Pretty good

Can't say I knew much about Mac DeMarco (dunno much indie rock) but I checked him out when I heard he's a huge Haruomi Hosono fan. He's clearly reverent at getting to play live with his hero in this video. He also has a nice cover version of this song www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N1n...

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

ok so i bought some consumer data and decided i'd test this single layer neural network with a linear activation function from the image below. after testing it against other algorithms i found that this estimator thing had the lowest variance of any linear unbiased training algorithm??

If FDR was from the late 90s

The takeaway seems to be: Keep calm and UJIVE (unbiased jackknife instrumental variables estimator) on!

FDR would've felt incredibly vindicated by all of this. A core proposition of the New Deal was that the country's ruling class was incapable — at best — of defending the Constitution, and that it was up to a dissident vanguard of intellectuals, in conjunction with workers and farmers, to do it.

pretty good

Good analysis and cite to @gelliottmorris.com in the Krugman blog today substack.com/home/post/p-...

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

My paper on W.E.B. Du Bois and marginalist wage theory is out at the Journal of Economic Perspectives! This was a fun and fascinating paper to write. I’ll try to do a thread on it soon. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

This isn’t true. I was there. (from The Argument)

Drop everything and listen to this late 70s Cantopop cover of Dr. Hook's "Sexy Eyes" from Deanie Ip (葉德嫻) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwqU...

"Ah but not so fast--this is nothing compared to what Glenn Youngkin did four years ago." Never change, Nate Cohn, never change www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

Trump and Karoline Leavitt's backpedaling on his threat to defy courts on SNAP shows Trump is not all-powerful: WH knows breaking the law to take food from the hungry is terrible politics. On the pod, @ddayen.bsky.social is terrific on the limits of Trump's power: newrepublic.com/article/2026...

Hardball as anti-hardball: abolish the filibuster to pass a national ban on partisan gerrymandering

Off their phones and into the streets www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

Gen Z, the most conservative generation in 60 years, drove the Spanberger win

Stumbled upon a maravilhoso 1979 MPB joint outta São Pau. It's been a pretty hard album to track down but I found one www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEDP...

Why the WashPost, WSJ, and NYT all hate Mamdani. Excellent piece from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...

#FundSocSci #EconSky www.cognitoforms.com/ASHEcon1/_20...

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Mostly don't love SubwayTakes but this was a nice one, be yourself

Hell yeah Juan Pablo Santos

When they say they’d never support Fuentes, ask them about what they used to say about Trump. This is from a now deleted piece on The Blaze from Matt Walsh

Got caught dropping off my ballot in an extremely Berkeley way

It actually is mind blowing to check out X and see what is essentially 4chan which is also populated with politicians, media figures, "thought leaders" etc. A dystopian horror, really. Where neo-Nazis now have equal standing with mainstream leaders. There is a reason Fuentes is now so mainstreamed.

Looks like an impressive paper from an extremely impressive team of researchers

And it brought out the hardest, kid-friendly banger ever put in a movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdhc...

Cool new working paper on why and how cable news threw gasoline on the culture war fire. The culture war isn't optimal for electoral candidates, but it's optimal for cable news companies. ungated: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/27v4x...

And again, a pattern of putting out statements accusing people of serious Federal crimes and then releasing them hours or days or weeks later with no charges. And no retraction.

Somebody gotta post the video of Mac Jones pushing Christian McCaffrey forward so he got over the first down marker. PUSH THAT TUSH

The Democrats' problem in the Senate is not progressives, it’s the nationalization of our politics www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...

Go ahead, do as much social science theorization as you want, you will always be the big Hollywood money team. Congrats on the win

Relitigate the 2016 primary? That’s child’s play, we’re relitigating 2004 and 2008 baby

Obama yesterday (he read my skeet): I worry about the growing concentration of economic power in this country where just a handful of mega-billionaires and companies controlling what we see and what we hear. I worry about how much that economic power distorts the political process

The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself

This actually helps, thank you

The messaging debates are disconnected from the fact that bills that Democrats brought to the floor of Congress have provisions that poll extremely well, whereas the bills that the GOP brought to the floor in Trump I and Trump II are among the least popular bills ever seen in modern polling

love the Bay

Mr. Obama sir we tried to tell you that you were running with a bad crowd (billionaires), they’re bad news www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...

Great thread. For many years I used intl players anthem as a way to separate the real heads from the casuals. Casuals know that the andre verse is iconic and they can talk about it. Only real ones can speak just as eloquently about the sweet james jones verse, which is just as historic

From an Evanston resident filming an arrest at Oakton/Asbury ~an hour ago: "He was being very violent with her, I said ‘You got to stop that,’ and he said, ‘Step back or I’ll fucking shoot you.‘ I step back, and then I continue to record, at which point he turned around and pointed a gun at me.”

Love reviewing good papers where I read the data and methods sections and go "damn what a cool idea"

Perfect rare groove vinyl set for your Friday afternoon. Lot of underappreciated classics in there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIJq...

Crassly dipping my toe onto this platform with self-promotion: My book, Chains of Command: The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy now has a beautiful cover, and a release date: April 20th. So you'll have something to enjoy with your 4/20 Taco Bell order! bookshop.org/p/books/chai...

My fav was when Tom Morello told some politician using his music something like "dude you're literally the machine we're raging against"