Thomas Cook

@kristnmerrilees either way ur gonna need therapy

close hinge and open up those PHD APPLICATIONS!

@michaeljknowles if im the guy shooting im aiming for balls and kneecaps. what if everyone is like me though. sad world.

Unpopular opinion: firing squad is without question the most dignified way to be executed.

Correlation = 0.84 x Causation

@Tweetophon @John_Attridge if its nonsense only when you realize something then that realization caused you to change your mind

@John_Attridge Based. It gets better: "causation" is not just unknowable, it's utter nonsense when you realise that everything is what it is in its own right. Who heard of one thing "causing" another, distinct thing to be what it is, as if it could be anything else, lmao. It's called Identity.

Bro wake up. Awake from your dogmatic slumber. Causation is unknowable lol. Inductive reasoning has no basis in objective reality lmao

@VincentGeloso i think knowing economics makes a person more right wing. liberals get mad learning about price controls.

More evidence that its economics that is the least ideological social science — people left and right can talk to each other because our common language is unindeological

@John_Attridge what caused you to think like this

@zeta_globin correlation not causation

zoomers aren't having sex but also zoomers are spending like two to three hours a day on tiktok which explains the no sex thing, I had the grad students send me their screen time stats

@pmddomingos take your meds

The simulation we live in was created to develop superintelligence, and will soon be turned off.

@WoverineYoung @HaarshBoy @povcops did the kid really delete the lesson plan? i think that is an important factor that should factored in here.

According to grok: The bodycam shows a 22-year-old student teacher at John L. Hensey Elementary in Washington, IL. A kid closed her laptop, deleting her lesson plan. Frustrated, she sent a Snapchat (video/text) to her private story/close friends (including bf/roommates): "student deleted my lesson plan, should I shoot him or nah?" (or "pew pew the kid"). Snapchat's AI flagged it as a threat, auto-reported to FBI, who notified local sheriff's office. Cops arrived at school within ~1 hour, took her phone, interviewed her (she called it a stupid joke), then arrested her for disorderly conduct. She cried and admitted it was dumb during questioning. Case from late Jan 2025, bodycam recently circulating.

@Kaizerrev they tried to cancel jesus 2000 years ago

Andrew Tate said one of the reasons Nick Fuentes is still on the internet is because he avoids women. "If he had a s*xual history by now they would have caught him."

@ThePhDPlace throw shit wall

Sum up your research in 3 words or less.

@johnjhorton its happening stay calm

Open standards for agentic commerce is very welcome - see nber.org/books-and-chap…

@sciencegirl coolest thing the entire shithole country has

In Budapest, there is a fountain that looks like an open book. At regular intervals, a sheet of water curves to one side to give the illusion of a page being turned

@R_Thaler @alexolegimas please more crypto advice

It seems that the hacker who briefly took over my account blocked a bunch of people and unfollowed some others including my co- author @alexolegimas. I have re-followed Alex but if you think you were also dropped a couple weeks ago lmk?

PhD student and AI agents working on his dissertation:

@johnennis @IlyaSomin thanks kawalski

@IlyaSomin If the minimum is three, anything below three does not meet the minimum There’s no question of rounding here, the number is either bigger than or equal to three, or it’s not

In this pathbreaking decision, a federal court ruled that a 2.97 GPA is lower than 3.0 GPA, and cannot be rounded up for purposes of determining whether a student should be kicked out of a physician-assistant training program for failure to maintain minimally required GPA: reason.com/volokh/2026/01…

Whatever man

@johnjhorton thats how you know youve gone too far with the whole economics thing

This Bayesian emotional roller-coaster comes up in life fairly often & doesn't have a name, afaik: "Not happy we caught a mouse (because it means we had mice) but conditional upon being in the state of having mice (which we are---we just caught one), I'm happy we caught it"

@RealBenLuigi @ebitdaddy90 I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me, and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

@ebitdaddy90 Generational wealth. But you degenerates are so selfish you can’t possibly imagine building something for anyone but yourself.

What the fuck is the point at 65