Craig Frizzell

Me to whiny baby drivers who complain about traffic calming: CRY HARDER!

Reading Schelling in Tehran: 1 Technically, in Doha

My class was scheduled to read Thomas Schelling this month in our course on Nuclear Weapons and World Politics. It turned out to be a current affairs course. Here's part 1 of my series on reading Schelling in this crisis.

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It can be a decent research assistant. However, I say that as a PhD who believes the primary benefit of a PhD is learning precisely how stupid (smart) you are. People don’t know what they don’t know, and you have to cross-check and verify everything. AI will not replace the benefits of liberal arts.

I have been trying out different research projects that an ambitious middle or high school social studies student might want to learn more about. It’s fascinating how it is helpful on some things and absolutely awful on others.

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anti-trans Dems ate shit last night

Orwell wept

Speeding drops where Minneapolis put up cameras to catch lead-footed drivers The city rolled out five cameras in October. More could be added this year as well as cameras to catch red-light runners.

Minneapolis speed cameras:

The number of drivers detected going 10 mph over the speed limit where cameras were placed dropped by more than 50% in the first three months after cameras went live.

This is correct. And our Constitution seems incapable of stopping it. Democrats are powerless without 2/3 of the senate to remove him and Republicans just won’t.

Lessons from the Iraq invasion for Trump's Iran war The parallels aren't perfect, but they tell us something about our domestic politics around war

Wrote a thing about the lessons of the 2003 Iraq invasion for the current situation. tl;dr, the world is a serious place and we're an increasingly unserious country goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...

While also informing him that he better respect it

I’d wear that like a badge of honor tbh

Yes, but so is waging war on the people of Minnesota. Which I consider a clear case of treason.

With Democrats like this, who needs Republicans?

I need everyone to brace themselves for the fallout of this, which is going to be dems embracing Anthropic as a #resistance corporation, and likely Open AI as well.

they're already shoving this shit down our throats, now they'll try and claim its to "own" trump.

No - National Standard wire company in Niles, Michigan; my grandfather moved from there to Aroma Park, Illinois where I was born. I have more family in Niles as Illinois, I think.

Ironically, 200 years later the American Civil War destroyed what wealth my ancestors had built up as they moved from MD -> NC -> TN, where the Army of the Cumberland marched through and destroyed what they had. My great-grandfather ultimately moves north and that's how I ended up in IL.

I did find out recently that my great uncle (21 generations back) was Robert the Bruce. My ancestor married his sister in a deal that gave my family (Frasers) land in Aberdeenshire.

My distant grandfather fled after the Scottish Committee of Estates ordered him and the family raise money and troops after Charles I was executed. They had no money as the Marquess of Montrose destroyed the family's grain/wealth 4 years prior. He arrived in Maryland in 1649.

That's the exact best use of AI that I've found. I've used Gemini for a lot of genealogical/historical research. It's not perfect, and you should check everything, but it's been extraordinarily useful. I've basically spent the last year studying the English Civil War (and my family's place in it).

Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democratic information conglomerates. All of them.

See, what you should do is just make some large AVs, and they could take a bunch of people at once. You could cut down on traffic that way. You could connect a bunch of them together to carry more people! You could even have them go down a specific route dedicated to transit. And, like, at set times

New meta-analysis of 26 published studies concludes that AVs will lead people to use cars a lot more — which would thicken congestion and worsen pollution (even if AVs are electric).

"AV deployment is anticipated to lead to an overall increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled."

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Washington Post Headline: Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency

Donald Trump’s plan to steal the 2026 midterm elections is already underway.

I loved Phantasmagoria. Long Live Roberta Williams!

Sometimes I wonder what my motivation is at this stage in my career. And it's this. Making sure small-minded men die mad about my inclusion. And propping the door open for as many smart and kind people as I can.

Using detailed address-level microdata, we trace movement chains originating with the initial residents of The Central and document three main findings. First, we show the building generated a substantial number of local vacancies. We identify 180 specific addresses that became vacant because of moves into The Central. Scaling to account for data coverage suggests the new tower induced more than 500 local vacancies in the three years after construction, by setting off chains of moves. Second, while The Central units were expensive on a per-square-foot basis, the homes vacated by movers were significantly cheaper. Homes left behind by those moving into The Central were about 40% less expensive. Unlike much of the prior literature, which track the changing neighborhood characteristics of movers

Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby.
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a man in a suit and tie is wearing a crown and saying yeah boyy ! Alt: Flavor Flav says YEAH BOOYYYEEEE,!!!

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times.

I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾