Alan J. Card

You watch the first tech bubble crash the economy and ruin the lives of ordinary people while the rich get richer. Then you watch the securitized real estate bubble do the same thing. By the time the LLM bubble starts building, it holds no mysteries for you.

I’m no macroeconomics expert but this has been obvious to me for a long time now, just because it’s the third time I’ve seen this same stupid show.

Hey, anyone in media want to chat about #AfterTheFeast [*waggles eyebrows*]??

(Yes, of COURSE I will come on your podcast with 12 listeners.)

Superstore Amy Sosa GIF Alt: A store manager speaking to gathered employees, two of whom are in the shot. She gestures broadly, pastes a false smile on her face, and says: “Doesn’t matter. Good job, everyone!”

Well, I just had to label a FedEx truck as a bus to make it through a captcha verification.

After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...

I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners.

The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.

Please spread the word! 🍗

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You would think! But no, they just *have* to step all over the little guy.

GTK

(and also they don’t really care to try)

if there is one sad truism about online it is despite any reassurances they may give u companies are simply unable to protect anything you give them

"just upload a scanned image of your drivers license no big deal"

No spoilers!!

Seriously, I owe some apologies to the authors of several books I didn’t finish because the sociopolitical worldbuilding was “too unrealistic.”

Look, I don’t know who the showrunner is for this season of Reality but let’s try to have *some* standards for worldbuilding, please!

Sadly, it’s where my academic community ended up post-Twitter. The sponsored posts are very painful.

Another call for sources: I'm reporting on pediatric Covid vaccine access. If you've had trouble finding pediatric doses in stock, or if your child was turned away, I'd love to hear from you: maggie.astor@nytimes.com.

Thanks to those who replied to my pregnancy callout; that story will be out soon.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy. Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

The Public Scholar A Practical Handbook

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook.

"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

That would be the logical inference if they were making logical decisions, but COVID is the more dangerous virus. Authorities worldwide are just committed to “moving past it,” regardless of the facts.

One reason participation has rebounded since then is because leaders at every level of football, from Pop Warner to the N.F.L., have tried to address worries by teaching tackling techniques to reduce head hits, treating concussions more proactively and introducing new equipment designed to reduce the impact of blows to the head. Leagues have also promoted flag football as a safer alternative.

There is a paucity of good evidence suggesting that these interventions reduce substantially the risks of neuropathology that attend participation in a collision sport like American tackle football.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

Youth sports & public health: framing risks of mild traumatic brain injury in american football and ice hockey - PubMed The framing of the risks of experiencing mild traumatic brain injury in American football and ice hockey has an enormous impact in defining the scope of the problem and the remedies that are prioritiz...

In which we discuss how the tackle football and ice hockey industries shift the relevant risk frames from an activity in which substantial risk inheres to one in which individual players and families are responsible for managing those risks.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25264090/

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And don’t wait for them to start hacking up a lung! People can spread airborne diseases like COVID and flu *before* they start showing symptoms.

Honestly, I don’t need anybody to tell me I should buy the next @marthawells.com book, whatever it may be. (I haven’t since I first discovered her work through a @kateelliottsff.bsky.social blog way back before Murderbot.)

But if *you* need convincing this really is a great review.

Too often, health insurance directories are inaccurate, despite ability to easily schedule appointments constituting a critical determinant of health. For in-depth scholarly attention to this, read @simonfhaeder.bsky.social & Abigail Burman's 2022 piece in JHPPL. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

As I wrote in @jhppl.bsky.social (read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...) and in my forthcoming book (pre-order it now! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...), prior authorization is a big source of administrative burden in health care. If AI tools yield wrongful denials, this will hurt patients & doctors.

Oh, that’s a service that exists! Granted, it’s just me picking them up and then eating everything before I can get them home, so geographic coverage is limited—but if you’re in our service area I’m happy to help! 😂

Join us and learn how the science of human factors can be used to provide practical, evidence-based strategies that strengthen resilience and enhance the teamwork and communication needed to build high-functioning teams even during times of uncertainty.

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There’s nothing like an implacable deadline for making the impossible happen anyway… 😅

Hurray! 😄

Ruin a book with a car:

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyder

Ruin a book with a car:

Master and Jeep Commander