Stephen Kinsella

It tries hard to be one

Happy #Budget26 day to all who celebrate.

Scatterplot showing a correlation between rates of chocolate consumption and rates of Nobel Laureates

More chocolate, more Nobel prizes
https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/the-curious-wavefunction/chocolate-consumption-and-nobel-prizes-a-bizarre-juxtaposition-if-there-ever-was-one/

I currently have some weirdness on my personal site related to an apostrophe somewhere! But after 18 years I’m used to wrecking it periodically

This was great fun. Learned a lot too!

In United States of American, property steals you.

The masts are often contracted as long term rentals of a farmer’s land. Same for telecom masts.

Other totally unappreciated benefit: thanks to the rental income flow, farms are financially viable at smaller scales, retaining family-size operations and hence more rural communities.

American In 1995, at the beginning of the last week of August, on the afternoon of an inhumanly hot and intolerably humid day, I arrived at Newark Airport to live in the United States. I was twenty two years o...

Bravo, @kjhealy.co. Bravo. And congrats!

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Also correlated: AOC is not funded in the same way the other pols are. She’s not just an individual exemplar but an example of an alternative business model for a US Politician.

The thing I love about these pieces is no one cares this lad has a Nobel prize. Like it is not even mentioned.

Preach, J. H. Newman.

I am rewatching Buffy with my 14 year old episode by episode. Tv today is so much better but Mr Giles as Punk Rock ‘ripper’ is something I’d be here for.

Looking forward to learning a bit from @gavreilly.com

Banger. Weirdos ftw.

Pretty sure we’ve got the same
Ones!

It’s so interesting how few acts really understand the assignment. Finland not one of them.

Approximately 2 shipping containers of pennies- 140m dollars. Endless annoyance caused by paying for stuff in pennies- priceless.

Yes—it is great fun but also why you don’t see social scientists on those banned skill export lists

Teaching CS as social science and within it is really interesting. It’s like putting a motor inside the usual social science stuff. They can *do* things almost immediately and survey the consequences.

Indeed!

Policy matters, folks. Bad policies like Brexit have long lasting negative effects.

The Council of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Martina Lawless as the next Director of the ESRI.

Read more: www.esri.ie/news/profess...

Great to reconnect with fellow @UL Alumni based in the capital and meet new faces at the Royal Irish Academy last night. Big thank you to @stephenkinsella.bsky.social for the brilliant insights (and hope!) on where the economy is headed and the challenges and opportunities ahead.

I know. We should just go back to the old one.

Was in Washington this week, and it was brought up, totally unbidden. Apparently it’s on a list of the world’s worst logos somewhere!

Tbf university logos aren’t great either. Here’s the new-ish one of mine. You rotate it 90 degrees left and, well, yeah.

Thanks for ruining my enjoyment of corporate logos, Katie.