Colin Camerer

Poll taxes were eliminated by 24A. Just sayin’

www.youtube.com How an AP photographer captured the moment Lindsey Vonn crashed in the women's downhill

How an AP photographer captured the moment Lindsey Vonn crashed in the women's downhill

An insane story. Congress denied entry.

‘’To be heard better, captives began yelling through a drainage opening at the bottom of the wall. They must be laying down on the floor to access it, says Wong. Organizers began using a listening device [pictured] to better hear their responses.”

Listen, they are medaling GOLD in the Drip Olympics.

Price floors in order “to return the global critical minerals market to a healthier, more competitive state”
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In comments: “When visiting the beautiful Canyon de Chelly in Arizona, our Navajo guide shared that when a baby first laughs, the Diné community gathers to formally welcome the child into their world. He explained that they then knew that the baby would survive. I've always loved this!”

The Coercive Acts of 1774

🧵What we are witnessing in Minnesota is not that different from what the Crown did after the Boston Tea Party.

There are so many parallels to the lead-up to the American Revolution, and Trump's extreme measures in Minnesota are right in line with what King George III did to Massachusetts.

Wow.just wow

The renamings are so stupid (eg Kennedy Center) because they‘ll all be easily reversible the moment he loses power (or even as a way for post-Trump GOP to clearly signal a transition.

2/2…the paradox is that if prices fully reveal available information, there is no incentive to gather that information.

In the prediction market case, why would journalists publish information rather than trade on it in the markets?

1/2 I love prediction markets, but I don’t think that Tarek Mansour really knows much about a likely future w more widespread markets

Eg “He foresees “a symbiosis” between journalists and markets, each feeding into the other, a new information machine”

See: Grossman-Stiglitz paradox…

“Your election partners at the FBI, DOJ, DHS, USPIS, and the EAC…”

Partners??

Trump is truly planning to contest, if not plainly rig, election outcomes. Dems may not get seated for months

@kiante.bsky.social co-oranized this!

LA artist Vargas also painted an Ohtani mural in his home town of Oshu, Japan

thelalocal.org/sports/rober...

This is a screenshot of an online newspaper headline from NC Newsline. It reads: Trump doubles down on calling for the feds to take over elections despite US Constitution"

See? You can just accurately describe what he's doing in the headline. It's possible! No need for sly wording. From @ncnewsline.com
ncnewsline.com/2026/02/03/r...

Le: “And every case I touch, I give it 100 percent. Never in my mind that one petitioner is more than the others...but it takes ten e-mails [to ICE] to get a release condition to be corrected. It take two escalations and a threat that I will walk out for that to be corrected”

19-TS of 020326 hearing - Segundo APG v. Bondi, 26-CV-603

DOJ temporary atty Julie Le: “ To get my back-home colleagues up to date that Federal Court is not the same as how Immigration Court operates, it took a long, long, long time and many orders to show cause to explain“

ICE are deliberately slow-walking releases

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits

@caltech alum Ian Krajbich (and brilliant helpers) is organizing a terrific West Coast Neuroeconomics meeting 1 May 2026

krajbichlab.github.io/WCNE/

Omg

Damn right. Funnyman Bobby Bitman was brilliant

The mask slipped:

“We too often write from one perspective, for one slice of the audience”

cancelling now

When his family was swept out to sea, boy swam and ran miles to save them Austin Appelbee is being hailed as a hero after he rescued his family. “I couldn’t feel how tired I was,” the 13-year-old said of his hours-long feat.

13yo King of Grit 2.5mi in ocean

”Austin said he decided to ditch the kayak and remove his life jacket, which were making it difficult to swim.. “Just keep swimming,” he told himself, putting happier thoughts about his family and school friends into his mind”
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

…and [many] people are bothered by loud Black girls too (Jasmine Crockett)

Not hard to figure out, sadly

A taste of America’s oldest restaurants Tom Sietsema traveled coast to coast to dine at some of the nation’s oldest restaurants, exploring their history, legacy and recipe for success.

6 long-lasting restaurants
“Customers who tried to eat without paying found themselves in the “Pekin jail.” At the sound of rapid footsteps, alert servers raced to lock the door..The owner, wielding a bayonet, gave them a choice: Pay the bill or wash dishes“

www.washingtonpost.com/food/interac...

“Am totally tricked out by Uncle Jeffrey today! Jeffrey boots, handbag, and watch!” she wrote in one email in January 2019.

Now Goldman’s General Counsel

Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.

Advanced pig-butchering:

“Attackers intentionally mention the concept of scams…as a way of inoculating themselves against suspicion. The idea is that if a person is willing to talk openly about scams…then they couldn’t be a scammer themself”

www.wired.com/story/the-re...

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👏 outstanding science news continues

My (white) dad used to love this. Thrilled to hear this great origin story.