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Josh Klugman
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Sociologist at Temple University. #QMISS = grist for my stats classes. #ICWI = grist for my sociology of higher ed class. Mastodon: @[email protected]
Philadelphia, PA Katılım Temmuz 2009
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Does no one else see in these videos the most terrifying premonition for all of human civilization?
WarRoom Archives@WarRoomArchives
Drone warfare has reached such a level that many fighters have lost hope of escaping or resisting. For example, the final strike on the barracks is terrifying.
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Noah Hawley attended Jeff Bezos's private Campfire retreat in 2018. His wife broke her wrist. He told Bezos directly - not as complaint, just as human information from one husband and father to another. Bezos looked horrified, an aide materialized instantly, and he was whisked away.
No "I'm so sorry." No "do you need anything." Just escape.
Hawley's thesis in The Atlantic is not that the ultra-wealthy are evil. It is something more precise and more unsettling: that moral reasoning develops through consequences, and the environment of extreme wealth systematically removes consequences from a person's life. When you can buy your way out of any mistake, fire anyone who disagrees with you, and exist in a social circle entirely composed of people who need something from you - the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark.
This is different from classic narcissism, which typically masks insecurity. What Hawley is describing is something rarer: a self-definition in which the individual has genuinely grown to the size of the universe and the universe has contracted to fit. Elon Musk calling empathy "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization." Trump asked about checks on his power saying the only thing that could stop him was his own morality. Peter Thiel concluding that freedom and democracy are incompatible.
These are not poses. They are the logical endpoint of a psychology shaped by years of operating in a world that never pushed back.
The Bezos encounter is the piece's sharpest detail because it is so small. He was not cruel. He was not contemptuous. He simply could not locate, in that moment, the impulse to respond like a person who understood that another person's wrist hurt.
Jonathan Lemire@JonLemire
“When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark” theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…
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A man stole William Woods's identity, then accused Woods of stealing his, had Woods prosecuted, jailed, and drugged in a mental ward. A dogged detective solved it. Is an above-guidelines sentence justified? Yes, explains Judge Gruender. Might be the craziest fact section yet!
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Great paper, glad to see it in print. Also, I believe this is the first time the @EconsEveryDay blog was cited in an academic paper (twice)
Demography Journal@ReadDemography
In “Has Generational Progress Stalled? Income Growth...,” @kevincorinth & @jefflarrimore "evaluate whether younger generations are experiencing slower income growth relative to prior generations,” finding that progress has slowed, except for Millennials. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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To study the question of how extremist political commitments transmit across generations, I digitized 3.4 million Nazi Party membership cards, identify those that emigrated to the United States using the census, and examine the political attitudes of their descendants today.
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Butlerian Jihad against AI, data centers, and the overall anti-human life agenda of Silicon Valley billionaires would be a 90-10 issue for either party, so don't expect it to happen anytime soon
Daniel Aldana Cohen@aldatweets
Greatest democracy ever
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The direction of travel for Israel's standing in America: When Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution last summer to block arms sales to Israel, about half of Senate Democrats voted in favor; when he did so again now, roughly three-quarters of them did. nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/…
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Here's the thing about Israel/Palestine. It doesn't shock me at all that there's a grotesque ethnic conflict going on in some horrible corner of the world. I don't think Jews are generally bad, or even "worse than Arabs." Far from it. I assume that most of the participants in this conflict are morally ordinary people trapped in logic not of their making. If they moved to the United States, they'd mostly follow the law. They'd work at restaurants or cell phone kiosks or offices, maybe cheat on their taxes a little, maybe donate to charity, and their kids would be indistinguishable from a billion other immigrant kids. What's galls me is not their unique depravity -- it's that, in the United States, there exists no other ethnic squabble in which partisans from one side have the power to recruit my country into war. There exists no other ethnic squabble where, should I express sympathy for the wrong side, a domestic infrastructure of that side's supporters will organize to get me fired from my corporate job and blacklisted from subsequent opportunities. In effect, by passively existing as an American, I'm being recruited into a goat theft and olive tree vandalism gang, the sort of which my ancestors mercifully escaped around 2000 years ago when they dodged their way out of Palestine the first time. I have no desire to be associated with goat theft and olive tree vandalism. I'm sure that these pursuits are very meaningful to "JewishWarrior13," but they're extremely distasteful to me. I live in Brooklyn, I'm a civilized person. I would prefer my country not be involved.
Ta-Nehisi Quotes@steady_drumbeat
Per the photographer, the armed man was a settler who was there to prevent the local Palestinians from harvesting their own olives. In the video you can see the Palestinians being pushed around and talked to like cattle. But to "JewishWarrior13", this is Palestinian abuse.
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Maybe these members of Congress claiming to have been "blinsdided" by the Swalwell news should talk to their staffs every now and again.
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Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy describes itself independent. That representation is “misleading”, alleges the complaint to the NYC consumer protection bureau, filed by @sunrisecolumbia
@sunrisemvmt
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…
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Has the Position of College Graduates Worsened? peoplespolicyproject.org/2026/04/09/has…
re: @EricLevitz @noamscheiber
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The first recorded appearance of a cat in Japan is described arriving as an imperial gift, written down on March 11, 889 AD by 22-year-old Emperor Uda on his diary:
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Perhaps useful to point out that history rhymes: this is effectively what happened with telephone operators, 100 years ago. Young, entry-level operators, whose work was mainly connecting local calls--the simplest version of the job--and not much else, were wiped out by automatic call switching. More senior operators, who had a wider range of tasks and did more complicated work like information service, emergency service, and long distance calls, were not as affected. Even when local telephone operators were effectively eliminated across AT&T's network, the others remained. Much had to do with the complexity of the work and how entangled it was with the rest of the organization.
Extended discussion in work with @jamesfeigenbaum in @QJEHarvard and Management Science: academic.oup.com/qje/article-ab…, pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mn…
Lots of credit to @joshgans for helping us sharpen some of these ideas in this work as editor of the ManSci paper
Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦@lugaricano
An increasingly coherent picture of the impact of AI on jobs, by @jburnmurdoch @ft: 1. New Fed paper by Crane and Soto now confirms with official labor force survey data what private payroll analysis was showing: roughly 500,000 fewer coders are working than pre-LLM trends would predict. 2. Argues evidence consistent with my work (with Lin and Wu, link in my pinned post) on weak/strong bundles: junior developers and contractors hold "weak bundles" (their work is mostly standalone coding that AI can substitute directly), senior developers hold "tight bundles" where coding is combined with domain expertise, judgment, and cross-functional responsibilities, making substitution much harder. 3. Freund & Mann and Gans & Goldfarb add a second lens: what matters is the value of the tasks that survive automation. Remove coding from a senior role and you free up time for higher-value work; remove it from a junior role and almost nothing remains. ft.com/content/b69f85…
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An increasingly coherent picture of the impact of AI on jobs, by @jburnmurdoch @ft:
1. New Fed paper by Crane and Soto now confirms with official labor force survey data what private payroll analysis was showing: roughly 500,000 fewer coders are working than pre-LLM trends would predict.
2. Argues evidence consistent with my work (with Lin and Wu, link in my pinned post) on weak/strong bundles: junior developers and contractors hold "weak bundles" (their work is mostly standalone coding that AI can substitute directly), senior developers hold "tight bundles" where coding is combined with domain expertise, judgment, and cross-functional responsibilities, making substitution much harder.
3. Freund & Mann and Gans & Goldfarb add a second lens: what matters is the value of the tasks that survive automation. Remove coding from a senior role and you free up time for higher-value work; remove it from a junior role and almost nothing remains.
ft.com/content/b69f85…
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Source: nber.org/papers/w34223
Writeup: chicagobooth.edu/review/do-ai-d…
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It's ugly to see a former IDF soldier call for an investigation of an American news outlet. But this is a step up from the standard Israeli response to journalists, which is to kill them. x.com/EFischberger/s…
Eitan Fischberger@EFischberger
It's long past past time for congressional and DOJ investigations into the foreign ties of Drop Site News. Here's what we know: 🔸️It has at least two "reporters" on the ground in Iran who feed the site regime-approved disinformation and propaganda. 🔸️As I previously uncovered, It has employed at least three Gazan "journalists" with ties to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. 🔸️It recieved at least a $250,000 grant from Soros' Open Society to launch a middle east desk. 🔸️It's published by billionaire communist nepo baby Nika Soon-Shiong. 🔸️Drop Site frequently flies (or is flown?) to the middle east to interview the leaders of U.S.-designated terrorist organizations. And by "interview," i mean massage them for 2.5 hours at a time. In fact, co-founder Jeremy Scahill's first act at Drop Site was a multi-part series of sit-down interviews with senior leaders of both terror groups. 🔸️ Drop Site's MENA editor, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, filed a sympathetic dispatch from the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah after he was killed by Israel. 🔸️ Drop Site is fiscally sponsored by the Social Security Works Education Fund while it pursues its own 501(c)(3) status — an arrangement that reduces transparency and allows the outlet to obscure who its other funders are. Bonus: 🔸️Drop Site’s co-founder, Ryan Grim, has tweeted that "The U.S. is a rogue terror state and a cancer on the world" and called president Trump a terrorist.
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