Pretty bad stuff if true tbth

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This Sauer fellow talks too much and too fast. It is better to speak more slowly and make a clear argument. That is my non-lawyer opinion.

In a world where Elon Musk will probably be offered a $1 trillion paycheck while millions of Americans go hungry I for one cannot understand why there is excitement in the electorate for a young, charismatic, populist on the left. Idk doesn't make sense.

big night for dems, sure, but the real winners are the aloof wives quietly steering mayoral campaigns from behind the scenes

I truly think this is an underappreciated point that much of the "rising far right" polisci literature has missed. We have n->inf findings that bad stuff leads to far right voting. But why _doesn't_ bad stuff lead to far left (or center left) voting? One big answer: A failure of political supply.

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Please, I beg you dear economists (and others), resist the desire to give your papers one word titles.

I wonder if gen AI is going to eventually so infest online spaces with garbage, awful, horrifying, traumatic audiovisual content that it will simply kill them. Our net infrastructure is simply not built to contain what’s coming. In fact it is almost built to magnify and multiply all the awfulness.

My paper in the review process

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Alarming stuff, though worth noting the next post which shows the US remains #1. (This graph shows percentage point change from the 2007 baseline, I think). Good reminder that although the current US administration is absolutely playing with fire w.r.t. international talent, the choice set matters.

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1. Political science is actually quite good at predicting things, we do a lot of this. 2. Elections are not generally one of those things because (a) predicting them is not important and (b) predicting single events is a fool’s errand. 3. Same rules apply for most sciences.

Please don’t spend any more effort on predicting election outcomes

It’s astonishing how many researchers seem to believe that a cluster analysis is such a sensible analysis that it needn’t even be justified through a coherent research question. Just cluster analysis go brrrrr

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The US president is teasing different ways that he falsely claims he would be "allowed" to violate the plain language and obvious intent of the US Constitution. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin used exactly the method he falsely says he is "allowed" to use, to remain dictator for the last 26 years.

AI summary of the AI news

"In the end, you can’t brute-force inference with more data and more stats." Really like this post. Running 5,000 (very) correlated tests can only teach you so much (not much).

The pattern here is personalism. Trump views the federal treasury as a discretionary fund for dispensing patronage and largesse; he regards the White House as his private property; he regards DOJ as (literally) his personal lawyers, & the military & law enforcement as his personal security team.

A haunted house for academics but it’s just you confronting your intellectual mediocrity late at night after a stiff scotch and some bad news

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Entering my dark academia phase (the lights in my office are broken)

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Historians, if there is a future, will write whole books on the difference in outrage between a tan suit and the illegal, physical destruction of the actual White House.

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Term limits are a good thing and no amount of polisci research will ever convince me otherwise

Gonna assume what he is referring to is letting him run for President

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Actually don't really care at all about the White House (the office matters to me, not the building), but can't help believing that (a) this work is probably going to be shoddy and underspecced with a veneer of gold leaf, and (b) someone inside is making a fat buck here.

Look things aren’t super great but tbth this type of doomerism doesn’t help.

Astonishing when you see it like this.

Delighted to share that last night, with the help of gpt-5, I discovered evidence consistent with the Higgs field (on google scholar).

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Quite literally they find them at Oxford

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You can make a bedroom look remarkably tidy by simply hiding everything under the bed. (This also applies to research papers)

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