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Lazy people like the OP here get as far as: "I can do my current projects faster with AI and stop working hard", but somehow miss: "if people can use this tool to do more and better social science, someone else will do it" And so they get out-competed by younger, hungrier folks - the circle of life.

Agree with this, think @judah-grunstein.bsky.social should delete that post. It will not age well.

What evidence is there for Biden having dementia other than George Clooney claiming he wasn't recognized, and Olivia Nuzzi writing a bad-faith hitpiece while sexting wtih Biden's opponent?

Job security for Schmidt - reality finally made him end his run of articles predicting Harvard would fold any day now. Now he can be on the "law firms about to fold" beat.

Yes, understood. Was just saying it would take more to restore that system than a title because the system died before the titles did, at least in Europe.

If Graham Platner were somehow elected, that would make two.

Hasn't aristocratic military service not been a thing since WWI, though? When they realized the costs were more than they wanted to bear.

And it's far cheaper to build backup switchyards than backup power plants.

If AI is really a tool for social science, then what may happen is what happened in other fields: the younger scientists master new tools and boost their ability to answer deep and interesting questions, while the older scientists are prematurely pushed aside, unable to keep up and contribute. 3/

What happened in those fields was that the old papers were no longer sufficient. People could do more, so they had to do more, so they did do more, and the field moved forward. Sure, choosing to publish the same papers and put no thought into them would kill the field. But that would be a choice. 2/

This argument makes no sense: that AI helps in creating surveys and analyzing data, so social science is dead, since "the cost of generating research drops to near zero." But astronomy didn't die when researchers no longer had to grind lenses. PCR didn't kill biology. New tools allowed MORE work. 1/

Unethical ghostwriting by industry execs is a problem only in the medical literature. This is not an issue for science in general.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Bouie is an incredible writer - incisive and clear. One of the few decent reasons for having an op-ed page at all.

Big question: did the pod save guys or other DC consultants know Platner when he was working in DC?

The origin story is that he was recruited in summer 2025 based on a video someone saw. But he registered his campaign domain in 2023, so this was a long time in the works.

Just noting that's the second major error now in the profile of Platner the New Yorker put out last summer. They didn't check the domain registration either, and swore that the campaign started in summer 2025. That article seems entirely un-fact-checked.

Oh! The first archive of the site was in Aug. 2025, and I stupidly never checked the domain registration, just assumed it was recent. Big error.

He was making videos about Frenchman's Bay in 2020-2022; supposedly the recruiters saw him in them. That'd be consistent with first scouting in 2023.

I was curious too, which is why I started looking. Platner was pulled from obscurity and handed a fully formed campaign team, which isn't normal. And the people who recruited him are still anonymous. Would guess that they were just over-enthusiastic Dem pundits who didn't vet him, but we can't tell.

Thanks for the context. On the timing, Platner himself told the press he was recruited out of the blue in summer 2025 and given only weeks to decide if he was in or out for the race. He announced in August. Was that story false? It seemed consistent with other people's stories.

can the non-academic spending (upper L panel) imply that there is a set fixed cost that must be spent regardless of size? In that case it would be useful to plot the absolute non-academic spending vs. FTEs and see if it asymptotes.

People have to call Brandon Straka out as more than just a "convicted rioter" - he was one of the first people tapped for Ali Alexander's Stop the Steal effort, the day after the 2020 election.

Enrique still has time to go enlist if he hurries.

The first Dem to declare in the Maine Senate race was 36-year old progressive Jordan Wood; where was the support for him when he needed it? "Progressives" rushed to Platner then made him quit the race and run for Congress instead. People had their chance for youth and wasted it.
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Brandon Straka is more than just a Jan 6 "rioter", he was a major Jan 6 propagandist, one of the core members of Ali Alexander's Stop the Steal operation recruited the day after the election. (Also Straka was convicted for his actions at the Capitol; that's worth mentioning.)

Update: disinformation researchers are also concluding that there is an ongoing astroturfed effort to push for Pahlavi, whose supporters stormed the US Capitol on Jan 6.

In so many ways, what we saw at the Capitol then is still playing out. Jan 6 was a waystation that brought us to today. 5/

Update: disinformation researchers are also concluding that there is an ongoing astroturfed effort to push for Pahlavi, whose supporters stormed the US Capitol on Jan 6.

In so many ways, what we saw at the Capitol then is still playing out. Jan 6 was a waystation that brought us to today. 5/

It also supports Russia, which was getting killed by low oil prices, economy near collapse. Trump just threw Russia an accidental lifeline that lets them continue their war against Ukraine longer.

The job of an op-ed page is to provide content that your paying subscribers are interested in reading. And they're telling you, they're not interested in being lied to.

Why do media outlets piously claim it's their duty to force on readers bad opinions they don't share? We're the customers.

Yes maybe Schumer should have thrown his support behind Jordan Wood, that is something that should be talked about, after the election.