eridyn.bsky.social
International Relations (Political Economy & Conflict)
Applied Econ
Work: Public Policy, Labor Econ
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I fear that is a question of age and experience rather than time.
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Seems like if they want to lock up Musk an easier path to that is to indict him for one of the many actual crimes he's committed recently, e.g. bribing Wisconsin voters
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I'm 100% going to be Debbie Downer on this one.
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This is also where you can actually use TACO, because we genuinely want to goad trump into destroying musk, there's no downside. You said you're gonna pull his contracts buddy, what's stopping you hm? Maybe prosecute him while you're at it
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Needless to say though they should be working to make this come about and encouraging conflict. "Musk is right that the bill should die and trump is right that musk's contracts should be terminated. They're fighting now because they both want to sell the country out to themselves."
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I wouldn't trust the language of USDA statistical reports to be nonpolitical from here on out.
I would still trust the statistics themselves unless and until a similar report surfaces on that.
I trust the integrity of the statistical pros to blow the whistle when politicals cross lines.
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Aside from abuse is neglect.
Adjusted for inflation, BLS funding is down 20% since 2011.
This + hiring freeze is forcing BLS to reduce data collection & erode the range & quality of info produced.
POTUS's new budget proposal'd cut BLS $ & staff by abt 8%.
apnews.com/article/infl...
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Our conclusion: Apparently "spontaneous" or "emergent" dynamics are observationally equivalent to data leakage.
That is, what looks like emergent behavior may be LLMs drawing on their pretraining data.
Read the full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23796
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*opens multiple news sites, verifies this is indeed true*
... I'm completely incapable of even forming part of a sentence in reaction.
Fuck.
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Aside from a few econ starter packs, I've only followed manually. Likewise, after a block list erroneously caught a few econsky folks, I stopped using all block lists and all blocks and mutes are manual. I need to prune the probable spam accounts that following me though.
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It's always odd (and a bit disappointing) to me that many people still operate in the early internet, "instant follow-back," mode that hasn't been appropriate or useful since the decline of web rings. All it does now is help spammers and scammers.
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Clearly one to block and move on from, though you might want to scroll through their timeline to block some other reactionaries first.
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Is there any particular subject area you're interested in?
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So many Democrats were complicit in Musk's grift, and if even a handful of them had enforced existing laws against Musk at the time his offenses became known, we wouldn't be here today (insofar as Musk would be far less powerful and possibly in prison).
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... yeah, that they are.
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When we say that these are guys are Nazis, THIS is what we mean.
And they're trying to do the same thing to programs in the US as well. They want more power, more money, and they don't care if the rest of us live or die. That's it. It's not complicated.