Spending the day trying to convince people on TikTok that Purge rules apply during a government shutdown

Columbus folks if you want excellent (4th row, right!) seats to Elvis Costello on Fri Oct 10th let me know. Face value, no fees. Can't use them...as life has intervened.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

The latest post from the President of the United States is an AI video of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, which includes statements Schumer never made and features Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero and fake mustache with mariachi music in the background.

Hey Columbus area folks, I'll be giving a public talk on "Nonviolence & Peacebuilding in a Warming World" on Wednesday, November 12 at the Westerville Public Library at 7pm. It's free, but they ask you to register at this link - hope to see you there!

No you share lies about precarious people as leverage

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

I need someone who knows Minecraft and LLMs better than me to confirm if this actually is an LLM built in Minecraft. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaeI...

Never seen an ad for building submarines before

Do LLMs hold implicit assumptions with regard to religious identities? Evangelical Protestant pastors had easier to read artificial intelligence–generated sermons, whereas Jewish rabbis and Muslim imams had more difficult to read synthetic texts. 👉 SOCIUS journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Begging that the lego guy who I watch on Youtube doesn't come out as anti-union.

Lego workers in downtown Disney at Disneyland in California are seeking to unionize

I'm not opposed to the shutdown but I hope we are all ready to help the federal workers that are likely to be laid off. We need each other.

Oh Ohio

For those following along at home, we've now reached the "DOJ is losing unopposed motions at the DC Circuit" level.

My local coffee shop charges $3.50 for a 16 oz hot coffee. I guess I am getting a deal.

I will never get over this tool from Elsevier being sold as "find new research ideas" by using a wordcloud with IVERMECTIN in the largest font.

The Department of Labor has released its plan in the event of a government shutdown. Key takeaway for econ data: There will NOT be a jobs report on Friday (or any subsequent data releases) if funding isn't restored in time. #NumbersDay #EconSky www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov...

I didn't realize that we give veterans the benefit of doubt when it comes to crime ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/29/o...

lol I thought the first post was AI and that he'd be replying to explain this didn't happen. Nope.

In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views

desperately wish I had had this article to read and reference 10 or so years ago, but glad to have it now

This is a week old but I just heard about it. USDA killing a food insecurity survey because it "failed to present anything more than subjective, liberal fodder" www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

It feels like a sign for how broken things are that every mass shooting is followed by an attempt to identify the murder's feelings towards Trump

Jesus definitely broke laws.

Isn't karat a measure of quality? Like how can it be better or worse than any other 24 karat gold?

Downward spiral.

To put a point on this, it's sort of grimly funny when he's consensually hallucinating with AI about heroically delivering alien medical tech to the masses But what happens when the consensual hallucination is, I don't know, an incoming nuke attack from Greenland or something

Trump deleted his MedBed post.

I spoke with federal workers who took the deferred resignation program set to take effect on September 30 "I was forced to" one worker said "through fear and intimidation." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New at Tusk: According to Ben Shapiro and other conservatives, they were promised a post-racial nation, and Barack Obama broke the deal.

holy shit. This is one of the griftiest of grifts. The most qanon of qanon.

Feels symbolic to replace a skatepark with pickleball courts.

Timeline cleanse

Tech has the same strategy with robot delivery vehicles. Use the disruption of college to ingrain new habits and make a lifetime customer

Somewhere in Portland a group of heros are donning their banana costumes

Dave Chappelle signing a contract that he won't do 'jokes “that may be considered to degrade, defame, or bring into public disrepute, contempt, scandal, embarrassment, or ridicule” Saudi Arabia, its ruling government, royal family, or any religion or religious figure, period'

A man here is passing around Italian beefs to people protesting Border Patrol.

We probably need to recognize more directly that not all members of Congress consider urban areas to be America.

Morning walk

Breaking: Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities.

It’s hard to convey the insanity of a thirty-something White House staffer getting an interim US Attorney appointment and marching into the grand jury room alone four days later to indict the former Deputy Attorney General and Director of the FBI

Corruption is so hot right now

Now @annewhitesell.bsky.social and I were trying to figure out what school related baking would make sense in a US version and all we could come up with is french bread pizza

We already do that?

We were absolutely baffled at the start of the flapjack challenge on Great British Bake Off

Scoop: Under Trump's NLRB general counsel, the agency's withdrawn a slew of allegations it had been prosecuting, including that an Apple all-staff email Tim Cook sent was illegally coercive, & that firms including Curaleaf had illegal noncompete agreements www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Very excited to share this week a new paper on EI that is two years in the making! What is EI? It's everywhere! EI is when you try to learn about individual relationships from aggregate data. We formalize identification & propose an efficient, assumption-lean estimator!