Everyone freezing on the East Coast or in the Midwest remember: Kyiv has the same weather, except that hundreds of thousands of people don't have electricity, heating or running water

In my book, I show that an eviction can ruin someone's life *even if it never happens.* A mere eviction FILING—even one dismissed in court—can destroy your credit and lock you out of housing for years.

That's why I say people aren't "falling" into homelessness. They're being pushed.

“Staff departures from HUD’s regional and field offices … could “greatly delay” or “potentially disrupt” such critical functions as underwriting loans, processing mortgage insurance claims and closing apartment building sales, the internal report warns.”

[CityLab article; free to access]

There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone: 9780593237144 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes...

I finished reading Brian Goldstone's book, "There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America." I cannot recommend it enough to anyone interested in LMI communities or housing issues.

Terrific work, @brian-goldstone.bsky.social .

The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally-mandated agency.

NEW: The CFPB has been gutted. More than 1,400 workers received RIF notices this afternoon, agency sources tell me. Around 200 employees are left. www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

Experian bought a company called AutoCount years ago that used to compile that sort of info. They now market the service as Experian Automotive. I suspect they would know. HTH.

Opinion | The Long Shadow of Fraud in Alzheimer’s Research Fraud in research needs to end.

On the amazing downfall of Alzheimer's research by widespread manipulations and the crooked incentive structure in science: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

If you need to finance the purchase over a few months (say, four), the interest charges on a credit card will likely be more than the rebate, particularly if you're already carrying a balance. In that case, a no-interest BNPL loan can seem like a good deal, even for prime card holders.

Washington Post cartoonist resigns over paper’s refusal to publish cartoon critical of Jeff Bezos Pulitzer prize winner Ann Telnaes drew a cartoon of the paper’s owner kneeling before Donald Trump

Truly an ominous sign that the Post is making such cowardly editorial decisions that marquee cartoonist @anntelnaes.bsky.social felt compelled to quit. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

This is very different than my experience (mostly in govt). I’m surrounded by microeconomists who use Stata. Use of R is less common.

I regularly use Quarto to write referee reports even when there’s no code. The citation and math capabilities make it worthwhile to me.

Drinking the raw milk, or feeding it to unvaccinated children & babies, increases the odds that bird flu will mutate to spread human-to-human

It has a ~55%+ human mortality rate

There wouldn't be enough of us left alive to bury our dead

Thus, our enemies should NOT drink the raw milk

I made a feed for consumer law posts. Skeets about the CFPB, FTC, consumer protection, consumer debt, student loan law, UDAP/UDAAPs, unfair trade practices, and the like. #consumerlaw on a post works too.
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Chevron, Loper, and the Administrative State Written by David Silberman

Interesting perspective on what the Supreme Court’s Loper decision means for regulatory policymaking from my former boss, the very astute David Silberman.

For an EPS, this should work:

setEPS()
postscript(file = 'graph.eps', width = 3, height = 3)
plot(runif(25), runif(25))
dev.off()

For a PDF, replace first two lines with:
pdf('graph.pdf', height = 3, width = 3)

HTH (and congrats on reaching the publication stage!).

So, the #RStats R data file deserialization weakness (that should not have been given a CVE) is not "fixed" in R 4.4.0. Konrad Rudolph (mega amazing longtime R dude) did more poking and this bug/feature is not going away anytime soon.
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That’s what I’ve done too. I will generate Word output so people can comment using track changes, which they’re most comfortable with, and then I will manually make the changes by hand. I will then generate the output as a PDF (via LaTeX).

How does it look in LaTeX?

Based on my own experience (which is with Econ/finance journals), journals aren’t as focused on professionalism as they are on their need for graphs in black and white.

👎 Sounds like it should have been a (short) part of the original paper’s robustness section. It's good that they've done it, but to me it doesn't sound sufficiently novel to warrant publication in the same/similar journal. (Could have value as a replication, but only with different authors imo.)

2) This seems like the type of life skill one otherwise only learns by making this mistake on an exam. Maybe they’re trying to help 4th graders not make the same mistake.

1) Ang, knowing Noah (who sits behind him in class) is smarter, decided to copy his answer using a mirror he put up his sleeve for the exam. However, he forgot to account for the fact that a 20 observed in a mirror can look like a 50. (His second error was overestimating Noah’s math skills.)

Academics should do citation drives, asking people to cite their work to make their annual H-index targets.

Was it papeeria?

It turns out my free OpenAI API credits expired in May (after using $0 of the $18 in free credits they gave me)! If I uncheck "Enable OpenAI", it works. Thanks!

Looks cool, Mike, but it didn't work for me. Installed fine, but when I record something and hit "Stop" I get a loud gong sound every time (same thing when I use the shortcut keys). The system permissions are set up like in the video. Any theories?

In that case, I look forward to the day my new Tesla springs from the ground to replace the car the earth took from me.