From your mouth to the ears of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Not that kind of doctor. (PhD, Computer Information Systems) Reformed software developer. Job: Data policy, AI, research. Interests: Org behavior, education, law, economics. Opinions are my own.
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From your mouth to the ears of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
This 100% tracks with my own personal experience. My friends/family fall pretty firmly into two camps â knowledgeable about computer science or totally non-techy â and the immediate perceptions of generative AI like ChatGPT couldnât have been more different between the two groups.
Deep cut. Not wrong, but deep cut.
I am wondering what sort of fires weâll have on Monday.
According to the journalâs paper tracker, the reason it took 14 months for the first found of my job market paper was that it sat on the Senior Editorâs desk for 6+ months before he even sent it out for review. (Also, peer reviewers are exhausted. Maybe we/they should demand shorter articles.)
About half of my peers are below average.
Serious question for the lawyers: If forced to change or retaliated against for refusal to change would a DoD employee have a viable cause of action? @nationalsecuritylaw.org @markzaidesq.bsky.social
For government meetings, visit and tell them itâs not accessible. Suggest a change. Iâve heard similar from very rural communities, and they need someone willing to help transition and train.
Access to Georgia Code Annotated, the official law of Georgia, was paywalled until 2020 (court decision; actual implementation came years later). RECAP is great, but PACER isnât as accessible. Circuit & state decisions arenât aggregated/searchable for lay folk. Still a long way to go in the U.S.
I swear that top middle one is Firefly.
Classic video with multiple wonderful pedagogical uses.
A much better set of examples is from the book âInfluencerâ (Grenny, Patterson, et al.). Its central conceit is that changing *one* behavior can solve massive social/organizational problems.
⢠âPeople are homeless because there isnât enough housingâ -> build more ⢠âHomelessness is strongly correlated with mental healthâ -> more social support services ⢠Job instability and inconsistent income lead to homelessness -> UBI All may be true, but scope, time, & resources constrain.
Today it was project management at a leadership course. Last week it was risk management with career engineers. (Iâm no longer at uni and have a ârealâ job.) An admittedly flawed example (because itâs off the cuff): homelessness.
Perhaps part of the reason is a theme in my lessons this week: the way we define the problem often predetermines the solution. Therefore we must take great care to be sure weâve identified the right problem.
The experiments will stop when theyâve produced the results that tell our capitalist overlords the correct path is the one they already decided on.
Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
U.S. military strike on Venezuelan boat is properly alleged to be murder. How important is this as a matter of international law? On left: Rubio State Department's top accusation against Venezuela On right: US Congress in codifying law on extrajudicial killings
Purchased! Thanks for this.
âFewer people die in industry.â omg this book is killing me
I have long assumed that the reason Americans think âit canât happen hereâ is because, to the best of their knowledge, it never has. Which is a bit like assuming youâre immortal because youâve never (so far) died.
This is incorrect: (1) Department of War was just the Army, not the Navy and Marine Corps; and (2) the President does not have the authority, only Congress can make that change in the law. Be better, @npr.org.
â⌠in what the Defense Department called a provocative action in response to American efforts to commit international crimes in the Caribbean.â
The most important thing to know is that the named was changed from the Dept of War to the Dept of Defense in 1949 BY CONGRESS in an amend to the National Security Act of 1947. And it can only be changed back by an act of Congress. Not by a Presidential âre-brand.â www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
I think that itâs bad that the Secretary of Defense is openly trashing the concept of legality regarding military operations.
I hope every flag officer and SES heard their SecDef say he has no respect for the law.
Genuinely embarrassing to be an American right now.
As weâve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didnât know what was normal. With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide. (Published 2023)
Saw this sign today on the freeway. Pleased to see my red-state DoT is subtly comparing ICE to bridge trolls.
I think we should rotate them all geographically decennially. If they donât like it, maybe theyâll retire before 80.
I am glad you are sheltered and feel safe enough to enjoy the freedom to hold that opinion.
Without providing details on the extent of recent research cuts, letâs just say that if they can break multiple federal funding laws to pay for âforkâ admin leave for non-working employees, they can find money for stationary. (And letâs be honest, itâs mostly digital nowadays anyway.)
I guess itâs mildly better than Department of Goose Eggs.
We know from research that sociopaths have higher representation in CEO ranks than in other jobs. Having observed many senior leaders (particularly today at a major strategic meeting), my pet theory is those with empathy and morals burn out in leadership because doing the right thing is damn hard.
Just search âman charged in D.C.â on PACER and it comes right up. đ
By not properly advocating for their constituents, my state delegation is causing billions in harm to innovation and jobs in my state.
absolutely amazing unintended consequences
On the contrary! Start at the top and work down to the O-6 level. *Then* consider on a case-by-case basis.
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤾ď¸
We won!! âDefendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this countryâs premier universities ⌠Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.â
âThe Nobel Peace Prize hopeful, whoâs recently discussed how heâll get in to heaven âŚâ â⌠held a press conference announcing the extrajudicial killings and plans for a military invasion of an American city.â
Best new follow on this lovely hellsite.
In which I learned I am regularly coping with systemic sexism without fully realizing it. (approving)
We know this from history, from the 1930s in the US, the best way to fight fascism is massive investment in the public. Not means testing, not tax credits for people who open a business that employs X people, not tax cuts. Spending money on public infrastructure. Universal Healthcare & college, now
Weâve never stopped talking about French Toast. Geez, some people have no reading comprehension.
Trying to get anyone on social media to tell the difference between âdescribing a thingâ and âspeaking approvingly of the thingâ is practically guaranteed to be a losing battle.
A friend is telling a story about how her grandma keeps getting lost at roundabouts, and Iâm dying. đ¤Ł
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is eliminating regulations at breakneck speed by using a process that cuts dozens of rules at a time while giving the public only 10 or 20 days to review each proposal and submit objections.
whew good Lord lots of good candidates for muting/blocking/reporting in the replies đŹ
My college once scheduled the culminating event of "Diversity Week" on Eid. Our Muslim population is not small. They did not fix it.
We're in court today challenging the Trump administration's targeting of people attending their mandated immigration court hearings. Systematically arresting people carrying out their legal duty is unconstitutional.
Not to pick on someoneâs educational opportunities (or lack), but I counted a mere five things wrong with his first tweet. I may have missed some.
Allow me to introduce you to the Fifth Circuit.
Blocked somewhere along the way. Which book?
Like a good rug, 90s-era gradient really ties the whole thing together.
Iâm calling Marvel rules on this one. Nobodyâs really dead until you see someone sobbing over the corpse AND thereâs a widely attended funeral AND any LMDs and clones have been found and dispatched AND youâve checked that Mephisto is busy with more important business elsewhere.
Perhaps, but it was a response to the question âlet them vote on itâ. What you say may be argued for every election of all officers, local, state, and federal, but we do it anyway.
How fun this happens the same day a federal judge says the military violated (continues to violate) possession comitatus.
You need your parentsâ permission to not commit suicide?
They have voted on it a handful of times (referendum), and support for pursuing statehood failed.
Not sure what youâre trying to achieve by tagging Scouting America. He rightfully completed the Eagle requirements as a youth, even if he did grow up to be a dick and hasnât fully internalized some of the lessons.
âYou canât take the sky from me.â
Click in for a great example of averages hiding data bsky.app/profile/chez...
Thereâs an older one showing circular middle ranges from North Korea on a Mercator map (The Economist, 2003) that Iâd share too. www.independent.com/2017/06/14/m...
Iâm appreciating how many former IU faculty (đ) are sharing this approvingly. Loving how many are here on BlueSky. And irked that frustration with the current administration is nearly universal.
I know many political scientists hope they can keep their head down and stay out of the fray - they need to read this piece from a now-former political science professor at Indiana University showing how delusional that hope is
Great example of what averages can hide đ
My alma mater, where i got married, where i taught for 3 years. I love IU and will never be able to forgive what theyâve done to it.
A counter-top dehydrator can be had for < $50 on Amazon. Refurbished works just as well.
BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I donât even *like* mac & cheese, and itâs still good.
I must once again point out that Snoop Doggâs âMack & Cheeseâ recipe is amazing. (Like everything, itâs even better with bacon.)
I read that as âlasersâ the first time, and it was a lot funnier.
Donât mind camp cooking so much, but *despise* washing dishes in camp. My compromise is âfreezer bag mealsâ. Prep everything at home, add boiling water to the bag, wait five minutes. Eat out of bag. Nothing to wash but the spoon. (Lick it clean, itâll be fine.) Salmon artichoke pesto rice đ¨âđłđ¤
Those are both planes associated with ICE/CBP, but that doesnât show departure time or that planes contained members of the class.
And a huge thank you to @annabower.bsky.social , @kyledcheney.bsky.social , @joshuajfriedman.com and other reporters who chronicled todayâs hearing live, so we could track the malfeasance in real time. Here is Bowerâs full report www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
Also HHS document indicates some facilities housing Guatemalan minors in US balked at handing them to ICE, prompting a Trump administration official to threaten criminal prosecution. She worked for DHS just a few months ago before taking the HHS job. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Not seeing this reported elsewhere. Citation, please?
Kyle too! bsky.app/profile/josh...
Thanks to both Josh and Anna for documenting this on a holiday weekend. (Same hearing, different reporter.) bsky.app/profile/anna...
This is an extraordinary thread. Click here, but scroll back to the top. Extraordinary.
That would be âremoving from ORR custodyâ, so they may be safe (-ish) for now.
Proof by repeated assertion has been a favorite of the federal government this year.
New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW
Our Little Library is much bigger on the inside than on the outside
There are few things finer than a quiet holiday weekend where one can peruse updated mandatory training policies instead of being at the pool.
Fantastic thread.
Reading some newly issued mandatory policies (yes, Iâm working on a holiday weekend), and I wish those drafting policy knew the difference between e.g. and i.e. It has the potential to change the meaning of the sentence.
My son, who passed at the age three from cancer (neuroblastoma), would be 21 this weekend. Mass defunding of childhood cancer research is heartless.
Happy Skynet day to all who celebrate!
This seems a rather blatant HIPAA violation, unless there are some unreported controls in place.
ICYMI, Social Securityâs chief data officer reported that DOGE staff took actions that âconstitute violations of laws, rules, and regulations, abuse of authority, gross mismanagement, and creation of a substantial and specific threat to public health & safety.â He was fired. Now this.
Thatâs amazing. Really enjoyed the demon chicken.
was my response too. I appreciate decent reporting but the uncertainty was fun. Like that space between buying a lottery ticket and before the numbers are drawn.
Spoilsport.
This is such an incredible resource!!!!!
The flowers really sell it. Masterful.
Yep. Did quite a few when a PhD student.
Hypervisible 