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Best Mike Shor winner, 2012. Immigrant; sorry if I took your job. Professing behavioral econ, game theory & antitrust at UConn (via UVA → RutgersU → Vanderbilt)

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It’s insane that a major university like UConn in 2025 still doesn’t offer paid family leave.

But the fact that grad students and admins have it but faculty don’t is a testament to just how spectacularly inept the UConn chapter of AAUP union is.

21.11.2025 13:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's what the FTC's “Click-to-Cancel” rule tried to do, but consumer protection is dead now

21.09.2025 23:57 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why is MAGA pushing its gender ideology?

21.09.2025 18:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The number of baseball caps worn to class increases markedly on exam days

09.09.2025 16:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is the deadly price of electing anti-science clowns whose only real talent is being confidently wrong in the face of overwhelming knowledge.

28.08.2025 13:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Vaccines are some of the top achievements of human civilization—up there with clean water and antibiotics. Gutting CDC expertise and dismantling vaccine policy isn’t “health,” it’s medieval nonsense that will kill people.

28.08.2025 13:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Warning: Binary 101 is not an intro class

18.08.2025 17:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They have to create their own account and scan a QR code from my device to gain access

15.07.2025 12:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022 that Commissioner Carr is choosing to violate was passed by unanimous consent in the Senate and an overwhelming voice vote in the House.

Will legislators do anything about their bipartisan will being ignored? Of course not.

14.07.2025 17:22 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

LOL

14.07.2025 17:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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FCC blocks ban on prison phone price gouging, benefiting top Trump donors The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will no longer enforce a rule capping the price of prison phone calls, according to an announcement made Monday by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

There is so much daily cruelty from this admin that I completely missed news of this

popular.info/p/fcc-blocks...

14.07.2025 17:07 👍 113 🔁 45 💬 2 📌 0

The failure of democrats to achieve lasting policy wins is not drivel

14.07.2025 16:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

It does, but I'm okay for anyone on earth who so desperately wants to see a hundred chickadees to hack in

14.07.2025 16:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My bird feeder app requires two-factor authentication.

Threat-modeling is now a creative writing class.

13.07.2025 17:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Considering where most of our ilk are politically, perhaps it’s for the best

04.07.2025 13:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Does anyone else write "Great! Thanks for your help!" to ChatGPT following a particularly good answer?

Seems rude not to, and yet I question everything

24.06.2025 13:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Remember that cottage industry detailing "the habits of very successful people"? Getting up at 5 am, focusing on what's important, not wasting time, avoiding conflict, etc.?

Now think of Trump and Musk

06.06.2025 14:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

From 2013!

28.05.2025 15:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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My first time in The Stacks of the library in a decade and I find myself in the Chomsky section. What’s the world telling me?

24.04.2025 14:07 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Greenland must be thinking they could take over the US right about now

21.04.2025 03:24 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He did write it on a Saturday, to be fair, and had to pretend to care about precedent

20.04.2025 21:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, one that puts pure partisanship above any actual knowledge of what an agency does, whether it is good or bad, or why you have those opinions. It's an answer, just a shallow, dumb one.

18.04.2025 19:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not an answer. Why?

18.04.2025 19:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Why?

18.04.2025 18:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I discovered the same at UConn after being here for eight years

18.04.2025 18:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Department mailer congratulating Ana Karaban on defending her dissertation

Department mailer congratulating Ana Karaban on defending her dissertation

🎓It’s a rare privilege to mentor someone like Ana—brilliant, curious, and kind. Ana’s research asks tough questions about gender, work, and family. Congrats, Dr. Karaban! 👏 #PhDone #EconSky @akaraban.bsky.social @remylevin.bsky.social @deliafurtado.bsky.social

18.04.2025 15:33 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Rubio holding dear to one of America's greatest values -- immigrants and refugees trying to shut the door behind them.

17.04.2025 16:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
10.04.2025 16:04 👍 448 🔁 107 💬 17 📌 0

Someone quickly tell Trump that Chinese fentanyl shippers don’t pay tariffs

10.04.2025 16:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0