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Colin Camerer

@cfcamerer.bsky.social
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Dad, behavioral and neuroeconomist, sometimes good trouble

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 6h
He’s right of course. Player pay and coaching pay ARE totally different markets. That’s why in every pro sports league on earth, the best players are paid significantly more than the best coaches. They’re way more valuable. College sports is unique in flipping that
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 1h
Which of these 3 don’t belong?
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 2h
Thoroughly performative. It means absolutely nothing except that it shows that Trump administration doesn’t have the slightest clue about AI risk or how to carefully assess and control it. Its a Celebrity AI TV event
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 20h
Taylor: “directing “came out of necessity” when no other female filmmakers were available.🧐 “I was like, ‘I could do it, maybe,’” Swift recalled. “And when I did direct, I just thought, ‘This is actually more fulfilling than I ever could have imagined.’” Humblebrag champ ew.com/taylor-swift...
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Taylor Swift thanks Swifties while receiving inaugural MTV VMA Artist Director Honors
Taylor Swift was awarded the first-ever MTV VMA Artist Director Honors during the 2026 ceremony on Sept. 27.
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David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 23h
The Senate has passed a silly piece of legislation that they claim will "save college sports". In about ten minutes this morning, I wrote this story. College sports does not need saving. The Senate bill is really about taking money from players. wagesofwins.substack.com/p/college-sp...
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College Sports Does Not Need Protecting!
Here are many reasons why that is true. And why people need to be less guillible.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 23h
A brilliant tho of course disturbing cartoon
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why did Zuck do a @nytimes.com Style interview? “It probably also has something to do with the Aaron Sorkin film that is about to come out, with which is a less than flattering portrait of the company and the man, and the desire to present an alternative image” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/i...
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Why Does The Times Care About Mark Zuckerberg’s Style?
For our chief fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman, the Meta chief executive’s choice of clothes reveal, perhaps inadvertently, pieces of his psyche.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2026
Running a regression on primary vote share vs general election share and it predicts a 9.6% dem advantage in the House vote share. You would expect a few polls with the generic ballot at +15 in such a scenario. We could be looking at a 10%+ win for Dems in the house.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“This is dumb, dumb, dumb beyond belief,” one former Trump campaign official told CNN. “These guys are all gonna get subpoenaed. It’s gonna be bad.”
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Contrasted with the journal: bsky.app/profile/wsj....
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Phil Lynott?
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the dumbest ideas committed to print, esp w shooters having semiauto military AR 15s
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There are *tons* of gorgeous building murals all over Philly
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Classic “false consensus”: if I know it’s everyone must know it too
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Prepping my AI social science class @caltech I found this amazing substack from the brilliant @deenamousa.com Much of my required reading is from posts like this. It's a major paradigm shift in teaching (Sadly next yr there will be syllabus updating) 🫠 newsletter.deenamousa.com?r=25ntw&utm_...
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Under Development | Deena Mousa | Substack
Economic development & emerging technology. Click to read Under Development, by Deena Mousa, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The @nytimes.com is consistently awful on this. I think they are so scoop focused that when they get scooped, it drives them crazy and they try to pretend otherwise
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Totally agree.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A profound point!
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pablo Torre breaking Kawhi Leonard and Life Surge stories is evidence that there’s a lot of interesting investigations that could be done, but not the goal of legacy and large sports journalism are their entities Theres a niche that he’s filling, which is terrific
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gruesome story about a troubled groypette who slowly realized the redpilled manosphere just hates women. does have one bit of poetry “She walked alone to a sports bar for a salad” wapo.st/4da9OTD
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She helped lead a far-right internet movement. Then it turned on her.
Amy Dangerfield worked to become one of Nick Fuentes’s model “groypettes,” but a vicious fight left her grappling with the dark side of far-right fame.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Horseshoe theory of cringe
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rahm has been in the @nytimes.com 4000 times since 1987. Perfect mainstream estab Dem. Zero chance of becoming POTUS “while Mr. Emanuel has campaigned for multiple House candidates in swing seats, few seemed eager to get on the phone to discuss his exact role” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/u...
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Rahm Emanuel, Eyeing 2028, Makes His 2026 Play
The longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his party’s push to win back Congress. After that, he’ll think about the next presidential race.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
1A is literally in the Bill of Rights
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mistress shot 3 times: “Cerimedo’s lawyers called the entire case — from affair to shooting — an elaborate trap set by the left for Cerimedo and the Paz government” Conspiracy theory —> zealous defense wapo.st/4iJM3p0
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He pushed MAGA in Latin America. Then came an affair, and an attack.
Fernando Cerimedo, who steered right-wing campaigns across Latin America, is accused of directing two hit men to kill his pregnant paramour.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kalshi PM > legacy media is a new exhibit in Alaska Senate race. WaPo pundit bothsides it, but Kalshi has Peltola a clear favorite at 70% GOP is about to set $15M on fire supporting Peltola’s opponent wapo.st/4rtPP88
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No Kings! Should AG James arrest King James?🧐
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“A United rep responded to the woman’s complaints but declined to speak with her by phone…The woman was told she had no way to interact with the company about the issues except by email” She did get a $100 flight credit.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Either real or an insane satire. both are great.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ICYMI Great reporting on Lao pioneer DC Chef Seng. Started cooking in a Thai refugee camp when she was 12. Opened a Thai restaurant and was reluctant to serve Lao food, which is smellier from fish sauce and different. Eventually, she educated people and it grew. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Lao and Proud: Chef inspires others to embrace their heritage and history through food
Food is a tangible and accessible way to understand and connect with different societies. One chef has led the movement to bring traditional food from her home country of Laos to diners across the Uni...
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Overreacting legacy media versus modern prediction markets @nytimes  goes on and on about it’s new poll showing Susan Collins +3 in Maine Senate. Kalshi yawns www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How does it take 102 minutes to reinstate badges? Seems like they must’ve just erased them entirelyfrom the system and had to start from scratch.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
L.A. has no shortage of wellness-focused retreats, seminars, and classes. At Moon Soul Sound Baths, certified sound bath facilitator Alice Moon leads attendees through both sober and 420-friendly “restorative experiences.” The full story: lataco.com/mattress-sto... By Karina Soriano
An overhead shot of a dark matress store where people are on the beds meditating while a women at the center leads a sound bath.

Headline reads "Can a Mattress Store Double as a Spiritual Awakening Haven?"
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
GOP message discipline has crumbled. JD Vance says I know it’s bad but give us a chance to fix it. Thune gaslights: You’re really better off; I don’t know why you’re complaining. Trump et al say An increase in gas price is a small price to pay, and Americans agree, for Iran not having a nuke
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think it was UK PM Gladstone who said if you can't walk into a room of men* you have never met before, and instantly know what each of them truly wants, then you have no biz being in politics *"men", cause the times
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Totally agree.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yikes www.jezebel.com/stanford-ai-...
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So Your College Isn’t Diverse Enough for Marketing Purposes? Just AI-Generate Some Black Students Into Existence!
Enrollment of Black students at Stanford has been down since Supreme Court axed affirmative action, but it has plenty of fake AI students.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great interview with author and Chef Eddie Huang about how his amazing wife schools him “She’s like, “Look at Keanu Reeves. Keanu Reeves never takes a photo next to a woman. There’s always a gap between Keanu Reeves and any woman that is not Keanu Reeves’s woman.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/p...
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Eddie Huang Drops the Tough Guy Act
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kalshi odds on Jackson-Collins election have barely budged with the ProPublica corruption news
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredible reporting on Susan Collins’s filth. “His love of talking like a wheeler-dealer — including over email — was a gift to investigators. In one email, he all but admitted the scholarships to young women were a diversion. “Whatever… just a pack of bitches getting free $,” he wrote”.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Her economics is utter nonsense. Claims supply is constricted but people bought more. The economy doesn’t econ.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Everybody on earth loved this song. With three exceptions [the other 3 Bangles]. “Eternal Flame” hit Number One in 1989, but became one of those hits that dooms a band.” Great music journalism here
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Great news— no TV pool coverage. Fox News is part of the boycott
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cathy Freeman walked so Keely Hodgkinson could run (you know what I mean) in gorgeous one-piece speed suits Keely insisted on having a whole for her ponytail to fly free, creating a little bit of aerodynamic drag, but a lot of style www.nytimes.com/athletic/760...
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump: “With all of that being said, I understand that Don has paid him back.” (Very likely false) Headline is just wrong. It confuses having paid with planning to pay. Who is writing these headlines at the New York Times?
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Kind of staggering..70% of kids in SF go to public school. Appointing all 6 only from private schools should only happen with probability .7^6, 12%, if they are independent choices
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
He claims Don jr “a while back” said he was paying Umer back for wedding expenses. Why didn’t new wife Bettina say that in her statement?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/09/2026
Q: "Was it appropriate for your son to accept a gift of a payment of some of his wedding festivities [by a Russian oligarch]?" Trump: "It's totally allowed…As I understand it, he paid him back…A friend of his gave him a wedding party. That's very common."
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