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economics, innovation, and random stuff

https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/ashish-arora

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ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 5h
A key point of difference is the possibility of a draw -

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10h
In actual fact, one remarkable thing about Roman citizenship is that,.like American citizen, it was generally 'all or nothing' - a newly enfranchised veteran was instantly every bit a citizen as the bluest blooded senator.

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 17h
I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship

'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'

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What I suggest is different. Although broadly in the spirit of Aquinas’ two-or-three generations test insofar as it emphasizes the duties rather than the rights of immigrants who becomes citizens, it is derived not from theological principles but from a civil-law analogy — an analogy to the Roman law of adoption. After all, inclusion within “our posterity” may ordinarily arise not only through natural descent, but through legal adoption. In brief, I suggest that the legal immigrant should understand himself as an adopted son of a natural and concretely existing family, the American family, and this brings with it particular duties of filial piety and reverence for that particular family and for its thick heritage and traditions. Our laws as made, interpreted and applied should reflect that understanding as well. Because it is an analogy, not an identity, what I propose is not a set of legal rules to be directly mapped from Roman law into the American legal system. Rather it is a suggestion that the Roman law of adoption rested on a set of discernible principles of legal justice and political morality that represent the spirit of the laws bearing on immigration and citizenship in America — a time-honored mode of legal interpretation here, albeit not an originalist mode. Such principles should affect the interpretation of actually existing legal texts, rules, and doctrines; they should be understood as the soul of our law of citizenship. Needless to say, this does not answer or even purport to speak to all questions bearing on immigration. I do not speak here, for example, to the enforcement of the immigration laws against illegal immigrants, or to prospective questions of policy about exactly how much legal immigration, if any, there should be, and from where. All I address is the question what principles of legal justice and political duty apply, under existing law, to the immigrant who is already here legally. To that end I suggest a conceptual model for understanding the role and obligations of that immigrant — what justice classically understood requires of him.

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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 19h
Merry Christmas from Hatbird!

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 23h
In a new blog post, I contrast two flavors of empiricism: the one practiced in the social sciences and the one practiced in ML/CS.

I argue that we need both, given that CS is increasingly about "claims," and not just constructing artifacts.

doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 6d
Elon Musk is spreading nonsense conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election again. This “report” comes from The Federalist, a propaganda rag for the Trump regime.

Long story short: there was a statewide hand recount in GA. Biden’s victory confirmed. No law broken. This is nonsense.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19d
I do think one think that Trump and the broader right wing political movement have been successful about is convincing lots of people that the only real accountability are elections (at least when they win). They are lots of forms of govt accountability!
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unelected-...
"Unelected Bureaucrats" Are More Accountable Than You Think
Democratic accountability takes many forms other than elections
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21d
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

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Jeff Youngblood @jeffyoungblood.bsky.social · 21d
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 22d
MMT - between the tautological and the tendentious
jdportes.bsky.social Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 23d
Agree with @jomichell.bsky.social here.

My earlier piece: "The claim that that MMT means that a future government can dodge hard choices about how to pay for decent public services is just plain nonsense."

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...

ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 22d
Tangent: are we completely giving up on the distinction between less and few?
mollyjongfast.bsky.social Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22d
Republican women in the house accusing trumps handpicked speaker of …. Sexism

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22d
Republican women in the house accusing trumps handpicked speaker of …. Sexism

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23d
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 23d
Agree with @jomichell.bsky.social here.

My earlier piece: "The claim that that MMT means that a future government can dodge hard choices about how to pay for decent public services is just plain nonsense."

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...

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Nature @nature.com · 26d
Five years ago, researchers at Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaFold2

go.nature.com/44rM1di
AlphaFold is five years old — these charts show how it revolutionized science
Nature - Since it was unveiled in 2020, Google DeepMind's game-changing AI tool has helped researchers all over the world to predict the 3D structures of hundreds of millions of proteins.
go.nature.com

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Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 27d
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 27d
publicly name them.
kevinzollman.com Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 28d
One of the most serious problems in academia is that there are basically no consequences for sloppy peer review. What can the journal do? Ban them from reviewing again (the horror!)
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28d
Springer-Nature statement

“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”

How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?

ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 27d
the time perhaps for severe penalties. Authors named and shamed, and likewise reviewers publicly identified.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29d
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 28d
I'm thinking of starting a business selling books & writing supplies out of the back of a station wagon.

I'll call it: "The Non-Stationary Stationery Station(wagon)"

How did we get words with almost identical spelling & pronunciation with such different meanings?

They started as the SAME word!
Boxes labeled "books" in all orientations packed firmly into the back of a Sprinter cargo van.

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 28d
One of the most serious problems in academia is that there are basically no consequences for sloppy peer review. What can the journal do? Ban them from reviewing again (the horror!)
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28d
Springer-Nature statement

“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”

How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29d
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 29d
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Nov 27
you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB
Dee on Twitter writes: "I don't understand what unmarried women are expected to do. Just coast through life, hoping someone will feed and clothe them forever? Or are they allowed to work, but only in a minimum wage job that requires no schooling? Not everyone can just stay with their parents forever." Defiant Baptist retweets her and writes: "A high value man would much rather marry a sweet girl that works at a coffee shop than a boss babe CEO type that sees herself as his equal or superior. That's just a fact. She should stay at home under her father's roof and focus on attracting such a man." This is part of a long convo chain about women who go to college and grad school, build careers, and buy a home. Defiant Baptist notes that this makes women unattractive to "high value men."

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Nov 27
I can't believe the Lizza Nuzzi stories are still going 😭

This is definitely better. We talk about eels and rabbits, and separately, people trying to keep smallpox vaccines alive

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · Nov 26
🚨Imagine ICE conducting a raid on your PRIVATE PROPERTY.🚨
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · Nov 25
And the Guardian! There are elements of her critique I accept, others I don't, but there you go...
Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science
Genius and arrogance play leading roles in a new biography of the man who helped uncover the structure of DNA
www.theguardian.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Nov 25
> @samsteindc.bsky.social

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · Nov 25
And that pressure just went up a few notches thanks to America's Finest News Source.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Nov 24
Genuine question: has any GOP member of house or senate spoken out about the Dept of defense and Hegseth threatening sen Mark Kelly with lawfare? Beyond disturbing

Especially any veterans?

Shame on all those who stay silent

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · Nov 24
Senator Kelly & his fellow veterans are American patriots.

Their video simply reiterated the Uniform Code of Military Justice's requirement to only carry out LAWFUL orders.

Not surprising that Secretary Talk Show Host doesn't know that.