Drew Moxon

If he has so little power over the FBI, couldn't they just ignore him when he tells them to reassign agents to immigration cases instead of violent crime and drug trafficking? It's like Shrodinger's unitary executive here.

Something new to obfuscate/price into MBS, how fun!

Even if you're anti-immigration, I fundamentally don't see how this is a good thing. It's already been shown that 70 US citizens were deported in the last few months. This strips protections from all, in violation of the Constitution.

Also implies the existence of supporting economists.

If we're worried about things costing $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how much is that tariff policy costing, eh?

That's fair. My thinking is that even *if* they do what they say it will have second order negative effects. Setting aside that what the West needs in order to build more housing isn't MORE LAND.

Not that there's any analysis behind this policy whatsoever but I would also be interested to see the effects on agricultural land values. Some public land in the West is very close to ag land and building housing nearby tends to lower ag land values...

This strikes me as something that might have a shot when it (inevitably) reaches the Supreme Court if only because tribal rights is one of the few things Gorsuch reviews logically.

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As a former CZI employee, this feels like the right story. There were and I'm sure there still are a lot of great people there trying to do good work. But the ties to FB are a ball and chain and Mark was never the person for this job.

Also very curious that they always talk about the increase in assaults, but not assault *rates* (even ignoring what definition they're using for assault). Would love to see what the change in volume of ICE interactions is.

It would be interesting to know if they've researched the Rabbit to see if they've learned from the use cases/functional feedback.

AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation, with confidence intervals ruling out effects larger than 1%.

www.nber.org/papers/w33777

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I'm not having great feelings about the future of the Fed after this ruling.

That's a different case - that case has been in court for a month and finally got it blocked for now. Harvard is going to have to sue separately.

Logging off for the day. Honestly this morning's news implications are a bit to process.

An additional red flag I noticed over the weekend: I've never seen a DHS vehicle while living in Silicon Valley. This weekend I saw two, on separate occasions while going over the San Mateo bridge. Both unmarked, no lights on at night, only identifiable by the license plate. 🚩

One way AI changes my workflow is that it points me down some helpful rabbit holes. I inherently don't trust AI answers so I ask a question & research the answers it gives. They're not always right (& often wrong in some domains) but they often give me a lead I might not have otherwise thought of.

Could be worse. You could be having politicians using AI to fake your endorsement for their campaign. Oh wait... 😱

From Midnight to daylight.

Is that what the woke mind virus is? I've been wondering.

I suspect part of it is the initial skill set. Lawyers, people in campaign infrastructure, and business leaders need to be able to win a room and engage in the political winds. That's not to say that SWE couldn't gain those skills, but it's not something they've necessarily trained for.

My profile pic is 6 years old. I don't think I know how anymore 😂.

Just saw the selfies people are posting from their recent camera roll and realized it's been almost 4 years since I've taken a selfie.

That makes sense. As an untenured professor, it seems even less possible. I wonder if that's an argument for making more depts have an extension program? Having worked at a land grant extension school, if you're in one of the depts that does extension work public outreach can be part of the job.

Out of curiosity, what size grants are helpful in scicomm and for what type of projects? Is it mostly for conference/public comms travel and paid time for making media? Other areas that are more resource intensive?

If you've done survey work, you realize that the survey design is the hard part. And so is the ego hit when you spent a ton of time on it, get the results back and realize there were still 10 things you missed. Good for that humility reflex.

Just want to point out that Brian May, Greg Graffin, Sterling Morrison, and Dexter Holland all got PhDs after they became stars so it's a very rock and roll thing to do. 🤘