popular culture: be true to yourself! self: *ever shifting cipher occasionally assigned to an unreliable collection of molecules*

You Be I

I'm sorry, I'm still talking about the fact that Larry Summers only stopped emailing with Jeffrey Epstein because *he got arrested*. Like there was truly no line in the sand for Summers.

Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package bit.ly/3LHpin8

Beautiful article on Ali Riley who has retired after an amazing career in soccer. (If her last name sounds familiar to you as an economist, then that's no surprise. She's the daughter of UCLA auction theorist John Riley.) www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...

halloween costume ideas: milk crate seeping something foul everyone but you an old clown mask but just the smell a half burn catcher’s mitt a halloween party that you aren’t at nothingness in the shape of you halloween itself santa claus a literal breeze

I have an unnatural obsession with player name trends, so indulge me for a few graphs about this season's names. First, the incredible wave of Jalens continues to decrease.

a police scanner hooked up to a baby monitor a social media app that bans you for being kind a phantom limb petting a dog a profile picture that ages as you do a notification that the EMT destined to find your corpse received certification

A genre of film that works only if you suspend disbelief to exactly 73%

trebek: this highly vaunted act is a form of violence toward everything that isn’t its object contestant: what is love

thank you so much for this! some great new music i never would have known about otherwise.

an app that's just an eye always trying to meet your gaze

Arriving at the poetry reading wearing chain mail made of interlocked mini pretzels, a helmet hollowed out of olive ciabatta, and wielding a rosemary and sea salt encrusted baguette like a legendary sword. Telling the people in attendance to address me as “Sir Bread” or they will be dispatched.

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

wings>beatles

Research output after tenure drops off a cliff for business, economics, sociology, and other non-lab fields. But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Real-estate novelist????

love making styles: old country doctor professional mover blind palm reader battlefield medic salmon defrocked contextually bereft cordoned off at a loss loki the god of mischief industrial park olfactory hallucinations astrology is dumb microblogger

bro do you even discover major savings

the remainder of this paper is structured according to the outline that your pdf viewer will gladly show you after a few clicks here in the year 2025.

spent all morning and i can tell you chatGPT doesn't know shit about the pompitous of love

Ruthful

ok but next we need a tool that tells me how awesome the paper is and which parts are the especially awesome parts

Heather Christle, wrecking me in 16 lines @heatherchristle.bsky.social @weslpress.bsky.social

Maroire

I don’t know if anyone actually sees this given that I never post but here it goes. If you see Iranians these days be a bit gentler with them. We are going through something horrific. Our nation is in the hand of a few individuals who don’t seem to care about anything other than having a useless

Gavin Newsom is not who I would have guessed would rise to meet the moment, but very few people in power are doing so and he's showing that it can be done.

sinner won every set except the last three.

A half nuther

Glenn Loury is the man www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

[kneels down to meet your toddler's eye] pain alone makes love possible

I put my pants on like everyone else, w an insatiable ache that has been dogging my family for generations

First names are the new last names

Infinity percent tariff on wind exported from Canada across our northern border.

The most entertaining thing about the show Black Doves is trying to infer what linear program the producers are solving whose solution delivers three episodes of the most ambitious uncompromising writing followed by a flood of every tired trope and plot device starting in the middle of episode four.

[running for president] There should be a mural on every bare wall in every city in this country. [huge applause] And every mural should be a cross-section showing whatever human activity is going on inside that particular building, like in a Richard Scarry book. [mild applause]

The enemy of my enemy is Harvard

Tariffs as a mechanism for decentralizing the monopsony optimum?

On the bright side, Americans should have learned all this from history... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOH... (Link noted by @adamkinzinger.bsky.social, who was paying attention!)

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also, bernard williams got there first. www.jstor.org/stable/2183946

I do appreciate the historic inversion that Severance has achieved: the whole thing is disappointing *except* for the ending.

Severance is not a good show. But the two thrilling finales and every scene with John Turturro (esp. with Christopher Walken) made it worth the price of admission.

my theory is that candy and ronnie are the jets. maybe there are others.

Pedal point but for cinema

i never understood what "gaslighting" was supposed to mean. say something everyone knows is false until they believe its true? sounds a little naive... /x

A single post on Truth Social can disrupt an entire industry now. Good piece on why American winemakers aren't stoked about 200% tariffs on European imports, quoting my friends at Fossil and Fawn. daily.sevenfifty.com/tariffs-on-e...

alternative theory why social media is to blame. when you put your positions online for all to see, now and into the future, it becomes much harder to change your mind.