Colin Camerer

"trump raped more people than expected" lacks the eye-grabby novelty and sociological depth of "in red state diner trump supporter supports trump" or "president's behavior presidential"

This is shockingly ignorant. Here are a few things we can thank the Arab World for: Coffee Algebra Hospitals The Camera Obscura Surgery Universities Modern Chemistry The Syringe Fountain Pens

There are credible allegations of rape against the president, and evidence his administration has taken steps to cover up his relationship with the world's most notorious pedophile. This story is being covered more aggressively by People Magazine than the NY Times, Wash Post, or Wall St Journal.

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This is embarrassing, fawning native advertising for Mayer’s new app (after 2 others failed) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...

Judge Reyes: “Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President.” wapo.st/3UMpVRe

Ahmed Zewail was born in Egypt and won the 1999 Nobel prize in chemistry for femtochemistry. He often talked about his Muslim faith and how it intersected with science en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Z...

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

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Own-goal. To normal people an extremely high million dollar reward is needed because it’s very hard to find any such voter fraud.

I think the fact that Marissa Mayer would voluntarily disclose this to a reporter is a pretty good demonstration of how deeply the culture of Silicon Valley has diverged from the rest of humanity

“Paxton was a crook, is a crook, probably will continue to be a crook,” Kuhlenschmidt said during a recent outing to the Woodlands Mall. Still, she said she would vote for Paxton because she was concerned that Talarico was too far to the left and would support a socialist agenda.” 🧐 wapo.st/4zTDqgX

Small town cop working for ICE single-handedly hollowed out a TX town of 2000 people. He created many, many single-mom households “ What sold him on policing was the suburban officer’s power to enforce the law as he saw fit”

The rally was on Oct. 12.

So in a huge surprise to absolutely no one, it turns out that NIH director Jay Bhattacharya's new journal based on the premise of letting his friends and only his friends publish essentially whatever they want is full of crackpot nonsense from retired cranks.

The Park Police has become a military force in DC. Unfortunately, they're also barely trained.

BAC of .254 is sky high. The highest i've ever heard reported is .31 a hockey player in philly, who died crashing his car. IIRC at .45 or .5, you get acute toxicity and can die

NEW: A woman featured in a Republican attack ad accusing a Democrat of being “dangerous” for children actually PLEADED GUILTY TO CHILD ENDANGERMENT after driving drunk with her own kids in the car, per the Washington Post.

“Jennifer Lawrence said that her mother read the book when it was new (JLaw was 16) and told her, "If they make this into a movie, I want you to get this part." Critics described her in it as “ a gathering storm” She left KY at 14 to New York City to try acting. www.usatoday.com/story/life/b...

Love this so much. The Asian baby at :20 is the best

Wtf. With Robinhood ad in the back, and Trump‘s  work wife/nurse

Super interesting insight about the minority view of the triangles. PS imagine how much you could revisit in this paradigm with AI

For example, most participants perceived that the big triangle, annotated by “T”, was aggressive, mean, angry and warlike. But about 14% of people said that T was strong and forceful, slow but powerful. Many saw the small triangle “t” as heroic and brave, but 17% said it was weak.

When you put your own self on a wanted poster.

AK lawsuit is not at all serious “ worst complaint I’ve ever seen” “ one of the weakest election lawsuits” Why do it then? “It’s a press-release litigation” DOJ just gives Trump something more for grievancemaxxing www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

As turnout in Texas nears 3 million votes, Hispanic turnout is now exceeding presidential levels. More Hispanics have voted than did at this point in the 2024 presidential election. What's driving this huge increase? Young voters.

ICE: “This is false. ICE did NOT hit a pedestrian. An agitator jumped onto the hood of an ICE vehicle and the officer driving applied the brakes. The agitator slid off the hood They are *always* lying to cover up violence Read more at: www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

Wisconsin is one of two states I've lived in whose insularity leads to the kind of evolutionary cultural craziness you find in animals in the Galapagos or language in isolated settlements. This is what hath been wrought in the name of sausage

As much as cars still bad, you can breathe in Los Angeles on most days. my favorite picture to illustrate the change was being 27 miles from the Hollywood sign and shooting it between International Gateway Bridge.

The improvement in air quality, globally, is incredible - but in places like LA where Smog was a cultural identity it’s been amazing.

Habeas Corpus was created in 1166 by Henry II. Blackstone called it the “Great Writ of Liberty.” This would seem to be an attempt for the second time this century by the Republicans to erase The Writ. I don’t think people understand how bad this is. Historically speaking that’s extremely common.

Mostly skeptical that Alpha AI teaching will work and scale Psych prof: “They think the way you toughen kids up is to get them to clean a bathroom, and the way you get them to learn is to power through as quickly as possible. These are naïve theories of psychology.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

A great new paper by Allesandra Cassar et al on an extended Hamilton’s rule, using a dictator game, sharing data from three countries www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

By every measure, Opus 4.8 beats human experts as peer reviewers in a study of 124 Harvard social science papers covering a range from statistical analyses to formal models to qualitative work. As academics, we need to figure out how to adapt the practice of science to AI, and we need to do it fast

In case you wondered, whether Gavin Newsom was a piece of shit the answer is Yes He had a year-long affair with a married staffer in 2006. She told her husband, another staffer, who confronted Newsom In his memoir, Newson lies that he is the one who told the husband Https://archive.ph/n1vuJ

the folly of this idea. www.statnews.com/2025/06/26/n...

Batshit crazy

we shall pray that Trump's own mouth is the tool used to dig a fine, gold-plated grave.

Terrific hard-hitting interview of WH science guru Michael Kratsios by the incredible Tyler Cowen. Must-read for any scientist trying to figure out what the WH is planning to do www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/o...

Fantastic reconstructed memory cognitive dissonance. Like an introductory Psych 101 class.

In the NFL this would a roughing the passer penalty. But its ok for a 250 lb male cop to do this to a 120lb young woman who clearly had a scraped chin

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“One person who, until recently, worked with Hershey told me his impression is that the company is constantly altering ingredients but only up to the threshold where it believes people would be able to tell the difference.”

An insane amount of Walmart patents for price discrimination “One patent application details how cameras in parking lots could photograph vehicle suspensions on entry and exit to measure the gap between the wheels and wheel wells to infer whether the car got heavier from the customer’s purchases”

Adapting to Philly quicker than expected

Wow. says he is “disgusted” that other GOPs are “whining” about the horrendous Vivek ad

Former Treasury Sec Rubin: “the markets are not pricing in what I consider a meaningful risk” [Trump election threats] Remember how hard Trump and allies worked to overthrow 2020? This will be just as bad. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...