Daniel Scheer
@dcscheer.bsky.social
Former Economist now Data Scientist, building fraud detection models.
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Another sign of how hard the tech job market is for new grads.
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Another sign of how hard the tech job market is for new grads.
City Council Approves Plan That Could Bring 14,700 Homes to Queens www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/n...
a group of minions are standing next to each other and they are laughing and saying yay
ALT: a group of minions are standing next to each other and they are laughing and saying yay
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
City Council Approves Plan That Could Bring 14,700 Homes to Queens www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/n...
This is an existential threat
Coffee futures $KC_F ranging near record levels.
All-time high notched back in February. @AugurInfinity
Under $90 in 2019. Above $400 this year.
All-time high notched back in February. @AugurInfinity
Under $90 in 2019. Above $400 this year.
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is an existential threat
We’re not going to make it are we?
Under-the-weather TikTokers are slicing raw potatoes and placing them in their — and their children’s — socks before bed. The theory is that the potato draws out toxins.
However, experts warn against relying on folk remedies over medical care.
However, experts warn against relying on folk remedies over medical care.
No, putting a potato in your sock will not cure a cold
TikTokers are placing slices of raw potatoes in their — and their children’s socks — overnight to cure illnesses.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
We’re not going to make it are we?
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Elon is a bullshit artist vaporware hawker and it’s totally correct to mock this specific stupid claim, but it is sort of depressing how him associating himself so strongly with techno-utopianism has negatively polarized so many against it.
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Elon is a bullshit artist vaporware hawker and it’s totally correct to mock this specific stupid claim, but it is sort of depressing how him associating himself so strongly with techno-utopianism has negatively polarized so many against it.
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The year is 2010/2016/2025/2030. Republicans are about to unveil their alternative to Obamacare.
November 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The year is 2010/2016/2025/2030. Republicans are about to unveil their alternative to Obamacare.
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They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
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How about we keep Obamacare functioning as is until you get those ideas worked out?
FOX NEWS: So what would Trumpcare look like?
DR OZ: Well, these are all ideas that we're still working on
DR OZ: Well, these are all ideas that we're still working on
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
How about we keep Obamacare functioning as is until you get those ideas worked out?
One of my biggest old man moments these days is getting to remind people that the ACA *was the Republican plan*, modeled after Mitt Romney's healthcare program in Massachusetts, which itself was based on a plan developed at the Heritage Foundation as an alternative to the Clinton Plan.
FOX NEWS: So what would Trumpcare look like?
DR OZ: Well, these are all ideas that we're still working on
DR OZ: Well, these are all ideas that we're still working on
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
One of my biggest old man moments these days is getting to remind people that the ACA *was the Republican plan*, modeled after Mitt Romney's healthcare program in Massachusetts, which itself was based on a plan developed at the Heritage Foundation as an alternative to the Clinton Plan.
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My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
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"After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around"--my latest column.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
Socialism, But Make It Trump
After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around"--my latest column.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
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I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
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"an unusual mass deportation to a country with a poor human rights record that the United States had bombed earlier this year in an effort to set back its nuclear program"
but we're sending them back dissidents "who repeatedly told American authorities that Iran would persecute them"
but we're sending them back dissidents "who repeatedly told American authorities that Iran would persecute them"
“For decades, Iranians fleeing persecution have found protection in the United States. But this fall, the Trump administration deported a planeload of people to Iran after making a deal with Tehran.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
‘It Feels Like I’m in a Nightmare’: Inside the First Deportation Flight to Iran
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"an unusual mass deportation to a country with a poor human rights record that the United States had bombed earlier this year in an effort to set back its nuclear program"
but we're sending them back dissidents "who repeatedly told American authorities that Iran would persecute them"
but we're sending them back dissidents "who repeatedly told American authorities that Iran would persecute them"
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we're all clear that SNAP has work requirements for almost everybody, correct
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
we're all clear that SNAP has work requirements for almost everybody, correct
Somewhere my undergrad health economics professor is weeping
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Somewhere my undergrad health economics professor is weeping
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Remember that insurance is actually a thing you hope never to use, and then read this critique.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Remember that insurance is actually a thing you hope never to use, and then read this critique.
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it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
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In class today, I used the statement “with 4 minutes to go and a 10-point lead, the probability the Giants will win is 96.9%” to illustrate the three interpretations of probability. (1/5)
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In class today, I used the statement “with 4 minutes to go and a 10-point lead, the probability the Giants will win is 96.9%” to illustrate the three interpretations of probability. (1/5)
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
Regardless of your specific feelings about the war in Gaza, if you’re asking Ms. Rachael if she’s funded by Hamas, you’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere in life.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Regardless of your specific feelings about the war in Gaza, if you’re asking Ms. Rachael if she’s funded by Hamas, you’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere in life.
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GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill tax law will increase U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio from 154% three decades after without it to 183% with it, per Auerbach & @billgale.bsky.social.
www.nber.org/papers/w34455
www.nber.org/papers/w34455
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill tax law will increase U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio from 154% three decades after without it to 183% with it, per Auerbach & @billgale.bsky.social.
www.nber.org/papers/w34455
www.nber.org/papers/w34455
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.