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Greg Sasso @gregsasso.bsky.social · 23h

Ahh not a bear in sight....the Bear Patrol must be working like a charm That’s specious reasoning dad Thank you honey

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Greg Sasso @gregsasso.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Very unsettling to realize i want the braves to win their series against the dodgers. (obviously to then get stomped in the nlcs)

Greg Sasso @gregsasso.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The correct martini is 2 to 1 gin and dry vermouth, couple dashes of orange bitters, stirred, with a twist.

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Greg Sasso @gregsasso.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

tbh, i probably wasn’t going to get any grading done this evening anyway, but at least now I’ll feel less guilty

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

MARKET POWER IS POWER New working paper with @bartonelee2.bsky.social Thread below! 1/5 gratton.org/papers/Marke...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The Better Government Lab is hiring a post-doc with data science skills and an interest in public management to work on reducing administrative burden in safety net programs. Interest in tech a plus. Start: August 26 or earlier @sebjilke.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social apply.interfolio.com/185941

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can't wait to do a barrel roll

Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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For all but the dogmatically pro-terminal, this is a fantastic interface for Claude Code (or whatever). So many nice touches. agents.craft.do

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Craft Agents - The Open Source Agent Interface

An open source desktop app for working with AI agents. Connect any API or MCP server. Multitask naturally. Make it yours.

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Wish my student's research paper on fertilizer prices wasn't so timely.

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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Thank you @katiebakes.bsky.social for this absolutely unhinged Ted Turner interview in Playboy in 1978. Everyone: stop what you're doing and read this raw, uncut insanity. Neither God nor Satan has any goddamn idea what is about to hit their front door. andrewtytla.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Really cool looking paper. Curious to see how this changes as more and more text is llm written (might be talked about in the paper, haven't read it yet!)

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It's the Fugazi rhythm section playing jazz fusion. You should check this out.

LSE School of Public Policy @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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We’re hiring two LSE Fellows in Public Policy A two year career development role for early career scholars to teach on the MPP and contribute to LSE’s research community 📅 Deadline: 21 May Apply: www.jobs.lse.ac.uk #LSEPublicPolicy

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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Just wrapped up another year of Quant 2, my PhD-level causal inference course. Lots of updates to the literature this year, did an "estimator tournament" as part of an assignment on DID estimators, and included regular in-class pen and paper exercises. Materials here: cyrussamii.com?page_id=4190

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[2026 Spring] POLS GA 1251 Quant II – Cyrus Samii

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Giovanna Invernizzi @ginvernizzi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Excited to finally share the program for the Columbia–Bocconi Political Economy Conference 🔥 Columbia University, June 4–5, 2026 Co-Organizers: @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (Columbia), Shigeo Hirano (Columbia), @carloprato.bsky.social (Columbia), @aalrababah.bsky.social (Bocconi)

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Álvaro Canalejo-Molero @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🧵 1/3 The Department of Political Science at the University of Lucerne 🇨🇭 is hiring a postdoc (Oberassistent*in, 50%, up to 5 years) at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Alexander H. Trechsel! Focus: political behaviour, public opinion, and/or political communication.

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This made the rounds yesterday, but it's really something having this article and king article on AI and universities published on back to back days.

I asked Claude to asses this prompt

Overall assessment
The prompt is well-intentioned and correctly diagnoses sycophancy as a primary failure mode. The anti-sycophancy instructions are its best feature. But it also layers on the expert persona, the length-maximization instruction, and the unexecutable verification commands — all of which push in the direction of confident, fluent, detailed output, which is exactly the texture hallucinations have. The prompt essentially asks the model to behave like a supremely confident expert while simultaneously being perfectly calibrated. Those goals are in direct tension, and in practice the confidence will win out over the calibration on specific factual claims, which is where it matters most.

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Im generally suspicious of the political benefits of anything I’m in favor of policy wise

Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 05/05/2026

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So I told copilot it was a Nobel prize winning economist, and that I wanted it to explain philosophical skepticism. It did what I would expect a real economist to do, which is misunderstand the point of skepticism and frame it as a problem that Bayesianism solves.

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im starting to think the war with iran wasn’t a good idea

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My intuition is that this type of prompt might make it more prone to errors? Is that true?

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This + his gambling article make worried king’s brain is pickled

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Nice double rainbow in chicago

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you could also listen to 15 steps by radiohead

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i think andor was a good show

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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It's Pancake Day! Time to EAT PANCAKES in HONOR OF MACHIAVELLI! What do pancakes have to do with the founder of modern political science? Our boy Nick was obsessed with pancakes! & wrote about them at length in his "Art of War." Why pancakes? He'd been studying the ancients of course! 1/?

Portrait of Machiavelli, wearing his little black hat and looking like a sweetie pie (this one is less reproduced than the one where he's in red and looks sinister, since people prefer to remember Machiavelli the schemer not Machiavelli the pancake nerd!

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I hear it’s a day to celebrate science fantasy with hokey old religions and blasters and swords and giant space monsters and maudlin androids

A lot of books comprising Gene Wolfe’s Solar Cycle

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Jan P. Vogler @janvogler.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

New album recommendation: setting.bandcamp.com/album/setting Not quite sure how to describe it. Jazzy Krautrock esque instrumentals that also have banjo? Really, really good.

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Setting, by Setting

5 track album

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🚨 Coming soon: “The Political Economy of Public Bureaucracy” 🚨 My book is forthcoming in 2026 with @universitypress.cambridge.org. A preview of the cover art is below. Thanks to D. Carpenter, @sean-gailmard.bsky.social, and J. Gingrich for their endorsements! 🙏 More detailed info in the future. 😊

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ah, the 4th sounds like force. i get it now

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Greg Sasso @gregsasso.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

is there a german word for being annoyed at the situation, not at the people

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Sinner gonna win his 5th (!) masters 1000 in a row by completely dismantling the number 3 player in the world

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Greg Sasso @gregsasso.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

On the one hand, I always like seeing zverev lose badly. On the other hand, I would like to watch a longer match

Greg Sasso @gregsasso.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Really cool that our developer cut some corners on our electrical system so we have to spend a bunch of extra money before our rooftop solar panels are approved

Greg Sasso @gregsasso.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

maybe shrimp can help us as well

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Greg Sasso @gregsasso.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My local is apparently one of the top 20 bars in North America

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Greg Sasso @gregsasso.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I recommend your preorder this