ryandedwards.bsky.social
Health Economics, Macro, Labor, Demography @UCSF and @UCBerkeley @berkeleyecon Former faculty @CUNY and @NBERpubs. 2002 Econ Ph.D. & Oakland fan. He/him
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But there's something weird going on with students in large courses increasingly just ignoring rules about pens-down when time is called. I think it stems from feeling anonymous, but I also think there's a flavor in the air of a lack of accountability
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Yeah, it's real. It's also springtime, and typically I've run econometrics in the fall, when I think the crop of students is a little more "professional" possibly. (But spring also brings more xfer students, who are more professional; it's the homegrown students that seem a little interesting now.)
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I’ve never been prouder to say the US is my home than when I saw “From the American People” alongside the USAID logo on sacks of food, on clinics in the middle of nowhere or on one of my reports. The DHS is emblematic of that generosity of spirit – a true global good.
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Was Carl Sagan ever big enough?
today there’s just nothing except Bill Nye and maybe the old Mythbusters duo
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Maybe if we point out that their private insurance premiums will probably rise when other insured people behave unwisely and land in a hospital bed or ED.
Even if the sick folks aren’t insured, as may be with Mennonite families. Somebody pays for health care; people can’t & shouldn’t be turned away
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Yes but what if the government really really wants to do some crimes?
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One small problem is whom does the government buy it from? Ideally not the Winklevoss Twins or other robber barons
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Maybe it’s still useful for people with like 100-1000 followers, because they’re probably not going to attract much bad behavior. I don’t think I ever did
But the place just sucks, that’s why I don’t use it much. Just impossible to use blinders there without some kind of algorithmic help
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Dolly Parton might be an effective voice if she wanted to say positive things about science again. But I think she probably has her hands full with living and saying gentle things about Ukrainians
Bill Nye the Science Guy has seemed up for it in the past
Francis Collins maybe? He’s been outspoken
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I wonder if the strategy is to quietly support researchers and try to maximize direct legal support by not drawing ire and generating another lawsuit?
Another problem is that there may not be any superstar scientists who are recognizable enough to make a difference with the public by speaking out
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It’s disgusting language. This grant got a perfect score on resubmission. Obviously 20+ reviewers thought it was meritorious
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The problem is that diff kinds of data are released at diff times.
A surge in M is also partly a surge in C, or I. Most likely, this is businesses accumulating inventories (which will show up in I). But the trackers don't have inventory info yet, so they "see" ↑M, but haven't yet seen ↑I (or ↑C).
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Fwiw, I teach in environmental studies, Silicon Valley public university/Calstate, upper division intro env law, energy and environment, solar energy analysis, and sustainable energy. I ask students of each how many have heard of the Inflation Reduction Act 1st day of class? Wanna guess percentage?
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It’s as though being a minority in your geographic might make you feel isolated and vengeful, and maybe hurt your health. Can one imagine. /s
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He’s become a literary contortionist first, an analyst of policy and politics second
It has also happened to Bret Stephens to a lesser extent. Mostly on those dreadful Mondays. Who still seems firmly in control of logic and facts? The conservative commentator who doesn’t live in NYC: David French
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The hat muted trumpet on The Memorabilia is just the perfect icing on that cake. Horns arranged perfectly as usual. Wildly brief lyrics on that one
So much was happening in the early teens. Radiohead’s King of Limbs, St Vincent, Bill Callahan, Steve Martin & Edie Brickell
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Jace, I am deeply sorry. The letter leans into being both cruel and anti-science. "Just following orders" never has been a legitimate excuse.
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This breaks my heart, that NIH has come to this, our nation has come to this, and your work is directly impacted. It's time to get your campus legal team involved. You are surely not the only person being hit with this and there is strength in numbers.
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Especially with the return to live touring preceding or overlapping with Kamakiriad it makes a lot of sense
Morph the Cat has felt like a complete, coherent album to me, more than Kamakiriad did and more than Sunken Condos for some reason. maybe just because I like the imagery and melodic hooks
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So much for targeting unauthorized immigrants who are committing actual crimes … rather than paying their taxes
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I don’t know why but Circus Money never landed with me. I even bought the album on iTunes back in the day. In 2008 I was pretty heavily into Beck and Radiohead, ironic given the Two Against Nature Grammy
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That was a pretty good album, good track. Out there though. Hat Too Flat was another one I recall, really nice chorus on that one
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It was fantastic. Interesting take placing Nightfly in Act 1 and Kamakiriad in Act 2. But it’s clear the act ends either before or after Nightfly I guess