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I've mostly been off social media for the last week. It's been pretty nice, but I haven't been able to keep up with goings on, but that might be why it's been nice.
December 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I've mostly been off social media for the last week. It's been pretty nice, but I haven't been able to keep up with goings on, but that might be why it's been nice.
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“The United States uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to impose its will and no longer rules out the use of military force—even against allies."
That's the verdict in the official report on threats to Denmark from our Defence Intelligence Service: www.fe-ddis.dk/globalassets...
That's the verdict in the official report on threats to Denmark from our Defence Intelligence Service: www.fe-ddis.dk/globalassets...
www.fe-ddis.dk
December 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
“The United States uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to impose its will and no longer rules out the use of military force—even against allies."
That's the verdict in the official report on threats to Denmark from our Defence Intelligence Service: www.fe-ddis.dk/globalassets...
That's the verdict in the official report on threats to Denmark from our Defence Intelligence Service: www.fe-ddis.dk/globalassets...
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NEW: We took a deep dive into ICE's data dragnet: the data brokers, biometrics tools, and license plate readers powering Trump's deportation effort. Some of the contracts are for tools previous administrations deemed too intrusive.
Trump’s immigration data dragnet
The US is pulling in vast amounts of personal information in its drive to deport 1mn people this year
ig.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
NEW: We took a deep dive into ICE's data dragnet: the data brokers, biometrics tools, and license plate readers powering Trump's deportation effort. Some of the contracts are for tools previous administrations deemed too intrusive.
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Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.
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the thing is that blowing up drug boats is just murder. no law licenses it. it is just war crimes. but to say out loud what the penalty for committing them is puts us in the position of accusing high government officials of capital crimes.
it is critically important to be able to say the obvious.
it is critically important to be able to say the obvious.
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
the thing is that blowing up drug boats is just murder. no law licenses it. it is just war crimes. but to say out loud what the penalty for committing them is puts us in the position of accusing high government officials of capital crimes.
it is critically important to be able to say the obvious.
it is critically important to be able to say the obvious.
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"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
December 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
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I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences
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Hey team, my public policy research is donation funded. This is the only way to assure unbiased independence. If you can, please consider throwing some coins in the pot.
Missed #GivingTuesday? You can still put facts first. Donate to the annual appeal → crcmich.org/end-of-year-appeal #YearEndGiving #PutFactsFirst #FactsMatter
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hey team, my public policy research is donation funded. This is the only way to assure unbiased independence. If you can, please consider throwing some coins in the pot.
Oh, hey, it's the thing all my Canadian business contacts and their clients are terrified of.
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Oh, hey, it's the thing all my Canadian business contacts and their clients are terrified of.
Didn't get a picture, but there's two of them. Happened to look up just in time to see two fly directly over the house, barely higher than our roof.
December 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Didn't get a picture, but there's two of them. Happened to look up just in time to see two fly directly over the house, barely higher than our roof.
Didn't expect this in my backyard.
December 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Didn't expect this in my backyard.
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nobody with good intentions will validate your fears infinitely. if that's what you fundamentally crave you're basically lost
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
nobody with good intentions will validate your fears infinitely. if that's what you fundamentally crave you're basically lost
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New from 404 Media: Flock is using overseas gig workers to build its surveillance AI. Flock has cameras in thousands of communities around the US which can detect vehicles and people. We found gig workers in the Philippines are reviewing footage to classify people
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using worke...
www.404media.co
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New from 404 Media: Flock is using overseas gig workers to build its surveillance AI. Flock has cameras in thousands of communities around the US which can detect vehicles and people. We found gig workers in the Philippines are reviewing footage to classify people
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
"THEY'RE TREATING THE SEX PESTS LIKE POKEMON! STOP IT! STOP! ... YOU DONT HAVE TO [EMPLOY] THEM ALL!"
My wife's reaction to a bit of news about my alma mater today.
My wife's reaction to a bit of news about my alma mater today.
November 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"THEY'RE TREATING THE SEX PESTS LIKE POKEMON! STOP IT! STOP! ... YOU DONT HAVE TO [EMPLOY] THEM ALL!"
My wife's reaction to a bit of news about my alma mater today.
My wife's reaction to a bit of news about my alma mater today.
I haven't been much online today, don't know what this refers to, and think I don't want to know.
the american century of humiliation in ethics in journalism
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I haven't been much online today, don't know what this refers to, and think I don't want to know.
Homeowners are today's version of Adam Smith's rentier landlords.
*send tweet*
*send tweet*
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Homeowners are today's version of Adam Smith's rentier landlords.
*send tweet*
*send tweet*
Helped provide Thanksgiving meals to 100 families.
Avoided learning whatever the latest cosmic horror is.
Made up a song about how we know these are terrible people and knowing what they do with each other can bring only pain, no knowledge but that they are terrible is needed
Been a good day
Avoided learning whatever the latest cosmic horror is.
Made up a song about how we know these are terrible people and knowing what they do with each other can bring only pain, no knowledge but that they are terrible is needed
Been a good day
November 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Helped provide Thanksgiving meals to 100 families.
Avoided learning whatever the latest cosmic horror is.
Made up a song about how we know these are terrible people and knowing what they do with each other can bring only pain, no knowledge but that they are terrible is needed
Been a good day
Avoided learning whatever the latest cosmic horror is.
Made up a song about how we know these are terrible people and knowing what they do with each other can bring only pain, no knowledge but that they are terrible is needed
Been a good day
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do you think God stays in heaven because he is scared of his creation
"Ryan Lizza was journalistically irresponsible for not previously leaking the felching poem RFK wrote to Lizza's fiancee" isn't a hill I would want to die on.
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
do you think God stays in heaven because he is scared of his creation
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Best part is, you get to work for me and I've been told I'm really cool.
The MSU Department of Economics is hiring a new office manager / fiscal officer. Please share and forward the position description to those who may be interested. The position will be open until December 1 and we are looking for someone to start in mid-Dec or early Jan. @msuecon.bsky.social
Senior Admin. Business Professional/S - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary
This position reports directly to the Department of Economics Chair, providing executive level counsel to the chairperson and unit directors for strategic financial planning. The succ...
careers.msu.edu
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Best part is, you get to work for me and I've been told I'm really cool.
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lmao
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
lmao
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It is worth noting that yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the Nürnberg trials, in which the United States and its allies tried and ultimately convicted war criminals. Those were the times.
I hear the building is still available.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_...
I hear the building is still available.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_...
Palace of Justice, Nuremberg - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It is worth noting that yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the Nürnberg trials, in which the United States and its allies tried and ultimately convicted war criminals. Those were the times.
I hear the building is still available.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_...
I hear the building is still available.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_...
"I told them, 'You can't trust faculty.' You absolutely cannot leave them to their own devices... They bite off more than they can chew and screw over other people and we incentivize this shit."
My wife is having a good morning, from the sound of things.
My wife is having a good morning, from the sound of things.
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"I told them, 'You can't trust faculty.' You absolutely cannot leave them to their own devices... They bite off more than they can chew and screw over other people and we incentivize this shit."
My wife is having a good morning, from the sound of things.
My wife is having a good morning, from the sound of things.
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This is propaganda and the fact it is associated with the economics profession is abhorrent. BLS is staffed by dedicated public servants who only report the data, whoever is running the DOL Twitter account is something else entirely.
I take it there are no economists working at the Department of Labor...
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is propaganda and the fact it is associated with the economics profession is abhorrent. BLS is staffed by dedicated public servants who only report the data, whoever is running the DOL Twitter account is something else entirely.
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Amazing study showing that deactivating social media improved mental health.
[It has so many coauthors that the sample size was sufficient to run the RCT on themselves.]
[It has so many coauthors that the sample size was sufficient to run the RCT on themselves.]
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State" by Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, Benjamin Wittenbrink, et al. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State
(Forthcoming Article) - We estimate the effect of social media deactivation on users’ emotional state in
two large randomized experiments before the 2020 U.S. election. People who
deactivated Facebook...
www.aeaweb.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Amazing study showing that deactivating social media improved mental health.
[It has so many coauthors that the sample size was sufficient to run the RCT on themselves.]
[It has so many coauthors that the sample size was sufficient to run the RCT on themselves.]
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Amazing.
1) @washingtonpost.com reported Thursday on a controversial policy downgrading how nooses and swastikas are labeled in the Coast Guard.
2) Admin officials attacked The Post, falsely alleging the reporting of "fake crap."
3) The CG said it would review policy language.
4) The CG reversed course.
2) Admin officials attacked The Post, falsely alleging the reporting of "fake crap."
3) The CG said it would review policy language.
4) The CG reversed course.
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Amazing.