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Basketball, Policy, Kentuckian. Order depends on the day and how UK's season is going.
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Mike's back!

Increasingly seeing good sized subreddits (at least r/NBA and r/lotr in the last few minutes) ban Twitter links. Feels like a big deal, particularly in light of Twitter downgrading posts with links.

A new piece by Salim Furth makes important points on the relationships between homelessness and housing supply, which is more complicated than some analyses suggest: worksinprogress.co/issue/why-ho...

This is the closest I'll ever come to be being officially endorsed by the United States government.

The Court just denied cert in Sosa v. Martin County, leaving in place CA11's horrible en banc decision. So cops in FL, GA, and AL are still free to jail people for up to 3 days w/o consequence if anyone else in the country with the same name as the arrestee has an outstanding warrant.

Hey friends, I'll be in Chicago for a conference next week, let me know if you want to meet up while I'm in town!

R's strength has mostly been two-fold: 1. It's free, so the barrier to entry (either in learning or expanding it) is massively lower than Stata 2. It gained wide use among young people who had lots of free time, little cash, and comfort learning new tech After that it's just network effects.

I try not to do much punditry on the Trump legal stories - there are a few reporters who are good on it, read them! But my interest in all this is the moral hazard of not punishing election interference. You don't want a status quo where the loser can try to overturn the election for months.

bluesky now has a a brief, opportune window to rebrand itself as "twitter"

I'm not exaggerating when I say that the FTC's case here was one of the weakest arguments I've ever seen from a federal regulator on a high profile issue. Not a terribly surprising decision.