iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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WRONG it’s the whistle your neighbor 3D printed and left in a little free library

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I’ve been saying this for many years: the tripartite divisions of knowledge are fracturing. It was only a matter of time before the TE refused to pull math and basic science along in the Money Wagon (as represented in this slide for a talk I gave a few years ago).

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 4h

‘If AI doesn’t deliver on its promise then we face a double blow to growth: because AI didn’t expand our productive capacity as hoped, and because other investments which might have didn’t take place.’ www.ft.com/content/bf40...

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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 4h

they're the same gun what do you want

jonah hill holding a cop 357 derringer in 21 jump street

monica belluci holding a cop 357 derringer in the matrix

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 4h

Sad to see the one time 3rd largest Navy fall from grace

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 4h

while exam starts on large corps reversed a long downward trend in FY25, idk about what it will look like in 26... www.brookings.edu/projects/the...

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Compliance and enforcement | Brookings

Vanessa Williamson shares data on how the IRS enforces the country’s tax laws and approaches taxpayer compliance.

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 5h

Gotta wonder how much of this is an additonal, initially unmodeled (and unspoken, for obvious reasons) decline in tax enforcement capacity.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 5h

The Big Beautiful Bill cut corporate income taxes pretty substantially. Corporate tax revenues came in even lower than expected.

corporate tax revenue was at around 1.7% of GDP when BBB was enacted. Now it's down to 1.2% of GDP.

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 5h

clearly 30 years of nostalgia will distort my perception, but i think i enjoyed it, even though the coffee flavor was a bit synthetic. definitely a bitter edge you never get in pepsi otherwise

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tante @tante.cc · 5h

Anthropic does not apply the same protections to the data labelers they use to clean their training data from the worst shit in the world. But those are just mostly poor people, what do effective altruists care about th em?

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 5h

honestly, i'd lose it if they brought pepsi kona back.

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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · 8h

Interested in inequality research? Join the Stone Center for an open house with food, trivia, and chances to win swag! Tuesday, Oct. 13 · 3–4 p.m. CID Bay, ISR 2030 426 Thompson St. New faces welcome. Drop in, no RSVP needed. @um-src.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social

Graphic for the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics Open House. Tuesday, October 13, 3–4 p.m., at CID Bay, ISR Thompson 2030, 426 Thompson St. Meet your community, test your knowledge, and win swag. Bring a friend who’s new to the Center for extra swag for both of you. Drop in; no RSVP necessary. New faces welcome.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 8h

We got the bodycam and in-car footage related to the Flock search that a judge ruled was "indiscriminate mass surveillance" and unconstitutional. Ton of wild stuff in here More here: www.404media.co/watch-footag...

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 8h

please, paul, i need my fun trivia for american friends...

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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 9h

It was so great working with @neal.fun on this, and I hope you waste as much time playing around with it as I have www.wired.com/story/spend-...

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Spend Elon Musk’s Money

What’s it like to be the richest man in the world? Find out for yourself.

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University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy @fordschool.bsky.social · 8h

“Any kind of worker who's struggling to get their foot in the door, keep their foot in the door, get a promotion to the next thing-those are the people who are really struggling right now,” economist @betseystevenson.bsky.social explores the latest labor reports. Read: myumi.ch/qwEAG

Quote from Betsey Stevenson that reads: “What I see is a continuation of a low-fire, low-hire labor market. And that is a labor market where if you have a job, you’re doing OK. You can hang on to it, but it’s hard to get a new job. And that hurts not only the people who need to enter the labor market or have lost their job, but it actually also hurts the people who are employed because most wage gains—big wage gains—come from changing jobs.”

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 8h

given gates' distance from the company these days, not sure how much it really matters nadella has been on anthropics side in a few of the recent ai fights, afaik, so it might be that? (but also, he just got one of the tech and innovation medals, so... *shrug*)

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 8h

Many reasons this is dumb including that there was no way of knowing what Musk would become when he applied for his visa at like, 23 or something. This is like that Onion Article: "China waives one child policy as long as all extra children grow up to be Yao Ming."

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 8h

tired: script kiddies wired: scripting agent kiddies

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 9h

See also “Interviewing your laptop” by @tslumley.bsky.social notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/08/15/i...

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Interviewing your laptop - Biased and Inefficient

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NH's "Play-by-Play" Guy @egall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Reminder that student IDs used to be expressly recognized as a valid form of photo ID for voting purposes in New Hampshire, but then Republicans passed legislation to take that recognition away. #NHPolitics

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*checks tariff rate on candles*

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was never a Max Verstappen fan, perhaps a bit of a hater, even, but stuff like this and the other GT racing sidequests really has changed my view. Max is alright. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GIU...

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Max Verstappen Vs 100 Amateur Kart Racers

YouTube video by Red Bull

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

all my homies hate phenylephrine HCl

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

honestly, some real interocular trauma in these graphs.

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*polite cough* "This Nobel is Different"

a comparative line graph, showing institutional concentration of Nobel laureates from 1969 (when the rijksbank memorial prize was inaugurated) through 2022. winners in chemistry, physics, and medicine saw declines in concentration, while economics started out more concentrated than the rest, and increased in concentration (with a significant rise through the 2000s) over time

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was perhaps too loose w language - everyone dislikes bearing diffuses costs (though, being diffuse, they're less burdensome), & likes when they obtain concentrated benefits. But if everyone lobbies successfully for protection, an accumulation of diffuse costs outweighs most concentrated benefits.

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*polite cough* "This Field is Different"

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Finally a proper working paper for this study that produced one of the most astounding figures I've ever seen. Basically economics is different from every other field, empirically. This paper looks at the concentration of university affiliations for award winners. www.nber.org/papers/w35875

Figure 2 from the paper: institutional concentration of university affiliation at time of award correlated with institutional concentration of phd granting university. Economics is the most concentrated of any field.

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

everyone hates the diffuse costs, everyone loves the concentrated benefits.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One of the constant authoritarian tells of these guys is their desperate dislike of public spaces where they might encounter normal American citizens. Big closed compounds like the Kremlin or Zhongnanhai are what you build when you despise and fear your people.

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One wonders if the push to remove tariffs on "everything else" also includes tariffs (or other protectionism) that potentially benefit Maine loggers. Tariff logrolls happen for a reason - everyone has a sector they want to defend...

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dr peppermint patty @jessespector.com · 07/10/2026

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i can't hear "oyster crackers" without thinking of this, so i have to share it to go on with my day. www.youtube.com/shorts/oWAq0...

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Bill Hader's Wardrobe PA's Funny Story About Burt Lancaster😱❗❗ #comedy

YouTube video by Conan O'Brien Clips

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*begins buying powerball tickets*

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

turns out that if i'm fatigued enough, my enjoyment of rambling about stats and data outweighs my anxiety about being on camera/recorded and the sessions go better

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this is dissertation-level diagrammatic analysis (/s)

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A reminder that stiffing your contractors seems to be a common theme in Musk-verse, too. Now it has spilled over into other areas. I do wonder if these massive track buy up were (ala Pitt Race) a scheme to land more data centers, but still... dragstrips for sale. dragillustrated.com/going-going-...

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Going, Going: Nearly Every Cuttell Track Hits the Auction Block | Drag Illustrated

Darana Motorsports Holdings has hired Tranzon Auction Services to sell Atlanta Dragway, Virginia Motorsports Park, Rockingham, Memphis, Heartland and seven more, with sealed bids due Nov. 17.

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

you gotta let me know how it is, I have a place for something like this in my teaching

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Welp, glad I'm test riding/driving an electric this weekend, I guess

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*edits Wikipedia article "Active" number down by one* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_tan...

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Oil tanker - Wikipedia

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