Mark Manger

Why the heck do I get so many cat pictures in “Discover.” I’m not a cat person.

Group 1 consists of some who believe that it’s fine if everyone is very progressive because they’re fighting a battle, and others who think that academics are just a bit to the left of most voters and that it isn’t a problem. The latter have no idea what voters really think.

Regressionsschichtbruchansatz

@epsanet.bsky.social Excellent conference at Carlos III, but to whoever decided on the numbering of the rooms: the whole point of integers is that they’re consecutive in an agreed upon order

Military Keynesianism! If only there were enough young Germans to make this work…

Even America can’t do without Microsoft products, and they at least have the software industry to develop alternatives in principle. The uni forces them down our throats almost.

Nothing that a carbon tax can’t solve

“The Coming War with Japan” can now be had used for $1.60 on Amazon… things shall pass

… and that’s before they realize that they’d have to take a 30-40% pay cut

Chance verpasst: „Bundeswehr setzt auf neue Wunderwaffe gegen Putins Super-Rakete“ hätte noch mehr historische Resonanz gehabt 😆

I suspect this is driven by TikTok. I reset my feed twice a while ago and first I got alpaca clips, and then capybaras the second time. Why, I still don’t know…

Ok but why did it take until 2025? Two winters on the tarmac in Toronto aren’t great for a plane

Das ist in den USA und Kanada auch völlig normal. Manchmal aus banalen Gründen wie „die Kommission konnte sich nicht entscheiden.“

PostmodernBERT… purely intersubjective embeddings

Ich saß mal in einem Theoretischen Seminar bei einer Zentralbank und dachte genau das: für jede/n hier neben mir gibt es eine/n der ganz weit weg vom Durchschnitt ist, aber in die falsche Richtung

Und wenn das Ministerium jetzt ein Sonderprogramm auflegt, dann könnten ca. 2032 noch ein oder zwei neue Lehrstühle geschaffen werden, also zum Ende der ersten Amtszeit von Trump Jr…

Reminder that US imports are only ~13% of the global total and that this isn’t the end of the world unless you’re in the US (or right next door)

Last time they tried that, the tanks were over engineered and wouldn’t start when it was -40C in the Russian steppe

As I just discovered, 30-40% of Canadian exporters didn’t use the USMCA tariffs because of the paperwork. I guess the utilization rate will go up now?

Apparently there are no tariffs on goods that have a tariff line covered by the USMCA and that comply with the rules of origin?

If you ever change your research focus because you’re bored by it, you’ll be treated to a decade of review requests on things to thought you’d left behind

And also not great at communicating. But at least you're likely to be able to enter the country before you step on the plane.

I really hope that nobody complains about APSA being held in Vancouver this year as opposed to somewhere in the US.

I’ll admit that when my son was six and we made our group chat for the soccer parents, we accidentally added the President of a third division Spanish club but he thought it was very funny

Sadly there’s no chance in hell they’ll address the biggest issue - dairy supply management - because their majority in parliament depends on it

At a Testament show in December I had to help a guy up who had dropped something, but not because he was drunk

Wenn man eine Beamtenpension bekommt, da zählt die Zeit plötzlich, als ob man noch ein ganzes Jahr länger gearbeitet hätte. Könnte man auch auf alle Renten ausdehnen.

You need a better union!

… but you have to read them closely in case the typesetter turns “inverse mills ratio (IMR)” into “infant mortality ratio”.

Nine months from acceptance to proofs. Proofs arrive on Saturday afternoon with a 48h expected turnaround by the authors. Academic publishing is just strange.