Scary reminder about #LLM bias. Using APIs with non-profit data & QWEN, Alibaba's "open model" _running locally_ would not return result for Falun Dafa org or other controversial topics. Other LLMs may be more subtle, but it's likely answers are also "tuned" for political reasons.

We now have over 4.5 million research items with abstracts in RePEc. https://ideas.repec.org/stats.html #dailyRePEc #economics

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Search RePEc for FIFA and you get 725 results. https://ideas.repec.org/search.html #dailyRePEc #economics

Worth reposting from bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/alwaystheself.bsky.social/post/3mohg5hld6s2a

This was fun. Thanks to my committee (Kate Stovel, Sarah Quinn and Jelani Ince), my fellow grad students (a really impressive bunch), and UW Sociology for putting up with me all these years.

Software developers often like to imagine that micropayments will solve publisher revenue problems. They won't. https://werd.io/why-micropayments-cant-save-news/

Why micropayments can't save news

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1. The president is immune from prosecution for crimes. 2. The president may pardon thousands of co-conspirators 3. The president may pay his co-conspirators with billions in taxpayer dollars. 1 & 2 already required Court reform and constitutional amendment. #3 shows why those things are urgent […]

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@cark/116459954767698913 #TIL You can copy or rename files without retyping the path: ❯ cp /your/long/path/config.toml{,.bak} This expands to: cp /your/long/path/config.toml /your/long/path/config.bak Works also with `echo` (nice for testing). Thanks to @irom […]

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#TIL In bash you can create multiple (nested) directories with a single compact line: ❯ mkdir -p a/{b,c/{x,y},d/{e,f}} ❯ tree . └── a ├── b ├── c │ ├── x │ └── y └── d ├── e └── f #bash #linux #cli

Really good piece by Shay O'Brien in ASR on persistence of kin networks. If I were teaching networks, Econ soc or theory (I'm not) it'd be on my syllabus. What pieces from the last 5-10 years would you put on a general grad soc curriculum? #sociology #sociology […]

37 (yikes) years ago I joined Microsoft with the goal of putting APIs into apps so you could control them without doing SendKeys. Now there are AI’s literally scrolling browser windows to achieve tasks. Progress! […]

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This is so incredibly bleak. A must read about the great expertise extraction from highly competent precarious professionals. A giant sucking sound as brains get extracted by malevolent billionaires (Gift link) […] [Original post on sciences.social]

I'm writing this in English. Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said. The responsibility for that […]

This is so incredibly bleak. A must read about the great expertise extraction from highly competent precarious professionals. A giant sucking sound as brains get extracted by malevolent billionaires (Gift link) […] [Original post on sciences.social]

It's been a long while since I put on my gerontologist's hat. Amplifying the risks of AI companionship was a good reason to do so for this letter to Issues in Science and Technology in response to J.B. Branch […]

https://bsky.app/profile/pardoguerra.bsky.social/post/3mgbf7jzx6k26 #sociology

"The heat was hot and the ground was dry." Has there ever been a more heartfelt, deeply observed description of the desert than in the 1972 #1 hit song "Horse With No Name"? They just don't write em like they used to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OTc4ZOsSSI

Kash Patel says he now has a lead that Savannah Guthrie's mom is being held at either the NCAA Final Four or the Masters golf tournament, plans to personally investigate.

Incompetence & thoughtlessness abounds. This stuck out to me “ICE intends to reduce its number of facilities from approximately 300 to 34 nationwide. The facility in Social Circle is expected to house anywhere from 7,500 to 10,000” 10,000???? Are they really gonna cut out GEO & CoreCivic? […]

You probably already knew this but immigrants in the U.S. pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits. Every year. https://bsky.app/profile/cato.org/post/3mdxv2ckdx62p https://www.cato.org/white-paper/immigrants-recent-effects-government-budgets-1994-2023

Accountability for those with power has been under attack for decades, largely due to an already-unaccountable Supreme Court. Like pneumonia for people with leukemia, Trump is an acute & possibly mortal problem, but the broader condition must also be treated […]

Frickin A’ (NYT poll gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/trump-poll-second-term.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GVA.Ama_.8NanxW0E7w9O&smid=url-share)

1/ I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) and the open-source software (#TagTeam) on which it runs. Details in this Google doc: https://bit.ly/TransferOATP Contact me <peter.suber@gmail.com> if you have any […]

My mom got mail from Public Citizen asking for $ to support a campaign to overturn Supreme Court's pro-crime Trump v. US decision via constitutional amendment. Good idea. BUT their website https://www.citizen.org shows no sign of that campaign. Is anyone spearheading this, not just asking for […]

Wikipedia is now 25. It has over 10,000 links to abstract, series or author pages on RePEc. IDEAS (now 28) links back to Wikipedia on those pages. https://ideas.repec.org/ #dailyRePEc #economics

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