OMG please make this happen: Canada’s European pivot: Could an inclusion in the Eurovision Song Contest be next? share.google/UAV3ApJ5f8eJ...

Perhaps it would be good for all of us if we were all able to "put the phone in the pocket" during the workday. But I need to authenticate something like every fifteen minutes.

I don't think it's gaming. It is online extremism. Extremism appears in gaming, but you are better off looking directly at the source.

The post will be on display at the AI Civil Rights Museum in 2065.

I am understanding Abundance and neoliberalism to be very similar.

Wild. Communications is getting degraded by AI. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I literally just got a free ride when I already paid.

When using AI for R code, default to base R. Packages don't always save effort or prevent bugs. Use packages only if base R fails, is too slow, or produces excessive code. Base R with AI is often easier to understand, less buggy, easier to debug, and just as efficient.

New York City is always trying to throw you off the islands, out of the City, and eventually out of the metro. It's like there is a constant repulsive force related to the cost of living, space, and hassle. You hang on as long as you can because there is so much to love. But it is not free or easy.

Identity and Control: The Movie

this pic from the turkish protests goes insanely hard

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

This is really good: "Large Models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents, but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated."

People are sanctimonious when they can live by their preachings without sacrificing anything

This fight with Trump is introducing some very uncomfortable questions for Canadians. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Early in my career, I studied the 1970s economy and understood what happened on a logical level. I had read about it and looked at data, but did not live through it. I now understand that I did not fully appreciate the emotional effects of seeing so much going to pot at once.

It is amazing. America stood at the top as hegemon of the biggest world system ever seen in history. And then it DECIDED to wreck that system from its perch. It is so crazy to think about how well-positioned America was across the board. And then it flipped the game board.

What I would like most is for American Jews to be out of the spotlight. Nothing good comes from us being the focus of attention.

Measles continues to spread in the U.S. with more than 250 people infected — many unvaccinated school-age children. See where on our map tracking the virus here: nyti.ms/3Fp1am9

The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.

This is a good idea. Clearly, demonizing one of the country's largest demographic groups is not a winner. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...

Measles is back. Get your immunity checked and consider a booster if necessary. It's already in NY, NJ, and Ontario.

Isn't a national crypto reserve just the government buying people's crypto? It's not as if the government needs to hold crypto in case we have an emergency need for crypto.

It's Ramadan, which means I'll have no problem finding out what time the sun sets.

So, is getting a booster for the MMR vaccine in adulthood a thing? Is there a logic to doing it as an adult if measles is going to run through the country over the next few years?

Tables from the first draft of a memo that I circulated in my department to discuss long-term departmental strategy. Sharing in case anyone else is interested. Not peer reviewed. First draft. Largest Sociology Departments by Majors Graduated, 2023 jncohen.commons.gc.cuny.edu/analysis-of-...

February 24, 2025. U.S. Measles outbreaks during the past week. Source: @kkjetelina.bsky.social Get your kids vaxxed. Believe me, you don't want them to come down with it.

This is why I'm hard to reach by text. I purposely put away the phone. The crazy thing is that everyone gets mad at you for not being instantly available.

Trump has a one-in-100,000 chance of this working with English Canada, but there's absolutely zero chance of Quebec allowing itself to be absorbed into America. Quebec has spent centuries resisting assimilation to Anglo culture. No way.

Well, neoliberalism appears to be on its death bed. Not as awesome as you imagined, is it?

Over 150 Canadians died in Afghanistan. USA called on them to fight as part of NATO. And while they brought in Canadians to fight for the USA's emergency self-defense, the US started an extra war in Iraq. That's blood spilled for America. It's painful to see this needless sacrifice dismissed.

Wait. So Trump gets the ball rolling with a TikTok Ban. Eventually, the country agrees on implementing a ban. The nation's youth are heartbroken. Then, Trump himself lobbies to reverse the ban he started, succeeds, gets thanked by the app itself, and now has the nation's teens feeling grateful.

Not just my imagination, more and more use of the term "existential crisis"

I got my undergrad soc at Carleton U's international biz program. I loved the courses on culture and organizations, as well as methods. In their soc dept, a prof is fighting extradition to France after being convicted of murdering French Jews in a synagogue bombing. Business school was fine to me.

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Why? Isn't satire protected?

"Speculation is not the function of journalism. It is what an anxious brain does, worrying about all the ways things could go wrong, sending the worrier into a panicked and angry state,” writes Noah Hawley:

"What I’m trying to say is that if you want a safe and functional road, guardrails are only part of the solution. The rest of it is stuff like maintenance, adherence to the law, and upholding a very basic sense of human decency."

Married 25 year-olds In 1980: 63% In 2021: 22% www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Conducting tasks while receiving e-mails and phone calls reduces a worker’s IQ by about ten points relative to working in uninterrupted quiet. That is equivalent to losing a night’s sleep, and twice as debilitating as using marijuana. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Me trying to remember the name of the RA that did all analyses of a seminal paper that got me a $500,000 salary.

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Now I'm definitely logging off and doing the work that I actually sat down to do

I disagree. Anything *can* be construed as involving politics, but not all science is political. For example, what are the politics of network theory? Of estimating the income distribution of households in New York City? Of developing methods to make inferences when missing data is an issue?

OK, this is all fun and exciting, but I'm also remembering how much time I used to sink into Twitter. I should get back to the actual work that I had intended to do when sitting down this morning.

Bravo to whoever did the work of these starter packs! At an instant, my time line has that 2018 feel

My main concern as a parent would be that teaching blind love and obedience to church and state would undercut my own child's ability to judge whether the church or state were working against their personal interests, which has happened throughout history.

I feel an immediate sense of kinship with any kid who is deep into almanacs. I also like buying almanacs for kids who I think would like them. These are my people. Almanac people.