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Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!

Or he only took the econ class. They learn the theorem, so it must always be true.

Academia.edu allows the user to tell them *why* they're deleting their account: "I will absolutely never upload anything to a platform that capitalizes on scholars' hardwork by turning it into AI slop. Shame on you. Eliminate the AI bullshit."

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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”

My family of 6 spends $4-600 per WEEK on groceries. 4,200 would cover just over one month.

I make an effort to buy fresh food (expensive) but we almost never eat beef or eat out. Allow ourselves only organic milk and poultry. We go to multiple groceries to purchase where items are cheapest. Etc.

These seem to be the three legs to the Trump regime's political stool, if you consider Trump, Vought, and Miller as the three centers of power:

Corruption (Trump)
Extreme conservative ideology (Vought)
Fascism (Miller)

Halloween gravestone reading “I Did My Own Research” in a yard with two skeleton arms sticking out of the grass.

Happy Halloween

No evidence of an unusual number of layoffs happening in regular state unemployment insurance program data.

The data is filed weekly by states despite the fed shutdown & available thru week ending 10/18/25.

Thnx @econberger.bsky.social for helping me get up to speed on this data source.

FWIW 👇
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I stopped giving written assignments altogether after ChatGPT precisely because of this. Switched to mult choice exams. My class is now easier, which made student reviews more positive, and I have no connection to students and don't know how much they are actually learning. Not awesome.

Artificial Writing and Automated Detection Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

FWIW this NBER wp says Pangram achieves near-zero false positive rate in detection of AI-written material. Reliable AI detection can be done but it seems like university admin have chosen to invest in AI rather than help faculty rein it in by paying for detection tools.

www.nber.org/papers/w34223

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

The trend is real, but this NYT analysis at the Congressional district level has big ecological bias

Poor *areas* vote Republican, but it's often the richer *individuals* within those poorer areas that are most Republican

And many poor *individuals* rich blue urban *areas* vote Dem

The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable.
Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.

Really wishing that the “Intel episode” being referenced was about a new LPE podcast.

Any chance someone will make this happen?

speaking of the ACA, I'm so old I can remember when Joe Lieberman killed the public option, and Ezra Klein accused him of being "willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score," and the entire DC media fainted simultaneously

A story in the parts

A story in three parts

Can someone remind microsoft that most people today work in places with open floor plans?

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Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

any econometricians seeing this know of recent-ish papers comparing out-of-sample predictive performance of discrete choice models? particularly interested in anything getting at choice data that can't be rationalized with the variables available

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

you know what fair

The whole thread’s a great education about how China is using permission structures the US pioneered.

What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts

Incredibly useful new story by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on the 'crisis' for young college grads. Most analyses compare mid-20s workers with/without a degree. But as John points out, the relevant comparison group is actually *new entrants* with/without a degree - most non-degree workers enter at 18-19.

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

Okay this is a good headline

By engaging with "legal areas where distribution matters most, such as the minimum wage, collective bargaining, antitrust, intellectual property, and housing regulation.... we discover unique, even idiosyncratic, reasons why legal rules can redistribute more cheaply than the tax system."