Turns out the cat was not the strangest of Schrödinger’s things

El problema fundamental es que el mundo esta lleno de Susanitas y Manolos que creen ser Mafaldas.

Anybody else out there in an editorial board for an Elsevier journal being asked to sign a contract with the company that stipulates a number of obligations and waivers of rights on the editors and obliges Elsevier to nothing? I'm really not inclined to sign.

For the kids in the back who may have had trouble with the first post....

The most remarkable feature of economic reality is how neatly it configures itself as homogeneous linear effects of observables on mean outcomes, with all latent heterogeneity and interaction structures reducing themselves to sufficiently well-behaved error terms. 🙄 #EconSky

My contribution to the conversation today

Marx failed to consider that a man’s deep sense of inadequacy can shape world events.

When I first saw this video years ago I thought it was a funny illustration of differences in culinary cultures.

I saw it again earlier today and realised it is a hilarious illustration of fundamentally different ontological takes on the relationship between parts and wholes... #EconSky

CAPITAL GOODS ARE PRODUCTS OF LABOUR, DRAWING ON OUR PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT!

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

People underestimate how the very title “Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities” is a comprehensive rejection of fundamental Walrasian takes on scarcity, “capital,” and factor incomes. Maybe a subtitle “bruh, capital goods are products of labour” would have helped. #EconSky

With everything else going on, I almost forgot to share the new, relaunched website for the Department of Economics at the NSSR. We are a small department committed to a pluralist, critical, and technically rigorous approach to economic analysis. #EconSky

www.newschool.edu/nssr/economi...

Celebrate the 250 years since the publication of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" with his observation that profits are a deduction from the product of labour, grounded on the fact that workers do not have direct access to the materials of their work. #EconSky

No fim das contas, a crise ecológica meio que comprova: estamos num jogo zero; existe um fundo de baixa entropia e a competição é quem consegue usar até a coisa ficar ruim

Poll suggests only a quarter of Americans support attacks on Iran US lawmakers heap pressure on Trump following the first US soldier deaths after Khamenei's killing.

The Reuters-Ipsos poll showing only one quarter of US respondents supporting attacks on Iran was carried out BEFORE the Trump administration announced the first deaths of US troops.
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How China’s universities joined the global elite Investment by Beijing has transformed the country’s institutions despite lingering questions about research quality and intellectual freedom

Pretty sure it was not by multiplying the number of highly paid administrators, pilling on real-estate investments, burning money on coaches, or adopting the worst aspects of contemporary corporate management…
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Yes, US elites have not really had to care about anything beyond their self-interest in decades. Brazil and South Korea have more recent experiences of large-scale working-class and broader social struggle. That creates facts to which elites and the institutions they typically control must adapt.

Moody’s alert cites gap in data centre accounting for Big Tech companies Accounting limitations mean tens of billions in liabilities may be concealed for leasing costs

The AI boom appears to be part dotcom bubble, part Theranos hype, and part WorldCom accounting.

What could possibly go wrong?? !

#EconSky
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A nearly perfect day at an upstate second-hand bookstore… #Statistics #MildOCD

Conflate money value added per hour with labour productivity, include sectors whose “value added” involves what is better understood as transfers, and teach it for long enough to make it all seem normal, and you get this kind of assessment…#EconSky

The closing phrase about a 5yo citizen is so disturbing and telling. We’re well and truly in an environment where the words spoken by regime supporters don’t have to make logical sense. They just need to invoke the desired sense of “us versus them” to be effective.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

The media moved on when trump said he had a new tone because as the constitution states the president is the editor in chief of all news outlets

Tariff Man Tumbles, Fumbles and Bumbles on Trade | Washington Spectator When it comes to economics, we know two things about Donald Trump. He is obsessed with the US trade deficit. And he thinks tariffs, or import taxes, will solve the trade deficit problem.

@publicseminar.bsky.social @elizabethcooper.bsky.social @plbds.bsky.social @avgevork.bsky.social My latest @washspectator.bsky.social piece-- on Trump's tariff/trade policy. Enjoy!
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Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

ICE agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain illegal immigrants
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People need to listen closely and take stock of what is being said here. This federal official is commanding 22,000 heavily armed men across the country.

A car crash is a tragedy, Mr. President. Brownshirts terrorizing immigrants, citizens of certain ethnicities, and now openly executing people in broad daylight is rising fascism. You used to defend this kind of prevarication on electoral grounds. What’s the excuse now?

Target in Minneapolis has pulled Hispanic employees off of pick-up order duty after ICE arrested two US citizen Hispanic employees while on the job.

“I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all:

The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

This was between the first and second shot, of a total of ten fired.