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Ben Waber
@bwaber.bsky.social
MIT Researcher, he/him, Senior Visiting Researcher @ Ritsumeikan, Co-Founder of Humanyze, former Senior Researcher @ HBS, author of People Analytics. AI, management, law, corporate governance, psychology, anthropology, ethics, and similar topics
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There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal.

Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I took my youngest out for a bike ride through the woods, and earlier in the day I listened to talks and read books for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/4)
November 27, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I'm mostly recovered today, so I swapped some books at the library and listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/8)
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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somebody who is good at the economy please help them budget this, their bullshit factory is dying
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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In a sign of how times have changed, in 1959 economists Turner and Keysen proposed a commission to breakup firms "where, for 5 years or more, one company has accounted for 50 percent or more of annual sales in the market, or four or fewer companies have accounted for 80 percent of sales”
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I still wasn't fully recovered from whatever I caught from my family, so while resting in bed all day I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/9)
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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I had heard about the rapid increase in RAM prices but apparently the market is so volatile that Central Computers stopped printing price tags
November 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
So much this: "It’s all very stupid, but as far as I can tell, not actually illegal."

And yeah, it does look a little like Enron
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Do more to preserve her generation’s legacy as immortal memories. #history
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”

@barrons.com $NVDA
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www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I was under the weather this weekend, and while recuperating I read some books and listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/7)
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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“I took that to be the point of Holocaust education. Not to exceptionalize Jewish suffering, but to activate solidarity. To recognize that there is a continuum of atrocity perpetrated by dominant classes against subjugated ones. The Holocaust shows where, once normalized, such things can lead…”👇🏽
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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There's also something here that's underdiscussed and unknown if you're not from a developing country, which is that many people at home, from your home country, think you're a traitor for leaving and they think the xenophobia you experience abroad is well-deserved.

This sort of rhetoric is often
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Chat, is it good if the shorting mechanisms that presaged the 2008 crash are exploding in popularity? finance.yahoo.com/news/hedge-a...
A Hedge Against AI Crash Emerges as Oracle CDS Market Explodes
Traders have piled into the company’s credit-default swaps in recent months as Oracle’s massive AI-related spending spree, its central role in a web of interrelated deals, and its weaker credit grades...
finance.yahoo.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I headed over to Harvard for some meetings, and after taking in the atmosphere before they shellac Yale I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/5)
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I can report that the mood on the Harvard campus is positively jovial. Not sure if it's due to their impending massacre of Yale or the removal of a noted predator from the vicinity
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Calls with Japan made it a late finish for me, but throughout the day I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/7)
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Okay folks new generative AI game: "is the pool in XXX still full?"

It's amazing - I'm guessing because they tried to patch the Titanic joke they exposed even more the brittleness of these systems
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
AI is going great
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
@rdvquantum.bsky.social to expand on this, this was a phenomenal talk. Not just on the technical side, but bringing in the history of the field and the social and political implications of technology development was exceptional
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM