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ethanbdm.bsky.social
Studying accountability, national security, electoral accountability, political economy, tech & society, applied game theory @HarrisPolicy .
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My answer is here: voices.uchicago.edu/ethanbdm/fil...

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New episode of the Not Another Politics Podcast for your listening pleasure! effectivegov.uchicago.edu/podcast/is-t...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Hi new followers! If you happen to be interested in the separation of powers, Congress, government shutdowns, contempt of Congress, the filibuster, and more, have I got the book for you! www.amazon.com/dp/0300248334/

submitted 101 days ago • 20 comments

My first episode as co-host of Not Another Politics Podcast discussing work by @danmoskowitz.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

The fires are revealing how good elected officials are at their jobs. Unbiased information systematically affects electoral fortunes. This is why natural disasters being bad for incumbents on average isn't evidence of voter irrationality. voices.uchicago.edu/ethanbdm/fil...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

This is the sort of course for the sort of audience we dreamed of when we wrote Thinking Clearly with Data.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Current stats education for medical/other clinical students is bad and misaligned to what they really need to know to function. It teaches them to produce research in 1993, when we should be teaching most of them to be informed consumers today. We *should* teach something like this:

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Even though we are still 18 months from the super intelligence that can do everything, my sister's family let ChatGPT choose my Hanukkah gift and this is the result.

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I'm just hear to acknowledge how much I appreciate the detailed notes on recipes and oven timing various Ethans-of-Thanksgiving-Past have taken.

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

On Twitter they are discussing the proposition that Leonard Cohen is the greatest singer/songwriter of the past 100 years. So that's it for me over there; I'm out.

submitted 155 days ago • 2 comments

Just leaving this here apropos of nothing in particular. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Terrorism is not an ideology. Terrorism is a tactic. It is the use of violence to affect an audience larger than those who are its immediate victims. It has been used by people with all manner of ideologies: communists, nationalists, separatists, religious supremacists, anti-colonialists, etc.

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Do you know what it's called when I, a descendent of one of the oldest sephardic families on this continent (the oldest Jewish gravestone in N. America is Benjamin Bueno de Mesquita's, in the Portuguese synagogue graveyard in New York City), spend my day making brisket and chicken soup for Passover?

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Friends, I'm going to delete some posts. I had a good faith discussion with some people I know IRL. But I am not interested in having a broad public discussion on this topic on social media. (I know, why did I post?) I'll leave the one post that says the heart of what I think.

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