Trump's threat to bomb Iran made something clear to me in a way I hadn't yet formulated: His conception of US military force, like his conception of the federal govt, is now entirely personalized. It is a power to be wielded not on behalf of US interests but on behalf of his personal whims.

Will be interesting to see if US (and other) media play along with the story that violently removing a head of state is a “strike” and not an act of war. (Most will.)

In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.

NY state public health messaging still going in hard on surface cleaning this flu season instead of aerosol transmission, we have learned exactly zero 🙃

One of us One of us One of us

A computer cannot issue an apology

Day One of socialism in New York and there are no collectivized bagel shops. Please explain @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Marvellous, moving and wise column by @martinsandbu.ft.com:

England batting #Ashes

A word to the wise: don’t read to the end of Wenceslas’ Wikipedia page 🫠

Happy Festivus!

My culture? This is it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTs5...

Making America a classless nation Just not with the meaning one might have hoped 🙃

How is there more snow in Newark than on Bislingflaka in mid-December

Outright pro-Russians are a very small cohort of the general obtruseness brigade in European Ukraine policy. The real issue is defence antivaxxers: people who insist that there is no real problem that defence spending is the answer to, eleven years into some real obvious evidence that there is

Nå som vi har Norgespris kan alle nordmenn være enige om at vi vil holde julelysene oppe til midten av februar for å unngå januardepresjonen. 🌟

What if O*NET but user-friendly for longitudinal research

Chalk one up for the Terrible Man Theory of History

Who wore it better?

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

@jarrodkimber.bsky.social Regardless of your moral position, it is just factually wrong to state that gambling is unaffected by legality/illegality. US sports betting volume has increased by orders of magnitude since it was legalized outside Nevada.

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

The NFL needs a Big Strong Man with tears in his eyes to give Trump a prize for being the Most Manly President.

My paraphrase of @hggaddy.bsky.social: there is _a lot_ we don’t know about the 1918 flu

Hilariously easy to guess who are the Americans and who are the Norwegians on any transatlantic SAS flight 🙃

College football coaches, just in it for [checks notes] the kids. Yes, that’s it.

That USC v UCLA is a B1G conference game shows how far we have strayed from God’s light 😔

It's peCAN pie, not pecan't pie 💪

"I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it" Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets thelocal.to/investigatin...

Genius Ben Stokes playing the long game to win the 2033-34 Ashes via bankrupting Cricket Australia by being terrible in the current series

Next: “Alienation, it’s a big problem. Workers, all over America, becoming aliens, because of technology. And we’re going to change that—so fast. Very fast. Nobody has dealt with alienation as strongly as I am.”

Even if we accept Yglesias’ prioritization, few views of material prosperity omit health, which is clearly and directly affected by pollution.

The sole observation that troubles my otherwise unshakable belief that New York 🗽 is The Greatest City in the World and Center of the Known Universe is the transport options to reach our airports. 🙃

Me, looking at the Oslo forecast every day and not seeing any significant snow:

Just a few years ago the economics profession completely marginalized @claudia-sahm.bsky.social for speaking out on this matter.

TFW you try to get ChatGPT to write some boilerplate text and it is SO bad (even after repeatedly changing the prompt) that you wonder why anyone uses it at all. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Read the whole thread. @durlauf.bsky.social is right.

Can’t believe I only realized *after* spooky season that I should have been signing all of my October emails “Best witches”

To govern is to lose the next election.

English Catholics in 1678:

“I got rich by being one of the worst people on earth, but somehow not breaking any laws.”

People will just say anything these days cc @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social

New working paper! *Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019* (with Aaberge and Solbakken) We estimate wealth inequality in Norway based on a set of historical and contemporary sources. www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-o...

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

A good day to travel from a current socialist hellhole ( 🇳🇴 ) to a future one ( 🗽).

Why do people make explicit references to history that they don’t understand? Quisling didn’t tell Norwegians to surrender in 1940, he tried to seize power during the invasion to make Norway a locally-ruled fascist state.

Scandal hits the United States of America as “Uncle” Sam revealed not to be sibling of the country’s parents.

Writing emails to “folks”: The acceptable face of America (It me)

People who don’t stack their empty bins after airport security

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