daniel f stone
@dfstone.bsky.social
Behavioral economist at Bowdoin College. Interested in beliefs, sports, media, polarization, socially responsible capitalism. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047500/undue-hate/ https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/dstone/index.html
"Academic freedom is a privilege and it makes no sense for us to incessantly antagonize the mainstream society whose good graces we depend on" www.popularbydesign.org/p/reality-ma... Very good stuff from @akoustov.bsky.social
Reality May Have a Liberal Bias, but the Social Sciences Still Need Conservatives
Or why I was wrong about viewpoint diversity
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substack.com/home/post/p-... "the idea of a free market economy polls substantially better than the idea of capitalism. The gap is present for all groups, but it’s especially pronounced among Democrats and especially especially among younger Democrats."
Why free markets beat capitalism
Freedom is good; greed is not
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Mobile phone location data suggests California fast-food restaurants cut on-site staffing by about 8 percent after the $20 wage was announced, with reductions starting months before the law took effect.
California’s $20 fast-food wage: mobile phone data reveals staffing cuts started before the law took effect
Mobile phone location data suggests California fast-food restaurants cut on-site staffing by about 8 percent after the $20 wage was announced, with reductions starting months before the law took effect.
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Big upside to the paradox of voting 👇
Joe Slowik@pylos.co · 3w agoThe reason(s) voter fraud is vanishingly rare is it is hard to pull off at a level that actually swings major elections, and you can't make money off of it. The former disincentivizes APTs/etc, the latter moves it outside ecrime shitbags.
Open access in QJE!📢 Using newly assembled archival data, we show how the AMA's nationwide campaign against national health insurance, labeling it "socialized medicine" and promoting private insurance, helped steer the U.S. away from universal health care academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association
Abstract. This article examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical
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Study Report: Finding a broadly popular political policy platform
New research finds 28 policies that Left, Center, and Right voters all say would make them more likely to vote for a candidate, revealing common ground beneath America's political divide.
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From ex-wife of the ICE Agent who shot the innocent Mainer: "Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship."
Joe Lawlor@joelawlorph.bsky.social · 3w ago
I built a free tool that coaches you through checking a claim with only as much effort as it actually needs. matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/i-built-a-...
I Built a Tool That Coaches You Through Fact-Checking
The Lateral Reading Companion walks you through checking whether something is true, the way professional fact-checkers actually do it.
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Incredibly good people www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/n...
Jayson Conner, 48, and Jeffrey Newman, 58, Die; Gave Thousands of Backpacks to Those in Need
The couple, who died within a few days of each other, provided needed supplies, like socks and wet wipes, to people living on New York City’s streets.
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People who see something broken and fix it because they can ❤️
Lisa Tozzi@lisatozzi.bsky.social · 2mo agoWant to read something nice? Here’s a delightful story by @katiehonan.bsky.social about my lovely husband and his one-man quest to restore torn and missing basketball nets in city parks www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/04/b...
Doesn't address biggest issue with the policy, that it makes students too competitive www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/o... (the reason Princeton claims they dropped their policy share.google/aimode/7J0cE...)
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Write every email like you might be accidentally ccing the all faculty list
#arXiv is banning researchers for one year whose manuscripts contain hallucinated references. My latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @briannosek.bsky.social, @tdietterich.bsky.social, @richardsever.bsky.social, @dermotlynott.bsky.social, @philipncohen.com, #WCRI2026
Researchers who use hallucinated references to face arXiv ban
The preprint server is the latest to impose stiff penalties on authors who contribute to AI ‘slop’ — but not everyone is convinced it’s the right approach.
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“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Bluesky has been a net negative for US politics. They corralled everyone on the left into a little glass fishbowl where they shout at one another & everyone else ignores them. Meanwhile, all the pols & institutions stayed on X & are being dragged farther right.
"Liberal education is that form of education that prepares individuals for the exercise of political liberty—in other words, for citizenship" www.persuasion.community/p/how-to-rev...
Colleges, Maybe Try Teaching!
Academia has become unrooted from pedagogy.
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BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 4mo agoBREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
I don't want to live in a country where the executive has secret unreviewable powers like this www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...
Opinion | ‘When You Think of It, We Shouldn’t Even Have an Election’
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