Ben Schneider

Can we not take counsel with chatbots as we once did?

Signs of spring: the unforgettable smell of klister 🥲

They’re calling it The Art of the Deal

The NFF is an oddity in world football: it is a genuinely democratic emanation of its football. Should those motions be passed (which is likely), its president Lise Klaveness will be duty-bound to espouse them and confront Fifa - as she has done before.

More NFFs = no Infantino, simple as that.

And this is how unaccountable destruction is repeated. As soon as we can see the negative effects, it’s too late and nobody is interested in why things went wrong!

Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning* Abstract. This article analyses the elimination of hand-spinning in Britain during the Industrial Revolution and shows that it produced large-scale technol

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The flip side is that if one refuses to engage with counterfactuals, everything that happens is inevitable, the historian has nothing to explain, and can’t make any claims about causality.

The question of contingent work more generally is only partly related and more difficult to solve, including for reasons you mention.

The biggest funders are public bodies, and I would argue the current state of affairs is a clear policy failure: huge amounts of time input by applicants—but also administration and referees. Is there any evidence of an “increase in quality” that would justify these resources? I doubt it.

I don’t disagree on this, but I would put the onus on funders to improve their systems instead of applicants to give up their dream careers.

I guess I’m just reluctant to accept the initial framing (even though I myself have felt that way about some job and funding applications) because the system is set up to produce these outcomes.

Not women’s speed skating?

Did the applicants waste their time, or did the funding bodies set up a system to waste it?

A subtle Swedish commentary on ammunisjonsdumpingene i innsjøen? 🤔

You absolutely love to see it

🇸🇪 takes 🥇 and 🥈 in the 10k and all NRK wants to talk about is whether Klæbo gave tips to Karlsson 🙄🙄🙄

Not an economist but:

There was lots of stockpiling before
There has probably been a modest inflationary effect
There is some evidence of reduced investment and hiring

BenO! 🥈 🇺🇸

First American man to win an XC medal since Bill Koch (1976) 🙌

Do you know the muffle man?

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Become the head coach of the men’s basketball team and have a losing season?

Best return journey from a conference: Dovrebanen i vinterdrakt

My two favorite figures from yesterday courtesy of @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social: the growth of Norwegian names during rising nationalism in the 19th century, and the spike in «Håkon» and «Olav» after the accession of King Håkon VII in 1905

Blåføre i Trondheim med -15C til De Fjerde Norske Vinterlekene i Økonomiske Historie 😍

You say this, but if the Democrats win back Congress in November and then the presidency in 2028, people will say we were overreacting and none of that we are seeing now happened.

Snow is nature's urban planner: It can show us what parts of the roadway drivers don't use — and what can be reclaimed for pedestrians.

Post your photos and videos of all the #sneckdowns you see and tag us and @mayor.nyc.gov so today's winter wonderland can inspire better streets year-round!

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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Who expects this, @the-independent.com? Only the most credulous morons alive.