Joy Buchanan

@JeremiahDJohns Yesterday it was polyamory and last week it was Tyler

Who's the main character today?

@JohnJSSoriano @zachary_bartsch isn't this where you work?

Catholic school nuclear reactor

@SamfordU The quad and blue sky in March

U.S. News and World Report has recognized Samford on its list of 35 Most Beautiful College Campuses in the nation—the only university in Alabama. Safe to say… we agree. 😉 Learn more: ms.spr.ly/6010QUwqo

We might have to do our own thinking again next year if the oil goes out.

@hamandcheese Had the same thought this morning

Would be ironic in a horrifying sorta way if, on the day of Paul Ehrlich's death, a cascading supply shock to oil and fertilizer production plunged a decent chunk of South and Central Asia into famine.

Cal Newport:"Universities need to..portray themselves as citadels of concentration...Academic institutions need to demonstrate that the life of the mind is hard & worth it. We need to think about cognitive fitness the way we think about physical fitness." chronicle.com/article/is-ai-…

@ATabarrok You are right that Claude seems more careful about this suddenly.

Hallucinations are like six fingers, pretty much a thing of the past. Claude just told me: Honestly, I want to be careful here — I'm not confident enough in exact wording to quote precisely without risking fabrication. I'd rather not manufacture something vivid...I can point you there with confidence, but I'd want to look up the exact passage rather than quote from memory.

End times vibe

Elijah Wood will rave on at Cervantes denvergazette.com/2026/03/11/eli… Is this what the Sirât movie is about?

@meghangfischer @madelineefry I think all school parties should be “no gifts” but it can be hard if your kid is old enough to read and feels like you are blocking them. Try to do it anyway.

@madelineefry Yes. I write “please no gifts” on invites. Last year I didn’t write that as my kids begged to be allowed gifts. Some people brought gifts but others were used to my no-gift policy and didn’t bring any. I am going back to no gifts this year. It’s just so much easier to manage.

Are you a parent of young kids? Did you ask people not to bring gifts to their birthday parties? I want to hear from you!

Guys they’re actually doing this

@TheAnnaGat 💀

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@aniketapanjwani I’m working productively with an undergraduate intern. I would say that AI brings a smart undergrad up to the skill level of a first year PhD student, which is great for me.

most of the junior econ faculty I talk to are finding somewhere between "less" and "almost no" use for research assistants for simple tasks - data cleaning, making tables, running regressions - in the time it would take them to give instructions to the RA, they can instead just instruct CC and get the results (and done much better) so, the potential utility of an RA often depends now on the RA having high quality higher-level/architectural thoughts, being skilled at interpreting and iterating on the results of code, and/or being better at using coding agents than their prof yes, ofc RAs may have a comparative advantage despite not having an absolute advantage - but this is quite tricky a lot of the difference between mediocre and great results with agentic coding depends on having a simultaneous good mental model of the tools, how to work symbiotically with them, *AND* of the architecture of what it is you want to do (whether software or research) in the past, an RA would work slow enough - because the process of writing code was slow, so that you - as a prof - could catch them in all these small problems/mistakes they'd make along the way due to a lack of experience even so, reviewing RAs code was already a bottleneck for many profs now reviewing (tens of) thousands of lines of vibe coded RA code, esp if poorly thought out, is just untenable worth saying - the pool of junior faculty I talk to are highly selected, bc they're either coming to me for agentic coding training, or they're my friends and so have had to listen to me blather on about this stuff for the last year I do expect though that the sentiments of these junior faculty is wider spread than is implied by what economists are publicly saying about "RA replacement", because it's an unpopular/costly opinion to publicly voice that you don't need your RAs anymore

@Scholars_Stage @averyfjames Hope you are better now

I spent most of the last week in the hospital and not reading the news. Catching up on the Iran stuff now. My main conclusion: the epistemic certainty you all have on this is *crazy.*

@AlanMCole @moultano Ethically fraught but you might get somewhere by asking if any other kids got in trouble and digging for dirt lol

@moultano At 4 my kid will give me an incredibly precise rundown of exactly who was in school and who was absent, and then refuse to elaborate further.

So I think there are a couple of explanations of this. One is that kids are just not very good at telling you what's going on in school. It is very difficult to get detailed information out unless you have the time to sit in class and observe as a parent aide.

Paul Ehrlich has died. He was 93. He is survived by 8,300,678,394 people (134% increase from 1968), with a daily worldwide average calorie intake of 2,800 kcal (a 22% increase).

@collinhansen And just 24 hours ago a warm sunny morning

Wasn't expecting it to snow today in Birmingham. Last night we had tornados watches.

@thedavidpowell I find that reviewer comments from ChatGPT are boring and recycle all the criticisms about generalizations. It’s not a substitute for taste in a field.

Is ChatGPT or Claude better at claiming that the reviewer’s idea is beyond the scope of this paper?

@JamesRHarrigan @HustleBitch_ Having neighbors to form a chain with means you almost never have to purchase sports equipment.

@HustleBitch_ Jesus Christ. Facebook Marketplace exists. And I can get a Louisville Slugger, personalized with my name on it for $200.

🚨 MOM WALKS INTO A SPORTING GOODS STORE AND LOSES HER MIND AFTER SEEING A $500 KIDS BASEBALL BAT — “THIS IS PRICE GOUGING” A mom filming inside a sporting goods store says she thought she was just grabbing a bat for her kid’s season. Then she checked the price tags. One bat on the rack: $500. Right next to it: $450. Then she looks at baseball mitts. One youth glove: $330. “I don’t care what the material is … unless it’s made out of solid gold it ain't worth $300." Next she checks the equipment bags. $450. Parents watching the video say youth sports equipment prices are getting completely out of control. Some say it’s starting to feel less like inflation and more like straight up price gouging targeting families. Between bats, gloves, bags, cleats, and league fees, some parents say a single baseball season can now cost thousands of dollars. Are sports stores price gouging parents… or is this just the new normal?