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Public policy research at wsipp.wa.gov
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February 5, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet

Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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According to Motoi Okamoto, Mini-Game Director for Super Mario 64 DS, Shigeru Miyamoto would start midnight crunch sessions for the game's development by walking into the office and announcing "It's Mario time."
"In those days, Miyamoto would come to us at 11 PM, after he finished all of his board-member work, and say, "It's Mario time." At that point, we'd start a planning meeting that would run until 2 AM. At that point, Miyamoto would go home, leaving us with the words, "You should return home soon, for your health." Over the next two or three hours, we'd write the game design documents and summarize the instructions for our artists and programmers. It was the craziest crunch time that I've ever experienced in my development career. But if the God of Games was working so much, could we give up? Miyamoto had incredible stamina." -Motoi Okamoto, Script and Mini-Game Director for Super Mario 64 DS, in a 2017 interview with Chris Kohler from Gamasutra Source: web.archive.org/web/20170405122956/https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/294923/Qamp_A_Design_lessons_learned_from_a_decade_at_Nintendos_EAD.php
February 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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Trickle-down taconomics
ceej.online ceej @ceej.online · Jan 7
napkins should be tortillas. you’re wiping food off your face; that food is still good. it can go on the tortilla, and then you get to eat it at the end. why am I always the one coming up with the good fucking ideas
January 7, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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Stranger things finale was fucking nuts!
Friggin bonies!
January 3, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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*Patrick Bateman voice* oh hold up, time to lock in
December 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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From computer files to Epstein files, files were everywhere you looked this year! That’s why I’m declaring 2025 the Year of the File
December 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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I will believe the zoomers are serious about y2k fashion when they bring these guys back.
Back of the neck headphones.
December 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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This mf said Toyko
December 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Aliens had advanced interstellar transportation tech, but also used Cow Tools
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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@mtsw.bsky.social police take Faberge egg
en.afp.com AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · Dec 5
New Zealand police have recovered a diamond-encrusted green Faberge egg after keeping a six-day watch over the thief accused of swallowing it

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December 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Writing done prior to November 2022 is going to be like low-background steel
hetanshah.bsky.social Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Nov 27
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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Al-generated content has surpassed human-written articles Graph
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Francis was more Mike Shinoda whereas Leo is more Chester
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Now and then I check twitter, and I cannot understand why smart, thoughtful people would still post on that platform

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A tweet from Joe Weisenthal next to a tweet from someone saying that "we need to be smarter [than the Jews]."
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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What’s next, quadruply robust estimators?
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Hockey rink should have 90 degree corners instead of big curves. Make them scrounge around for the puck when it goes over there
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Pathetic—I hate soup www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
Chinese archaeologists unearth 2,400-year-old 'soup' - BBC News
Chinese archaeologists discover what they believe is a 2,400-year-old pot of soup, during airport extension work in the city of Xian, state media report.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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I'll say!
November 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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It’s the guy from the 1965 bob dylan press conference.
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?

New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
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Coercion and Monopsony in Modern American Manufacturing: Evidence from Alabama Prison Labor Susan Helper Suresh Naidu Akseli Palomaki Adam Reich Aaron Sojourner We study coercion and monopsony in contemporary U.S. manufacturing labor markets. We combine administrative data from the Alabama Department of Corrections work release program with a unique survey of workers in the Alabama auto supply chain where workers report their work-release status. We first present descriptive patterns of work-release labor, finding that the use of incarcerated (i.e., work-release) labor is concentrated in the auto supply industry, especially in the Montgomery area, where Hyundai’s assembly plant is located. In the survey, the share of plant-level workers who are incarcerated is negatively correlated with non-incarcerated wages. The survey also enables estimation of hypothetical quit elasticities separately among incarcerated and non-incarcerated workers. Incarcerated workers are estimated to have quit elasticities less than half that of non-incarcerated workers. Because Alabama law requires employers to pay the same wage to incarcerated and non-incarcerated workers in the same jobs, the additional monopsony power introduced by employer access to incarcerated workers creates an incentive and ability for employers to reduce plant-level wages to, and employment of, non-incarcerated workers. We build a quantitative model of firm-specific labor supply that, for incarcerated workers, distinguishes the roles of coercion (the risk of physical harm in prison from not working), wage garnishment that blunts the consumption effect of higher wages, and monopsony (limited mobility across employers). Using it, we estimate effects on free and incarcerated workers’ welfare from i) reforming prison conditions to eliminate violence, ii) eliminating prison labor wage garnishment, iii) imposing a $15 minimum wage, &iv) abolishing prison labor. Free worker welfare goes up in all scenarios...
November 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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It’s like what’s next, $20 an hour?
arindube.bsky.social Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · Nov 5
Voters in Maine’s largest city on Tuesday approved Question A, a referendum that would raise the city’s minimum wage to $19 an hour by 2028.
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social Not an exaggeration to say that bollards are a pillar of our democracy
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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I can't find it anywhere on the internet anymore, so posting one of my fav @ryanpequin.bsky.social comics. "Big Coffee Comix"
A guy has a big coffee and isn't sure how to drink it
November 23, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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Every single report to shareholders from a large REIT includes something about how it's great that market-rate multifamily housing isn't getting built in high-cost coastal cities because the shortage is what allows them to rent gouge.
opennewyork.org Open New York @opennewyork.org · Oct 30
New housing stops landlords from raising rents—take it from the CEO of AvalonBay, one of NYC's largest landlords:
"We're well-positioned… we face significantly less new supply. Land entitled for multifamily is hard to come by, the amount of time it takes to get those entitlements… sets us up well.”
October 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM