Nicholas Emery-Xu
@nicholaskemery.bsky.social
Economics Ph.D candidate @UCLA | economics of computing and AI | industrial organization, innovation, political economy | PEPFAR fanatic
https://nicholasemeryxu.com/
https://nicholasemeryxu.com/
He ripped away food from starving children for this
Letterheads and signage alone would quickly run the bill upward of $1 billion, with a full overhaul likely rising to double that amount.
Trump’s Insane Pentagon Name-Change Likely to Cost Taxpayers $2 Billion
Changing signage and stationary alone for the Department of Defense would cost at least a billion dollars.
trib.al
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
He ripped away food from starving children for this
I hope Summers is not on the Harvard econ hiring committee
Insights from Larry Summers
"I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population..."
"I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population..."
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I hope Summers is not on the Harvard econ hiring committee
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Jesse Silbert’s job market paper studies how Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, through automating writing, disrupt labor markets that rely on writing as a costly signal of match quality. jesse-silbert.github.io/website/silb...
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Jesse Silbert’s job market paper studies how Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, through automating writing, disrupt labor markets that rely on writing as a costly signal of match quality. jesse-silbert.github.io/website/silb...
In 2028 I'm a single-issue voter. Voting for whoever can most credibly commit to get Trump, Musk, and Rubio in prison for life
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
In 2028 I'm a single-issue voter. Voting for whoever can most credibly commit to get Trump, Musk, and Rubio in prison for life
Those who illegally destroyed USAID deserve life in prison.
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Those who illegally destroyed USAID deserve life in prison.
Those who illegally destroyed USAID, and their supporters, deserve to lose elections.
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Those who illegally destroyed USAID, and their supporters, deserve to lose elections.
Economics journals man: "First version received May 2016; Editorial decision November 2022"
November 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Economics journals man: "First version received May 2016; Editorial decision November 2022"
AI-augmented R&D
the time it would have taken me would probably have been of order of magnitude an hour (an estimate that comes with quite wide error bars). So it looks as though we have entered the brief but enjoyable era where our research is greatly sped up by AI but AI still needs us. 3/3
October 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
AI-augmented R&D
A few steps away: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Ad...
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A few steps away: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Ad...
By comparison, for every month since 1999, Putin's popularity has been >50%: www.levada.ru/indikatory/
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
By comparison, for every month since 1999, Putin's popularity has been >50%: www.levada.ru/indikatory/
Even grokipedia.com admits Musk and Trump are killers: "the cuts could result in 14 million additional deaths over subsequent years, primarily from resurgent HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria due to discontinued PEPFAR and other initiatives..."
grokipedia.com/page/United_...
grokipedia.com/page/United_...
United States foreign aid
United States foreign aid encompasses economic, military, technical, and humanitarian assistance provided by the U.S. federal government to foreign countries, territories, and international organizati...
grokipedia.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Even grokipedia.com admits Musk and Trump are killers: "the cuts could result in 14 million additional deaths over subsequent years, primarily from resurgent HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria due to discontinued PEPFAR and other initiatives..."
grokipedia.com/page/United_...
grokipedia.com/page/United_...
Those who illegally destroyed USAID deserve the consequences of their actions
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Those who illegally destroyed USAID deserve the consequences of their actions
Today is as good a day as any in the past 100 years to go vegan
Bacon kills more people from cancer than tobacco and asbestos ever did.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scientists demand cancer warnings on bacon and ham sold in UK
Successive governments criticised for doing ‘virtually nothing’ to reduce risk in the decade since cancer link found
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Today is as good a day as any in the past 100 years to go vegan
Enjoying the MIT FutureTech conference on AI automation in science and labor @mitsloan.bsky.social @csail.mit.edu
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Enjoying the MIT FutureTech conference on AI automation in science and labor @mitsloan.bsky.social @csail.mit.edu
He ripped away food from starving children for this.
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
October 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
He ripped away food from starving children for this.
Reposted by Nicholas Emery-Xu
Your favorite thing is down because DynamoDB at Amazon's AWS US-EAST-1 Regionwoke up with Main Character Syndrome.
This is the default /legacy backbone for a ton of things.
Including Amazon's own stuff.
Massive outages.
Here's what's going on & what we know 1/
This is the default /legacy backbone for a ton of things.
Including Amazon's own stuff.
Massive outages.
Here's what's going on & what we know 1/
October 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Your favorite thing is down because DynamoDB at Amazon's AWS US-EAST-1 Regionwoke up with Main Character Syndrome.
This is the default /legacy backbone for a ton of things.
Including Amazon's own stuff.
Massive outages.
Here's what's going on & what we know 1/
This is the default /legacy backbone for a ton of things.
Including Amazon's own stuff.
Massive outages.
Here's what's going on & what we know 1/
Excited and honored to have received a Humane Studies Fellowship from @theihs.org to support my research on cloud and AI adoption, firm productivity, and labor market impacts. Hope to share public updates on these projects soon!
October 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Excited and honored to have received a Humane Studies Fellowship from @theihs.org to support my research on cloud and AI adoption, firm productivity, and labor market impacts. Hope to share public updates on these projects soon!
Your dad just ripped away food from thousands of starving kids and burned it
Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."
October 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Your dad just ripped away food from thousands of starving kids and burned it
Now is as good a time as any (in the last 125 years) to go vegan
Beef is just crazy expensive rn, especially compared to other commodities
October 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Now is as good a time as any (in the last 125 years) to go vegan
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When Putin talks to a Russians he consistently says that they invade Ukraine to destroy the state and nation and correct the path of history. NATO and similar framings are just for the useful foreigners.
Pu spells out Ru's imperialist motivations for the war. He calls the conquest a long-held dream and historical destiny.
He beclowns those who insist NATO expansion caused the war. Let's see if anyone from the Mearsheimer fan club admits the claim has been falsified.
www.kremlin.ru/events/presi...
He beclowns those who insist NATO expansion caused the war. Let's see if anyone from the Mearsheimer fan club admits the claim has been falsified.
www.kremlin.ru/events/presi...
Обращение по случаю Дня воссоединения ДНР, ЛНР, Запорожской и Херсонской областей с Россией
www.kremlin.ru
October 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
When Putin talks to a Russians he consistently says that they invade Ukraine to destroy the state and nation and correct the path of history. NATO and similar framings are just for the useful foreigners.
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The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.
October 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.
I at least want life sentences. At best the full confiscation of the Musk and Trump assets, to be repaid to
the loved ones of all those killed according to the value the US government places on a human life, which seems to be around USD 10 million.
the loved ones of all those killed according to the value the US government places on a human life, which seems to be around USD 10 million.
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:49 AM
I at least want life sentences. At best the full confiscation of the Musk and Trump assets, to be repaid to
the loved ones of all those killed according to the value the US government places on a human life, which seems to be around USD 10 million.
the loved ones of all those killed according to the value the US government places on a human life, which seems to be around USD 10 million.
I disagree. It's because of what Elon did to USAID, which will likely cause the vast majority of deaths from Trump 2
more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold
October 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I disagree. It's because of what Elon did to USAID, which will likely cause the vast majority of deaths from Trump 2
And the more personalist it becomes the more likely this will be (Geddes et al 2018)
No political movement will collapse faster than Republicanism the moment Trump is out of the picture. All of his heirs can't wait to knife each other and none of them individually has even 10% of the juice that Trump has with the median chud voter.
Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.
October 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
And the more personalist it becomes the more likely this will be (Geddes et al 2018)
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Everyone should read this devastating report: Trump’s sabotage of USAID stranded lifesaving medicines — fueling chaos and leaving children to die.
His policies are destroying our reputation and influence overseas and literally killing kids. No words.
His policies are destroying our reputation and influence overseas and literally killing kids. No words.
Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.
USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...
www.washingtonpost.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Everyone should read this devastating report: Trump’s sabotage of USAID stranded lifesaving medicines — fueling chaos and leaving children to die.
His policies are destroying our reputation and influence overseas and literally killing kids. No words.
His policies are destroying our reputation and influence overseas and literally killing kids. No words.