Yu-Ming Liou
@yumingliou.bsky.social
Unfrozen caveman political economist. In my day, we didn't have fancy tools like causal identification, but we knew how to ask: “cui bono?" Former political scientist. Now I do research for an internet thing. The good one, though. 🇹🇼-🇺🇸 Washington, DC
The posture of Knowingness which is quick to assert that actually there is no sense things are getting worse when the state livestreams an execution because it's analogous to cop killings of the past is very stupid. You can and should notice changes.
Abbott really fucked himself with that voucher law huh
Gina Hinojosa@ginafortexas.bsky.social · yesterday8 time Texas HS football state champion coach knows what’s at stake this November.
This kinda framing is how you get a whole bunch of people believing Taiwan is a restive rebel territory trying to separate rather than already de facto independent under threat of invasion
Reuters@reuters.com · 2d agoGiant Taiwan flag flies from helicopter for national day, defying Beijing reut.rs/4yfLrLZ
I don't want to dunk-quote on this person, but actually, this is a perfect illustration of the problem. we can't become accustomed to or expect or concede constant monitoring from armed troops as we go about our business. it should always make us recoil. there's danger in it becoming unremarkable.
The anti-child bigotry in America is an enormous problem and one that too many people celebrate
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · yesterdayFar too many people simply hate children for existing
a lot of people are replying with 'what are you going to do about it,' and while every level of government could do more, the powers the *DC City Council* has in this situation are comparatively limited. This isn't just voter intimidation, but an argument for statehood for the District of Columbia.
DC Council@councilofdc.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is clearly not acceptable
All right, mark up at least one 18 USC §592 violation, assuming they were ordered to that specific location.
DC Council@councilofdc.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is clearly not acceptable
Extremely awkward and possibly legally dubious situation for DC residents.
Republicans will complain about Collins being called a bigot, meanwhile Mike Rogers keeps saying Al-Sayed is funded by Hamas and that his family is terrorists.
Getting increasingly annoyed at how so many leftists collapse all historical context and even time itself. The US hasn't done a public execution in 90 years, so this can't just be "what America is" if no living person has witnessed a public execution.
We need to incept the idea of Trump renaming the GOP to the Trump Party, and by “incept” I mean have a reporter mention it once within his earshot and he’ll become obsessed with it and not let it go
HELL Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2d agoFrom Reddit:
"threatened to report someone's marriage as fraudulent to chase them out of a rent-controlled apartment" is about the most evil thing I've ever read that didn't involve physical violence
Nikhil Shah@grandmastershah.bsky.social · 2d ago"Some landlords are even using deportation fears as leverage. Goldberg’s neighbor abandoned their rent-controlled unit voluntarily after their landlord threatened to report their marriage as fraudulent for the purposes of acquiring a green card, she said. “They left in fear.”
People say shit like this and then countries give parents infinity benefits and money and nothing changes
Musk as a favorable-unfavorable of 37.2-53.4 so no, 99% of Americans would not want more of him.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoJD Vance on H-1B recipients: "It's one thing if you were to bring in a person like Elon Musk. I think 99% of American citizens look at somebody like Elon Musk and say, 'if that person wants to come in and build something great in the US, we support that.' But if you're bringing in an accountant... "
This is a perfect illustration of how the dangers of AI are overwhelmingly not about bad model alignment with pro-social human values, but bad user alignment with pro-social human values. AI didn’t make this guy value getting in another 20 minutes of low-productivity work over bonding with his kid.
🎃👻🧙♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙♀️👻🎃@viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 2d agothis is so fucking sad
One of the great things about this is that his ethnicity / language is a real mystery. It worked in my mind as a Chinese guy until I got to the cheese part. Truly, all men are brothers (derogatory).
Krinn DNZ@krinndnz.bsky.social · 3d agoimages that spring to mind unbidden, part 999: "trans-inclusive radical misogyny" // "women should stay out of kitchens"
You know I really cut the American voter a lot of slack, but at this point “do you want to initiate the century of humiliation” polling at 44% is grim stuff.
Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 3d ago"If you we're to vote in the 2024 election, knowing what you know today, who would you vote for?" 🔵 Harris: 50% 🔴 Trump: 44% Cygnal / Oct 2, 2026
BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science.
Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4d agoNEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
And what do you call your act? 🥁 The Anglosphere!
Dr. Mike P. Moffatt@mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 4d agoSpoiler for an upcoming report. Although newcomers to Canada disproportionately settled in cities, Toronto's share of Ontario births actually fell during the immigration boom years, as the City priced out middle-class families.
I am very opposed to public opinion as a concept, for example. Stop having opinions. They’re all bad.
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · 3d agoYou can be an expert on things you are opposed to. Just because you have knowledge of something and can explain it in detail, it does not necessarily follow that you are a proponent of them
This is an all-timer for “Private equity is anything I don’t like” type glonzoism.
I need to add here that silicosis was still diagnosed even after “aggressive” protection equipment & procedures were put in place for the stonecutters. There is no countertop or remodel worth someone’s lungs or life.
SleepyNeutrons@sleepyneutrons.bsky.social · 3d agoShitty way to die. Something similar killed millions of animals after the last Yellowstone eruption.
Speaking only in my personal capacity as a Taiwanese-American, I would really like to have a norm against conflating problematic (maybe even genocidal!) ethnostates with the large multinational diasporas vaguely associated with them.
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 4d agoNYT ME Carolyn Ryan scolds Mamdani for what I think was a very intentional and wise decision NOT to conflate antisemitism and criticism of Israel. I guess her repoters have their marching orders now. www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-yo...
Did he think… the hecklers* were going to eat his food? *it is an offense against the English language to describe Code Pink as “liberal”, but that’s another issue
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d agoSomething is wrong with this guy’s wiring www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
At least no mathematician has ever had an extreme reaction to the rapid development of technology.
