Matt Fagan
@matt3oh3.bsky.social
Former educator, current social scientist in tech. Views are my own + the usual disclaimers. CU, NU (SESP)
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i keep reading inequality is over, like it was a 2010s thing but it got fixed.
February 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
i keep reading inequality is over, like it was a 2010s thing but it got fixed.
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running the government on the management principles that built the 737 MAX.
February 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
running the government on the management principles that built the 737 MAX.
Every day people log onto the internet and get completely perplexed by our tripartite federal system.
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
February 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Every day people log onto the internet and get completely perplexed by our tripartite federal system.
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the obsession with AI and the belief that a few wunderkinds can replace an entire functioning bureaucracy both stem from the same place: these people are consumed with hate for the fact that they need a managerial middle class of educated workers with non-trivial political power.
February 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
the obsession with AI and the belief that a few wunderkinds can replace an entire functioning bureaucracy both stem from the same place: these people are consumed with hate for the fact that they need a managerial middle class of educated workers with non-trivial political power.
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A bunch of people will be punted off aid programs they desperately need. Some will have been working but will get purged due to administrative burden anyway. They won't make up the difference with new earnings. But GOP will free up some revenue for tax cuts for billionaires.
Taking health care & food away from people who don’t meet red-tape laden work requirements will hurt workers, won’t increase employment, and will push millions into hardship. That’s a terrible price to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. x.com/meredithllee...
January 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A bunch of people will be punted off aid programs they desperately need. Some will have been working but will get purged due to administrative burden anyway. They won't make up the difference with new earnings. But GOP will free up some revenue for tax cuts for billionaires.
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Nobody wants to listen to a voice memo. Text me like a grownup
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Nobody wants to listen to a voice memo. Text me like a grownup
I firmly believe you shouldn’t get to use a city name for your team if you don’t play in the city limits.
From 9news: Broncos considering several main options for future of stadium
"9NEWS has learned Broncos executives and ownership have considered Lone Tree — including having conversations with city officials in recent months — as a possible location for a new stadium"
www.9news.com/article/spor...
"9NEWS has learned Broncos executives and ownership have considered Lone Tree — including having conversations with city officials in recent months — as a possible location for a new stadium"
www.9news.com/article/spor...
January 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I firmly believe you shouldn’t get to use a city name for your team if you don’t play in the city limits.
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Americans have somehow settled on demanding a mixed economy that features none of the benefits of free market capitalism or command socialism, but all of the liabilities of both.
January 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Americans have somehow settled on demanding a mixed economy that features none of the benefits of free market capitalism or command socialism, but all of the liabilities of both.
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In the Declaration of Independence one of the complaints against the King was:
"obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither..."
To be anti-immigration is unAmerican.
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
"obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither..."
To be anti-immigration is unAmerican.
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...
www.archives.gov
January 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In the Declaration of Independence one of the complaints against the King was:
"obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither..."
To be anti-immigration is unAmerican.
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
"obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither..."
To be anti-immigration is unAmerican.
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
The thing is that this WAS the right response from a political level when many long time members of congress were elected. It’s why they’re there. But it’s maladaptive in a world of social media
A good microcosm of my whole political critique is that GOP leaders reflexively understand that “Biden commutes death penalty sentences to life in prison” = “attack Dems viciously” while Dem leaders reflexively see “Trump’s top pick to be AG is a child rapist” as another opportunity to say nothing.
December 23, 2024 at 10:30 PM
The thing is that this WAS the right response from a political level when many long time members of congress were elected. It’s why they’re there. But it’s maladaptive in a world of social media
So the 30s are coming back for real for real
There’s some…interesting memetic energy on X being directed in support of US territorial expansion.
Given Trump’s recent rhetoric along similar lines, we should probably pay attention to it.
Given Trump’s recent rhetoric along similar lines, we should probably pay attention to it.
![End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
We have 2 years left to bring this map to life in time for our 250th birthday
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December 23, 2024 at 8:20 PM
So the 30s are coming back for real for real
Whenever my 3 year old gets asked his favorite food he’ll say Broccoli or Carrots cus he knows adults love that. The sometimes he’ll look at me like I’m also supposed to be in on this lie. And like I’m not going to throw him under the bus of his own creation but maybe try eating some veggies son
December 23, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Whenever my 3 year old gets asked his favorite food he’ll say Broccoli or Carrots cus he knows adults love that. The sometimes he’ll look at me like I’m also supposed to be in on this lie. And like I’m not going to throw him under the bus of his own creation but maybe try eating some veggies son
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there is no such thing as parameters for a human brain
That's a lot of parameters for a large language model.
The human brain has ~100 trillion. About 60X GPT-4.
The human brain has ~100 trillion. About 60X GPT-4.
December 23, 2024 at 2:27 PM
there is no such thing as parameters for a human brain
Denver was west coast even back then??
"A Bostonian's Idea of the United States of America," Daniel K. Wallingford (1935)
December 21, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Denver was west coast even back then??
NIMBYs are right that by doubling down on rent control and protecting single family homeowners from seeing a duplex we can stick it to property developers and make housing affordable.
They just don’t mention that affordability will come in 2050 because their cities look like 2010 Detroit.
They just don’t mention that affordability will come in 2050 because their cities look like 2010 Detroit.
December 18, 2024 at 2:30 PM
NIMBYs are right that by doubling down on rent control and protecting single family homeowners from seeing a duplex we can stick it to property developers and make housing affordable.
They just don’t mention that affordability will come in 2050 because their cities look like 2010 Detroit.
They just don’t mention that affordability will come in 2050 because their cities look like 2010 Detroit.
Investors own just 2% of single family homes, but when you look at large investors its drops to 0.4% nationwide. Even when you look at the metros with the highest share of investor owned homes, you see some of the most affordable metro areas.
I've never seen a more accurate description of the housing crisis.
They want you to blame the immigrants though.
They want you to blame the immigrants though.
December 15, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Investors own just 2% of single family homes, but when you look at large investors its drops to 0.4% nationwide. Even when you look at the metros with the highest share of investor owned homes, you see some of the most affordable metro areas.
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Childbirth has large negative effects on women’s founding rates and firm performance and explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurial outcomes never recover to pre-birth levels.
Childcare availability and progressive gender norms reduce the adverse effects of childbirth.
Entrepreneurial outcomes never recover to pre-birth levels.
Childcare availability and progressive gender norms reduce the adverse effects of childbirth.
December 14, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Childbirth has large negative effects on women’s founding rates and firm performance and explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurial outcomes never recover to pre-birth levels.
Childcare availability and progressive gender norms reduce the adverse effects of childbirth.
Entrepreneurial outcomes never recover to pre-birth levels.
Childcare availability and progressive gender norms reduce the adverse effects of childbirth.
The DOGE folks cried and cried about SVB but they are fine with your bank stealing your money
Exclusive: The Trump transition team is exploring ways to drastically shrink or even eliminate top bank watchdogs, including the FDIC
Trump Advisers Seek to Shrink or Eliminate Bank Regulators
Advisers asked potential nominees whether Trump could abolish the FDIC
on.wsj.com
December 13, 2024 at 2:44 PM
The DOGE folks cried and cried about SVB but they are fine with your bank stealing your money
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so many articles speculating why people are not having more children... then I read how Netflix is cutting back on its generous parental leave policy because too many employees were using it
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
Netflix’s Extraordinary Parental Leave Was Part of Its Culture. That’s Over.
Employees worry the pullback and other new restrictions mean the entertainment giant is losing the identity that fueled its success.
www.wsj.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:10 PM
so many articles speculating why people are not having more children... then I read how Netflix is cutting back on its generous parental leave policy because too many employees were using it
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
Wild how clearly you can see the +D shift caused by Boebert moving the CD-3
This tool from @cookpolitical.bsky.social is so interesting: It shows how each House of Representatives district voted for president in 2024 compared to 2020 AND changes in turnout, too. www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker...
December 10, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Wild how clearly you can see the +D shift caused by Boebert moving the CD-3
Some will note that this is the case despite spending on education rising for many years. But in my mind the key difference between the US and other countries is the localized structure of US education. The floor for quality here is often quite low
The least-educated Americans between the ages of 16 and 65 are falling behind on basic skills compared with workers in other rich countries
In a Test of Adult Know-How, America Comes Up Short
American workers are falling behind those in other rich countries when it comes to basic skills such as reading a thermometer.
on.wsj.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Some will note that this is the case despite spending on education rising for many years. But in my mind the key difference between the US and other countries is the localized structure of US education. The floor for quality here is often quite low
@patrickwyman.bsky.social as if you didn’t have enough on your plate, you’re being called on
Someone should start a normie weightlifting podcast as an alternative pipeline for guys not to fall down the bro black hole
December 9, 2024 at 10:54 PM
@patrickwyman.bsky.social as if you didn’t have enough on your plate, you’re being called on
Saying you revere “Western Culture” and then that there are only two genders is Plato erasure.
December 9, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Saying you revere “Western Culture” and then that there are only two genders is Plato erasure.
It is a little funny that Gen X, previously obsessed with the peril of selling out, has largely produced Gen Z
December 9, 2024 at 6:06 PM
It is a little funny that Gen X, previously obsessed with the peril of selling out, has largely produced Gen Z
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Same with economists' view about IV.
Views of health insurance are a lot like views of the economy in recent years.
If you ask people how American health coverage is in general, they say it’s pretty bad.
If you ask people how much they like their own insurance, they say it’s pretty good.
If you ask people how American health coverage is in general, they say it’s pretty bad.
If you ask people how much they like their own insurance, they say it’s pretty good.
December 8, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Same with economists' view about IV.