Sarah Rosenberg
@sarahrosenberg.bsky.social
Applied microeconomist interested in family, health, gender, labor. // Postdoc @Lund Economics. Previously PhD @ ECARES - ULB.
pretty sure there is similar "reasoning" as to why he doesn't take a strong stand against Putin. a good slice of MAGA admires and to some extent wants to emulate the strong-man ethnonationalist (white) Christian leader -- but don't relate to/admire the Iranian theocracy in at all the same way
Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it
June 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
pretty sure there is similar "reasoning" as to why he doesn't take a strong stand against Putin. a good slice of MAGA admires and to some extent wants to emulate the strong-man ethnonationalist (white) Christian leader -- but don't relate to/admire the Iranian theocracy in at all the same way
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I do not want AI on a train
I do not want it in the rain
I do not want AI on a boat
I do not want an AI goat
I do not like the AI spam
I do not like it, Sam [Altman] I am
I do not want it in the rain
I do not want AI on a boat
I do not want an AI goat
I do not like the AI spam
I do not like it, Sam [Altman] I am
I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan
June 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I do not want AI on a train
I do not want it in the rain
I do not want AI on a boat
I do not want an AI goat
I do not like the AI spam
I do not like it, Sam [Altman] I am
I do not want it in the rain
I do not want AI on a boat
I do not want an AI goat
I do not like the AI spam
I do not like it, Sam [Altman] I am
For the people who think racial inequality is a historical artefact that is behind us: www.nber.org/system/files...
important new work from @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and her coauthors linking Americans over four generations. History matters in the present
important new work from @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and her coauthors linking Americans over four generations. History matters in the present
www.nber.org
June 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
For the people who think racial inequality is a historical artefact that is behind us: www.nber.org/system/files...
important new work from @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and her coauthors linking Americans over four generations. History matters in the present
important new work from @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and her coauthors linking Americans over four generations. History matters in the present
Being an American parent in Sweden is going to your kid's end-of-school ceremony and hearing them blast the uncensored version of Starships-- which includes the line "higher than a motherf*a" like 9x--to all the parents, toddler siblings, and <12yo kids
June 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Being an American parent in Sweden is going to your kid's end-of-school ceremony and hearing them blast the uncensored version of Starships-- which includes the line "higher than a motherf*a" like 9x--to all the parents, toddler siblings, and <12yo kids
"A subsistence farmer from a thousand years ago would look at what many of us do and say we have fake jobs...since we have plenty of food and unimaginable luxuries." interesting (lack of) perspective since many also currently feel their jobs are fake blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...
The Gentle Singularity
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.
Robots...
blog.samaltman.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
"A subsistence farmer from a thousand years ago would look at what many of us do and say we have fake jobs...since we have plenty of food and unimaginable luxuries." interesting (lack of) perspective since many also currently feel their jobs are fake blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...
continue to be a bit bemused about the AI hype. my experience is that chatGPT at least is like an overconfident, slightly incompetent RA -- helpful for some narrow, heavily guided, concrete, and easily verifiable tasks, but anything more and it's probably better (and faster) to do it yourself
June 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
continue to be a bit bemused about the AI hype. my experience is that chatGPT at least is like an overconfident, slightly incompetent RA -- helpful for some narrow, heavily guided, concrete, and easily verifiable tasks, but anything more and it's probably better (and faster) to do it yourself
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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.
using chatgpt to generate a "family" image with 2 adults + kid and wow it can't hold back the heternormativity. after explicit instructions to remove hair/clothes and like 5 iterations, it *shortens* the "mom's" hair...but adds a boob for good measure
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
using chatgpt to generate a "family" image with 2 adults + kid and wow it can't hold back the heternormativity. after explicit instructions to remove hair/clothes and like 5 iterations, it *shortens* the "mom's" hair...but adds a boob for good measure
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
the fact that the American idea of something akin to a general labor strike is a general consumption strike is...something
February 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
the fact that the American idea of something akin to a general labor strike is a general consumption strike is...something
this is a bad signal from the SC. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
Chief Justice Allows U.S. to Continue Freeze on Foreign Aid Payments
Lawyers for the government had said it would miss a deadline to release more than $1.5 billion in payments for past aid work and sought a late intervention from the Supreme Court.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
this is a bad signal from the SC. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
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If you're wondering what the vibes are in DC, it's sort of now a thing when you talk to people to open a conversation with some version of "Hi...do you...still have a job..."
February 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you're wondering what the vibes are in DC, it's sort of now a thing when you talk to people to open a conversation with some version of "Hi...do you...still have a job..."
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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.
The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
www.wesa.fm
February 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.
well, we already know their theories about quantifying health issues. No measurements, no morbidity, no problem!
This is a deeply concerning (and frankly, mystifying) development at the CDC that has totally flown under the radar. PRAMS provides basic public health surveillance of maternal-child health outcomes and they have quietly shut it down.
For 38 years, PRAMS has collected critical data on maternal-child health with the goal to reduce infant morbidity and mortality. CDC has officially halted the 2024 PRAMS data collection for the participating 46 states and the future is uncertain.
February 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
well, we already know their theories about quantifying health issues. No measurements, no morbidity, no problem!
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REMINDER: Cutting IRS spending is not a “cost-cutting” move.
Cutting the IRS lowers revenue.
It’s a move to protect the wealthy, like Elon Musk.
Auditing the rich returns $12 for every $1 spent.
www.nber.org/papers/w31376
Cutting the IRS lowers revenue.
It’s a move to protect the wealthy, like Elon Musk.
Auditing the rich returns $12 for every $1 spent.
www.nber.org/papers/w31376
February 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
REMINDER: Cutting IRS spending is not a “cost-cutting” move.
Cutting the IRS lowers revenue.
It’s a move to protect the wealthy, like Elon Musk.
Auditing the rich returns $12 for every $1 spent.
www.nber.org/papers/w31376
Cutting the IRS lowers revenue.
It’s a move to protect the wealthy, like Elon Musk.
Auditing the rich returns $12 for every $1 spent.
www.nber.org/papers/w31376
Notably, there's a 10 p.p. increase in "economy on the wrong track" and a 4 p.p. decrease in approval for how Trump is handling the economy
“.. the share of Americans who think the economy is on the wrong track rose to 53% in the latest poll from 43% in the January 24-26 poll.”
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
February 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Notably, there's a 10 p.p. increase in "economy on the wrong track" and a 4 p.p. decrease in approval for how Trump is handling the economy
oh gee whiz we wouldn't want to exceed the power vested in us by the Constitution!
February 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
oh gee whiz we wouldn't want to exceed the power vested in us by the Constitution!
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I will fix my finances using the DOGE roadmap
Step 1: save 5 dollars by not getting coffee
Step 2: record it as 5,000 dollars in the spreadsheet where i track my finances
Step 3: tell everyone I saved 5,000 dollars already
Step 1: save 5 dollars by not getting coffee
Step 2: record it as 5,000 dollars in the spreadsheet where i track my finances
Step 3: tell everyone I saved 5,000 dollars already
February 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I will fix my finances using the DOGE roadmap
Step 1: save 5 dollars by not getting coffee
Step 2: record it as 5,000 dollars in the spreadsheet where i track my finances
Step 3: tell everyone I saved 5,000 dollars already
Step 1: save 5 dollars by not getting coffee
Step 2: record it as 5,000 dollars in the spreadsheet where i track my finances
Step 3: tell everyone I saved 5,000 dollars already
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i think it has not sunk in for people, including newspaper headline writers, that "probationary" employees does not just mean like, young novice staffers right out of college, but those who have received promotions in the last year
February 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
i think it has not sunk in for people, including newspaper headline writers, that "probationary" employees does not just mean like, young novice staffers right out of college, but those who have received promotions in the last year
judge gave DOJ lawyer a time out and then asked if it hurt their feelings
Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.
February 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
judge gave DOJ lawyer a time out and then asked if it hurt their feelings
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BREAKING
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
popular.info
February 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
BREAKING
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
TIL
(also I bet he pronounces it Ess Cue Ell)
February 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TIL