Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁
@sameyler.bsky.social
Founder/Lead Editor, Standard Error Research Editors (@standarderror.bsky.social, http://stderr-editors.com; opinions here are mine!)
Ex American Journal Experts/Springer Nature, Chicago Booth, @cepr.org, LSE
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Ex American Journal Experts/Springer Nature, Chicago Booth, @cepr.org, LSE
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in a sense, we HAVE TO use AI for the same reason we can't be allowed to transition away from fossil fuels: there are stranded assets that MUST be made profitable and, if they are not, will wreck the economy
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
in a sense, we HAVE TO use AI for the same reason we can't be allowed to transition away from fossil fuels: there are stranded assets that MUST be made profitable and, if they are not, will wreck the economy
What a lovely time this week at the 3rd Colombian Congress on Economic and Business History, where I met some brilliant researchers documenting the historical role of women in the Colombian economy. Thanks again to @julianajaramilloe.bsky.social, Edna Carolina Sastoque, and ACHEE for inviting me!
November 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
What a lovely time this week at the 3rd Colombian Congress on Economic and Business History, where I met some brilliant researchers documenting the historical role of women in the Colombian economy. Thanks again to @julianajaramilloe.bsky.social, Edna Carolina Sastoque, and ACHEE for inviting me!
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support our troops
So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.
November 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
support our troops
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Remigration = ethnic cleansing
dont let the far-right fool you
dont let the far-right fool you
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Remigration = ethnic cleansing
dont let the far-right fool you
dont let the far-right fool you
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chat are we cooked
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
chat are we cooked
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Trump wants the US to replay the rise of Russian kleptocracy in the 90s, complete with obscene enrichment of himself & his oligarchs while immiserating the rest of us.
In the ~35yrs since the USSR fell, RU has become the most economically unequal society on earth:20+% of HH lacking indoor plumbing.
In the ~35yrs since the USSR fell, RU has become the most economically unequal society on earth:20+% of HH lacking indoor plumbing.
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Trump wants the US to replay the rise of Russian kleptocracy in the 90s, complete with obscene enrichment of himself & his oligarchs while immiserating the rest of us.
In the ~35yrs since the USSR fell, RU has become the most economically unequal society on earth:20+% of HH lacking indoor plumbing.
In the ~35yrs since the USSR fell, RU has become the most economically unequal society on earth:20+% of HH lacking indoor plumbing.
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What the hell is this "kulturkampf" shit from the Department of Labor? Don't they have actual jobs to do?
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What the hell is this "kulturkampf" shit from the Department of Labor? Don't they have actual jobs to do?
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I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
NEW: The F.D.A. announced in an internal memo that 10 children died "because of" the Covid shot. Other experts want to see proof.
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
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Reminds me very much of the ways that the civil rights laws of the Reconstruction era were dismantled by applying them to corporations or by using, for example, Chinese-Americans as a foil to establish Black Americans as the anti-citizen.
Everyone involved in turning dishonest antisemitism allegations into a cudgel to destroy institutions and civil rights law should be deeply ashamed of themselves. What a extraordinary perversion of the lessons of the past century
Statement from U.S. AG Pam Bondi:
“Today’s settlement marks another victory in the Trump Administration’s fight to ensure that American educational institutions protect Jewish students and put merit first…
“Today’s settlement marks another victory in the Trump Administration’s fight to ensure that American educational institutions protect Jewish students and put merit first…
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Reminds me very much of the ways that the civil rights laws of the Reconstruction era were dismantled by applying them to corporations or by using, for example, Chinese-Americans as a foil to establish Black Americans as the anti-citizen.
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It is so deeply grievous to me that the history of the Holocaust is being abused to consolidate the institutional power of fascists. Unbearable
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It is so deeply grievous to me that the history of the Holocaust is being abused to consolidate the institutional power of fascists. Unbearable
Everyone involved in turning dishonest antisemitism allegations into a cudgel to destroy institutions and civil rights law should be deeply ashamed of themselves. What a extraordinary perversion of the lessons of the past century
Statement from U.S. AG Pam Bondi:
“Today’s settlement marks another victory in the Trump Administration’s fight to ensure that American educational institutions protect Jewish students and put merit first…
“Today’s settlement marks another victory in the Trump Administration’s fight to ensure that American educational institutions protect Jewish students and put merit first…
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Everyone involved in turning dishonest antisemitism allegations into a cudgel to destroy institutions and civil rights law should be deeply ashamed of themselves. What a extraordinary perversion of the lessons of the past century
I found this in a Mini So in a mall in Medellin today
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I found this in a Mini So in a mall in Medellin today
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Northwestern bent the knee, choosing to give in to extortion at the expense of academic freedom.
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Northwestern bent the knee, choosing to give in to extortion at the expense of academic freedom.
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
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Suspensions are ricocheting around the legal immigration system in the last 48 hours. The broader picture so far has built out Trump's travel ban (the impact of which has been drowned out by other news).
Tl;dr: Miller and his team are working to block entire nationalities from getting legal status.
Tl;dr: Miller and his team are working to block entire nationalities from getting legal status.
The Trump administration has announced it is halting all asylum decisions in the wake of the National Guard shooting in Washington, D.C. Here's what we know.
Trump administration says it is halting all asylum decisions after National Guard shooting
The Trump administration has announced it is halting all asylum decisions in the wake of the National Guard shooting in Washington, D.C. Here's what we know.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Suspensions are ricocheting around the legal immigration system in the last 48 hours. The broader picture so far has built out Trump's travel ban (the impact of which has been drowned out by other news).
Tl;dr: Miller and his team are working to block entire nationalities from getting legal status.
Tl;dr: Miller and his team are working to block entire nationalities from getting legal status.
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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Astonishing cowardice
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Astonishing cowardice
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President Trump just posted an AI-photo of himself holding a “Trump 2028, YES” sign. The U.S. Constitution's 22nd amendment does not allow for a third presidential term.
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
President Trump just posted an AI-photo of himself holding a “Trump 2028, YES” sign. The U.S. Constitution's 22nd amendment does not allow for a third presidential term.
Man, I thought some time away from Chicago in Lat Am would lend some encouraging perspective on the US meltdown. Nope. Still seeing only an unmitigated dumpster fire
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Man, I thought some time away from Chicago in Lat Am would lend some encouraging perspective on the US meltdown. Nope. Still seeing only an unmitigated dumpster fire
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La cancelación de los vuelos con destino a Venezuela continúa afectando a un buen número de pasajeros que acudieron este lunes a Barajas con la esperanza de partir rumbo a Caracas, pero que permanecen sin solución cuatro días después
Pasajeros afectados por la cancelación de los vuelos a Venezuela siguen varados en Barajas cuatro días después
Trabajadores del aeropuerto cifran en medio centenar las personas que continuaban allí en las primeras horas del viernes, mientras que los afectados denuncian que ya no les permiten pernoctar en las instalaciones
elpais.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
La cancelación de los vuelos con destino a Venezuela continúa afectando a un buen número de pasajeros que acudieron este lunes a Barajas con la esperanza de partir rumbo a Caracas, pero que permanecen sin solución cuatro días después
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
It’s incumbent on Americans to understand that the US is now inarguably a force for evil in the world
“.. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck.
“The Special Operations commander .. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions .. The two men were blown apart ..”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“The Special Operations commander .. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions .. The two men were blown apart ..”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It’s incumbent on Americans to understand that the US is now inarguably a force for evil in the world
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Pure unadulterated white supremacy. Dirty, deadly, dead end.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Pure unadulterated white supremacy. Dirty, deadly, dead end.
This is dumb but it’s interesting that he would interpret it as an indictment of outsiders rather than of the civilization. Who can believe in a project so fragile
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is dumb but it’s interesting that he would interpret it as an indictment of outsiders rather than of the civilization. Who can believe in a project so fragile
The AI revolutionaries have forgotten the basic rule of civilization: Don’t shit where you eat
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The AI revolutionaries have forgotten the basic rule of civilization: Don’t shit where you eat
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My impression after two days of conferencing abroad is that the extent to which things are Really Bad in US academia and public research is not fully registering. Folks are not realizing that this admin is salting the earth and the geopolitical era of US scientific leadership might be over for good.
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
My impression after two days of conferencing abroad is that the extent to which things are Really Bad in US academia and public research is not fully registering. Folks are not realizing that this admin is salting the earth and the geopolitical era of US scientific leadership might be over for good.