One eighth of the shebang

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bodyfulness

one of the only downsides of actions is consequences. but it's a big downside.

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in my opinion its crucial that you use a semicolon between tl and dr

Polarization happens www.econometricsociety.org/publications...

every toilet in the world should be connected to the internet, and flushing it should mine a digital asset

"It's a new world; it's the same Constitution." Chief Justice Roberts drops a bit of a hammer.

Mad Men Season 1. The show is uniquely good at character, setting, vibe, and just actors delivering great dialog. The show is below average at plot. Halfway through Season 1 it appears they decided they needed a plot and the show suffered seriously as a result. 1/2

a kalshi market that pays off if its own price is less than 50 cents.

a prediction market enabling you to bet that regulator X does *not* do action Y is essentially a platform facilitating bribes to X to do Y.

We want the holodeck but are getting the Borg

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The first time I saw this Tara Lipinski commercial during these Olympics I truly *never* would have guessed what her monologue was selling before it gets revealed.

It's scary how smart the algorithms are getting. We recently bought a fire pit and now they're showing me ads for bulk buys of J. D. Vance's book.

"where isn't waldo?" - the buddha

The coming storm www.forbes.com/sites/amirhu...

you're in her DMs, I'm the letters D and M, developed slowly over time, distillations of hieroglyph, devoid of purpose until combined w other meaningless squiggles

*economist holding a bong hit in voice* love is supply & pain is demand

[worried] what if god’s not one of us

[dog holding a bong hit in] we let ourselves out

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

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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

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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.