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Rafe Meager (they/them)

@economeager.bsky.social

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Aspiring wastrel, applied econometrician. At http://rachaelmeager.com for bayes, dev econ and meta science. Also at http://rottenandgood.substack.com for writing, art, death and emotions. Gay academic nonbinary weirdo, cursed to be serious in life.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 1h

i think it's a long bow at best to think that teen drinking/etc drives society's political trajectory

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 2h

HA exactly!!!

Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 2h

yeah it's very bad for us rn we are in the trenches.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 2h

i never saw it! but i heard good things along those lines

Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 2h

everything is a team sport to me unfortunately

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 2h

i feel like this narrative of like "things settle down in mid life, you really know who you are, you're more confident, things bother you less etc etc" is just generational propaganda by the generation that controls the media

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 2h

tim apple caving to this....... gay people arent sending our best

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 21h

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 2h

this image of teens is very, very cherished for a lot of adults .... a lot going on in mid life psychologically it must be said

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2h

Question: which societies have/had the least anxiety about the legitimacy of trade interactions?

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 2h

i just entered middle age btw and it's a lot like the troy pizza gif

Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 2h

knew i was going to have to disable QTs on this one

i don't mind when people have their unhinged takes about this but some of the time when middle aged people are complaining about these trends they just sound straight up creepy

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 4h

Anglo "live & let live" integration is demonstrably more successful than French style "aggressive assimilationism" at producing integrated societies, and has been proven to do so in multiple Anglo jurisdictions in (literally) multiple hemispheres! But these people want the thing with worse outcomes!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 4h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 7h

no words

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 4h

i'll NOT be beaten by dick van dyke in the fanfiction league tables richard hand it over

Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 4h

share the link please some else of us would like to read

Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 5h

agreed

Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 5h

🥳

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lanyardigan @lanyardigan.bsky.social · 17h

Moon last night gave me powers. Remains to be seen if they’re good or bad. I’m thinking probably mixed bag, like everything

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 5h

you can thank the cocktails for all the recent posts

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 5h

another good use of frozen green chillis is as a fun garnish in cocktails

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 5h

i think that every expert in any field of social science should have some working knowledge of insights from the other fields for the same reason that you should put some structure in the error term in a quantitative model ie that's part of what determines what you make of "your" signal

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 5h

i think part of the reason is that if you are not intending to be a total bully/tyrant, then being not nice is actually vulnerable, because it makes you a more legitimate target for not-nice treatment yourself (+ you're not planning to crush all dissent etc, you want to get along with ppl)