Kevin Reuning

I don't believe that I'd be able to enter the US currently if I was not s US citizen

Eileen Higgins will win Miami mayor’s race, CNN projects, breaking a nearly 30-year GOP hold | CNN Politics Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the city of Miami, according to a projection from CNN’s Decision Desk, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak in holding the nonpartisan seat and giving D...

Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the city of Miami, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak, CNN projects

Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research Three conservative groups have proposed model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority

>The governing board of a public university “shall establish an Excellence in Americanism and Western Civilization teaching tenure pathway”

This is an inversion of tenure. Not protection to teach what your field says is important but instead an incentive from the state to teach what the state wants

The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

Ah it has everything, even an executive incorrectly forwarding an email to a journalist.

So far this video is also great because it clearly lays out a way they are testing this.

It isn't and in a normal world would lead to congressional hearings.

Dozens of vulture carcasses—at least some and probably all infected with HPAI—were reportedly left strewn about the grounds of an elementary school for days while bureaucrats wrangled over who would clean up the site, illustrating what appears to be a huge crisis of state and local capacity in Ohio.

The Labor Market for Teachers under Different Pay Schemes (August 2021) - Compensation of most US public school teachers is rigid and solely based on seniority. This paper studies the effects of a reform that gave school districts in Wisconsin full autonomy ...

The Biasi paper it cites at the end seems like a much more persuasive argument. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Am I right? Who knows. But it seems just as reasonable as students responding to the details of Act 10.

The basic assumption in the paper is that students learned they could now negotiate for better pay as teacher because of Act 10 and so decided to enroll in education majors.

Alternative: Students saw the protests around Act 10 and decided that education careers were important?

I was grabbed by the claim here that Act 10 improved the quality of teachers so looked up the cite (attached). It is a Diff-in-Diff that shows that a few years after Act 10 the number of teaching degrees awarded in WI schools increased. This seems like a wild way to measure "quality of teaching"

Amazon’s new Alexa aims to detangle household chaos, like who fed the dog and the name of that restaurant everyone wanted to try | Fortune This is a “classic fight in my house,” said Panos Panay, SVP of devices and services at Amazon.

Constant surveillance and in return you don’t have to communicate with your family.

American Preference Changes from 2016 to 2024 – Kevin Reuning

I used the panel release from the @electionstudies.bsky.social to look at how votes and views have changed across the 2016, 2020, and 2024 election. There isn't a lot of analysis here but there are lots of plots and data.

Liberal positions seem to be more consistently held (sort of)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Praises AOC, Calls Republicans Who Voted for Biden Plan ‘Traitors’

Has anyone asked MTG how she feels about her own history of calling people traitors?

Barely won one election at that.

It’s day 26 of the Starbucks strike. These workers are NOT backing down. No contract, No Starbucks!

1.59 American employee quit their job for each employee fired by their boss in Oct, lowest level since Jan 2018 outside pandemic

This #LaborLeverageRatio proxies for employee bargaining power in jobs cuz workers ⬆️ quits when their outside options improve & bosses ⬆️ firings when theirs do

no. I don't believe you. we cannot have strayed this far.

But why?

Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal ...

Meta Ray Bans are the official glasses of immigration raids. www.404media.co/border-patro...

"dark and sinister forces" lol. Is Morgoth demanding free trade?

🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨

I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions.

Link and more information in second post.

Position Start: Fall 2026
Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️

And if you boil down their results you get that men who use LLMs use them more than women who use LLMs and also think they are a more effective tool.

In their defense they also did a survey, but for some reason they only surveyed self identified "LLM users" and then look at variation within those users.

There is a lot that is necessary to move between "more published papers post ChatGPT launch" and "LLMs make you more productive"

It is interesting (derogatory) that productivity is operationalized as "uploading to preprint servers"

99 days without a contract time to get serious

Mayor Rybak Crowd Surfs At Trampled By Turtles Concert On the same day as his State of the City address, Mayor R.T. Rybak hopped into the hands of concert-goers and crowd surfed.

Reminds me of a previous mayor of MSP crowd surfing at a Trampled by Turtles show

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