Apologies to my friends & family for all the texts while I endured a day of AI hypoganda.
"Crazy" idea to replace current peer review publication process. Reviewers just determine if the paper meets basic criteria of quality, and then manuscripts are selected by lot from this pool. This approach could also be used for research grants.
If the @nba.com lets Dundon move the @trailblazers.bsky.social, it will not only kill professional basketball in Portland - a lot of us will never spend another penny or moment's time on the NBA. I am done with shady billionaires shaking down cities.
It's not a great look when the Supreme Court is asking for more security when ICE is shooting people.
BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf
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I remain persistently amused that "originalists" on the court so gleefully exercise a power - judicial review - that does not appear in the plain text of the constitution.
I've started spending 5 minutes practicing guitar between stressful meetings as a form of self-care. Also, I really need to practice!
Historians are going to have a hard time deciding whether the Supreme Court or the Trump Presidency has had a more destructive impact on U.S. democracy. It's an attempt to impose a Redeemer government on the entire country.
7AM reading of Bernstein, Krugman, and @gelliottmorris.com this morning has my brain consumed with expectations & loss aversion theory, and thinking about heterogeneity in attitudes about prices. Clearly it's time for a new project.
Catholic convert gets into a public spat about theology with....the Pope? Did you even seminary bro? Where's your tonsure?
Fascinating analysis that at first glance gives a pretty plausible answer to the whole "vibecession" debate.
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 4mo agoThe index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...
10 years ago I could conduct a lot of useful personal business on the internet Now I'm back to doing things by phone or even in person because it's bots all the way down. It's like we're back to 1994.
It's pretty clear that for all our society's valorization of "leadership", their most important function is in avoiding really stupid mistakes. A good one can't necessarily solve your problems, but a bad one can make everything terrible.
For no reason whatsoever, I should mention that presidential pardons can't protect you from international war crimes charges.
On a brief scan, there's a lot in here that is very worrisome for the future of rigorous, scholar-driven research.
Cara Jackson@carajackson.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe moment many of us in #edresearch have been waiting for... Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences has been released. ies.ed.gov/ies/2026/02/...
Welp gonna be canceling my HBO subscription soon.
Modern journalism pre-dates modern popular government. The sickness of the former does not bode well for the latter.
It's probably time to adopt a strategy of collective responsibility for Democrats in the Senate & House. Their current game is to designate a few defectors to ensure bills pass, but rotate them so nobody gets yelled at too much. Perhaps we should withhold donations to ALL of them if ANY defect.
That terrible feeling when you put something off for ages and then it winds up taking no time at all.
Soooo....the only way to get Democratic Senators to actually fight fascism is to withhold donations for any candidate while Schumer is leader? Is that where we're at?
Schumer is either too weak to hold his caucus together, or he's in on it. Either way it's time for him to go.
oh God, this is like that scene in all the presidents men when woodstein spent a couple hours asking a random lady’s opinions abt watergate in her apt and then finally realize she’s not the woman who works at CREEP.
Caitlin Gilbert@caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 9mo agoI’m crying www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act falls, Democrats might need to win the national popular vote by 5 to 6 points to take control of the House, via Nate Cohn www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
This piece is fantastic, arguing that the path forward is to stick to a real moral center and pull others in, not to compromise your values away. “You don’t buy into the MAGA lies to get supporters. You give them a vision of what you support, and you call them to it.”
kottke.org@kottke.org · 10mo agoI really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]
So bring together all your generals in one place & show them how insane you are. Do you want a coup? Because this is how you get a coup.