I feel like one of the larger reasons AI hasn’t shown significant economic growth boosting ability is because it’s mostly a labor saving tool that allows people to shirk more

I got to put out a little piece in @promarket.bsky.social on my recent working paper. We’re doing some revisions right now, but I am proud of what we’ve done so far!

How Newspaper Competition Fueled Quebec’s 1837 Rebellion - ProMarket

In new research, Patrick Crawford and Vincent Geloso find that areas in Lower Canada with more newspaper competition were more likely to rebel in Quebec’s 1837 Rebellion. Irrespective of political lea...

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🧵 What caused the 1837–38 rebellions in Canada? Was it nationalism? Poverty? Institutions? We (@vincentgeloso.bsky.social and I) argue: it was the newspapers. And the result flips how we think about rebellions [cross-post from his Twitter/X]

We must break the supreme court

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

Federal Reserve@federalreserve.gov · 10mo ago

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

YouTube video by Federal Reserve

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Preprint w/ (rapid) analysis of Grokipedia, showing it to be “highly derivative of Wikipedia”, but differing, often on controversial topics, in that Grokipedia includes content/cites from low quality (hyper partisan & conspiracy laden) sources like Stormfront & Infowars. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09685

This is a really fascinating article. Mississippi's "basic" reading comprehension for Black 4th-graders is 52%. In California, it's 28%. In fact, Mississippi has gone from having one of the nation's worst school systems to one of the best. Despite being one of the poorest states. t.co/g4zk759SKE

Can I finish this draft soon or will I just rerun R for the thousandth time?

i think fundamentally the story of 2024 and the reaction to this admin is a bunch of people's whose entire lives are predicated on stability necessary for liberal democratic capitalism to function standing in a circle holding hands chanting "worse things aren't possible"

Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · last yr.

I will go to my deathbed, which god willing will be in like seven decades, absolutely hating these people for their sheer hubris and decadence. We had the world, and they are risking it all because they can't see past the bridge of their nose shoved up their ass

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

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The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

Don't let MAGA gaslight you into thinking any of this is popular.

#BLM OTD 1863, Harriet Tubman planned & guided an armed raid (becoming the 1st woman to do so in the Civil War) against Confederate forces, supply depots & plantations along the Combahee River in coastal South Carolina. The raid freed nearly 800 people. #BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory

And this is why Pride month *must* exist. I wish peace and justice for his family.

Will Harris@willharrisinva.bsky.social · last yr.

The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.

"Maybe it's time for us to be a little bit meaner. Maybe it's time for us to be a little more fierce."

Sounds worrisome

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."

And can we eat those dollars?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

Trump: "We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China. Now we're essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we're saving hundreds of billions of dollars. It's very simple."

This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

I'd be disturbed if a court barred a politician from standing for 'offensive speech', or 'bullying', or other such subjective matters. Barring them for embezzlement though feels pretty legit.

What should have been…

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2y ago

The former Brazil president faces potentially decades in prison if found guilty on charges of leading an armed criminal organisation, violent abolition of the rule of law and coup d’état. www.ft.com/content/b89a...

i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution

U.S. Senator John Fetterman@fetterman.senate.gov · 2y ago

The weeks of performative “resistance” from those in my party were limited to undignified antics. Voting to shut the government down will punish millions or risk a recession. I disagree with many points in the CR, but I will never vote to shut our government down.

Greg Mankiw, who has been teaching econ 101 for decades, scolds Hassett for causally interpreting an accounting identity and pretending it’s econ 101 gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2025/03/kevi...

these are segregationists.

Ida Bae Wells@nhannahjones.bsky.social · 2y ago

“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.