I believe that T47 should withdraw all US troops from the dark side of the moon. Nobody there voted for him, and that side is constantly ignoring the US, how insulting! (at least that decision would make sense). www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...

When "breathtaking abuse of the tax and legal system.” is just another headline... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

Ugh. AI Bots or AI-identified bugs in Linux or BSD infrastructure?

So extraordinarily frustrating to see 🇺🇸 political landscape just blithely doing mutually assured destruction (MAD) by enthusiastically, gleefully, repeatedly working hard to disenfranchise wide swaths of the electorate, by "gerrymandering". Worst kind of anti-democratic behavior I can think of.

Soon at the re-named "National Art Gallery by T47"

I truly don't think this is the right time to go for a pleasure excursion in the Persian Gulf - even if they're only a few meters off the coast...

We are so ready for Armageddon... Clay as substrate for chips, and we will need those human sized computers... www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/... www.yankodesign.com/2026/05/04/c...

Next up: after MPaPA (make Pluto a planet again), NOAA will provide evidence that the Earth really is flat.

Hm. I wonder if there's going to be a surge in passport renewals in the next few weeks... or in 3 years... www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/p...

Fwiw, it doesn't say if it was an Iranian monkey.

So "Washington demanding 'entry fee' from Ottawa before trade talks"... come on guys, just call it the "TRUMP Peace Treaty", give him a golden copy of the Stanley Cup, and call it a day. That should work.

I'm not a headliner, I'm just a support act, but I'll be there!

Argh... Brain freeze. My first read was "Variance reduction methods for DICTATORIAL expectations" as part of the top thread.... Nope.

So interference (in politics) is when outsiders intrude into a polity's affairs? Did JD Vance discover Hungarian roots? Pot calling the kettle black?

When I was a kid (12ish), with some friends, we picked a road in our neighborhood (all dirt roads), strung a chain across, charged toll for improvement (a few cruzeiros). Neighbor complained (no humor), we got a serious talking-to from parents. Can we get an adult into the room?

I expect the Jolly Roger to be hoisted pretty soon on the Ford or whatever corvette they have sailing in the area. Because that's all this is: piracy abroad, brigandry at home. Ho ho and a bottle of rum (for Hegseth, of course).

Hm. Who could have predicted the effect on EV demand? T47 is doing more for the environment through higher gas prices than he probably wanted.

I am one of 350. Kudos to @i4replication.bsky.social for corralling and managing that many!

That's one way to avoid ICE...

Nuff said...

I wonder if Democrats are now going to start hoarding pre-Trump paper currency, and how that will affect inflation... "The Treasury will begin printing Trump’s signature on U.S. currency later this year. It’s the first time a sitting president’s name will appear on money."

In our last session before the lunch Leonardo Peñaloza-Pacheco from @cornelluniversity.bsky.social talks about "Migration, Market Power, and Firms". #MigrationForum2026 #MigrationResearch #Economics

I am so happy that I am running open source firewalls! Other than "no phoning home", also more secure (more frequent updates). Viva #opensource (openWRT in the past, Pfsense, OPNsense in the present) - with all the challenges that open source business face in making it work!

Oh, the avalanche of memes that will come from this. I'm not even going to try, bc somebody will have already done it... ("because it worked so well for Barron?")

So NASA is now fleeing to the moon, and Elon (+illuminati) to Mars. Understandable, given all that is happening. Can we offer T47 the opportunity of a lifetime of creating Mar-a-Luna? We promise we'll send a second rocket to pick him up...

OK, this is new one: Subscribe to open. Article is not "open access" until enough subscribers have ... subscribed. Until 2026-04-26, for non-commercial use, you can use this link to read the article for free anyway... shs.cairn.info/tap-sb9t176f... . My take on Open Science in Economics.

Could we put that in writing? Covfefe!

I have been maintaining Stata Docker images at hub.docker.com/u/dataeditors (BYO license), which we use at @aeadata.bsky.social for more and more cases. As Python is showing up more often, for select containers, I have added a Python variant, first for Stata 19.5, now for Stata 18 as well.

#Google has gone MAGA... Among all the possible "AI generated icon sets" it proposes to use... The gold tinted ones. Trying to convince T47 to use a Pixel phone, are they?

Fill in the blank...

The war is already affecting the supply of high-quality... Cosmetics?

Oz complains that there are too many signed up for the ACA. Sounds to me as if it is just too confusing. There is one solution to this. It's called universal health care. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

ZBW und VDB laden ein zur Tagung „Informationsversorgung für die Wirtschaftsforschung: Zwischen Daten, Offenheit und KI“. Erste Highlights zum Thema Open Science in der Wirtschaftsforschung stehen mit den Ökonomen @lars.vilhuber.com und Prof. Dr. Sören Köcher bereits fest. tinyurl.com/4xh9ehnn

When you are preparing to invite a bunch of applicants to interview for a pre doc position, you gotta prepare yourself by reading the appropriate literature.

It's all the fault of the Nobel Peace prize committee for the choices they made. But I also think that other deeply considered peace prize (you know, ⚽) got it wrong...

This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black...

Today arXiv remembers our colleague Joe Halpern, who was instrumental in founding arXiv's CS section. Joe's passions ranged far & wide and we're lucky that arXiv was one of them. Joe, thank you for giving so much to arXiv - you are missed. blog.arxiv.org/2026/02/27/remembering-joe-halpern

So that's why T47 had to create the pseudo Security council "peace board". His wife told him to go play outside with his friends...

I start off in 🇫🇷🇨🇦 for the "summer" school at @ciqss-qicss.bsky.social (May is NOT summer in Montréal), soyez les bienvenus! aeadataeditor.github.io/talks/2026-0... conjointement avec Marie Connolly (Data Editor for #CJE)

That's the response to getting his hand slapped for taxing Americans without any legal right? (Tariffs) Aliens?

Tariffs? What?

The Epstein collection 👇 www.gocomics.com/theargyleswe...

I do note that Charles I was arrested in Newark, tried, and was ultimately beheaded. Stuff that can happen to kings and those that style themselves as such... Oh, and as @pkrugman.bsky.social tends to say: Musical coda... www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMi0...

Next thing we know, they'll say that computing any inflation rate higher than 2% is treason...

Hm. In @nytimes.com version, "Gov't does not have the power to erase... truths". They sure try! And sometimes it can even work. Independent media are crucially important. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

My personal Olympics... Or: the razor-blade paradigm for cross-country skis. The skis are cheaper than the shoes, but both are tied together. After my 30-year old boots disintegrated, I just needed new shoes... but nobody makes the binding anymore, so... also need new skis...

This cannot end well. See www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuya... for future fiction.

The logical consequence is that the IRS, or it's supervisor (Bessent) go to prison for 5 years. That's what the law says.

So Canada 🇨🇦 has half of the three medals?