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Addendum: ok but yea, tv theme songs were genuinely higher quality in previous generations. Unsure what’s happened since then, but things ain’t been right for at least a decade

Aging is noticing tv shows and songs today, on average, just aren’t as good as they were 20-30 years ago. Growth is accepting that most of those back then were crap, too

i think some in econ may not realise that there are international students, junior faculty, and other working economists who are scared to go in to work in chicago right now because of ICE. don't assume all is well because of your own narrow social circle. & ICE is now picking people up in evanston.

On net, we might be better off without it. It’s a shame terrible people want to do terrible things with ostensibly productivity-enhancing things. I just like to use a little LLM to speed up my coding, as a treat. Meanwhile, Mecha Hitler, so now I have to rage against the machines

I think this is right. As someone who’s used it a lot/frequently trapped in Discourse, my experience

1.) Pretty helpful with (quant) research. More useful than doomers admit

2.) Not nearly as revolutionary as proponents push

3.) Many who find it useful greatly underestimate terrifying downsides

Ngl kinda hard to find concern with possible lead in my protein shakes when I’m propped up by so much coffee and energy drinks these days

Imma get this job market paper out and hit my bench PR one way or another, but know that my heart exploded in the process

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO D'Angelo - Brown Sugar

Still hits 😞

youtu.be/H_WzjiTzZBA?...

Yep! She does that, too. So many nights i wake up freezing and don’t know why smh

Happy to have this paper with @loismiller.bsky.social @camilantmorales.bsky.social and Kalena Cortes accepted at Econ of Ed Review!

And honored it will be in the special issue in memory of Rodney Andrews. ❤️

PhD is going well btw

Finally ready to admit that no one in my household knows how to change the air conditioner from Celsius to Fahrenheit but my cat. Her best friend is a carrot

Maybe it’s an aging thing, but man is it nice when the band you want to see is the opener. Easier parking, usually can get a good spot not too far from the stage, often can meet the band afterwards, and can get out before the end of show rush/before too late. What a concept!

Or can people with money/their families pay for obituaries? Fine! Do I really need that alert sent to my phone tho. Let’s maybe revisit what should constitute “breaking news”

Not to be crass or disrespectful, but I continue to be baffled by whose passing the NYT chooses to highlight with “Breaking News” alerts. Multiple times a week, I find myself going “Who that?”

(Maybe it’s a cohort thing? Boomers might be losing their minds when a regional food emperor dies at 100)

Kinda why I’m skeptical when people use “People of color” in certain contexts. Too often it’s a lazy rhetorical device used to mask heterogeneity/lay claims that wouldn’t pass the slightest bit of scrutiny. Not even all Black people are the same! So you def can’t lump everyone “non White” together

A screenshot from a Politico tweet saying “Black Americans and young voters helped Trump win in 2024. Now, with joblessness rising, they’re souring on his leadership.”

Who did what now?? Don’t you put this evil on us

The Star-Spangled Banner is unquestionably gorgeous, but I’d find a new level of patriotism if our national anthem sounded like a Dies irae

YouTube video by madelvictor National Anthem of Azerbaijan | "Azərbaycan Marşı" | Lyrics w/ English Translation

Real final boss-type shit, in all the best ways

youtu.be/DLaFdEMnyKE?...

Beginning my transition to being a National Anthems Guy, bc Azerbaijan’s goes way harder than it needs to

I’m always somewhat pleasantly surprised when I come across a new pop-punk band. Like huh, I thought they stopped making that vintage 15 years ago when I left high school — cool

What could possibly be so pressing

Why are you, as an Amazon Prime Video app, sending me push alert notifications?

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Aah thanks so much! That’s perfect

Oh awesome! Probably 1992 or 2004 would be ideal, but really any of the releases after 1972 would be great!

I'm looking for data from Barron's college competitiveness index (like the full thing, not just select colleges), but the government is, uh, broken, so the restricted-access data seem impossible to get rn. Any suggestions from the crowd?

Racial Residential Segregation in the United States (September 2025) - Residential segregation is a central factor in explaining socioeconomic gaps across race and ethnicity in the United States. Place of residence directly impacts access to schools, j...

“Racial Residential Segregation in the United States”
by Trevon D. Logan and John M. Parman
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

They got me again: went to a talk for a really cool sounding labor paper, and it’s just macro models all over the place. Charlie Brown and that football ain’t got nothing on me

The administration is trying to aggressively escalate its coercive power over the American people.

One tweet says “How many centrist professors are there though? Can’t be many these days” And another tweet responds “Zero. There are exactly zero”

When you definitely know zero (economics) professors