It makes me unhappy and my partner hates when I talk about it yet I can’t quit doing it. So yeah checks out.

No letter grades, no majors, living on basically farmland in western Mass. Some people thrived, others honestly struggled to do anything. But at least it was interesting.

As a Hampshire graduate, this is sad to see. It's a weird place in a lot of ways, but in a world where universities are increasingly just converging towards being exactly the same it's a real loss to have fewer and fewer places actually trying new experiments in what's possible

Caruana's not going to win the Candidates, but at least he's going out with some extremely weird (and, for this game at least, seemingly winning) chess: three pawns for his bishop and they're all on the g file

I had a lot of fun the other day giving a workshop on the modern DID revolution at Syracuse University's Maxwell School — thank you @adam42smith.bsky.social for hosting!

I have posted the slides to my website at amandakweiss.com/did if anyone is interested.

One upside of my notifications tab lighting up yesterday was learning that some people get a "rude" tag appended to their bio apparently!

This is a much better articulation of something I was trying (and perhaps failing) to express yesterday. More evidence, I suppose, that longer form writing will always be better for this sort of conversation than the quick emotional reactions incentivized by social media.

The reason people are even talking about Piker is because he was supporting a candidate in the Michigan Democratic primary election

My point is that since then leftists have moved much more towards working within the Democratic Party, yet many liberals also seem to hate that. So what should they do? Looking through my notifications, the only answer I'm seeing is people mad they even exist, which doesn't seem that useful.

The costumes are clearly part of it, but I think they're also just much more approachable for non-math rock fans than the other bands people are mentioning. Sort of like how Tool is much more popular than the progressive metal bands purists prefer.

People on here talk a lot about democracy, but can mass democracy somehow exist in practice without being extremely messy and contentious? That seems unimaginable in a country as large and diverse as this one.

What exactly are people on the more populist/"dirtbag" left supposed to do? When leftists voted for Nader, liberals got mad at them. Now that they're trying to work within the Democratic Party, liberals also get mad at them. Is there some magical third option?

I think Piker basically just taps into 2 of the things people on Bluesky most like to argue about politically: when exactly edgelord anti-Israel language becomes antisemitic and him being more of a Bernie-type leftist (so relitigating a lot of that stuff)

What a nice move by Anish Giri to basically end any lingering hope Fabiano Caruana has of ever becoming world champion (giving up the bishop, but if fxg6 black can play e4 with checkmate soon to come)

(I like it a lot myself! But it definitely edges up to characters basically looking into the camera directly and saying "this is bad" at times)

Maybe this is part of why people like The Pitt so much

I could probably make some big picture argument about unresolved tensions in American left-liberalism going back to the Progressive era, but it might also just be true that people on here mostly drink a lot more than they gamble.

My Year as a Degenerate Sports Gambler Practically overnight, America made wagering on a game as frictionless as checking the weather. I was determined to understand the consequences—for my country, and for myself.

Finally read this article. More of a meta point, but it's kind of crazy the Atlantic gave a practicing Mormon $10,000 so that he could nearly destroy his life? (I also didn't realize how central of a role Chris Christie played in all this). www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

This is a tough issue. Banning a vice people are going to do anyway is arguably illiberal. It's also true that legalization is causing major social problems. But even if we banned it, people would still do it. How much enforcement are liberal skeptics of legalized sports betting comfortable with?

This is how I learned we have a softball team

The rare song where I love the bass, guitar, and drum parts equally and can't imagine it without any of them

I think this is the median position of social science academics. It's just that having a middleground/uncertain position on something doesn't lend itself to enthusiastic posting. IRL conversations about AI seem much more balanced than online conversations among self selected enthusiasts/critics.

I've only ever experienced (previously as a grad student and now as faculty) departments that do in-person written exams in a controlled computer lab setting.

But how will I know if someone with an incredibly common name has been cited in a field I've never thought about before

Not sure this will exactly hurt her support among the Teamsters leadership

The historical political economy crowd is about to run one million difference in differences models, but not sure what it will mean, if anything, for more qualitative scholars.

The new Yoko Ono bot on chess.com is actually kind of a neat idea. Based on her 1966 art piece Play It By Trust, all the pieces are the same color. I guess that was meant to make an anti-war point, but in practical terms a lot of chess players can probably keep track of which is which.

I think the poli sci rediscovery of Reconstruction—in emphasizing the Radical Republicans/democratization of the South—has missed the role of finance & industry in the GOP coalition, which only became more influential as time went on. Federal occupation costs $$$ & they were the ones with the $$$.

Are you willing to talk a bit about how much what you've been doing with Claude costs? Obviously no worries if you don't want to share that info. I've only played around with the free stuff we have access to through our university (not Claude Code) and am a bit confused on the price structure.

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