Now I want to replay mass effect

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don’t support AI companies banning people from hurting the feelings of AI but I do support BioWare banning players for cheating on Liara in Mass Effect because she’s your blue wife in STEM and you need to honor that relationship

Very interesting paper! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

the energy at, *sigh*, rate field tonight could power the entire city

make sure to tap it with your sword first

Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted)@tylerfromtheinternet.com · 3d ago

anybody got a bomb?

unfortunate the dodgers won, but at least the braves lost

get this shit out here, just relentlessly terriblr

ANYWAY, I will use this thread to wave the flag again for @andrewhickey.bsky.social’s “A History of Rock & Roll in 500,Songs” for a deepened understanding of many things I didn’t normally appreciate. 500songs.com?amp

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

500songs.com

is it too early to cook dinner

This is besides the point, but I’m unreasonably annoyed about the democracy to socialism category error

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d ago

Meanwhile, over on X, the Secretary of Homeland Security is posting about "vandalizing the demographics of America," a phrase which is either a chilling suggestion of white nationalism from Mullin or just straight pablum which means nothing but sounds just fash enough to excite the faithful.

A hat trick with two of the goals being empty netters feels a little unsatisfying

Is making homemade vinaigrette better than store bought? Yes. Is it very easy? Yes. Will I stop buying salad dressing? No.

is it possible for both of these teams to lose

“our kids should get everything because they’re white”

Jane Coaston@janecoaston.bsky.social · 5d ago

I long for just straight up racism instead of this "actually white people possess uh ancient ways of knowing and studying hurts us"

that's right

Block Club Chicago@blockclubchi.bsky.social · 5d ago

Chicago was named the best big city in the United States for the 10th straight year. buff.ly/WCaGMgF

Forgot the code to a bike lock, and uh, those things are really easy to pick

@nmarantz.bsky.social (UCI), Carolina Reid (UCB) and I have a new working paper on how the built environment influences school segregation. Looking at attendance boundary shifts over an 8-year period, we find that schools that draw students from more single-family homes grow Whiter/more Asian.

Single Family Schoolyards: Residential Zoning and School Segregation

Though the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education outlawed explicit segregation of public schools, segregation has remained stubbornly persistent in the intervening decades. What...

osf.io

This is indeed good, and I'm now also back to my standard low expectations

Kevin Collins@kwcollins.bsky.social · 5d ago

Very nice application of @owasow.bsky.social's recent @polanalysis.bsky.social article in the latest (paywalled) issue of @gelliottmorris.com's newsletter www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-06... Polling folks, this is one subscription worth paying for

I have received 4 fundraising e-mail from Josh Shapiro in the past hours, all of them with subjects like "An update (not great)". They're now going to my spam folder, so great job.

That war department ad was indistinguishable from a call of duty ad

Only 3 classes in, but so far the in class device ban has been a huge success. Discussion and in class engagement is way up.

It’s good when the rangers score goals, imo

I don't think figuring out we differ on values is very fun, tbh

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · last wk.

The best cure for ideological bias is find someone on the other side and go to lunch with them.⁣ ⁣ Sometimes we disagree about facts. Sometimes we disagree about values. Figuring out which is which is fun part. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/my-libertarian-friends-were-right

From our FirstView: "Democratic Accountability with Citizen Coproduction" by Jie Ma, @keithschnak.bsky.social, and @ianrturner.bsky.social. buff.ly/QgJ8hoR

good haul from the farmers market today

Ahh not a bear in sight....the Bear Patrol must be working like a charm That’s specious reasoning dad Thank you honey

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · last wk.

Name a TV Show quote you use all the time.

Very unsettling to realize i want the braves to win their series against the dodgers. (obviously to then get stomped in the nlcs)

The correct martini is 2 to 1 gin and dry vermouth, couple dashes of orange bitters, stirred, with a twist.

hey guys, what’s up

tbh, i probably wasn’t going to get any grading done this evening anyway, but at least now I’ll feel less guilty