Matt Darling
@besttrousers.bsky.social
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thankful the BLS is back!
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
thankful the BLS is back!
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
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God this is so depressing given the political response to it
"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
God this is so depressing given the political response to it
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sometimes you just need to take a step back and marvel at the absurdity that is the left-NIMBY mindset
these are not normal, rational people. they have descended into a bespoke form of madness
these are not normal, rational people. they have descended into a bespoke form of madness
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
sometimes you just need to take a step back and marvel at the absurdity that is the left-NIMBY mindset
these are not normal, rational people. they have descended into a bespoke form of madness
these are not normal, rational people. they have descended into a bespoke form of madness
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Please stop blaming on trade the things (or putative things like the $140k number) that are pretty much entirely the fault of America’s terrible nontradeable sectors. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Please stop blaming on trade the things (or putative things like the $140k number) that are pretty much entirely the fault of America’s terrible nontradeable sectors. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
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A lotta y’all still don’t get it.
Flask holders can use multiple Django’s on a single datasette.
So if you have one datasette and three Django’s you can create three new Flasks.
Flask holders can use multiple Django’s on a single datasette.
So if you have one datasette and three Django’s you can create three new Flasks.
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A lotta y’all still don’t get it.
Flask holders can use multiple Django’s on a single datasette.
So if you have one datasette and three Django’s you can create three new Flasks.
Flask holders can use multiple Django’s on a single datasette.
So if you have one datasette and three Django’s you can create three new Flasks.
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Why impact evaluations are so important: not everything that sounds like a good policy actually has the desired impact. While many interventions are highly effective, others don't work at all:
Examining the One Laptop Per Child program in Peruvian rural primary schools finds no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative ones on grade progression, from Cueto, Beuermann, Cristia, Malamud, and Pardo www.nber.org/papers/w34495
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Why impact evaluations are so important: not everything that sounds like a good policy actually has the desired impact. While many interventions are highly effective, others don't work at all:
I am a world renowned expert in measures of central tendency and this is accurate.
It’s a big, big country, and while “living in NYC” is the modal experience, it is very, very far from the average experience
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I am a world renowned expert in measures of central tendency and this is accurate.
Incredibly thin connection.
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Incredibly thin connection.
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It's good though because it distracts the author from what has been his main crusade — persuading the world that index funds are evil www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2e5u...
Why Michael Green Is Known as the Cassandra of Passive Investing
For the better part of the past decade, Michael Green has been on a mission.
www.institutionalinvestor.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
It's good though because it distracts the author from what has been his main crusade — persuading the world that index funds are evil www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2e5u...
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Gay, straight, cis, trans, ally, enemy. We are all equal under the blazing fury of Will Stancil's hate
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Gay, straight, cis, trans, ally, enemy. We are all equal under the blazing fury of Will Stancil's hate
Also, every service.
Basically every visit to see my mom is 50% working through 2FA systems with her so she can pay utility bills.
Basically every visit to see my mom is 50% working through 2FA systems with her so she can pay utility bills.
We're drowning in passwords & multi-factor authentication & chatbots & "unusually high call volume" & robots ignoring "representative!"
We should think more carefully about how Social Security uses these tools with our parents & grandparents.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
We should think more carefully about how Social Security uses these tools with our parents & grandparents.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
Ain't No Party Like an Administrative Burden Party
You are cordially invited to Admin Night - bring your paperwork
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Also, every service.
Basically every visit to see my mom is 50% working through 2FA systems with her so she can pay utility bills.
Basically every visit to see my mom is 50% working through 2FA systems with her so she can pay utility bills.
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Yesterday we raised over $35,000. Today, we are excited to announce a donor who has generously offered to match the second $35,000. If you help us reach $35,000 today he will match you dollar for dollar. Please help us get there! gofund.me/638697766
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Yesterday we raised over $35,000. Today, we are excited to announce a donor who has generously offered to match the second $35,000. If you help us reach $35,000 today he will match you dollar for dollar. Please help us get there! gofund.me/638697766
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Every AI-bubble debate is the same 12 facts, studies, and arguments quoted back and forth, over and over.
So Tim Lee at @understandingai.skystack.xyz and I teamed up to publish a 4,000 word deep-dive analysis of all 12.
www.derekthompson.org/p/how-to-sou...
So Tim Lee at @understandingai.skystack.xyz and I teamed up to publish a 4,000 word deep-dive analysis of all 12.
www.derekthompson.org/p/how-to-sou...
How to Sound Like an Expert in Any AI Bubble Debate
There are 12 statistics, factoids, and studies that dominate every discussion about whether artificial intelligence is a bubble. Here's a deep-dive into all 12 arguments
www.derekthompson.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Every AI-bubble debate is the same 12 facts, studies, and arguments quoted back and forth, over and over.
So Tim Lee at @understandingai.skystack.xyz and I teamed up to publish a 4,000 word deep-dive analysis of all 12.
www.derekthompson.org/p/how-to-sou...
So Tim Lee at @understandingai.skystack.xyz and I teamed up to publish a 4,000 word deep-dive analysis of all 12.
www.derekthompson.org/p/how-to-sou...
I would be really interested in an analysis of why people find this post compelling.
Like I get why people like the conclusion. I don't understand how people don't read it and see that it's just finger painting.
Like I get why people like the conclusion. I don't understand how people don't read it and see that it's just finger painting.
This article is comically, comically bad. It literally uses the mean expenditures on a bunch of items to determine absurd “affordability” lines and then uses that to argue that the majority of America - the richest country on earth - is living in poverty
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bsky.app/profile/whst...
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I would be really interested in an analysis of why people find this post compelling.
Like I get why people like the conclusion. I don't understand how people don't read it and see that it's just finger painting.
Like I get why people like the conclusion. I don't understand how people don't read it and see that it's just finger painting.
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🧵We live in a populist age. Widespread discontent has swept unlikely politicians to the top of both political parties, and those politicians are pursuing unorthodox policies to respond to the concerns of the American people, with a particular focus on workers.
#econsky
#econsky
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🧵We live in a populist age. Widespread discontent has swept unlikely politicians to the top of both political parties, and those politicians are pursuing unorthodox policies to respond to the concerns of the American people, with a particular focus on workers.
#econsky
#econsky
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And of course there is no shortage of actual material need in America, but I would maintain that the aforementioned social/emotional defects that trick people into feeling poor also make it much HARDER to build the political coalitions to help the needy.
November 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
And of course there is no shortage of actual material need in America, but I would maintain that the aforementioned social/emotional defects that trick people into feeling poor also make it much HARDER to build the political coalitions to help the needy.
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Paul’s at the forefront of American housing policy. Tying together YIMBYism, public finance, and public development, he’s building *the model* for American social housing.
Now he’s been appointed to Zohran’s Transition Committee on Housing. We at @publicenterprise.bsky.social couldn’t be prouder!
Now he’s been appointed to Zohran’s Transition Committee on Housing. We at @publicenterprise.bsky.social couldn’t be prouder!
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Paul’s at the forefront of American housing policy. Tying together YIMBYism, public finance, and public development, he’s building *the model* for American social housing.
Now he’s been appointed to Zohran’s Transition Committee on Housing. We at @publicenterprise.bsky.social couldn’t be prouder!
Now he’s been appointed to Zohran’s Transition Committee on Housing. We at @publicenterprise.bsky.social couldn’t be prouder!
<first thing I see after a flight>
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
<first thing I see after a flight>
It is actually totally fine for investment dollars to be spent on things that are not AI.
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It is actually totally fine for investment dollars to be spent on things that are not AI.
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This is rightly getting a lot of opprobrium for good reasons, but the meta lesson here is that back of the envelope math and tech/finance guy self-regard is a great way to get engagement and also a bad way to learn true facts about the world
Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is rightly getting a lot of opprobrium for good reasons, but the meta lesson here is that back of the envelope math and tech/finance guy self-regard is a great way to get engagement and also a bad way to learn true facts about the world
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This new @drodrik.bsky.social book is extremely good. Adapting old insights to a changing world, such as the decreasing labour intensity of manufacturing, Rodrik argues forcefully for a sensible approach to global governance and development. Strongly recommend.
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This new @drodrik.bsky.social book is extremely good. Adapting old insights to a changing world, such as the decreasing labour intensity of manufacturing, Rodrik argues forcefully for a sensible approach to global governance and development. Strongly recommend.
Barack Obama, 2028:
"The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States. But I've got news for them, too. We think having a boyfriend is embarrassing in the blue states, and we think having a girlfriend is gay in the red states."
"The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States. But I've got news for them, too. We think having a boyfriend is embarrassing in the blue states, and we think having a girlfriend is gay in the red states."
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Barack Obama, 2028:
"The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States. But I've got news for them, too. We think having a boyfriend is embarrassing in the blue states, and we think having a girlfriend is gay in the red states."
"The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States. But I've got news for them, too. We think having a boyfriend is embarrassing in the blue states, and we think having a girlfriend is gay in the red states."
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Because the Liberal Currents writers have actual values, they are, almost uniquely among media, able to react our fascist moment not by asking “What if all our beliefs are wrong? What if we went too far with all the democracy and fairness stuff?” but by asking “How do we beat the fascists again?”
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Because the Liberal Currents writers have actual values, they are, almost uniquely among media, able to react our fascist moment not by asking “What if all our beliefs are wrong? What if we went too far with all the democracy and fairness stuff?” but by asking “How do we beat the fascists again?”