Mason

Researcher, Data Scientist, Leftist. Political economy, policy, psychology, positive post-structuralism. Sharks are a sign of a healthy reef environment.

[Mason @masonmilla]

@Corey_Leander @MattBruenig @LittleKeegs0 @Nathan4897 @LoverNotArguer @EricLevitz "many businesses"

please be serious man

[Sylvian (#1 Skinamarink Fan) @TheAlexSylvian]

jeffries is gonna have a tough job come january getting 31 congressmen to always be missing for everything that might actually make things better

[Mason @masonmilla]

@BenjySarlin translation: after refusing to acknowledge the obvious truth that Harris got rinsed b/c Biden mismanaged the economy, centrists now claim they knew it all along, pretend it was a key '26 plank, and claim it was their territory the whole time instead of the left's

[Mason @masonmilla]

@arindube @mtkonczal nice example of integrating psychology with economics - a blind spot which has been very harmful to the public to date

[Mason @masonmilla]

launch these scam artist twisted-morality freaks into the sun. Dem Congress needs to apply copyright law to LLMs.

[Julia Black @mjnblack]

whew https://t.co/hsTYHPnEgP

[Mason @masonmilla]

@DEhnts often they're one and the same, e.g. Peterson Institute's smashing success in mainstreaming debt sustainability fear mongering

[Snakes🐍 @savemylove4u]

Life is now just watching conservatives do this everyday and being helpless to stop it

[Mason @masonmilla]

@ilhandogus I disagree. Not only *can* you merge these different fields, but optimal policy requires it. See Deleuze on "smooth space vs striated space." Real life/nature/evolution operate in smooth space whether we like it or not. Yes, research is striated, but the borders are illusory.

[Mason @masonmilla]

@ranavain @AlexSJacquez labor repression, of course, is the reason they don't. workers are much less likely to quit, seek raises, union organize, etc. when losing the job means losing healthcare

[RK @rk__upadhya]

we do need to seriously reckon with the fact that Israel ultimately needs to be subject to an int'l military occupation. its a nuclear-armed Nazi society, and just like Nazi Germany its genocidal expansion is going to continue until forcibly stopped and disarmed

[Jordan @iliterate__]

this is frying me dude. guy got turned into a nugget at 20 by a flying toy & theyre gonna let him use his chin to turn other teenagers into nuggets and ABC is running it as a feel good story. right when u think its done boom pan to his nazi patch collection. satire genius. dying

[Mason @masonmilla]

@itzaburna Kadarius Toney erasure

[Mason @masonmilla]

social media sentiment metrics must be plummeting!

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Cornell University has banned all fraternity parties for the rest of the academic year.

The move comes as New York Attorney General Letitia James investigates the “Cornell 7” assault allegations, after Governor Hochul appointed her special prosecutor last month.

[Mason @masonmilla]

firing an employee for not liking their hairstyle: perfectly legal

firing an employee for not liking their hairstyle *because they're the wrong race:* cleanest 6 figure damages + reinstatement you've ever seen

[Katie Herzog @kittypurrzog]

By now you’ve probably heard of the woman who was fired from the Baltimore Rock Opera Society following complaints that she culturally appropriated her Burning Man cornrows. Well, we got ahold of an internal document one staffer sent to volunteers and it’s an employment lawyer’s dream come true. Excerpts below or hear all about it on next week’s episode of Blocked and Reported (up now for Primos, unlocked Monday) https://t.co/O4hzd7AYhS

[Mason @masonmilla]

Huge mistake to hike into a labor market this close to stall speed when inflation is supply-driven.

[Nick Timiraos @NickTimiraos]

The 3-month average hiring rate, initially reported at 71,000 for Aug, is now revised to 51,000, and the 3-month average hiring for Sept was also 51,000

The picture is similar for private-sector employment, which was +54,000 for Sept, up from a downwardly revised +48,000 in Aug

[Mason @masonmilla]

@TheStalwart @mbateman I believe the exact opposite. Anthropomorphism will almost always give readers a bad understanding of these models, "hallucination" being a perfect example.

What anthropomorphism does do is fan the hype and terror flames, which we don't want.

[Mason @masonmilla]

@lefty_md his elision is understandable given it would be an electoral death sentence to come out against private ownership

[Mason @masonmilla]

@mtkonczal quantitatively, there are hidden Ks. aggregated real income data hides an increased dispersion in actual real wage outcomes during inflation (e.g., lower cost groceries inflating faster than higher cost)

https://t.co/XhfrS3JzuY

[Mason @masonmilla]

@mtkonczal "K-shape economy" imo is best deployed as a qualitative term that holistically captures how quality of life diverges in an economy marked by booming inflation/profits/stock prices/capex but without the tight labor markets required to distribute income growth more equally