...

"Analyses have also found that some 60% of Google searches are now 'zero-click,' ending without the user visiting a single link."

A few years ago, I went to Panama to see the "sterile fly barrier" that keeps a flesh-eating parasite out of the U.S. It's one of the wildest things I've ever written about it... www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

At the library in Telluride, Colorado

a substantial part of Middlemarch is about Dorothea's realization that the man she has married in the belief that he is a genius through his 'Key to All Mythologies' has wasted his life on a futile quest because he doesn't read German and is entirely unaware of modern scholarly work.

If you live near Arlington, VA, come out and hear about my new experiment on Friday May 2 ices.gmu.edu/events/16497

The April 2025 JEEA issue is very special: it contains the first papers that have gone through our Data Replication Policy. @jeeanews.bsky.social

@theatlantic.com’s writers and editors are on Bluesky. Follow us for ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling: go.bsky.app/NVbMa2Y

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...

Maybe that would have kept them from going bankrupt.

I've been posting about shutdowns and rippling "severe" supply chain effects theoretically -- here's a more practical view which is in line with that.

Today is evidence that the principles are simple and sound. It took me about a year of studying economics seriously to realize that we already know what makes countries rich. At first, I thought if I learned more math I could discover a secret.

People LOVED their factory jobs back in the 60s / 70s. That's why there were so many songs about how they wanted to stay on the production line for all time and never, ever leave their hometown.

arxiv.org/abs/2503.23229 "Citegeist" is a great title.

Please consider answering the ESA Survey regarding IRB practices. We are interested in gathering a Comprehensive view of practices on this important issue: uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

One way to think about the current moment is an ideological struggle over whether there are such things as public goods

Special Issue of JEBO in honor of Gary Charness. Deadline submission. April 1st. More Info: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Coming up with software that ensures students do their own work (at least within that computer) shouldn’t be impossible.

Is the free version of Perplexity working? Anyone else tried to use it today?

Reading an NBER Working Paper online appendix be like

I love #econsky. They bring facts that tell us what we should be paying attention to Going to be some upset companies it it continues

Auction theorists take note

more polls should have "the glory of winning" and "other people were doing it" as response options, IMO (via apnorc.org/projects/bra...)

Tomorrow the US Administration imposes the heaviest taxes since the 1930s on Americans who buy imports. In this new brief from @ucsandiego.bsky.social, leading economists Evenett & Muendler estimate the harm to US workers in all 50 states—> econweb.ucsd.edu/muendler/dow... | cc @piie.com

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It's a very sad day. Just notified that @iza.org is closing its doors as of 31 December 2025. At a time when labor is under attack and technological change moves at an ever-faster pace, I can't help but think that this is a short-sighted decision. My heart goes out to those folks who work there.

Very cool opportunity in my opinion!

My son called me over to ask the definition of “jettison.” I was able to explain that it means “to yeet.” He got that right away.

Judging by the display in H&M at the Birmingham, AL mall, aspirational locations are Venice Beach, Paris, and UCLA.

How would you really know if they didn’t use AI assistance?

From a source: 2 weeks Tired: Prices rose Wired: Rose prices

In class I auctioned off an $8 gift card. I was just trying to illustrate a standard demand curve. When I got a bid for $7.99, I assumed we were done. Then a boy in the back held up a $10. I asked him why he wanted to spend $10 for $8 and he answered right away, “I want to win.”

Breakfast table in 2025 America: 9yo asks question to Apple Watch. Siri quotes Reddit. Kid mutters that you can’t believe everything on Reddit.

Update to Drama: BIL had come in to explain that driver insists they'll have to take the rice(and pay) but midway through thouht better of it and is now negotiating with driver again. An excellent demonstration of the flight instinct in mammals when confronted with mortal peril

Merry Christmas

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With the H5N1 genotype D1.1 now appearing to cause severe illness in humans, a significant risk faced by North America is the real possibility of a reassortment event occurring between it and seasonal influenza. This could easily occur via a human co-infection, or in an animal.

Teach millennials about file paths and directory structures? In this economy?

Big news on inequality: - wage inequality fell in 2023 as real earnings grew for the bottom 90% and declined for the top 1% - over the long run, 1979-2023, wages for the top 1% skyrocketed (+182%) while wages for the bottom 90% was slow (44%) www.epi.org/blog/wage-in... #EconSky #NumbersDay

Hey #Econsky, I just discovered this great starter pack: go.bsky.app/Hsdczbc Follow the Lisas! 👩‍🎓 @lisakramer.com , I think we should also add Vasilisa @vasilisawerner.bsky.social, who is on the job market with an #EconJMP on "Destructive Communication" ➡️ bsky.app/profile/vasi...

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

You and me both hank

Agreed, and I do this.