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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 19d

Might try watching the next 10 ep season of something as 20 half hour episodes, with a major cliffhanger every second week

J. Elle Edmonds @hijaykayelle.bsky.social · 19d

Bring back 20-24 episode seasons of TV.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 19d

AI trained on its own outputs

muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 19d

He only knows what's on TV, and the only TV he watches recalibrates daily to echo him, so he's probably not had a conversation that takes place outside his own head in at least a year, closer to four.

Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 19d

They gave him leave to refile and amend it! That’s like basically you’ve won already

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 23d

I download all the kindle samples of books I might want to read, and maybe one day I’ll finish everything else and they’ll show up first on the list again

Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 23d

Taking on a task I don’t need to do just so I can add it to the todo list, do it and cross it off.

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 24d

And also complicated by the fact that aggregate statistics might not be true of subgroups. But you are certainly right that a simple equation of poverty = racism is far from true.

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 24d

A common poll finding is that people don’t really know what the economy is like or how it’s doing. Much more about perception than reality. (eg in the leadup to US elections, most people thought unemployment was high even though they themselves had a good job). So it’s hard to draw these conclusions

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 24d

That’s true. I think Dan’s point about despair is probably more relevant than a simple economic equation. And maybe we just need to outvote the 8% and that’s that. But somehow the 8% managed to affect the rest of our politics enough to win the Brexit ref, so ignoring them may not be enough.

Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 24d

I don’t necessarily disagree with you on this point about liberal democracy, by the way. But if the “economic anxiety” hypothesis has anything to it, which is an open question in my view, it isn’t disproved by Richard Tice being wealthy

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 24d

No I don’t really believe that the Telegraph or Richard Tice do hold these views, in any way that matters. I believe it matters why a few million people in the country hold those views (which could be because they listen to Richard Tice; or because of other cultural, personal or economic causes).

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 24d

Clearly the dynamic pushing Richard Tice, or the Telegraph, to be more extreme is not the same as the one that directly influences a Reform voter or Telegraph reader. These figureheads exist to funnel/reflect/amplify the feelings of others, not to have meaningful opinions of their own.

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 25d

And are generally much more productive. The main good thing about small firms is that they occasionalally become big firms!

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 25d

There is also no binary racist/not racist distinction (maybe this is even true of fascist/not fascist). No point trying to get into whether a whole crowd either is or isn’t racists, whatever answer you end up on will miss the deeper points and the levers of change

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 26d

You remind me of the UK state’s fetish for signing long-term contracts for public services with private providers to avoid taking debt onto its balance sheet, then having to pay the private companies’ (much higher) finance costs/risk premiums instead of financing it themselves.

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 26d

Like tariffs

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 26d

I wondered that too. Perhaps the modelling doesn’t indicate any big returns from reforming it (as annoying as it is). Possibly it is encouraging additional pensions contributions as an unintended side effect, and we need to keep anything that compensates for our weak pension savings rate!

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 26d

they have a great 4-lecture mini-course about local systems on algebraic variables. highly recommended that you attend. will cure depression, life changing

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 26d

Finally, proof that the supply curve slopes upward

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 26d

Okay, but who is ordering the pint of guac when it's cheaper to order two half pints?

menu at a taqueria showing that a 1/2 pint of guacamole costs $4 but a full pint costs $10.50. The other items on the menu (salsa, rice, beans, meat) all have have the full pint cheaper than doubling the half pint.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 26d

Governor Lisa Cook being proven right on a Friday night is PLEASING me, my homegirls, and the ancestors. #blacksky

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · 29d

second or third best at most. kudos to those going all the way

Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · Sep 7

Good Gorning Vietnam

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · Sep 7

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred

I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

We escaped war and torture but now we feel unsafe in Britain

Special report: Amid protests and rising aggression towards asylum seekers across the country, we spoke to those being targeted

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · Sep 6

I think I followed the Twitter version, which admittedly had even better material to work with. But the bluesky one is really getting its curation down now

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · Sep 6

I trust you’ll be declaring this conflict of interest in your commentary on the paper…

(great work by the way. Psychology research has had much deserved scrutiny over the last few years but I have a feeling nutrition and health need it even more)

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · Sep 5

2005

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