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ashish arora
@ashisharora.bsky.social
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economics, innovation, and random stuff https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/ashish-arora

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ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 4d
never had that good fortune :)

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 4d
Reporting today from warzone Chicago, where a procession of chattering toddlers in raincoats and rainboots hooked up to their preschool teachers by a cord just tramped past the window beside my desk
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ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 5d
And there are far worse examples than Canvas -- try the website of any leading Indian Bank
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Dr. Vytautas MALICE (spooky) @vytau.bsky.social · 5d
I'm about to go teach one of my tech writing classes and I want you to know I still show Craigslist as an example of efficient, usable, and user-centered, design. I compare it to the dashboard of Canvas (our LMS) which is graphics-forward and bloated. The lesson is (usually) learned.
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ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 5d
this time it will be different because, you know ...

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Dr. Vytautas MALICE (spooky) @vytau.bsky.social · 5d
I'm about to go teach one of my tech writing classes and I want you to know I still show Craigslist as an example of efficient, usable, and user-centered, design. I compare it to the dashboard of Canvas (our LMS) which is graphics-forward and bloated. The lesson is (usually) learned.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 5d
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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 6d
The rain has soaked through everything. Your socks just sprouted a mushroom. You haven't smelled decent BBQ since your last night in Texas, before mustering. Suddenly, a metallic creak echoes through the fog. They were coming again. The naked cyclists. "Just four weeks a year," you mutter.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 5d
So everyone on the right so upset about the political violence of Charlie Kirk’s murder (even before we knew the facts) is going to speak out loudly and clearly about this too, right?
Judge Diane Goodstein’s home burns to ground after ruling against Trump
Judge Diane Goodstein's husband was among those injured after he jumped from the burning house.
www.newsweek.com
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d
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IG newberlinlibrary
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6d
Some news: Psyched to announce that I'm joining @thebulwark.com as economics editor next month.
I'm currently still on mat leave, but will return to co-hosting @theweekendprime.bsky.social as well soon.

crampell.substack.com/p/nu-news
Nu, News
I'm joining The Bulwark as Economics Editor.
crampell.substack.com
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.
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Paula Schaap @redsonja.bsky.social · 11d
Because don't we all want to Excel in inaccuracy!
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11d
WTF.

Why would any business want to give this tool to employees?

Why would Microsoft sabotage its customers this way?
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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 11d
Also, this
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12d
The left-wing violence is out of control
Mormon church gunman was Marine 'who supported Trump'
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ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 12d
I suspect they are not. The gap between "do as I say and not as I do" exists there too
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ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 12d
A dogged poster!
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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 12d
not sure what language this is, i’ll try to find out as soon as i’ve posted this letter, reaching my fingers through as far as possible to ensure a precise delivery
a small sign above a front door letterbox reads “CHIEN LUNATIQUE”
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ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 12d
I suspect libraries will have to pay more for CRSP data. Standard PE play - increase price till elastic portion of demand
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12d
This is a great example a democratic politicians office doing internet well.

This is just an example and not an endorsement of the politician
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12d
1. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone.

Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.
Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire
A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary
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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 12d
not sure what language this is, i’ll try to find out as soon as i’ve posted this letter, reaching my fingers through as far as possible to ensure a precise delivery
a small sign above a front door letterbox reads “CHIEN LUNATIQUE”
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Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social · 12d
More breaking news: We will be conducting weekly youth training throughout the winter, starting on 11th October and running until May 2026. More details soon.
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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 13d
So exhausting..
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d
Thune: "We've got a big harvest coming in here in South Dakota, corn and soybeans, and no place to go with it ... we are looking at potential solutions to make sure we can help support farmers until some of those markets come back."
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 13d
Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:

Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial

100%
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 17d
NEW: Alex Weatherhead had been working at Asheville's Wicked Weed for two years to the day when he was pulled off the brewhouse floor and canned by an HR person over Zoom for posts on his personal Facebook page that he was told "celebrat[ed] violence" in violation of A-B's social-media policy.
Anheuser-Busch fired a brewer for posting about Charlie Kirk
At the macrobrewer's non-union Wicked Weed subsidiary, a hard lesson on labor vulnerability under Trump
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ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 17d
Two interpretations - Stats BA cancelled, Stats BS not. OR, Stats BA is Bovine Excrement?
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TProphet @tprophet.org · 18d
12/ My guess is that this is one giant colossal fuck-up. This sort of thing would have been a potential intelligence gold mine. Instead, it was loudly and publicly busted up. Why? My bet is "Keystone Cops" (no surprise, the federal government seems to have fired everyone competent).
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The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 18d
Lawsuit alleges trooper misrepresented evidence, resulting in a Pitt County man being charged with assault on a government official and other crimes.
NC man says trooper hit, falsely arrested him after epileptic seizure
Lawsuit alleges trooper misrepresented evidence, resulting in a Pitt County man being charged with assault on a government official and other crimes.
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ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 19d
statistics is paused?
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 23d
“Paused” majors at Syracuse include Classics, Modern Jewish Studies, and Religion, as well as French, German, Italian, Russian
The following eighteen majors were put on “pause”: African American Studies Applied Mathematics B.A. Chemistry B.A. Classical Civilization Classics (Greek and Latin) Digital Humanities Fine Arts French and Francophone Studies German Language, Literature, and Culture B.A. History of Architecture Italian Language, Literature, and Culture B.A. Latino-Latin American Studies Middle Eastern Studies Modern Jewish Studies Music History and Cultures Religion Russian Language, Literature, and Culture B.A. Statistics B.A.
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