Visited a recreation of Cybersyn — the Chilean socialist internet that predates the web. It had programs to communicate with a decentralized network of telex machines at factories (Cybernet), economic simulators (CHECO & Cyberstride), and this control room Goal was to control the economy with clicks

IDK, they could fund SNAP 🤷‍♂️

"Repeal the 19th" was literally trending on X yesterday.

Can’t wait to dive into this piece by Daniel Keuhn “W. E. B. Du Bois, Harvard Economics, and Marginalist Wage Theory.” Great to see Journal of Economic Perspectives feature work on DuBois, further integrating his insights into economics. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The part I still find wildest is that he's Mahmood Mamdani's son.

the screenshot that should be in the Americanist political science Louvre: The Nationalization of US Elections

In 1983, households aged 75+ were 5% richer than the average. In 2022, they were 55% richer. Meanwhile, under-35 households went from 21% of average wealth to just 16%. America’s wealth is aging way faster than its population. www.nber.org/digest/20251...

This has been a debate worth reading.

this all happening in tandem with deregulating and promoting the crypto universe is kind of, well, 😬

@janfichtner.bsky.social has updated his fantastic charts showing the enduring 🇺🇸 dominance in global finance (& 🇨🇳’s continued marginality, with only incremental rise) as the central feature of the world economy. We will see what the future brings, of course. Must-read new paper.

Imagine Trump said he was illegally stopping November Social Security payments & incorrectly blamed the shutdown The frame should be “Trump illegally halts Social Security checks,” not “Shutdown means November 1 marks a Social Security cliff, Dems share blame?” But that’s what’s happening w/ SNAP

god I don't know how my body can both viscerally reject the sky staying dark till after 8am and yet completely refuse to remain asleep all the way till 6

*My* media environment is telling me that the larger media environment is a bigger and bigger problem for a functional democracy.

Twitter/X is a story on its own: 🔴 While users have become more Republican 💥 POSTING has completely transformed: it has moved nearly ❗50 percentage points❗ from Democrat-dominated to slightly Republican-leaning.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

There hasn't been a lot of empirical evidence yet -- here's a start from Kim + Hamilton. Faculty hiring of URMs decreases after state introduction (not passage) of anti-DEI legislation. Impact greater for teaching-focused schools, and increases with state revenue dependence. osf.io/preprints/so...

I think I sort of assumed I knew what Lord of the Rings is about and today I am learning, no

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Indicting Democratic candidates on transparently pretextual charges is the latest sign that things are getting very bad.

wait, a kinship terminology angle in the news? anthropologists, it's your chance to get that public-facing opinion piece out

Damn. "The largest blind spot in current financial oversight is the belief that financial oversight in the U.S. still exists."

What if the real greatest impact of AI is not that it replaces work but that it psychologically disassembles humans?

I think if the dems truly did things that made economic life better the corporate consultants would be begging for a return to identity politics

my favorite small detail is how they go out of the way to make the can look like it's More Made Of Metal Than It Is

enjoying a nice can of soup for men (in this case progresso pitmaster). would read a whole dissertation on the gendering of men soup

if you wanna know how things are going, I'm rewatching decade-old Bakeoff episodes

After a huge post-election flip in economic perceptions, I thought Democrats and Republicans might be lying to pollsters to send a partisan message — but I was wrong! New in the Journal of Experimental Political Science (open access): doi.org/10.1017/XPS....

Chilling but important to read.

Our article with @hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social and Ben Tippet is out in Socio-Economic Review! We examine pension financialisation and pension wealth inequality in the UK — focusing on how the rise of Defined Contribution (DC). academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

This Day in Labor History: October 26, 1825. The Erie Canal opened, eight years after construction commenced. This engineering marvel would have enormous impacts on the future of American work, including spurring ever-greater industrialization. It also killed over 1,000 workers building it!

okay I am nearly as annoyed that it's all working class cosplay as I am about the Nazi tattoo

Every day, new horrors.

This kind of self-censorship is a key way our media is failing us. Kudos to Greenblatt for his integrity, and to Politico for publishing this.

omg, just realized it's the Dem with the Nazi tattoo and not some random Trump appointee

The Compact original 9: Arizona: out Brown: out Dartmouth: out MIT: out Penn: out Texas: ??? Vanderbilt: not in Virginia: out

Really interesting piece. As a non-specialist American reader, what struck me was how similar the dysfunction feels to that of care in the American system, despite being differently organized and financed, and despite different incentive structures.

Greetings from the Ypsilanti No Kings March!

DARTMOUTH OUT! We are at 6 rejections. Vanderbilt is the only private left standing "considering" the compact along with UT Austin and the University of Arizona.

War zone in Ann Arbor #NoKings

Womp womp.

UVA says no to the compact

Excited to read this one (just out).

If you are faculty, alumni, staff, student, or a student's parent at any of these places, you have an unusual chance to influence the future right now by communicating with your administration clearly about what's at stake.

You just need to insert "in slurs" at key points in this sentence.

the person who owns this house lives up the street from a friend of mine - terrific decorating

I used to focus on left versus right. Now I’m much more worried about the money at the top. But while it might seem strange to say it, I think this is a hopeful way of looking at the world that opens the door to coalitions that seemed impossible before. My first for the @newrepublic.com:

The Roberts Court has found a minority to protect—not a racial or religious one, but a political party whose power will endure without electoral majority support. Louisiana v. Callais could hand Republicans a dozen House seats and make that imbalance permanent. This is autocratic legalism in action.

Brown rejected the compact! www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

“Kavanaugh map”

For-profit intermediaries target patients of self-funded employer insurance plans, shunting them to pharma discount programs they may or may not be eligible for rather than actually covering their drugs. I don't even know how to describe how many kinds of broken this is.