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Aspiring wastrel, applied econometrician. At http://rachaelmeager.com for bayes, dev econ and meta science. Also at http://rottenandgood.substack.com for writing, art, death and emotions. Gay academic nonbinary weirdo, cursed to be serious in life.
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Some of y’all can’t handle two high agency males going at it and it really shows

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts. But there was a slight hitch. It hallucinated the size of those deals. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

submitted 10 hours ago • 84 comments

Watch me scramble in real time as I try to find the economic angle on the Musk-Trump tiff. (I think I found one, and the issues it highlights are terrifyingly important.)

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

only a galaxybrained gigachad like akira kurosawa would think to transmute edmund (lear) into lady kaeda

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

i just started reading The Mirror and The Light, on like page 2 she describes anne bolyn's corpse as a "narrow carcass" maaaan hilz never lost it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

Is this the best marketing I’ve ever seen?

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

"I think it often happens that grad students hit a stage wherein they are well trained enough to be able to see flaws in the published literature but haven't yet had the soul crushing experience of trying to do better and failing. You eventually realise that you are not gonna fix much at all. "

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

rereading lear again, i'm about to cook up some galaxybrained take where i ship edgar with the duke of albany i also always forget edmund's cunning plan is to have cordelia hanged in prison then frame it as a suicide. plus ca change!

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

there has been a slight attempt at a 2015 era SJW revival in the last few weeks and I'm here to say don't do it. we need to evolve not get back on our bullshit.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

“The tempest in my mind / Doth from my senses take all feeling else” (3.4.13–14).

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Broke: There are and always have been two genders Woke: There are many genders with fluid boundaries which are socially constructed Bespoke: There is only one gender left in the 21st century, and that gender is idiot

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

TIL men did do embroidery in early modern england www.metmuseum.org/essays/engli... seems to be parallel to cooking now, that the professional world of the craft is dominated by men but the same task conceived of as domestic labour is seen as service and thus female

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

It hasn’t been five months and the judges are quoting Kafka in their opinions

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Our national debt is out of control and it's unfortunate that the only tool we have to deal with this is cutting food assistance to single mothers making $18k a year. If only someone could invent a method for getting just a bit more cash from guys who don't even know where their 5th yacht is docked

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

the proofs for my article include changing "Yale University" to "University of Yale", in case anyone is wondering what Elsevier's cash is paying for

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

I'm going to start collecting threads on HK protest art in one place. Easier to walk down memory lane, even if they be filled with tears and teargas. Having these in many places mean the images are harder to erase. And harder to forget.

submitted 230 days ago • 9 comments

This is so creepy it just defies belief

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

omg ir hot takes is here!!!!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The way we got into this mess is the average American being an idiot with oppositional defiant disorder who thinks they’re invincible and causes the country to be ungovernable. For better or worse, this is also the only real way out of the mess.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments