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Daniel Alexander
@dannya43.bsky.social
Retired Product (Wine) Consultant + Assistant Manager at the government of Ontario liquor retailer, Repost is always my endorsement and probably nothing. Proud 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ancestry. Chaotic good. I have lists of things I'm into.
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Thrilled that my paper "The Cost of Curbing Externalities with Market Power: Alcohol Regulations and Tax Alternatives" with
@cconlon.bsky.social
was accepted by the Journal of Political Economy
@jpolecon.bsky.social !
September 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
@skipjac.bsky.social
Leonard leads the walk in a forest.
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back
October 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Since LLM's lack teleological thinking, attempting to outsource your own makes yours worse.

Your tasks and subtasks no longer have any correlation with your goal.
July 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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GROYPER EXPLAINER: Part 1 🧵👇🏼

Fabulous intro into the worldviews of the state-driven Christian Nationalism of Charlie Kirk vs the base Nick Fuentes taps into: incel forums, gamer chat, crypto cynicism, & edgelord memes.

Otherwise known as Black Pill Accelerationists.

A Cy Canterel explainer.
September 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
What do you even say to someone who thinks AI is doing real work?
May 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM