Incredibly funny things are about to happen...

Free speech, or something www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t...

Someone asked me about Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on this trip

Przeworski says it cleanly, clearly, and convincingly. What then must we do? www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

matt yglesias derangement syndrome afflicts the strangest people...

why is "watching tiktoks at full volume in public" a gen z stereotype when every single person i've ever seen doing it is 45 or older

It's kind of insane how the two most important political events of the 21st century are a terrorist group flying two planes into the tallest buildings on Earth in the middle of New York City and a gaming website giving a good review to a boring video game about depression

> peter thiel oh boy

Reminds me of how Leni Riefenstahl said she didn't have anyone to tell her how bad things had gotten in Germany because all her Jewish friends left the country

Identifying a structural model of learning where student effort is influenced by external costs/benefits and unobserved heterogeneity finds that low productivity, not low motivation, is the strongest predictor of academic struggles, from Cotton, Hickman, List, P... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34274

New Bluesky rule: you can’t post a figure showing dramatic decline in the TFR without either explaining what TFR can, and can’t tell us, or posting the excellent explainer by @scientificdiscovery.dev on the topic.

Oh wow, so a viral headline is fake and based on cherrypicking data from a very small data set?

Nobody is going to age gracefully anymore because our culture is completely idiotified around how being 15 forever is optimal

she was time person of the year? what exposure can she get

fascinating thing about this is that electricity prices are going nuts and the structural factors that should drive prices up (data center construction, climate, the increasingly un-ringfenced natural gas market) are not yet playing major roles in the price rises which means it's only getting worse

Blair-Trump: what if Sykes-Picot was even stupider?

magnificent: it turns out there is no productivity crisis, it's just that the tech sector is wildly unproductive and is dragging everything else down with it.

Examining the recent slow growth in manufacturing productivity, from Enghin Atalay, Ali Hortaçsu, Nicole Kimmel, and Chad Syverson https://www.nber.org/papers/w34264

banks: we are going to package these mortgages into a triple a tranche security and then bet on credit default swaps depositors:

Christian missions in colonial Congo weakened kin and ethnic ties, eroded communal values, and durably redirected loyalties toward religious affiliation, from @abergeron.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w34262

Documenting the growth of ChatGPT since its launch in November 2022 and exploring usage patterns by conversation topic and user characteristics, from Aaron Chatterji, Thomas Cunningham, David J. Deming, Zoe Hitzig, Christopher Ong, Carl Yan Shan, and Kevin Wadman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34255

The fertility decline is everywhere in the world today. The reason involves greater female autonomy and a mismatch between the desires of men and of women, from Claudia Goldin https://www.nber.org/papers/w34268

More and more people are saying...

Male loneliness discourse just got 20% stupider

Catholic schools in the Congo ban pregnant girls despite evidence that pregnancy rates don't rise when those bans are lifted. www.cgdev.org/blog/catholi... by @leecrawfurd.bsky.social and me

Every British actor Hi I'm Janet Smith I have an inspiring story emerging from abject poverty and I think JK Rowling should have every Nobel Prize OR Hi I'm Nigel Foster-Bonneville 14th Baronet of Essexshire and I say Globalize The Intifada

Once again social media discourse confirms to me that your phone should have a feature where if you take a screenshot on a dating app it explodes in your hands

a better way into the "male loneliness" story is that we have a whole of culture hanging out crisis which is somewhat concentrated among men but hardly exclusive to them here's one (of many) on point survey results www.americansurveycenter.org/research/the...

Great article by @deenamousa.com on why AI hasn't replaced radiologists. If anything, demand for them has actually risen. www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-ai-isn...

abortion doctors have alienated conservatives with progressive issue positions on gender and race

In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs. He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade. Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k. Why?

One of the truly weird culture war flashpoints of this era is how an anti-parasitic on the market for 35 years became the right's cure-all snake oil and popular way of signaling contempt for modern medicine.

surprised that men had more friends than women in the 1990s

one thing i think about @moiradonegan.bsky.social's point is that you never hear people go from "male loneliness" -> why don't we get men involved in collective projects of meaning for the most part. instead it's usually a discussion about how society is too "feminine"

When it comes to the atomization of American society, I think a lot of people are underestimating the combination of American social life traditionally being rooted in faith based institutions and the increasing secularization of American society, especially amongst the youth

The loneliness crisis isn't from a lack of third spaces, it's from being at home becoming ever more appealing thanks to broadband / phone combined with suburbanization.

My conspiracy theory is that a solid two thirds of them do it for attention

There is a ‘male loneliness crisis’ insofar as the wider crisis of social atomization has gendered expressions

Good read: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

“To renew democracy, we have to organize fearlessly in the face of a repressive state, despite all the reasons we have for being afraid. Every act of resistance can steel the courage of others.” Read the piece by @lfelizleon.bsky.social labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

alien earth teaches us something important: no one in the United States knows how to write an eight-episode season

“Male loneliness” is a vague, empirically unfalsifiable Potemkin village of an argument meant to smuggle yet more anti feminism into popular consensus.

Aside from being a signum efficax of Yarvin's personal stupidity, this is also just factually incorrect. Slaveocracy was always aggressively expansionist, and correctly and presciently felt threatened by free states and countries. Some CSA leaders also had plans for a trans-American slave empire.

A U.S. deal to aid Argentina could make global investors nervous. This uncertainty often leads to higher government borrowing costs, which in turn means more expensive mortgage rates for you. At Redfin, we're watching how this could impact home affordability.

He's an idiot who hides his banal reactionary uncle "insights" about Who Really Holds The Power behind bad, overextended prose. What got him in with the borderline illiterate morons of the Silicon Valley Right is his use of stupid sci fi and fantasy metaphors

i really wish our law enforcement and media werent telegraphing to mass shooters that messages written on bullets will be breathlessly and uncritically publicized with no further examination

Dr. Quintard Taylor, historian and founder of BlackPast.org, has died at 77. From "The Forging of a Black Community" to building a global archive, he made Black history accessible to all. Read Lola E. Peters' reflection here: soseaem.org/4mEIrTv #Seattle

Idea: AI labubu