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Best Mike Shor winner, 2012. Immigrant; sorry if I took your job. Professing behavioral econ, game theory & antitrust at UConn (via UVA → RutgersU → Vanderbilt)

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Dec 6

Here's an exhaustive list of things that you can run "like a business":

1. A business

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 25d

That's what the FTC's “Click-to-Cancel” rule tried to do, but consumer protection is dead now

Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 25d

Why is MAGA pushing its gender ideology?

Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Sep 9

The number of baseball caps worn to class increases markedly on exam days

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Aug 28

This is the deadly price of electing anti-science clowns whose only real talent is being confidently wrong in the face of overwhelming knowledge.

Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Aug 28

Vaccines are some of the top achievements of human civilization—up there with clean water and antibiotics. Gutting CDC expertise and dismantling vaccine policy isn’t “health,” it’s medieval nonsense that will kill people.

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Aug 18

Warning: Binary 101 is not an intro class

Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Jul 15

They have to create their own account and scan a QR code from my device to gain access

Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Jul 14

The Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022 that Commissioner Carr is choosing to violate was passed by unanimous consent in the Senate and an overwhelming voice vote in the House.

Will legislators do anything about their bipartisan will being ignored? Of course not.

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Jul 14

LOL

Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Jul 14

There is so much daily cruelty from this admin that I completely missed news of this

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FCC blocks ban on prison phone price gouging, benefiting top Trump donors

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will no longer enforce a rule capping the price of prison phone calls, according to an announcement made Monday by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Jul 14

The failure of democrats to achieve lasting policy wins is not drivel

Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Jul 14

It does, but I'm okay for anyone on earth who so desperately wants to see a hundred chickadees to hack in

Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Jul 13

My bird feeder app requires two-factor authentication.

Threat-modeling is now a creative writing class.

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Jul 4

Considering where most of our ilk are politically, perhaps it’s for the best

Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Jun 24

Does anyone else write "Great! Thanks for your help!" to ChatGPT following a particularly good answer?

Seems rude not to, and yet I question everything

Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Jun 6

Remember that cottage industry detailing "the habits of very successful people"? Getting up at 5 am, focusing on what's important, not wasting time, avoiding conflict, etc.?

Now think of Trump and Musk

Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · May 28

From 2013!

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Apr 24

My first time in The Stacks of the library in a decade and I find myself in the Chomsky section. What’s the world telling me?

Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · Apr 21

Greenland must be thinking they could take over the US right about now

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 20

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about strikes in Yemen to a second unclassified Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4jBQ1wV