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When you starve the government of tax revenue for decades, them elect nihilistic narcissists to govern, this is what you get. news.gallup.com/poll/715907/...

Some great research from @nazita.bsky.social on anti-Muslim bias in politics cited in this piece www.vox.com/politics/507...

I saw this garbage at least twice and it's the most blatantly racist ad I've seen in the US in my 50 years.

Who's gonna tell him how the story ends.

I've learned to deal with hoodie-string chewers, but today in my micro test I had a jogger-string chewer and I truly think the line for chewing clothing strings has to be the waist.

Today in "theory also matters."

Two way fixed effects vibes...

I've always thought Kirk Herbstriet was kinda an idiot, but you can't go calling Cleveland's penalty issues "Browns on Browns crime."

About that murderbot apocalypse...

Maga world gives no shits about Eric Schmitt schmitting the bed in front of Jack Smith. If their flimsy conspiracy theory is true then they can gloat about catching a Dem red-handed; if it's not then if libs react they can laugh about "owning"then; and if libs don't react the story dies

In case anyone is interested, here is a new working paper on non-binary treatments with staggered interventions. Essentially, I show under what assumptions it is valid to estimate cohort x time dose-response functions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I wonder if this casual analysis considered the number of Nicholas Cage movies. www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...

So lovely spending two days in jury selection with a random cross section of the community knowing that you're 99% certain to be one of the lawyers' peremptory strikes.

Can't wait for Dear Leader's revised plan for the Kennedy Center.

Donnie gets -20 points (out of a possible 10 points). I actually got dumber reading this and would give a better score for a blank response. Drop slips (which don't even exist anymore) can be picked up at the registrar's office.

One aspect of research funding that it took me a while as a prof to appreciate: Someone who directs significant funding can shape the questions researchers investigate, *even researchers they don't directly fund*. Why? Because many researchers chase citations, and better-funded areas get cited more.

Cabin in the mountains. Wireless Internet is a game changer for making this a reality.

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Casual inference is the art of knowing why your estimate isn't casual, claiming it is anyway, and adding a bunch of "proofs" to your methods section to confuse reviewers. Bonus points for fancy notation like integral symbols or Kronecker products.

Can we add real estate agencies to this list?

With this supposedly-Christian ethos we should have the best education system in the world, right? ... Right? Because otherwise it'd be like they just don't want to feed the poor OR teach them so they can feed themselves, and gosh that would be pretty hypocritical.

Counterpoint: I've never heard of a speed camera citing someone for rolling a right turn and then shooting the person.

I can't do much against textbook corporate greed but by adopting open educational resources I fight corporate textbook greed every semester.

PER. MY. PREVIOUS. EMAIL. send...

FAFO-nomics is the new vibecession.

Admins: you must make online only options for all of your courses and programs. Also admins: you must drive 2 hours each way to come in and talk to students over a video screen 8 hours a day, five days a week.

Yup. Downsizing by attrition.

Or read the syllabus, or come to class, or write the essay with or without AI...

Indeed, I feel seen. bsky.app/profile/dccc...

4% of those polled apparently can't make up their minds when it's their turn to place an order at McDonald's.

merge m:m ... , force www.npr.org/2026/08/19/n...

The first four chapters of Understanding Our Economy, CORE's new textbook, are live. Our blog breaks down how it differs from The Economy 2.0, who it's for, and what's taught in chapters one to four. www.core-econ.org/cores-new-te...

Hi, data nerd here. This is a collider bias problem, not a car or music problem.

Creating an Excel spreadsheet in which one of the cells contains a random seed for randomly selecting a sample it's surprisingly complicated!

If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.

Really makes you wonder about Joe Biden's mental state.

More lies and bullshit. I've gotten every vaccine for my kids on the schedules that existed for decades, including multiple injections in a single visit. At no point was a volume even 0.01x the size of a soda bottle injected into my infant children.

Clearly Oregon must tariff Washington to force an end to these wildfires.

Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.

One of the worst forms of moral hazard.

Friends, I slap ^s like it's 1999 when I'm working in the cloud.

Thank goodness my institution added yet another new Assistant Vice President position!

Or loans and financing for personal computers in the 80s.