Will King

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. Luckily, the experience doesn't have to be yours. Listen to Halloween safety kid.

Sexist or racist people are stone-cold losers. They are so insecure they created a category they were born into as “superior.”

Optimist: the cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty The other half of the economists on Bluesky: what was the assignment mechanism and can we use it to causally identify the effect of optimism on lifetime income or education outcomes?

The Society of Labor Economists is piloting a new mentoring program intended to provide small group mentoring, providing advice on how to improve research and navigate the publishing process. We are seeking both mentors and mentees--apply here! www.sole-jole.org/sole-mentoring

People arguing that all actions are selfish (because they ”maximize utility”) are lazy thinkers. They mistake a poor definition of selfishness for a clever insight.

I hope they go one of two ways with this new IP. 1. Continue the onion's style of satire, pointing out what InfoWars has always been. 2. Turn it into an actually reliable news source that highlights local level human interest stories across the world; doing what Jones never would.

I would have preferred to have the "draw the rest of the owl" meme on the cover, but this will do. Seems like it is on schedule, and we'll leave some typos so you know we didn't write it with AI.

"It's believed to be the first time a local police department in Minnesota intervened in a federal law enforcement action since the surge in immigration enforcement began two months ago." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

May we all make 2026 a year of kindness.

It seems seasonally appropriate to recall and perhaps amplify the words of Cicero: "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Once again, fantastic reporting by 404 Media.

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

Yeah, sad to say I called this one too (acoup.blog/2024/10/25/n...), but not enough people listened. And so here we are. Who could have imagined? Everyone. Everyone could have imagined.

For example, in Washington state, a judge found that the government improperly terminated a full-time student’s F-1 visa over a DUI arrest (but not conviction) in ways that violate the clear letter of law re: the bases for terminating student visas.

So that $10B bailout for farmers. Is it a payout for political support? Yeah. Bold move for an industry that talks so much about hard work & independence! But it's also worse than that. This is a US food crisis in the making. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n... Let's talk about the payoff part first?

There is a much dis-information being spread about the state of the US economy that Trump II inherited from Biden. But the facts matter... #agsky #econsky

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I discovered this little Christmas themed Easter egg while installing #openSUSE leap today.