Dan Seel

I believe that particular impact is still muted because large numbers of federal job losses were thru deferred resignation and thus aren't going to show up in the unemployment data for a few months still (until they stop receiving severance payments)

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I had (wrongly) assumed that once I got out of reports produced on typewriters into modern documents that OCR would have an easier time but alas...

I think most Civil War analogies are bad but one works here: American institutions are replete with McClellans, leaders with enormous self-regard and sympathy for their opponents, while lacking both the skill and desire to fight against them.

Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up To $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute

Historically, paying Danegeld always made the Danes go away and leave you alone in perpetuity.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

The Quality of CPI Data Continues to Deteriorate - Apollo Academy To calculate CPI inflation, BLS teams collect approximately 90,000 price quotes every month covering 200 different item categories, and there...

"In other words, almost a third of the prices going into the CPI at the moment are guesses based on other data collections in the CPI."

- Apollo/Slok

www.apolloacademy.com/the-quality-...

agree generally, dunno where you land on this but I think wingspan is an exception to the principle here (despite being quite rule burdened) simply because it's very fun to just collect cool birds even if you're "losing" in relative terms

"downwardly mobile intellectuals love socialism" yes hello welcome to 1890, please collect your clerking job and SI membership at the door

The law that can be named is not the true law On secret societies, civil wars, Palestine Action, and the word of God

This article is phenomenal samkriss.substack.com/p/the-law-th...

I've tried to follow a lot of DSAers on here and it just feels so ridiculously stark compared to extwitter, I don't get why people are so resistant to leaving that site

Comparisons Between Life in the UK and the USA For most of my life I have lived in the UK, but for six years I lived in the United States of America. Somewhat erratic and unpleasant polit...

I decided to make a long blog post combining general sociological things I am aware of with personal observations of cultural and lifestyle differences between the UK and USA.

sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/07/comp...

Adam Tooze once compared the affective experience and intensity of college football games to fascist rallies, I'm reminded of that every fall.

I think this is the most time I've spent cleaning up OCR since coming back to grad school and man I wish we didn't have several numerals that look similar with smudged ink (8=6,4=9,1=7)

Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

Ladies and gentlemen, the commander in chief.

www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

UW pays for one, I think it's free on the wifi/VPN(?)

My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂

In the evergreen words of Lester Freamon: "You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. You start to follow the money and you don't know where the fuck it's gonna take you." (The Wire S1E9)

Australia too, tho since "football" refers to 3-4 sports there using it for just 2 doesn't seem so bad.

📏 How To Build A Mayan Keyboard A Conversation with Nic Sahler of the Codical Mayan project on indigenous language preservation

“The project’s main goal is to make Mayan an available writing system on every computer. This requires… encoding the Mayan writing system into Unicode, + developing a font + keyboard… We’re not trying to dictate how people use it, but instead provide a free, open source tool.”

The beauty of historical political economy: someone at UMich didn't press a book down properly on the scanner a decade-ish ago, so now I get to fix OCR'd spreadsheets all week.

well well well, round two of testing whether inflation benefits or dooms incumbent parties is coming soon!

Tours and Tournaments/Royal Court both add new mechanics and depth across the board (managing your court directly! the grand tour! culture hybridization). The others are kinda mid for the money imo

in terms of culture specific DLC: the Viking and Iberian DLCs are both great, haven't tried the rest.

ahhhh that's so marvelous!

CfP for a Special Issue of Emancipations on Economic Planning!!!

Our paper is now officially out in the September issue of Social Forces, and it is available open access!

doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

"A processual framework for understanding the rise of the populist right: the case of Brazil (2013-2018)"

By Benjamin H. Bradlow and @tomasgold.bsky.social

I think SASE is quite LPE friendly!

I'll be there, would love to meet up! I don't know if there is anyone else coming from UW this time.

Who is gonna be at SASE? It'll be my first time, I'm very excited! Would love to meet up with some folks, please drop me a line