George Batta
@gbatta.bsky.social
Economics and accounting professor @cmcnews. Faculty profile: https://www.cmc.edu/academic/faculty/profile/george-batta Personal site: https://www.georgebatta.com/
I can’t get over this. The film sets you up to *think* that there’s an outside threat and then the reveal is that it’s all coming from inside the house. That is the weight Odysseus is carrying. It may be the chief political thrust of the entire film. Whew.
New paper with @floswald.bsky.social @lars.vilhuber.com and collaborators on reproducibility with LLMs, including what researchers should document to make LLM-assisted work transparent ✌️ arxiv.org/abs/2607.24372
As the US industrialized, workers and businesses entered protracted labor disputes over what a fair pay increase would be to keep up with the cost of living. Workers thought businesses were gaslighting them about how much prices were going up...🧵
Lemondrop 👉 anime arbor! 📚@lipstick-lemondrop.bsky.social · 3w agoholy moly @hausofdecline.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com ???
I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 10mo agoBreaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
Ryan Boyd@ryanboyd.bsky.social · 10mo agoSorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
announcing my new think tank, the "people hate inflation, that's like 90% of why harris lost" institute
At first, I felt like I had freaking super powers. Like a PI with a nearly infinite supply of talented lab members, who worked at 1000x speed. It was exhilarating. But then, the cracks started to show. TL;DR: If Claude were my grad student, I'd kick them out of my lab.
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -Carl Sagan
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last yr.And it's important to note that for every Galileo or Alfred Wegener or Walter and Luis Alvarez there are at least 99 Andrew Wakefields. Some people question the scientific consensus because they're onto something but statistically speaking, many more are mistaken or outright cranks.
There's no question that today's tariff announcement will give the United States the highest tariff rates of any industrialized country. And it's not even close.
End the Fed at your own peril. Alesina and Summers (1993):
