ashish arora
@ashisharora.bsky.social
economics, innovation, and random stuff https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/ashish-arora
Dems need to be clear that that anyone who votes to confirm Blanche is an accessory to theft from the United States.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
news.stanford.edu/stories/2026.... Sadly I report that David Luenberger has died. His optimization research and textbooks had huge influence. Locally, he was a beacon of friendly rigorous optimism in support of interdisciplinary collaboration.
David G. Luenberger, pioneer in optimization theory, dies at 88
Luenberger’s doctoral research gave rise to a technique that aerospace and robotics engineers still use to track the hidden behavior of complex systems.
news.stanford.edu
It's crazy what you can get with selective breeding
One thing you can see in the latest Stancil blowup is that a sizable share of this website thinks that good intentions are the only thing that matter in policymaking, and expressing skepticism that a policy will really work as intended is equivalent to stealing food from the poor.
Authorising this horrifically insulting response to a case like this is imo a resignation matter.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests
“Sternly staring at inflation until it melts before our withering gaze is not an option.” www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
Kevin Warsh Wanted a ‘Good Family Fight’ at the Fed. He’s Getting One.
The new chairman initiated a debate over how the central bank works, and it could test his tight-lipped approach on the economy.
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In which the President of the United States continues to tax American consumers and businesses…just because he feels like it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.KILMEADE: Are you worried the tariffs you put forward over the last couple days will hurt the economy? TRUMP: No, because it's bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars
See this from yesterday bsky.app/profile/jdpo...
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · last wk.The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
This unattributed 2020 viral video of a sea lion chilling half-underwater is the timeline cleanse you *need*. But it's also a great intro to a discussion of how pinnipeds (walruses, seals, sea lions) SLEEP, especially when they're too far away from a safe "haul out" location. Let's talk about it.
My first study, about medical unwillingness to try treatments which were probably ineffective but harmless, I titled "Scepticaemia" and I have no regrets
Just one more call to assassinate a reporter should fix this
More proof of courage and resilience at the Post: here’s a profile of a resister at West Point, by Hannah Natanson, the reporter whose apartment was raided, and devices seized, by the Trump DOJ. wapo.st/3TXMwt9
After Trump’s order, West Point curbed faculty speech. One professor said no.
Tim Bakken argues that the Pentagon's attempt to stifle what teachers can say and write makes the military more susceptible to bad decisions.
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Continually impressed that despite the pressures/layoffs imposed by ownership and management, the reporters and editors at the WaPo continue to do excellent work covering the Trump Administration.
Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · last wk.67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult
On this weekend’s episode of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me, I deliver the longest walk to the most tortured punchline of my whole life, which is obviously a source of great pride to me!!! Also I had a blast with Hari and Faith on the panel, plus Peter, Alzo, and the whole team!!!
Dawn for democracy: The moral ballast of the insurgent cockroaches is undeniable www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/dawn...
Dawn for democracy
The Cockroach Janta Party won this battle partly because the legions it led seemed armoured with an alloy of innocence and insouciance. This had something to do with how young they were
telegraphindia.com
Wrote an obituary for Guy Scott, the first and thus far only white man to run a democratic government in postcolonial Africa:
Guy Scott, former president of Zambia, 1944-2026
The academic and farmer was the first and only white man to lead an African democracy
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Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
science.org
The Royal Statistical Society calls for a rethink to all the Maths cuts at the University of Sussex. You know, crazy new woke subjects like... *checks notes* Maths, one of the biggest losers in the current madness of Higher Education. rss.org.uk/news-publica...
RSS joins call to protect mathematics at the University of Sussex
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Although CRISPR–Cas first made a splash in gene editing, scientists now use it to precisely target epigenetic editors to any DNA sequence. Nature reports on companies exploring epigenetic-editing technology and a handful of early-stage clinical trials. 🧬🧪
Epigenetic editing makes its mark
Researchers are rewriting the chemical tags on DNA and chromatin to tune gene expression.
go.nature.com
On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...
This N.J. town just pulled $91M from Citizens Bank over ICE
Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.
nj.com
Int’l students who invest their futures here are a taproot of talent in our economy. 1/3 of *all* STEM PhDs in the US are immigrants who came as students, then stayed. Have they told the Vice President that his parents-in-law violated their “primary purpose” by staying here after graduation?
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 3w agoI did not see this unhinged statement previously. These people really do not understand this country
From Chester Zoo, I give you: bush dogs, native to South America. They're like a weasel crossed with a Corgi that swallowed a toy squeaker. These little guys are named Rolo, Chomp, Munchie, and Freddo. Let's learn about these tiny 'vinegar dogs' (who are quite fierce!). (📷: Chester Zoo via FB)
