It is isolating and insanity inducing to be a Venezuelan in the exterior opposed to US intervention in Venezuela. To be accused of being unable to celebrate a victory, effectively of being a traitor, or collaborator, too ensconced in ideology to feel anything but misery at imperial misadventure

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

Needless to say the clearest thing is that nobody involved has absolutely any plan at all, obviously.

Many Vnzlns will be celebrating today, especially outside of Vnzla. Misallocation of oil wealth and deterioration of state institutions followed by sanctions and collapse of the oil price led to the largest economic contraction outside of wartime ever seen. Regime change alone will not reverse this

Hate it when I wake up in a wider gyre than the one I went to sleep in

Absolutely absolutely this. Please let us just log in using ORCID, it's so difficult to return a review, the deep links don't work and the default shouldn't be to need to generate a new password every review.

proposal to add car brain to the DSM

Found this in a strip mall in suburban Louisiana. Cannot imagine what would possess a person to put "digital twin" on a throw pillow. Also volcano 🌋

One of my more controversial opinions is that the US needs to significantly raise taxes to the tune of a couple % of GDP right now, even before any expansive social democratic reforms, and that means you—yes you, dear highly educated professional—will need to pay up, not just nebulous billionaires.

I will always love this blog post. You, yes you, have a responsibility to the world not to respond to bad incentives

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

We sent a bunch of effete, Ivy League scientists into the desert and they returned with a portable sun.

“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

when some people choose between a weekly injection or daily pill to regulate their hormones so as to align their body with their desired appearance i guess it's no big deal

I believe that building "battleships" with mostly guns instead of missiles does not go far enough in retro-masculinizing the military. We must replace every M16 with a spear. Nay, a heavy stick. Trade kevlar for pelts. GPS for the stars.

"Eating this food is associated with this disease!" Ok cool but that's not research, that's output from a regression model. You haven't answered any of the actual important questions that you would have if you treated your paper as doing research and not as explaining regression output. 2/n

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

this is the case for senior researchers too. At the end of the day, most papers simply don't matter much, but the skills and insight you gain do. Those benefits percolate out through the students you mentor, consulting, etc. And, yeah, every now and again you get a paper that matters a bit IRL :)

"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement

If pedestrian deaths can be eliminated on the previously deadly International Boulevard, we should be able to eliminate them on every other street. We just need the will to do it, especially from policymakers and Caltrans. Thanks @tvrr.bsky.social for tireless advocacy to achieve this huge win!

i tried to explain to people months ago that the fash/MAGA right was not mourning charlie kirk, that they do not really care about charlie kirk nor erika nor indeed any human life including their own, and as such it would advance the centre nothing to try to mourn kirk themselves. voila.

agree that this is a completely absurd thought experiment but I'll play anyways and just say - yes, I smash the fuck out of that button - especially as a parent.

Clearly, they too were antisemitic

public opinion is simply more nuanced than what can be expressed in issue polls. and voters think about broad issues in a number of different ways. there are ways to fight on immigration that do help trump. but there are also ways to fight on it that hurt him.

With alt-text:

A Jedi archaeologist describes how a multitude of factors from subtle changes to galactic climate and the escalating instability of the political system contributed to what was really more of a "transformation" than a "fall"

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has been advocating for pro-housing policies like upzoning. So why is he opposing new housing in the Marina, one of the city's toniest enclaves? via @io-y-g.bsky.social & @kellywaldron.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-m...

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

Could someone just try being honest with students and parents about job outcomes and what it means to get an education and how it affects you if your instructor is struggling to piece together a living wage by teaching 5 different classes at different colleges at the same time?

archeology and classics are the parts of the humanities MOST beloved by the masses and most likely to maintain the public's faith in and support for scholarship and you stupid, stupid motherfuckers can't even preserve those

This kind of dataset is a clear indicator that propaganda plays a big role in people's political positions and acting like people are unshiftable is just completely detached from reality

"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.

I've lived in the suburbs for about five years now and I'm increasingly convinced that it's the most culturally pathological category of American life - full of addiction issues, white-collar crime, and above all, mediocrity masquerading as accomplishment and virtue. That last part is what I hate.

helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

Forever confused by people like this. You can't be 8 forever. You can't be 12 forever. You can't be 18 forever.

like the "abundance" folks, this guy goes out of his way to pretend that U.S. government dysfunction is just born from an innate love of pointless bureaucracy, and isn't a direct, intentional byproduct of America's top problem: corruption and unchecked corporate power

Lesson 4: If you are peddling the "trust in govt" has dropped because of proceduralism, you either don't understand the study of trust or don't care. It has dropped in all countries and all institutions over the same time period. It is mostly driven by perception of politics not govt services.

"I go the way that Providence dictates, with the assurance of a sleepwalker" - Adolf Hitler

If the field did an order of magnitude fewer studies total, and instead pooled resources to do more of these, knowledge production would dramatically accelerate. We learn more from this one paper than from 50 one-offs examining the predictive validity of implicit measures.

We first note that hand-wringing about the decline in US college enrollments has mistakenly linked such declines to the price of four-year colleges. But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

I'm ok with this as long as the president and board commit seppuku

Something worrying me: many seem to change their research direction out of FOMO, reacting to (the obvious) recent trend: "If I don't do this, someone else will do it!" One of the key perks we have in academia is the freedom to set our own agenda.* If someone else can—and WILL—do it, why would you?

Don't fine ICE, put ICE agents who did crimes in jail. Don't fine companies, put CEOs who gave the president obvious bribes in jail. And so on.