The bus is constantly failing me minimum twice a week. It’s a good thing I love talking to strangers and don’t mind wasting so much of my fucking time

My YouTube recs are all messed up bc somebody (me) keeps listening to hours of videos called “BUG MUSIC [NO AI]” and a bunch of lectures on gnostic texts

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy:

There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

World's most infuriating setup for a spatial regression discontinuity design.

If other LLs see an inc in demand for their land bc developers want to buy it up and demolish existing structures to build these new buildings, their outside option (the alternative to continuing to rent to longtime residents) increases and they may increase rents to compensate, I suppose.

I think the “rich people laugh” is undergoing evolution. I’m noticing a common mannerism of incorporating a wincing sound, like sucking in through the teeth as if in pain.

Half the problems of ppl like Mark Zuckerberg is they secretly think they're pussies because they got rich making software. It's why he got into jiu jitsu in his 40s

low key why the Climate Corps is a idea. men should graduate college, get a few years romping around the forest planting trees and shit to get these hangups out of their system so they can realize working in AC sending emails is chill instead of making it everyone's problem

My mom did medical transcription at night when I was a baby so she could take care of me in the daytime. I have a memory of being a toddler and she had to take me with her to go bring the tapes back and get new ones.

I feel like everybody’s engaging in health-conscious tech-facilitated privation

Lowkey wish I lived during a time where everybody smokes cigarettes. I just miss the smell of american spirit yellows and nothing is chic anymore and nobody has 15 minutes to waste together outside bc we’re all on the damn computer

Claude is amazing. Just two years ago, my youngest was crying all the time and acting like a baby. But then Claude came out and now she’s crying less and acting more like a toddler.

The most interesting part of this opera was reading “The Case of Wagner” beforehand

Having to take time off from orchestra bc of job stress and school stress and life stress but now I just have the additional sadness of not playing in orchestra

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization”

Debates on international students often focus on capacity, funding, or competition.

My paper shows the main effects on natives are not academic or economic, but social.

A childhood in classical music primed me for an adulthood of being interested in labor disputes

This is how my PhD Macro class at Drexel is and it works very well for us. He teaches from his handwritten notes and we hand in problem sets by email and pretty much circumvent BBLearn altogether. It’s one of the best classes I’ve ever taken.

I used to date a bodybuilder who loved Ronnie Coleman and would say this and I still think it myself

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
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Ugh man yeah that’s kinda pithy. Wish I thought of that to say at the lunch table.

This is the equivalent of getting jumped in for a particular echelon of the upper class

I listen to other people in my circles repeatedly discuss their youth sporting experiences in which they talk jokingly about how intense their dads (and coaches, though often their coaches were indeed their dads for some time) yelled at them during games. Oh haha yeah so cool…

Working on some punchy little observation about how youth sports is one of the most obvious arenas to watch people participate actively (and even knowingly) in class reproduction but I’m sure somebody else wrote it already

Because I am not a car-owner, I don’t go to Temple for evening rehearsals. It’s just not worth it to ride the BSL past 8pm alone.

I need a NON-PROFESSIONAL chamber ensemble, preferably playing early/early-ish music in Philadelphia. And I need it to be not run by an egotist. And I need it to not be mostly old main-liners and I need it to not be held at Temple. Thank you for your attention to this matter

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.

This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.