“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,” Ms. Alfonsi wrote…CBS News did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Ms. Alfonsi’s note. Reached on Sunday evening, Ms. Alfonsi said, “I refer all questions to Bari Weiss.”

now seems like a good time to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free, and/or reader funded news how and where you can.

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I think the typical movie these days would benefit from being roughly 30 minutes shorter on average, if not 45 minutes shorter.

Why does TSA pre check cost money?

I really don’t study this stuff, but, what strikes me about today’s economy is the apparent prevalence of underemployment and people being unable to secure jobs that provide health benefits. That and people being unable to leave existing jobs for better ones

Couldn't figure out why people were walking in very stupid ways on the sidewalk today and then I remembered it is ze holidays

Data without theory gets you burned every time

Been kinda phoning it in at the gym these past few months, but gonna try and actively log workouts consistently and overload properly

Are they not teaching the conservative grievance people about selection bias? Maybe we need more liberal stats profs to help out

Interesting paper taking a look at the literal broken windows effect in reverse (What happens when you develop vacant lots?) "We found a negative association between redevelopment and aggravated assault, firearm aggravated assault, and overall firearm violent crime"

Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers. "These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."

I wonder if the discourse will change at all once he's actually in office. I guess they'll shift from close readings of his past statements to the tried and true "Thing happened in New York, therefore it is the mayor's fault"

Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?

I feel like if journals ban people who submit very obvious slop papers, that will be a relatively simple fix to the problem of being flooded with LLM submissions.

indictment of these times tbh

That knives out movie was like if you mix First Reformed with LOTR

The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.

Wow in like 3 hours nyc weather changed from balmy thunderstorm to absolute brick

Hochul has such crazy plot armor

In @newrepublic.com, I try to take a substantive look at the issue of local prosecutors bringing charges against federal immigration agents, partly via Zephyr Teachout, who started talking about it almost eight years ago. Also chatted with CO AG candidate David Seligman, who's taken up the mantle

Personally I think more people should be talking about the cozy arrangements that Manhattan Institute fellows have with local NYC media

Many years ago, after I had failed many times to get a TT job, I switched paths. At the time, I wrote for NHB about how the job market works. It mostly holds up, tho I regret the lottery analogy, as even that misses on privileges of who can keep trying communities.springernature.com/posts/leavin...

Not to reopen speed camera discourse again, but here's yet another study finding that these cameras create significant safety benefits. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... (Okay yes, I *am* reopening this discourse, because I will fight anyone in defense of automated traffic enforcement.)

I have long described this path as a series of lotteries wherein you have some ability to obtain more tickets but ultimately not very many

seriously can we just keep the sun on for a few more hours per day? i'm losing it over here

man this white grievance discourse is super alienating

My gym added really intense blue lights on one of the floors and it feels like I’m doing leg curls in an aquarium

I wonder what we can expect the short term improvements of the new mayoral admin to look like.

I mean, it's one banana, Michael.

Basically Pleasant Bureaucrat Total Cultural Victory

The best AI-detection/-avoidance software available is a well-compensated teacher who spends time getting to know their students and their work because they have small classes

Shut it down. #bospoli #ShutDownSouthBay

Yeah I mean I would put money on this happening. Why wouldn't he? Who's going to stop him lol

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

What kind of research question would this be useful for? Trying to imagine good faith use case.

Man what the fuck is going on this week

My latest book—CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration—is 40% off till Jan 2nd

I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.

AI stan vs AI hater syndrome is leading people to discount Larian’s biggest project ever before seeing anything more than a cinematic trailer. Very annoying

Is it wise to preprint papers, as a rule? I never really know.

I'm really late to this paper, but wow, what an enormous data + methods + theory lift

thank you linkedin

"Leveraging data on 700k collisions & 18m speeding tickets, the analysis finds that cameras lead to persistent & sustained reductions in crashes, demonstrating that automated enforcement can meaningfully improve road safety while avoiding harms associated with conventional traffic safety approaches"

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Chinese KFC serves pasteis de nata??

My most fundamental belief is that we do not have to live like this.

What they don’t tell you about the steam deck is that it will become the property of your partner

I was planning on going to the gym today, but this weather…

Crazy how frequent exposure shapes the vicarious experience of mass violence