Today is the most humiliating day in the history of the United States of America. At least until tomorrow.

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

From the perspective of someone outside the US, it is inspiring to see Lisa Cook standing up against a naked power grab.

Europe is selling its soul to Trump on.ft.com/3JBTEGx | opinion

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products

Für das Wohl der Schweiz ist an der Zeit, die Deutungshoheit der NZZ zu relativieren. Dieser Cherfredaktor ist unhaltbar kurzsichtig!

I might add that there's a special responsibility on relatively large closed economies like the EU to stand up to Trump, since the aggregate costs of his protection and their retaliation will be relatively small for them. If they don't defend the system by punishing flagrant rule-breaking who will?

This heat wave mortality graphic tells quite the story. Europe needs to get over itself and start rolling out air conditioning.

Heute verkündet: Der Bund beharrt auf einer 10%-Budgetkürzung beim @snf-fns.ch. Dabei wäre das internationale Umfeld für den Standort Schweiz derzeit einmalig günstig - eigentlich ein Anlass, um Forschungsgelder aufzustocken. Ich hoffe, das letzte Wort ist hier noch nicht gespochen. 🤞

Hi, first-gen high school-grad here Yep, socio-economic diversity is a real issue. Yep, legacy admissions must go gwagner.com/legacy But yes, international students are good for US universities and the US, much like students outside New England are good for Boston-based universities and for Boston

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

8647 is the only 4-digit prime that is 2 less than a square (8649) and 1 more than a triangular number (8646)

More than 80 Harvard faculty members have signed on to a pledge to donate 10% of their paycheck to support staff and students, as long as the University resists Trump's unlawful demands. I am so proud of my colleagues. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

With Hungary and Slovakia firmly in Putin's bag, and Romania and Czech Republic on the brink, the dream of making the Union work without reforming unanimity is done for. Some would like to "expel" certain countries. This is unfeasible but also stupid. EU foreign policy: go majority or go bust.

„There’s gonna be a brain drain like you’ve never seen. A big, beautiful brain drain. People are saying it might be the world‘s best brain drain, I dunno, but that’s what they‘re saying.“

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Donald Trump will, dass sich die Welt seinem Machtwahn beugt. Der Bundesrat muss endlich Rückgrat zeigen und sich den Gegenmassnahmen der EU anschliessen. Jetzt den Trump-Appell unterschreiben und Druck machen! www.sp-ps.ch/kampagne/tru...

Very excited to co-host the 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 in Zurich this week! Looking forward to learning from leading economists pushing the frontier of new methods to tackle big questions of our time. @kubler.bsky.social @compsimon.bsky.social @leonardo-melosi.bsky.social

They are terrible as economists, worse as people.

Oh yes, there is a trade economist on the Council of Economic Advisors. Kim Ruhl from Wisconsin. I would be interested to know what he has to say about the Liberation Day tariffs and his advisory role.

Trumps neofaschistisches Regime versucht mit hohen Importzöllen, die Schweiz und Europa einzuschüchtern. Die SP Schweiz fordert, dass der Bundesrat klar Haltung zeigt und mit der EU abgestimmt handelt. Ziel muss es sein, gezielt die Profiteure rund um Tech-Oligarchen wie Elon Musk zu treffen. (1/2)

So, who are the actual economists participating in this regime? Is it time for some professional accountability? Because this is appalling nonsense and if you don’t support it, you should say so.

#ITeachPhysics ⚛️

Mine in today’s @newyorker.com

Im @tagesanzeiger.bsky.social hält uns der Direktor der Bankiervereinigung (ex UBS lobbist) für dumm. Denn die Erhöhung der Kapitalanforderungen für Ausländische Tochter hat keine negative Auswirkung auf dem inländischen KMU- und Hypothekarmarkt. Im Gegenteil, wird es attraktiver, ... 1/x

Is it a *coincidence* that there is a full-on multipronged effort by so many to convince us all that AGI is absolutely imminent at the same time as GPT “4.5” (which was supposed to be 5), Grok 3, and Claude 3.7 all fell short of everybody’s insane expectations?

It’s gut-wrenching to see how Trump and Vance are bullying Zelenskyy. Everyone in Europe needs to watch this video. This is what we’re heading to if we continue to rely on the US. Unbelievable and disgraceful. on.ft.com/3D1wHtD

Zelenskyy has left the White House early after Trump said “come back when you’re ready for peace”. Your friends are in Europe, Z. Time to close ranks.

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

The exchange between Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy in the Oval Office today in which our country attacked the victim in defense of a brutal aggressor has to be one of the most shameful moments in Modern American history.

cannot overstate the level of contempt i have for vance

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

Drei Jahre imperialistische Aggression gegen die Ukraine. Drei Jahre tapferen Verteidigungskampf der Ukrainer:innen für Freiheit, Demokratie und das Völkerrecht. Nach dem Verrat der USA muss Europa inkl. der Schweiz die Unterstützung ausbauen. Für die freie Ukraine, für unsere Sicherheit.

Signature for Ukraine and Europe ✅

Just when you think Donald Trump cannot sink lower or be more shameful, today he's blaming Ukraine for the war and calling Zelinsky a dictator, when he knows perfectly well that Putin's constant re-elections are put-up jobs.

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

Hegseth's visit to Brussels made clear that the best Europe can do is to ignore this harmful man. Europe needs to arm as fast as possible & develop its own strategy. The US under Trump is not only useless but harmful & dangerous.

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The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

It’s easy to scare yourself these days:( marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/02/give...

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

From @deadder.bsky.social in support of @anntelnaes.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Wikipedia is one of the few areas of the internet that has been consistently devoted to facts and to empowering people to participate in the process. This is exactly why Musk hates it and wants it destroyed.

guess where we’re complaining about it now bitch

Handmaids.

This week at UZH Climate Challenge and Economic Policy: Navigating Uncertainties and Agents’ Heterogeneity drive.google.com/file/d/1HoFZ...