Woke Gary Becker describes soc today more than I care to admit

AI will soon unlock the dream of many upper level administrators, a faculty free university. Followed closely behind by a faculty and student free university.

what came in the mail this week: @jwmason.bsky.social's Against Money; @briancallaci.bsky.social's Chains of Command; & @quinnslobodian.com's Muskism

my response to your email will be delayed 📚

The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy

@chrishampsonlaw.bsky.social

If you (like me!) feel uneasy about the societal consequences of big AI firms, their lock on your data, etc, you can now run an LLM locally one one beefy GPU or MacBook Pro, that’s just insanely capable (will feel close to Claude like 6-12 months ago for many tasks). qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen...

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy"

screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

Highlights from Git 2.54 The open source Git project just released Git 2.54. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

New in Git, ✨ git history ✨ (I don't mean the Git history 🫠 )

😰 Oh shit, that old commit's message had a typo!
😌 git history reword <commit-id>

😰 Oh shit, that old commit is too big!
😌 git history split <commit-id> (to split it into two commits)

github.blog/open-source/... (h/t Hugo Gruson)

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ASA is not run by sociologists, it is wholly captured by the consultant/association industrial complex (like this former executive director whose bio doesn't mention 8 years at ASA), with money raised by/for the academic publishing monopoly. It's good for us to have an association, especially now
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Agreed!

Always sad when students learn about the secret list of all their flaws we professors keep whenever we notice the inadequacies they're trying to hide. You want to shield them from that, you know? But, just like their deep seated failings, in the end it always comes out.

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Hi #EconSky

📣 Introducing "Applied Econ Collective" 📣

Academia is full of fees: for submissions, workshops, software...😔

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The most progressive thing Roberts, Alito, and Thomas have ever done!

If the manuscript doesn’t prominently feature at least one of any number of XKCD comics, I’m not reading it!

True but unfortunately funny bc Blackberry was Canadian and Apple American.

Reminder that as the US tarrifs are now being refunded to importers, some of the insiders stand to gain on the back end. Heads I win, tails you loose…

For the more derivative only pretend-edgy 90s kids, black hole sun.

Came here to say Jeremy

Good answer

Bernhard Dalheimer and I were interviewed on the Eat This podcast about our recent working paper on the geopolitics of food and agriculture. You can listen here: eatthispodcast.com/geopolitics/

"What do you mean 'the linear probability model is probably just as good as logistic regression if you're interested in the average marginal effects'?"

Mega-🧵 : Never before analyzed FTC data on franchising shows that
* Brands are increasingly squeezing and exploiting franchise operators by
- Increasing control over franchise operators
- intensifying competition among franchises
- increasing the cost of exit through non-competes.

Academic life hack: You can change the mc. at the beginning to a journal acronym and it still works.

Oh, they misspelled “sex tourism”

A small, but meaningful quality of life improvements to your Claude Code workflow is available by editing your .claude/settings.json:

```
"spinnerVerbs": {
"mode": "replace",
"verbs": [
"Working"
]
}
```

Sure, you won't see "perambulating" any more. But you're also not 12 yo.

Genuinely impressive! Um, got any of that spare?

Real men, like me, always carry a few tide wipes and a tide pen in their fanny packs.