In the first Trump administration I was constantly seeing stories from NYT, WSJ, etc., that would describe inner workings and dysfunctions of white house and inevitably include a line like "this account is based on interviews with more than 25 administration officials"

My sibling Cat is an incredible writer and I am SO EXCITED to be able to buy their new book.

Looking to get up-to-speed on cross imputation: getting a relationship between X and Y in dataset 1, and then imputing Y in dataset 2 where I have X but no Y. I'm told this might be more of a sociology thing -- would love any papers/handbook chapters for the state of the art. #econsky #sociology

Damn and now Drake is going to have to pay a 25 percent tariff on that beef?

back in maybe 2022 there was this brilliant video of Ben Simmons passing up wide open layups in 2K with Steve Nash (remember when he was coach?) looking around in disbelief I assume it's lost to internet history but would love to find this... #sixers #nba

Last year, the JHU economics ML reading group worked through "Estimating Nonlinear Heterogeneous Agent Models with Neural Networks" from Kase at el. Today @qingyuanfang.bsky.social walked us through the authors' code: github.com/tseep/estima...

I think a useful heuristic for social science is: is this question interesting if I find a (precise) null effect? And I will submit that the problem with a lot of these fraudulent marketing studies is the answer was clearly "no." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Thank GOD "Captain it's Wednesday" is on BSKY

My baby sibling is an absolutely incredible writer and I am *so* excited for more of their writing to be entering the world.

"Some studies implicitly adopt the view that, perhaps because of some benevolent identification deity, the data at hand necessarily include some set of conditioning variables that suffice for the CIA." incredible line from Barnow and Smith (2015) 🔥🔥

There is some good in this world

I know the crypto crowd won big and bitcoin is at record levels, etc., but I am still so incredibly down on this whole thing. Like, it's-going-to-go-to-$0-eventually level down on it. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Tyrese Maxey on the broadcast for the Jared McCain dunk is everything I wanted

I feel like the word "elite" has just fully lost its usefulness after the 2024 election. I can't think of a coherent definition that fits all the ways it has been thrown around the last week and a half.

My partners family discovered that her great grandpa had basically had the life of Robert Pattinson in ‘the lighthouse’

Second half of the season is going to be *all sixers*. McCain, Yabusele, Martin are going to be a scary supporting cast when the big 3 are back in

McCain. Doodle by me.

Life as a PhD student has been rough on my eyes and I'm really feeling it. I downloaded an app to make the light on my computer gentler (justgetflux.com) and I'm trying to take more screen breaks; anyone have other tips? Are blue light glasses real?

The democratic party is an actual coalition, much more diverse (ideologically) than the Trumpified republicans. For this reason I feel like it's a bit of a Rorschach test -- everybody sees something different.

I just set a world record for losing 10 million thousand games of chess in a row. Goodnight.

I feel like this is the culmination of something for me. I think I'm going to read a John Green book now.

OK fine in recognition of the "real" John Green joining I am going to tell my story, such as it is 1/

This is such a cheat code for a great affordable vacation! Vegas heavily subsidizes flights and there are about a million beautiful parks within a few hours’ drive (we did Zion + Bryce when we went), really one of the most beautiful parts of the country

Nervous every time I want to post because more people will realize I am not the YA (‘real’) John Green

Any good chess follows on here? #chess

We went to the Baltimore aquarium the other day and got a rare sloth sighting. Baltimore aquarium really has it all.

Very poignant that reelecting Trump (who, among other things, is going to delay climate action during 4 crucial years) during a bizarre November heat snap :(

OK maybe this is too econ-brained but the thing about the election is we don't (and really can't) know the counterfactual. As in it might be true that Harris ran a good campaign and in some sense did "well", but also that she lost.

Report that I am not the YA John Green or take advantage of people's confusion?? 1️⃣ Report 2️⃣ Ride the wave 📊 Show results

OK, I don't know what my moral duty is here. Somehow report this so the people are not duped or ride this wave so people can be exposed to random econ thoughts + sixers woes + other miscellanea??

In the interest of full transparency to my 800+ followers who I have somehow accumulated while not having logged on for a year: I am not John Green, the beloved YA fiction writer

I think one of the most damaging things in US politics is the idea that political hobby-ism is activism. Scrolling, watching the news, and posting (for most of us) are just not going to do anything.

Jordan Poole, Denny Avdjia, Kyle Kuzma… who are the other 2? Anyways, I agree I don’t want this team anywhere near my government

This is a chess set my dad bought on Arbat in Moscow in the 90s. I think it was produced by ‘artel kuktsport’ based on a stamp that says ‘OTK-8’ on the bottom, but I can’t find any similar set online. I would love to know more about it but also I lost a piece and desperately want to replace it!

Rightwingers are promoting aggressive anti-bikeism as a key element of the reactionary political identity. Just the most destructive people, reflexively raging against anything coded “left” or “woke.” And so even the most universally beneficial trends and behavior are declared evil and “Un-American”

1/n This year we have started a machine learning reading group at JHU economics. Here are the THB bagels from our last meeting!

Hmmm.

the reason cats are no longer allowed to vote is because they all just wrote in their own names. for decades, they did this. absolute chaos. millions of cats, each earning one vote. plus, they'd get ink all over their paws. a mess. this stuff is in books, people.

This happened on the return too! I can’t understand.

Not an original thought. but I will never understand the people who leave the window shut the entire flight.

I love when the economics "Nobel" goes to someone whose research is accessible and relevant to everyday people. I just taught a mini lesson on Claudia Goldin to my freshman elements of micro section and it was an *awesome* way to review income/substitution effects!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtaE... "Who can kill a child?" These last few days I think a lot about this movie.