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A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database. An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️

What about drummers?

Spelling Bee editors, Christopher Nolan would like a word with you

This led me to look up The Beachcombers and I was floored to learn that it ran for 28 years!

This is horrifying.

HK to Chicago round trip movie binge. To Chicago: Naked Gun (2025) Baby Driver Flow To Hong Kong: No Time to Die Hot Fuzz Before Sunset The Other Guys Enjoyed all of them.

The gov't has chosen the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to run the city’s third medical school, with the first cohort of students expected to enrol in 2028. In full: buff.ly/sClTSB5

HKUST is going to launch Hong Kong's 3rd medical school!https://hkust.edu.hk/news/hkust-receives-governments-approval-establishing-new-medical-school

Hitting the last line of this story...

Not just Harvard... Journals, CAP, professional associations like AEA, etc., all need to cut ties with him.

A few pictures from Sai Ying Pun a few nights ago, before dinner. Full Sai Ying Pun gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K... #saiyingpun #hongkong #photography

Absolutely great thread about Larry Summers and what it says about the treatment of women in economics.

Sheung Wan and Island West seen from near Ocean Terminal, at twilight #hongkong #photography #twilight Full gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K...

This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.

One thing that boggles my mind is that two decades ago most of my colleagues and I began thinking of email as a replacement for faxes or memos, to be used for establishing an archival record, precisely because they would be preserved and available to others. 1/2

I have the same thought. Most of his emails seem barely coherent, and the advice and insight he provides is banal, ChatGPT level stuff. Yet as late as 2018 all these elites talk to him like he's a galaxy brain.

Turns out that C. Wright Mills was right on when he said that there is a "power elite." Though for our generation it seems to be an outlandish collection of finance, tech and crypto bros, academics, influencers, grifters, degenerates, perverts, cranks, buffoons, rich Nazis, and fabulists.

Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.

I just listened to "Boris the Spider", and then "Kung-Fu Fighting" and "Rasputin" and now I am missing the time when hit songs that were total bangers could also be complete bonkers.

New edited volume just dropped! Quantitative History of China: State Capacity, Institutions, and Development edited by Chen Zhiwu, myself, and Ma Debin is now able as a free PDF/ePub download. 1/2 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Views of Kai Tak Sky Garden at Night Gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K...

Some views from the Kai Tak Greenway at night 启德共融通道的夜景 Gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K...

Our 2022 paper on nominative record linkage in the 缙绅录 (CGED-Q JSL) has been translated into Chinese and published in 大数据与中国历史研究 (Big Data and the Study of Chinese History). 第5辑. camerondcampbell.blog/chinese-tran...

Idea for a fight scene in the next John Wick just dropped...

Our new manuscript estimating shares of late Qing degree holders who had kin other than direct patrilineal ancestors who held degrees, and within kin network correlations in degree attainment, based on a new dataset constructed from 同年齿录 and related records. 1/2 osf.io/preprints/so...

Absolutely pathetic. Why don't these people understand that preemptively bending the knee doesn't buy you anything, and invites even more extreme demands? It isn't like anyone in the WH is going to say, oh wow, UC has done enough now, let's leave them alone.

Escalators on Centre Street in Sai Ying Pun, at night - Full gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K...

Sai Ying Pung on Hong Kong Island, at night. Full gallery camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/China/Hong-K...

Spotted doves on the HKUST campus #birds

Just posted a new working paper on SSRN! We pit rule-based, machine learning, and various LLM methods against each other to classify social outcomes (like gender, custody, and housing) from Chinese divorce judgments. What can human–machine disagreement teach us about validity and inference?

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

Causeway Bay MTR is so deep that every time I am there I worry I will take a wrong turn and go down a corridor that leads to the underground kingdom of the Mole-Men. Fine if they let me take one of their tunneling machines for a spin, but they'd probably kill me to keep their secret.

Your regular reminder that claims of "censorship" and "cancel culture" in academia are a manufactured crisis which "threaten academic freedom, civil discourse and even democracy itself" www.psu.edu/news/liberal...

One time in college a friend of mine and I were filling up at gas station in Ventura County, and a guy came storming out of the shop yelling "The pumps were labeled by a MANIAC!" Turns out he thought the octane ratings (87 etc) were the price in cents and was upset that he had to pay 1.20/gallon.

#birds seen at Pak Shui Wun next to HKUST campus this morning. Using a Canon R6 with the RF 800mm f11 and the RF 2x extender.

"expert on heist economics"

The HKUST Division of Social Science is searching in Sociology and Applied Economics! Please pass on to anyone who might be interested. sosc.hkust.edu.hk/news/faculty...

When you get invited to a dinner in Kwun Tong and you're looking for the restaurant

Piece in the Economist on Joel.Mokyr. Closes by suggesting Sheilagh Ogilvie and Stephen Broadberry for the prize. Joel Mokyr deserves his Nobel prize www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Who's solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.

For the Louvre, based on my extensive knowledge of heists in Paris from French movies, I think we can safely assume that 1) the crew leader had retired from crime but was forced to return for one last job

Come on, that's obviously Alain Delon.

I read this QJE paper about the destructive effect of mobile apps on labor market outcomes in an app instead of a desktop browser, and my productivity declined by 5%.

I'm reading Pynchon's Shadow Ticket right now and enjoying it. Feels like a postscript to Against The Day, and indeed there is a cameo from one of the characters. Also he managed to work in a reference to REO Speedwagon.

So if Australia's oil imports are cut off, it would only be a month or two until the last functioning domestic oil production facility there would be under siege by a psychotic band of leather-clad marauders, with only a haunted ex-cop driving a souped-up black 1974 XB Ford Falcon to defend it?

Joel Mokyr FTW!!!! Three Share Nobel in Economics for Work on How Technology Drives Growth www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/b...

Last night the Didi car that I rode back to the hotel smelled terrible because of driver's BO. I was suffering in silence and then the Didi app that was giving navigation suddenly switched and said something like "Driver, open the windows and allow air to circulate." 1/3

At airport security in Beijing and one of the staff came running up with a passport and asked if it was mine. She showed me the face page and the owner looked like a bald, skinny John Malkovich. Just for once, can't they mistake me for someone who looks like Brad Pitt?

I'm so sad to hear this. Diane Keaton's son was a classmate of our son in elementary school so we saw her regularly at the school and talked occasionally. She was a really nice, down to earth, and thoughtful person.