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@billyisapilgrim

elegance is a byproduct of the resolution of a great number of terrible anxieties

Chicago, IL Katılım Ocak 2022
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Myles
Myles@billyisapilgrim·
The only true social scientist, and behavioral economist, is a methods guy. You should be incredibly anxious about everything you do. Elegance only comes out of an anxiety about all possibilities, discovering the model, experiment, or solution that accounts for it all
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Myles@billyisapilgrim·
Chalamet is only a bad casting for Dune if you think that the defining characteristic of Paul is not that he's a fraud (he is)
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Myles@billyisapilgrim·
@l0l09YYZ @ricepilled don’t know why I should particularly care who exposed the tweets
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Myles@billyisapilgrim·
@realpredicate I’ve bought the book for 12 separate people now and every one of them has loved it. The best endorsement I can give of the series is that it takes until book four, FOUR!!!, to get to the weird sexual content
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Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
I am pleading with the forces of the universe to convince Villeneuve to tackle yet another "unfilmable" sci-fi series.
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shadow work guide@anokariver·
I think the “no one is coming to save you” thing undermines how people are supposed to help each other out in ways that could in fact save each other
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Myles@billyisapilgrim·
@kingofthecoastt that’s not true. they think that’s true of heirs, but they think CEOs exploit labor
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KingoftheCoast@kingofthecoastt·
@billyisapilgrim “The rich are so rich because they get a bunch of ‘passive’ income” is literally the bedrock of basically all socialist theory
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KingoftheCoast@kingofthecoastt·
What is a good example of an American billionaire who got rich off just passively investing their wealth?
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Myles@billyisapilgrim·
every social scientist needs a theory of everything, just go with it. I’ve now gone with “projection can explain every human tendency”, it’s fun. you should try it
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Apothecarius@BearlyExistent·
The attempts by Billionaires to take over our news sources and sway public opinions are being very hampered by the fact that they aren’t very good at it
Brian Steinberg@bristei

Suddenly, “CBS Evening News” is back where executives at the news division behind the show hoped never to return --- the show captured under 4M viewers last week, a level that spurred alarm when the program was under John Dickerson and Maurice Dubois... variety.com/2026/tv/news/c…

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Myles@billyisapilgrim·
Only thing I’ll tweet about the Timmy C opera and ballet comments is that people reacted so poorly primarily because extemporaneous expression of beliefs is dead
Cera Gibson@CeraGibson

I actually don’t understand why people are furious at Timothée Chalamet. He has a point, even if he wasn’t eloquent. He's concerned about the future of film if people stop going to the theater. He doesn’t want to work in an industry that is considered antiquated. I love Opera AND ballet, but I’m constantly seeing my local companies looking for funding. The fact is that in the broader culture, people don’t value Opera and Ballet as they once did. “No one cares about it” isn’t accurate, but I also don’t think he meant it how it’s being taken.

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gant@gantisdant·
@billyisapilgrim you’ve made a fool of me in my replies for the last time myles
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gant@gantisdant·
mfa hate has never made a lot of sense to me. like yes it's a stupid degree, yes a lot of mfa grads suck, and no it will never make you money. but it's 2-3 years of dedicated time where somebody pays you to write, and to read, and to maybe even teach writing. like that's so cool
ryan@ryanallen316

Sarah Schulman on MFAs in the new Paris Review

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Myles@billyisapilgrim·
@jdcmedlock yeah although thinking out this more it may be endogenous, because unless they’re remote workers their decision to move is based on employment opportunities in the state
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James Medlock@jdcmedlock·
@billyisapilgrim Yes, correct intuition there. Transplants are often lower than blue state median but higher than red state median. x.com/jdcmedlock/sta…
James Medlock@jdcmedlock

@KAErdmann @buildhomez So the gross vs net migration point was really useful, I've re-run it with better data. Interestingly, the gap now actually widens rather than narrows because the bigger compositional effect is that movers to red states are richer than red-state stayers.

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James Medlock@jdcmedlock·
It's actually worse than I thought. Catch up growth assumes red states are growing faster on a per capita basis, but they're not. Hanania's charts were not per capita, so basically just measuring population growth. Red states are poorer, but they are also not converging.
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James Medlock@jdcmedlock

The simple answer is catch up growth. You can’t just do growth rate analysis without controlling for initial levels. It was a quick jump from claiming we have enough data to declare a winner to saying, ah well, there hasn’t always been this much divergence…

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Myles@billyisapilgrim·
looking back through my conversations with my exes on whatsapp while I wait for Claude to do my job for me
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Myles@billyisapilgrim·
@gantisdant it’s actually because I just came up with it and am a fraud
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Ogiel (Moe Lane)@Ogiel23·
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).
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