Lars Vilhuber
@lars.vilhuber.com
Cornell | AEA Data Editor | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇩🇪
As researchers, we jump through a lot of hoops to access useful but confidential data (secure rooms, disclosure avoidance protocols, 🔒etc.). These DOGE guys just bulldozed through it. I'm not jealous. I'm pissed, that they are not yet in prison www.politico.com/news/2026/01... LOCK'M UP! LOCK'M UP!
January 21, 2026 at 12:31 PM
As researchers, we jump through a lot of hoops to access useful but confidential data (secure rooms, disclosure avoidance protocols, 🔒etc.). These DOGE guys just bulldozed through it. I'm not jealous. I'm pissed, that they are not yet in prison www.politico.com/news/2026/01... LOCK'M UP! LOCK'M UP!
Jan 20. As they say: We remember.
January 20, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Jan 20. As they say: We remember.
Not sure what your employer will think of @washingtonpost.com 's recommendation...
Me? I'm going to sauna AFTER work...
Me? I'm going to sauna AFTER work...
January 8, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Not sure what your employer will think of @washingtonpost.com 's recommendation...
Me? I'm going to sauna AFTER work...
Me? I'm going to sauna AFTER work...
France should carefully check the absurd White House ballroom when (if) it opens....
December 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
France should carefully check the absurd White House ballroom when (if) it opens....
NSF got back to me...
December 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
NSF got back to me...
Or on their website... For convenience, I've circled the relevant passage...
December 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Or on their website... For convenience, I've circled the relevant passage...
The FBI can't explain why Antifa is an organization at all, says Intercept. This one's easy: go to the organization's website, check their HQ, and then look at the flags to see who the members are...
December 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The FBI can't explain why Antifa is an organization at all, says Intercept. This one's easy: go to the organization's website, check their HQ, and then look at the flags to see who the members are...
And the first thing I'll do is tell them to correct the typo in their email address. I mean, sure you could correctly write "microsoft".. Let me click on it immediately and tell them...
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
And the first thing I'll do is tell them to correct the typo in their email address. I mean, sure you could correctly write "microsoft".. Let me click on it immediately and tell them...
What? Yet another working group? I am so honored by this request, I will immediately click on the button...
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
What? Yet another working group? I am so honored by this request, I will immediately click on the button...
NYT reports "Marco Rubio ordered the State Department to return its default font to Times New Roman. It rejected the Biden administration’s switch to Calibri, done for accessibility reasons, as a D.E.I play." Logical next step: Image below created with Google Font "Redacted Script"
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
NYT reports "Marco Rubio ordered the State Department to return its default font to Times New Roman. It rejected the Biden administration’s switch to Calibri, done for accessibility reasons, as a D.E.I play." Logical next step: Image below created with Google Font "Redacted Script"
La vue, et la vie, du chat!
December 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
La vue, et la vie, du chat!
Brazil 🇧🇷 has an official gov't website to validate electronic signatures (like on PDFs). Electronic trust, for free. validar.iti.gov.br If you tried this in the US 🇺🇸, you would immediately have lobbyists from M$, Ad0be claiming that this infringes on something (but most likely their profits). 🤷
December 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Brazil 🇧🇷 has an official gov't website to validate electronic signatures (like on PDFs). Electronic trust, for free. validar.iti.gov.br If you tried this in the US 🇺🇸, you would immediately have lobbyists from M$, Ad0be claiming that this infringes on something (but most likely their profits). 🤷
It's worth mentioning that global warming is NOT a myth, but ostriches burying their head in the sand IS. And yet, there's a connection, when humans emulate the latter to avoid seeing the former.
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It's worth mentioning that global warming is NOT a myth, but ostriches burying their head in the sand IS. And yet, there's a connection, when humans emulate the latter to avoid seeing the former.
I am fairly certain that having rolls of $100 bills in a box is NOT one of the "5 best easy ways to earn a passive income"... but then, maybe I'm wrong, and that's why I don't have a box full of $100 bill rolls...
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I am fairly certain that having rolls of $100 bills in a box is NOT one of the "5 best easy ways to earn a passive income"... but then, maybe I'm wrong, and that's why I don't have a box full of $100 bill rolls...
I hope this means we'll continue to be able to buy foot long sandwiches without a background check. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I hope this means we'll continue to be able to buy foot long sandwiches without a background check. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Usually, "back to the office" mandates should have CEO's lead by example. And if you don't show up, you are fired. Not rewarded with even higher incentives. Can I get that "back to the office" BONUS as well??? Please?
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Usually, "back to the office" mandates should have CEO's lead by example. And if you don't show up, you are fired. Not rewarded with even higher incentives. Can I get that "back to the office" BONUS as well??? Please?
Was driving along that weird stretch of US-Canada bisected street (the street is in Canada the houses on the southern side are in the US), and almost all the houses in the southern side, usually flying 🇺🇸, were flying 🇨🇦, with posters "Elbows up".
November 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Was driving along that weird stretch of US-Canada bisected street (the street is in Canada the houses on the southern side are in the US), and almost all the houses in the southern side, usually flying 🇺🇸, were flying 🇨🇦, with posters "Elbows up".
Quietly Canadian 🇨🇦
November 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Quietly Canadian 🇨🇦
@nytimes.com ia starting to resemble Fox News in their selection of facts to highlight in their headlines and pictures.
October 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
@nytimes.com ia starting to resemble Fox News in their selection of facts to highlight in their headlines and pictures.
🔥Tear it all up! bsky.app/profile/bell... bsky.app/profile/nyti... Burn it all down! bsky.app/profile/your...
October 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
🔥Tear it all up! bsky.app/profile/bell... bsky.app/profile/nyti... Burn it all down! bsky.app/profile/your...
Are we sure it's not an orange skinned alien? I thought I caught a glimpse in MIB 3.5... Just a different skin...
October 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Are we sure it's not an orange skinned alien? I thought I caught a glimpse in MIB 3.5... Just a different skin...
When beds malfunction bc of a DNS failure, I think there's some overly poor/over-optimistic engineering at play. Anybody should be able to sleep even with a failed DNS infrastructure (except for the engineers who screwed it up). PSA: Jailbreak your bed! github.com/throwaway312...
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When beds malfunction bc of a DNS failure, I think there's some overly poor/over-optimistic engineering at play. Anybody should be able to sleep even with a failed DNS infrastructure (except for the engineers who screwed it up). PSA: Jailbreak your bed! github.com/throwaway312...
Bummer you couldn't add this on, might be about right. Maybe time to revisit the idea...
October 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Bummer you couldn't add this on, might be about right. Maybe time to revisit the idea...
Scoop: I have a picture of what the new facade of the WH East Wing will look like.
October 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Scoop: I have a picture of what the new facade of the WH East Wing will look like.
This is awesome! 🚫👑!
October 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is awesome! 🚫👑!