Dave Vanness

What you said makes sense.

Across all the major outlets — NYT, WSJ, WaPo, LAT, CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, NBC, CNBC, NPR, Bloomberg — the only outlet without a No Kings story on its home page is CBS News.

For every other outlet, it's near the top. Even Fox News is running with "Nationwide unrest looms as thousands mobilize"

This seems problematic:

From 2003-2006, we were foster parents for a rescue cockatoo (Bogey). He and a local hen turkey had an unrequited love affair over several months. The turkey would sit right outside the patio door next to Bogey's cage and make soft gobble sounds. Bogey would sit next to her for about an hour a day.

As Trump’s Federal Hiring Freeze Expires, He Puts New Restrictions in Place

More Trump politicization of civil service hiring: "while there’s a hiring freeze for regular competitive service positions, political appointees at each agency can hire people who are ideologically in line with Donald Trump’s political agenda.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Former NIH leaders lament ‘constant chaos’ at the agency, and caution it’s not over “It's been like living in a washing machine, it's been constant chaos,” former NIH official Jeremy Berg said at the #STATSummit

“I get asked this constantly: When will we start rebuilding? I don’t think we can know until we know the full extent of the destruction. There’s no reason to think we’ve bottomed out,” said Eric Green, who was forced to retire in March as director at the National Human Genome Research Institute.”

Bring back GAUSS.

IYKYK

The latest #UIClaims show much higher continued unemployment insurance claims for federal workers, up 156% for the week ending October 4—compared to the same week last year. The growth this year are due to federal layoffs, exacerbated this month by workers leaving federal payrolls and the shutdown.

Pretty sure that ain't acyclical.

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OK, so when the AI bubble pops, who's gonna get bailed out and who's going to do the bailing?

This is so helpful. I've got to tag this and take some time to digest. Thank you!!

Sorry - I'm replying to you in two subthreads. Please see my other question re: rentals vs. purchase.

Wait, doesn't "mostly made up of rentals of Nvidia GPUs" imply that the chips are rented and not purchased? How can a rental be capital expenditures? (Sorry if I'm being dense - I'm an economist, not an accountant)

Wow. Accounting is broken.

Tech finance is mystifying to me. Isn't investment in chips part of COGS? What costs would be included to get to the net margin?

Is a gross margin of 16% not good? What are the other costs in play here?

Congratulations to our colleague @mirandayaver.bsky.social for being named one of the @academyhealth.bsky.social Champions for Health Services & Prevention Research! Well deserved!

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This is a criminally underappreciated skeet.

I can already yell at my computer

We learned about this from our research participants and now a team member has written a paper on it. We are excited to share it. @sabrinacluesman.bsky.social Check it out rdcu.be/eKRF0

"Douchebag" has to be one of the nodes.

I have a new correlation ≠ causation example, y'all.

I'm a nodder. You're welcome, everyone.

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

A new paper in the Lancet finds that doctors got *worse* at finding precancerous growths during colonoscopies on their own if they had just spent three months using an AI assistive tool

Worrisome sign that deskilling may happen a lot faster than we'd expect.

Will I get a good income out of doing a PhD? Of course not.

But will I at least also find a stable job that allows me to pursue my research? Also no.

But will I at least be happy doing what I like? Hahaha also no.

Sounds like a terrible career. Where can I find the application?