James Fallows Tierney

Just had an intrusive thought of Will Ferrell as Robert Goulet singing Pink Pony Club

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

This is asmr

This is an important problem: in an age of LLMs, how do you get people to develop the subject matter expertise in the first place if it feels possible to shortcut it? Same problem as how do you train up the junior lawyers who are going to have to learn how to write

Just had an intrusive thought of Will Ferrell as Robert Goulet singing Pink Pony Club

again, understanding the government as the information collector of last resort brings a lot of other political economy issues into sharp relief

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

Fixing the housing problem requires thinking about the multiple roles we use property for as a society

Woman on beach staring at giant wave (tsunami?)

Feeling this hard today. #AcademicSky

“Oh I can’t give you the final manuscript but I can give you the pdf that reflects almost all of the final manuscript”

I can’t tell you how much I love this for you

Off color brewing’s can of “Beer for Lounging.” Which has a mouse sleeping on the back of a peaceful as fuck capybara

Can check #capybara

This is not going away.

I am not a New Yorker.

But have seen a lot of political aspirants over the decades.

Mamdani has "it."

Is River Visual 19 approach at DCA bucket list or unattainable so why bother

A new Westlaw feature: Cases+!

Real cases enhanced with the things you wish they said by cutting edge AI!

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate is set to vote as soon as Tuesday evening to confirm former Trump lawyer Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge despite vocal Democratic opposition and a new whistleblower complaint against him. The whistleblower provided Congress with an audio recording of Bove that runs contrary to some of his testimony at his confirmation hearing last month, according to two people familiar with the recording. The audio is from a private video conference call at the Department of Justice in February in which Bove, a top official at the department, discussed his handling of the dismissed corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to transcribed quotes from the audio reviewed by The Associated Press.

Lordy, there are tapes

Honestly, in what world would there not be tapes from DC, a one party consent JX

I am delighted to share our new #PNAS paper, with @grvkamath.bsky.social @msonderegger.bsky.social and @sivareddyg.bsky.social, on whether age matters for the adoption of new meanings. That is, as words change meaning, does the rate of adoption vary across generations? www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

a man in a suit says " c'mon man " ALT: a man in a suit says " c'mon man "

Upper Deck.

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Little Bobby IFL, we call him.

First pic looks like a fugazi album cover

UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures” “The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.

Sad to see that the troubles in higher education are extending to my old haunt UChicago.

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Obama giving Obama a medal

tfw you read your old briefing to prep for oral argument and you come across a zinger that still zings

I had an opposition to an amicus brief that was like “your honors he has been allowed to cook for longer than anyone expected”

Me in reply: “I expected it”

The only plausible use case here is having an LLM redo a dictation from you; trying to have it come up with the arguments you’d otherwise make is, in my experience, useless