Dan Hirschman

Remind me: when you bomb an elementary school, lure the survivors into a false sense of safety, and then bomb the survivors, leaving behind dozens and dozens of dead school children... are you the good guys?

Publish with Wiley (while you still have a job!) so we can get rich selling your shit to the companies that are zombifying your profession.

This piece starts with a vignette about an Israeli drone flying around broadcasting the message that “The architect Tarek Mazraani continues his conspiracies. Chase him. Drive him out so security returns and reconstruction begins" and then somehow manages to get MORE dystopian...

🚨 Techno-optimism reduces willingness to address climate change 🚨

In a new preprint, @maiensachis.bsky.social, @fdabl.bsky.social, and I examined the causal effect of techno-optimist beliefs on the willingness to contribute to addressing climate change.

🔗 Read the paper: lnkd.in/eE847_jK

Parents tried to shield their children from bike breaks. “Instead” they crashed.

A headline reads: Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles. (But “instead” is crossed out in red)

fixed it

The only defensible argument against the “apartheid” label is that the West Bank is not part of Israel, but a separate occupied nation. Annexation makes even that fig leaf of an argument impossible. There is literally nothing Israel can do that would make groups like the AJC acknowledge the reality.

I fall back on being a smarmy asshole as a defensive mechanism, but I really did spend a good chunk of last night heaving over the toilet almost throwing up on the verge of tears after reading about this and then checking CNN and the front page story was about the six American soldiers killed.

Every single big tech company wants a piece of the pentagon because there's a lot of money in the pentagon. That's it. Even if it's just Microsoft selling windows subscriptions to the country's largest employer (and they obviously do much more than that, and there's many more than them).

At this point, I think we have to acknowledge that "the international community" is a purely notional entity.

Seems the US military may have taken away a different lesson than some of us from Israel's use of AI in targeting in the opening days of the Gaza war in 2023.

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

A BloombergNEF chart by Jenny Chase's team, showing solar build forecasts over time for selected quarters since 2011. In 2011, we only had two-year forecasts and they were flattish at 30-40GW/year; over the years, these forecasts drift upwards and generally are lower than what actually happened. In 2021 we started doing forecasts to 2030, and they were also flattish, though also hilariously drift upwards. In 2024 we expected solar build to rise from just under 600GW, to about 850GW in 2030; as of 1Q 2026, we cut this slightly in the long run.

BNEF's forecasts for solar build over time. We drastically* underpredicted what China would deploy in 2023 and 2024, and the effect of Russia invading Ukraine in 2022.

We cut forecasts in late 2025 because the long-expected cannibalization is biting hard. But now there is a new fossil fuel squeeze.

The intro chapter of my book is now available to access for free. See link 👇🏼

Every interview I've heard with Talarico includes a variant of , "I'm a proud [white] Christian and a 8th generation Texan ..."

If influencers, pundits, and journalists can't recognize this as identity politics, it says more about their own biases than it does about a supposed "referendum."

Sign me up. Or we could use the money for, I don’t know, schools, and healthcare. Or even just the very noble cause of No More Billionaires.

Claudia Goldin is in the Q&A after this talk advocating an idea for Make America Manly Again (MAMA), & it has something to do w forcing men's greater commitment to their families but I don't totally get it, but the deep chuckle let out by the woman whose question she was answering was a real delight

Rethinking Gender and Other Seemingly Nonmanipulable Characteristics for Causal Analysis - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie Identifying the causes of social inequality is crucial for designing effective policy interventions. Experimental methods, in which variables are manipulated and participants are randomly assigned to ...

Gender as a “bundle of sticks” bhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11577-026-01054-z?utm_source=researchgate.net&utm_medium=article

As someone who has survived multiple jaw bone infections and needed several endodontic treatments for tooth infections, let me tell you that this man died in one of the most painful ways possible

They tortured him. An untreated tooth infection is torture.

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters

An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism

Ooh, I need to copy this. Sigh.

Same! What a horrifying experience; I hope you continue to do better!

It's remarkable that the national media is saying the takeaway from Talarico's win over Crockett is "Democrats are too far left" when the two of them are so ideologically similar.

It's almost as though "too far left" means "too Black."

““He [the military Commander] said that ‘President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth’”, the NCO added.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Manufacturing Dissent

GSA has endorsed this national day of action led by @standupforscience.bsky.social.

Great to see extensive NYT & FT coverage of our paper on the fossil-fuel profit bonanza during the previous war-induced oil & gas price spike. Links in Gregor’s thread. 👇

Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him. (Gift Article) Immigration demands for highway dollars, D.E.I. rules for homeless grants: how Trump has tried to wield spending to get his way.

An important piece showing that losses in court haven’t stopped Trump from seizing Congress’s spending power and targeting dissenters and “blue states.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

on this day in 1933 "the US Senate confirms Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor and she is sworn in the same day, making her the first female member of the United States Cabinet."