David Hewitt
@grennan.bsky.social
Teaching Associate Professor, primarily game theory and macroeconomics.
Former game designer and product manager.
Capitalism is the most powerful engine for an economy,
but a car needs more than an engine unless all you want to do is repeatedly crash.
Former game designer and product manager.
Capitalism is the most powerful engine for an economy,
but a car needs more than an engine unless all you want to do is repeatedly crash.
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I had to reconfigure my usual holiday fudge recipe when they made the jars of marshmallow cream smaller a few years ago
Last year Betty Crocker shrank the size of their cake mixes. Decades of cake-mix-based recipes are now broken. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...
The 70-Year-Old Beloved Boxed Mix Grandmas Won’t Be Buying Anymore
"It's just so upsetting."
www.yahoo.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I had to reconfigure my usual holiday fudge recipe when they made the jars of marshmallow cream smaller a few years ago
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Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave
This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired
This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired
September 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave
This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired
This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired
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Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements."
Really meant,
"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
Really meant,
"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
September 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements."
Really meant,
"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
Really meant,
"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
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Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.
September 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.
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Breaking News: California passed a bill allowing the names of doctors, patients and pharmacists to be omitted from abortion pills mailed to states with bans. The intent is to protect providers and to reassure patients who fear they could be identified.
California Passes Bill Allowing Omission of Patients’ Names From Abortion Pill Bottles
The intent is to protect health care providers who send the pills to patients in states with abortion bans, and to reassure patients who fear they could be identified.
nyti.ms
September 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Breaking News: California passed a bill allowing the names of doctors, patients and pharmacists to be omitted from abortion pills mailed to states with bans. The intent is to protect providers and to reassure patients who fear they could be identified.
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I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
September 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation
August 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation
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Humanities and STEM people love to fight with each other while funding for both is gutted to give a tax break to rent seeking car dealership owners who barely graduated high school.
July 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Humanities and STEM people love to fight with each other while funding for both is gutted to give a tax break to rent seeking car dealership owners who barely graduated high school.
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Good morning from Oakland and the Office of Administrative Hearings, where we are resuming the hearing in the matter of the California DMV's complaint against Tesla for misleading advertising of its Autopilot and "Full Self-Driving Capability." First up we will hear from witness Bryant Walker Smith.
July 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Good morning from Oakland and the Office of Administrative Hearings, where we are resuming the hearing in the matter of the California DMV's complaint against Tesla for misleading advertising of its Autopilot and "Full Self-Driving Capability." First up we will hear from witness Bryant Walker Smith.
What I'm craving is extra salty tortilla chips. Not sure anyone makes those, but if they don't they should.
July 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
What I'm craving is extra salty tortilla chips. Not sure anyone makes those, but if they don't they should.
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this is accurate. Saying the court is corrupt isn’t just a slogan or rallying cry. It’s a critical statement, marker-setting of where we are. A court acting in this fashion has no legitimacy. Acting under its dictates is a purely pragmatic and contingent decision.
For those of us who believe the Supreme Court is, at least in part, a political institution, its saving grace is that it moves the law only in increments, is reactive rather than proactive, and must give its reasons and be judged on them. A Court that doesn't do those things isn't worth having.
July 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
this is accurate. Saying the court is corrupt isn’t just a slogan or rallying cry. It’s a critical statement, marker-setting of where we are. A court acting in this fashion has no legitimacy. Acting under its dictates is a purely pragmatic and contingent decision.
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I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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We are back! #C64 www.commodore.net The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299
Home | Commodore
www.commodore.net
July 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
We are back! #C64 www.commodore.net The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299
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I still think the Good Place should have had a breakfast diner called The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelettes.
June 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I still think the Good Place should have had a breakfast diner called The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelettes.
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Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600
And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.
www.extremetech.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
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Like even if you accept the premise that AI is super valuable and we need to have it, that doesn't imply that AI companies need to *keep all the surplus* for society to have that value. They could, say, pay some of it to the people whose work they stole!
May 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Like even if you accept the premise that AI is super valuable and we need to have it, that doesn't imply that AI companies need to *keep all the surplus* for society to have that value. They could, say, pay some of it to the people whose work they stole!
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AI: what if everything was shitty but convenient in the manner of a gas station hot dog?
May 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
AI: what if everything was shitty but convenient in the manner of a gas station hot dog?
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So the guy leading RFK Jr.'s vaccine-autism study?
A total quack who was previously charged for practicing medicine without a license for using chemical castration drugs on autistic children.
A total quack who was previously charged for practicing medicine without a license for using chemical castration drugs on autistic children.
March 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
So the guy leading RFK Jr.'s vaccine-autism study?
A total quack who was previously charged for practicing medicine without a license for using chemical castration drugs on autistic children.
A total quack who was previously charged for practicing medicine without a license for using chemical castration drugs on autistic children.
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So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.
To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today:
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
March 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.
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So many left-of-center people have convinced themselves that if we just did away with gerrymandering or voter suppression that the whole country would overthrow the established order.
No.
I can only assume most of these people have never lived in a Red state, or at best lived in a liberal suburb.
No.
I can only assume most of these people have never lived in a Red state, or at best lived in a liberal suburb.
January 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
So many left-of-center people have convinced themselves that if we just did away with gerrymandering or voter suppression that the whole country would overthrow the established order.
No.
I can only assume most of these people have never lived in a Red state, or at best lived in a liberal suburb.
No.
I can only assume most of these people have never lived in a Red state, or at best lived in a liberal suburb.
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I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
January 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
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Related: People I know IRL who know what I do for a living often ask what they need to know about online safety for their about-to-be-teenagers, and there's a lot of answers, but the thing I always emphasize most is: under no circumstances should you ever threaten to take access away from them.
And a lot of you post the photos but put an emoji sticker over the kid's face or whatever: that is really, really, really not sufficient to prevent people from doing things with them you do not want to know about. Do not post photos of your kids online, period.
I am one of those people who is *really, really good* at identifying exactly where and when a photo was taken from basic context clues (a skill I developed for human rights research and journalism purposes).
Trust me on this, don’t post photos of your kids on the public internet.
Trust me on this, don’t post photos of your kids on the public internet.
January 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Related: People I know IRL who know what I do for a living often ask what they need to know about online safety for their about-to-be-teenagers, and there's a lot of answers, but the thing I always emphasize most is: under no circumstances should you ever threaten to take access away from them.