getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

Apple Music is protecting my delicate ears from this filthy smut

all the epstein emails read like this phishing scam

The longer we wait, the larger the "targets gap": from 2030 to 2035, the gap between climate targets and the pathways to 1.5°C is projected to grow up to two billion tonnes, up from 26-29 GtCO2e in 2030, to 26-31 GtCO2e by 2035.

I don't think you could even parody this

every 20 years someone gets to write a book called "What's Left" about the state of the Left

"Most immigrants are already net fiscal contributors; decreasing their numbers will only decrease their contributions." ✍️ @lgilbert.co argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

Matriarchs of the East African coast Power, Property and the changing status of Women in the Swahili world (1300-1900CE) Many coastal societies followed matrilineal principles of descent and inheritance, and nearly all followed a matrilocal residence rule www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/matriarchs...

The NBER Race and Stratification Working Group will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. Francisca Antman, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper by the December 11, 2025 deadline! @nber.org #EconSky www.nber.org/conferences/...

OK maybe overall the best poster child for Poster's Madness is that Sabine person

you can't just bring back austin powers. the franchise wrote itself into a corner after he volunteered to stay behind forever in the shagadelic dimension to save foxxy and vanessa. they already brought him back once without explaining how he escaped from fembot island, the audience won't buy it

Idea for the new Bond: he should be a tastefully overweight Akan-Celt philosophy professor working on formal Africana social epistemology. His enemies should be Kantians. His catch phrase is "bazinga". I realise some people (racists) wouldn't like this, but, you know, just a thought.

"La recherche n’a pas vocation à plaire ni à se conformer à un « équilibre politique » dicté par le pouvoir. Elle repose sur la méthode, la critique, le débat argumenté, des principes aujourd’hui mis en péril." www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

There may be better cases overall but for me, as someone who used to read Noah Smith like ten years ago, there is no more profound case of Poster's Madness than him.

Do I have brain damage or is this the biggest non-problem of all time

Reading the supposedly devastating report into BBC bias

🧵 C3S data shows that every year since the Paris Agreement has ranked among the 10 warmest on record.

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

Just a reminder to sign up for this webinar on IPUMS International on Wednesday!

🚨 We are hiring! ‼️‼️ tenured track assistant or associate prof in economics at university of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social welcome applications from all fields (but especially from econometrics) econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...

The medieval cities and towns of Eritrea (ca. 1000-1900 CE) www.patreon.com/posts/143143...

no offence to the horny-for-robots people but i'm always going to prefer my partner for this kind of thing

There’s still no evidence that Trump knows what a dog is or does

it is so funny how most Tech Bro who want to revolutionise transport reinvent the concept of a train but Elon Musk is so stupid he managed to reinvent the concept of a taxi

can someone explain why i'm like, average to meh about broccoli but go absolutely nutso for it when its in the form of soup

"Home Office data suggests that recent immigrants are more likely to be working than British nationals and make higher wages than them." ✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from

Mali: un mois sans électricité à Mopti à cause de l'embargo jihadiste

Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue

The fact that Ms Rachel had three venues cancel on her because she wanted to hold a birthday party for a THRRE-YEAR-OLD DOUBLE-AMPUTEE GIRL from Gaza... look at yourselves! Look in the mirror! When are people going to find the courage to say enough is enough?

Can’t help but hear the last sentence of this in Danny DeVito’s voice

‪🎃 🇺🇸 🚪 🇺🇸 🎃 🇺🇸 🚪 🇺🇸 🎃 ❔ ‪When you go in the bathroom you’re American. When you come out of the bathroom you’re American. But what are you inside the bathroom‬ ‪UR-A-PEEIN’‬ ‪🇪🇺🚽 🇪🇺🚽🇪🇺🚽🇪🇺🚽🇪🇺🚽🇪🇺🚽

New article out today! Published on the eve of Ghanaian independence, A Wreath for Udomo fictionalises Kwame Nkrumah's struggle against imperialism and imagines a future after British rule. hwiccanreview.substack.com/p/accra-noir...

International students *create* educational opportunities for US natives. Each additional Chinese master's student causes enrollment of 0.26–0.44 additional native students, by funding/expanding master's programs. New at @nber.org—> doi.org/10.3386/w34391 Ungated: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/giykh...

Sussan Ley’s leadership really displaying end-of-life behaviours right now

Un format magnifique offert par the Guardian sur les oiseaux migrateurs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

today in class we read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social ‘s Defector essay and then talked about whether we should spend the next few weeks on Hawthorne’s short stories or on The Scarlet Letter—students agreed on trying the longer, more difficult thing in light of the essay defector.com/close-readin...

honestly one of the most beautiful things i have ever seen. how do i turn this into a typst template

everything I'm seeing about this is apocalyptic. is anyone on here fundraising around this already / know the best Jamaican orgs to support atm? abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

i sent @christa.bsky.social the Olivia Reingold clip and I believe she is now in a fugue state

#Jihadists are threatening #Mali’s southern supply routes to Côte d'Ivoire, already attacking a tanker on the road from #Bamako to #Sikasso. If successful, that could further isolate Mali’s capital. africa-conf.com/jihadists-ti...

i am drowning in marking but this weekend im going to Madrid to see my best friend and his kid. and me and the kid are going to EAT STEAK and DO CRIMES

Look on the bright side: at least someone is reading the syllabus

Œconomia launches a new type of publication: Data & Quantitative Methods in the History/Philosophy of Economics The goal: give space to reflections often sidelined in traditional articles where transparency & discussion of methods get cut for “results.” journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

Andrew Hastie: “[Voters] want the Australian parliament to be sovereign in its decision-making, not beholden to climate zealots at the United Nations.” He has precisely zero understanding of how serious the climate crisis is and how emissions targets are set. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

The burden of war! Efraim Benmelech & Joao Monteiro survey the macroeconomic consequences of 115 conflicts in 145 countries over the past 75 years to show that war, especially civil war, leads to a collapse of investment, increased inflation and large & sustained declines in economic activity.

i hate how right the elders are about this but i feel so much better since i stopped reciting the dark incantations. this sucks. i love reading the dark incantations with my boys

Absolutely thorough and devastating takedown of Mark Ramseyer's latest work on Koreans in Japan by Tessa Morris-Suzuki papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

So many people don't see the destruction of Palestinian lives as an atrocity, and it hurts my brain to think about.

the joy division t-shirt scandal has to be one of the top 10 funniest scandals of the decade