Ben Zipperer
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Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!
December 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!
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🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
December 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
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Important work using U.S. tax data shows businesses have absorbed minimum wage increases without affecting employment, and through higher revenue-likely reflecting price & productivity offsets. Also shows how reallocation towards more productive firms offers another margin of adjustment.
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns,” by Rao (@nirupama.bsky.social) and Risch: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns*
Abstract. A common concern surrounding minimum wage policies is their impact on independent businesses, which are often feared to be less able to bear or p
doi.org
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Important work using U.S. tax data shows businesses have absorbed minimum wage increases without affecting employment, and through higher revenue-likely reflecting price & productivity offsets. Also shows how reallocation towards more productive firms offers another margin of adjustment.
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I’ve been worried about this. People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries.
‘They tricked me’: Migrants were promised $1,000 to voluntarily leave the US. Some never received it
People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I’ve been worried about this. People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries.
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Solar power made up 9.1% of US electricity this October, up from 7.8% last year
Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 8.4% of US electricity, a record high!
Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 8.4% of US electricity, a record high!
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Solar power made up 9.1% of US electricity this October, up from 7.8% last year
Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 8.4% of US electricity, a record high!
Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 8.4% of US electricity, a record high!
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Deportations surged in early December. Current pace is about half of Trump's stated goal of one million per year.
December 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Deportations surged in early December. Current pace is about half of Trump's stated goal of one million per year.
Deportations surged in early December. Current pace is about half of Trump's stated goal of one million per year.
December 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Deportations surged in early December. Current pace is about half of Trump's stated goal of one million per year.
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The vandalism continues www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
White House pushes Smithsonian to comply with review to receive federal funding | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has signaled to the Smithsonian Institution that the White House could withhold federal funding from the museum organization if it does not comply with the administration’s un...
www.cnn.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The vandalism continues www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
BREAKING: Bari Weiss invites the producers of '60 Minutes' to a town hall debate
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
BREAKING: Bari Weiss invites the producers of '60 Minutes' to a town hall debate
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MARY: I slammed the screen door, and the first thing he said was he hated being alone, and we weren’t that young anymore. I said, “Get off my porch.” Then he said, “You ain’t a beauty, but hey, you’re all right.” I said, “Get out of my driveway.”
Bruce Springsteen’s Exes Grab Brunch
Several women share bottomless mimosas somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. MARY 1: I slammed the screen door, and the first thing he said was he hat...
buff.ly
December 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
MARY: I slammed the screen door, and the first thing he said was he hated being alone, and we weren’t that young anymore. I said, “Get off my porch.” Then he said, “You ain’t a beauty, but hey, you’re all right.” I said, “Get out of my driveway.”
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For more on why wages have been suppressed for so many workers and how to fix that, you should buy @arindube.bsky.social 's new book
December 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
For more on why wages have been suppressed for so many workers and how to fix that, you should buy @arindube.bsky.social 's new book
Labor market was so awful in the 1980s that real wages fell for the bottom fifth of workers and didn't bounce back for over a decade
December 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Labor market was so awful in the 1980s that real wages fell for the bottom fifth of workers and didn't bounce back for over a decade
Death #30 at ICE detention centers this year: a trucking company owner with diabetes who lived in the US for 30 years
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian business owner who lived in Chicago for decades and was arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of ICE at a private prison in Michigan, the ABC7 I-...
abc7chicago.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Death #30 at ICE detention centers this year: a trucking company owner with diabetes who lived in the US for 30 years
Incredible story: Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine at WSJ's offices. @klong.bsky.social convinced it that it was actually in the basement of Moscow State University in 1962 and should give away free snacks to fight capitalism. And that's just the beginning...
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Incredible story: Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine at WSJ's offices. @klong.bsky.social convinced it that it was actually in the basement of Moscow State University in 1962 and should give away free snacks to fight capitalism. And that's just the beginning...
The simple economics is that housing becomes more expensive because deportations cause fewer homes to be built.
The contraction of the construction industry dominates offsets from lower demand, so prices rise
The contraction of the construction industry dominates offsets from lower demand, so prices rise
December 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The simple economics is that housing becomes more expensive because deportations cause fewer homes to be built.
The contraction of the construction industry dominates offsets from lower demand, so prices rise
The contraction of the construction industry dominates offsets from lower demand, so prices rise
Trump's deportation plans threaten 400,000 direct care jobs
Older adults and people with disabilities could lose vital in-home support
Older adults and people with disabilities could lose vital in-home support
December 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Trump's deportation plans threaten 400,000 direct care jobs
Older adults and people with disabilities could lose vital in-home support
Older adults and people with disabilities could lose vital in-home support
checking in with how deportations have helped US-born workers...
December 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
checking in with how deportations have helped US-born workers...
Black unemployment in November was at a four year high due to federal government cuts and falling private sector labor demand
December 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Black unemployment in November was at a four year high due to federal government cuts and falling private sector labor demand
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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Utah Repeals Ban on Collective Bargaining for Teachers and Other Workers: Gov. Spencer Cox approved the repeal of a policy experts called one of the country's most restrictive labor laws.
Utah Repeals Ban on Collective Bargaining for Teachers and Other Workers
Gov. Spencer Cox approved the repeal of a policy experts called one of the country's most restrictive labor laws.
www.edweek.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Utah Repeals Ban on Collective Bargaining for Teachers and Other Workers: Gov. Spencer Cox approved the repeal of a policy experts called one of the country's most restrictive labor laws.
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Trump’s deportation plan would wipe out 394,000 direct care jobs, hurting immigrant AND U.S.-born workers.
Families would lose vital home care. States like NY could lose nearly half their care workforce. Mass deportations = a care crisis. New from @benzipperer.org @domesticworkers.bsky.social
Families would lose vital home care. States like NY could lose nearly half their care workforce. Mass deportations = a care crisis. New from @benzipperer.org @domesticworkers.bsky.social
Trump’s deportation plans threaten 400,000 direct care jobs: Older adults and people with disabilities could lose vital in-home support
If the Trump administration follows through on its goal of deporting 4 million people over four years, the direct care industry would lose close to 400,000 jobs—affecting 274,000 immigrant and 120,000...
www.epi.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Trump’s deportation plan would wipe out 394,000 direct care jobs, hurting immigrant AND U.S.-born workers.
Families would lose vital home care. States like NY could lose nearly half their care workforce. Mass deportations = a care crisis. New from @benzipperer.org @domesticworkers.bsky.social
Families would lose vital home care. States like NY could lose nearly half their care workforce. Mass deportations = a care crisis. New from @benzipperer.org @domesticworkers.bsky.social
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Destroying jobs, terrorizing communities. Funded by gutting Medicaid and food assistance to fill an unaccountable slush fund for secret police
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Destroying jobs, terrorizing communities. Funded by gutting Medicaid and food assistance to fill an unaccountable slush fund for secret police
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Read @jonkeegan.com on Hyperion:
Tax “breaks afforded to Meta on just the sales tax of GPUs would come out to more than $3.3B”
Equal to:
-33 new high schools
-public teacher salaries for > 1Y
-more than 7 years of the Louisiana State Police budget
sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/
Tax “breaks afforded to Meta on just the sales tax of GPUs would come out to more than $3.3B”
Equal to:
-33 new high schools
-public teacher salaries for > 1Y
-more than 7 years of the Louisiana State Police budget
sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Read @jonkeegan.com on Hyperion:
Tax “breaks afforded to Meta on just the sales tax of GPUs would come out to more than $3.3B”
Equal to:
-33 new high schools
-public teacher salaries for > 1Y
-more than 7 years of the Louisiana State Police budget
sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/
Tax “breaks afforded to Meta on just the sales tax of GPUs would come out to more than $3.3B”
Equal to:
-33 new high schools
-public teacher salaries for > 1Y
-more than 7 years of the Louisiana State Police budget
sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/
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BofA: AI adoption rates by corporate customers are slowing
December 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
BofA: AI adoption rates by corporate customers are slowing
gazillion layer biscuits
December 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
gazillion layer biscuits