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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 4h

Happy Halloween

Halloween gravestone reading “I Did My Own Research” in a yard with two skeleton arms sticking out of the grass.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

No evidence of an unusual number of layoffs happening in regular state unemployment insurance program data.

The data is filed weekly by states despite the fed shutdown & available thru week ending 10/18/25.

Thnx @econberger.bsky.social for helping me get up to speed on this data source.

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 3d

FWIW 👇
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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 3d

FWIW this NBER wp says Pangram achieves near-zero false positive rate in detection of AI-written material. Reliable AI detection can be done but it seems like university admin have chosen to invest in AI rather than help faculty rein it in by paying for detection tools.

www.nber.org/papers/w34223

Artificial Writing and Automated Detection

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 3d

I stopped giving written assignments altogether after ChatGPT precisely because of this. Switched to mult choice exams. My class is now easier, which made student reviews more positive, and I have no connection to students and don't know how much they are actually learning. Not awesome.

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 3d

FWIW this NBER wp says Pangram achieves near-zero false positive rate in detection of AI-written material. Reliable AI detection can be done but it seems like university admin have chosen to invest in AI rather than help faculty rein it in by paying for detection tools.

www.nber.org/papers/w34223

Artificial Writing and Automated Detection

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 6d

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text.
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Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7d

The trend is real, but this NYT analysis at the Congressional district level has big ecological bias

Poor *areas* vote Republican, but it's often the richer *individuals* within those poorer areas that are most Republican

And many poor *individuals* rich blue urban *areas* vote Dem

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10d

The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable.
Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.

graph showing 29 of 38 positions are vacant

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 11d

Really wishing that the “Intel episode” being referenced was about a new LPE podcast.

Any chance someone will make this happen?

James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 11d

"the Intel episode underscores the poverty of our institutional imagination. We know how to write checks to corporations... But we have forgotten how to build institutions that exercise democratic control over investment, production, and innovation."

LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 11d

Today, @jamesftierney.bsky.social argues that the government's recent $8.9 billion equity investment in Intel represents a new model of American state capitalism: one that entrenches corporate power while foreclosing more democratic and effective alternatives.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11d

speaking of the ACA, I'm so old I can remember when Joe Lieberman killed the public option, and Ezra Klein accused him of being "willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score," and the entire DC media fainted simultaneously

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14d

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 15d

A story in three parts

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Edo Navot @edonavot.bsky.social · 15d

Can someone remind microsoft that most people today work in places with open floor plans?

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 15d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 16d

Opportunity to work at the intersection of social science research, social impact, and philanthropy with The Constellation Fund.
constellationfund.org/wp-content/u...

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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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grand theft eigenvalue 🔆 @akhilrao.bsky.social · 20d

any econometricians seeing this know of recent-ish papers comparing out-of-sample predictive performance of discrete choice models? particularly interested in anything getting at choice data that can't be rationalized with the variables available

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 21d

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 21d

The whole thread’s a great education about how China is using permission structures the US pioneered.

Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 21d

4/China has learned from US playbook. It doesn’t just limit bilateral dependence but network dependence. any firm using Chinese machines (which is almost all) have to get licenses. It is a Chinese version of US foreign direct product rule in semiconductors.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The Weaponized World Economy

When Washington announced a “framework deal” with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy. This was not the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s imagi...

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Sam Thorpe @samthorpe.bsky.social · 21d

Incredibly useful new story by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on the 'crisis' for young college grads. Most analyses compare mid-20s workers with/without a degree. But as John points out, the relevant comparison group is actually *new entrants* with/without a degree - most non-degree workers enter at 18-19.

What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong

People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts

www.ft.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 21d

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 22d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 22d

By engaging with "legal areas where distribution matters most, such as the minimum wage, collective bargaining, antitrust, intellectual property, and housing regulation.... we discover unique, even idiosyncratic, reasons why legal rules can redistribute more cheaply than the tax system."

LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 22d

Today, Matthew Dimick explains why one of the most famous arguments against addressing inequality through predistribution fails on its own terms.

After Neoliberalism: Predistribution and the Law and Economics of Income Inequality

Law and Economics scholars argue that if income redistribution is to happen at all, it should occur exclusively through the tax system, rather than through supposedly less efficient methods…

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23d

Henry Farrell on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities, arguing that the rollout signals weakness, and that academics need to band together to reject this authoritarian attack on university independence and academic freedom.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 23d

Education Secretary Linda McMahon says she's leading the department's "final mission" to shut down. But @megomatz.bsky.social and I found it's more than that: Political appointees from ultraconservative groups are in power at ED now, and they hope to dismantle public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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