Horrifying new AI use case Note: most Norwegians do not look like this

I see The Economist thinks that only men work, and that there is national unemployment data for Britain in the 18th and early 19th century (this doesn’t exist) Will do a proper thread on how misleading this is soon, but for now a link will suffice: academic.oup.com/past/article...

This is a spectacular bit of sanewashing www.ft.com/content/f75f...

Syrinsesesongen er i gang 🪻🙌

Once again we are forced to conclude by revealed preferences that Western Europe Doesn’t Actually Want Ukraine To Win

ARSENAL WIN THE PREMIER LEAGUE!

Good social science (esp. of rare events) needs to consider multiple examples, et voilà 👇

I knew without having to read the description that this episode was not going to advocate counting housework in GDP or considering intrinsic motivation on a par with extrinsic

AI has made refereeing a deeply unpleasant experience. Every slightly off paraphrase or tortured phrase feels like it could be a clue that I should be picking up on. Checking citations to see if they are (1) real (2) supporting what the text claims is seriously time-consuming.

This story is a bit unclear but Hochul’s phrasing makes it sound like New York State is subsidizing the bus tickets of people who can hand over hundreds or thousands of dollars to FIFA for match tickets. Not a good use of public money!

Economists: everyone is motivated by extrinsic rewards and costs, it’s all self-interest… …except bond markets, they are pure creatures with their “kindness of strangers” 😌

Shame on @wiley.com for extorting authors to feed our work to their AI contractors

“If I can bicycle, I bicycle.” Sir David Attenborough. Happy 100th birthday to a legend. He has never passed a driving test and doesn’t own a car.

Area woman uncertain about real benefits of avoiding global catastrophe

Norwegian socioeconomic equality is when 80% of people own nearly-identical €250 sunglasses

The public health communication strategy of “we are going to repeat misinformation and hope you will go to the website in much smaller print to check it” seems…questionable

Strongly recommend

Who decided that “biased” should have the opposite meaning in skill-biased technical change and routine-biased technical change

Is he giving away secret plans for an imminent military operation? Or is he just bullshitting? Who knows!

“The president…has ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to strip Snoopy of any military honors he may have received as a World War I flying ace.”

A case study: Real wages below the median were stagnant for decades, but when elites’ wages stagnated after COVID-19, the narrative about affordability and inflation took off. And this was the first time wages below the median were outpacing inflation and growing faster than wages at the top.

. @aoc.bsky.social responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me, calling it an uninspiring message. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together."

100%. Until the Supreme Court is reformed and the corrupt members removed, nothing else matters because the Supreme Court and its corrupt members will just stand in the way of everything else. Any Democrat who can't get behind that simple fact should leave politics now.

@geofflemon.bsky.social Hi Geoff, I saw your latest TFW episode in my feed yesterday but when I went to listen today it had disappeared 😨 Have you been censored by CA??

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

Just remembered that I missed this extra consideration: the USA economy is larger in part because it's not paying its carbon debt.

If we had a vox pop of Athenians in 415 BC just before they voted on the Sicilian Expedition, would they have sounded this stupid?

People will do everything but read actual historical sources

Capitalism is when the public subsidizes input costs during bad times

The guy who supported Edward VIII is your poster boy for good judgment 🤔

Again:

“How can we manage large-scale demand destruction with as little harm as possible” should be the top story on every news outlet worldwide… …but it isn’t.

The temptation to listen to a podcast about the possible labor market impacts of AI is balanced against the high probability of wanting to throw my phone out the window upon hearing a profoundly stupid analogy to a misunderstood instance of historical technological change 🙃

American left-wingers cheering on govt owned publicly available assets being taken into private ownership. Absolute morons.

Autonomous vehicles are not pedestrians' friends

TLDR: “make poor countries suffer, I don’t care about them”

It will be the law of the jungle. Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South. Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...

A moment in the history of viewpoint diversity in US universities

We are here

Our newest member of the Subsidize Demand in a Supply Shock Club Every politician who does this is maximizing the pain for poor countries that have to import fuel.

Find someone who loves you as much as the New York Times crossword editors love eels

FIFA's stance is that hosts bear all the costs of hosting the World Cup, and in turn, FIFA bears all the reward

Every rich country politician who is subsidizing fossil fuel use (read: cutting fuel taxes) is maximizing the suffering of people in these countries. A spectacularly awful policy on every level.

We see once again the bizarre phenomenon noted by @larryglickman.bsky.social that only Democrats have agency in US politics

Our next entrant in “subsidizing demand during a supply shock” 🙄

David Remnick on the @newyorker.com Podcast: “I don’t think there’s really much doubt that in our lifetimes at least, AI is going to bring changes as significant as the Industrial Revolution.” Did he give any evidence for this extraordinary claim? No, not one piece.

Péter Magyar FB: “Prime Minister Viktor Orbán just called to congratulate us on our victory.” IT'S DONE. IT'S DONE.