Lavar Edmonds

(Please don’t be mean to your RAs)

Like Claude, YOU’RE the RA here! Why are you talking to me like that

Today in “I think I might be part of the problem”:

Look I’m not saying the sycophantic, weirdly casual voice of ChatGPT is good or not creepy, but sometimes the direct, sometimes stern tone of Claude Code makes me feel like I’m in trouble, and idk about that

(If you’re over 45 and reading this: Search your feelings, you know it to be true)

There’s no reason for Led Zeppelin to have made music this meandering. At least real jam bands will find an interesting new riff sometime around the 6:00 mark

Econ historians of bluesky! Submit your paper to the SEA econ history sessions, sponsored by Clio and EHA, by March 22: forms.gle/YomRiP8iAUYK...

Proposals due: March 22, 2026
Authors notified of acceptance of paper: March 28, 2026
Conf dates: Nov 21-23

#econconf 1/2

I’d like to apologize for spreading disinformation. Listening to the rest of this EP and it’s, generally, quite mid. I no longer believe, in fact, that uncs still got it

A band I liked in college just put out a good single, after nearly a decade of straight garbage. Hopium is back on the menu, boys

Update: Still unclear! I got sufficiently spooked and left haha. But our admin staff are ON it: if there’s something running around here, I fully expect a department-wide email in the near future

Working on campus today and, twice now, I've caught something seemingly darting quickly into the corner under the desk next to mine

Maybe it was nothing, just my imagination! Conversely, the building has a mouse in it, and I will momentarily be burning this campus to the ground. Stay tuned

Another week, another cool data product release from LEHD and Census. This week, we released new PSEO data for schools from North Carolina and BYU-Idaho, bringing our total count of institutions to 952.

Check out the data here: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications...

maybe a slight overgeneralization tbf, but undeniably shit is getting weird

Screenshot from Twitter: “It’s been frequently pointed out how much “gen z slang” is just cribbed from AAVE but what seems to go less noticed is that all the other gen z slang is just actual incel forum lingo”

I had a similar thought recently, but feared I was approaching “Old man yells at cloud” territory. Glad I’m not alone

(Tbf you can usually tell the stuff with non-Black etymology bc it sounds so deeply uncool)

Picture of Shaq with the printed text “You can’t fool me. I am familiar with your game”

I came across an article with an insipid, annoyingly clickbait-y title, and immediately gave it the biggest eye roll. Then I checked the author, and saw it was written by, by far, the most annoying student I’ve encountered here (they’ve since graduated)

Sorry, world: We’re not sending our best!

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I can't be here right now because my words are not safe for the public. Leaving this here, going to go donate and check on my friends.

www.standwithminnesota.com

Tbh I’ve needed both

Interesting the varying responses I’ve seen over the weekend:

My Bluesky feed: eloquent thinkpieces, resource guides, inspirational rallying cries, up to the minute news updates, etc.

My Twitter feed: “On a pike, up by their heels, idc idc”

My group chats are full of Minnesotans reacting to today’s murder by figuring out ways they can help.

We need people outside of the state to do the same thing. Whatever you wish everyone else was doing right now? Do it today.

Let’s make a list of things that could help.

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

I know some have been a little unnerved at the aggressive following and noisemaking tactics of the observers. What they don’t realize is that it’s necessitated by what ICE is doing. You have seconds and you need as many eyes on them as possible, and as many people trying to get key info as possible.

If you see one, the most important thing to say is “WHAT’S YOUR NAME” because otherwise the person is gone for good, maybe. I witnessed one in an alley as the sole pursuit car, I was the only witness, I froze for a second and didn’t shout it in time, and the guy is just… gone now. I’ll never know.

You know the REAL worst part of ChatGPT? Its over-reliance on em dashes in write-ups has made some people think seeing them in writing is indicative of LLM usage

No no no: I’ve been over-relying on/misusing em dashes for *decades* — my culture is not a costume

I am weak and blackout curtains are Strong: Lessons from waking up at 2 PM for two weeks

Wow! I didn’t even notice (I live like 90 seconds from there). Driven by it my whole life 😭

[Opening my email for the first time in two weeks, seeing beginning of quarter listserv invites] You’re telling me this weekly newsletter is bi??

(Actually yea, I could see that)

Oh this is good

Door knob falling out of door

Door knob on outside of door completely fallen off

Happy New Year! Shoddy craftsmanship in an ostensibly newly renovated apartment almost locked us in here forever. Gonna not read too much into this as a sign of things to come

In the past hour at the gym, I’ve heard D4L, Lil Flip, JIBBS, Purple Ribbon All-Stars? Whoever is running the music tonight: show yourself. I just know we rode the bus to school together in ~2007