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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 03/10/2026

For those keeping track at home, at the halfway point we are 5/6 of countries existing and 5/5 of firms existing.

Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 03/10/2026

Covering IR Seminar for a colleague, and I love this nearly 50 year old quote from Ken Waltz: Few states die; many firms do. Who is likely to be around 100 years from now-the United States, the Soviet Union, France, Egypt, Thailand, and Uganda? Or Ford, IBM, Shell, Unilever, and Massey-Ferguson?

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 03/10/2026

On the one hand, Old White Dude fest has some limitations. On the other hand, that is an audience that needs to be told 'your heroes hate you and think you're dumb if you become a fascist'

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 03/10/2026

Maybe, if cooking from dry chickpeas, removing the skins is good? But all the other crap (ice cubes, chickpea water) just thinned it down until it was dressing, not dip.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 03/10/2026

I can't remember a time before I could make hummus. My mother taught me to make it the way her Lebanese best friend taught her. I tried Ottolenghi's recipe, because occasionally I do like the smoother version. Abysmal. I don't know if it's a bad recipe of I messed it up but....it's awful.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 03/10/2026

It's fun when Trump starts picking fights with R's because he saw polling they would lose and wants to be able to say 'I always knew he was a loser'

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 03/10/2026

She presents as a normy Dem and did DSA fantasy shit.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 03/10/2026

If we picked presidents on policy making experience Lujan Grisham would be a contender.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 03/10/2026

It’s trained on abuse material. It’s built on crime.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 03/10/2026

Man I’m a free speech maximalist but they literally trained this stuff on illegal shit in many instances. Feels like it’s well past what’s fair.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 02/10/2026

It’s amazing how messed up things are for Republicans even in a total absence of Dems rallying around a new national figure.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 01/10/2026

Can it get weird in an extreme circumstance? Sure. Also if I drop my pen it's probably going to fall.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 01/10/2026

You know, I'm sympathetic to the idea that markets can be strange and sometimes slow. The labor market doesn't always move as quickly or as clearly as we'd think. But eventually if you are adamant supply can't bring down prices it's like arguing gravity doesn't exist.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 01/10/2026

Like you’re a “moderate” and think building new houses = “kickbacks from politicians” ok…so. What do we do with all the humans and the high rent?

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 01/10/2026

It’s amazing how bipartisan support for not building houses is in Nevada. I can at least understand the right and the left even if I think their ideas won’t work well. Right says deportations will make more houses. Left says houses need to be state owned. I get confused by everybody between them.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 01/10/2026

I use a non cloud no personality LLM for transcription. It’s great. I don’t think it’s my friend. Or a philosopher. I was never good at transcription so no skill to atrophy. It’s my only use case so far.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 01/10/2026

Just way way way too high a percentage of people is driving themselves bonkers.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 01/10/2026

I’m starting to think that LLMs are like heroin. There’s occasionally a person who can use it in a way that isn’t immediately and massively deleterious but they should be considered the exception rather than a rule.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 01/10/2026

Even if you support the death penalty the United States is not currently capable of doing it in a way that passes for “humane” Humans are being treated far worse than animals.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 30/09/2026

Ideally a real and robust justice system would do this. And t a university’s responsibility would just be to report it.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 30/09/2026

I would love to see universities get out of the game of setting up fake courts and fake punishments for real crimes. I don’t exactly know what to do instead but what I’ve seen my entire career doesn’t work.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 30/09/2026

Lol. Sounds like the use of 'synthetic' samples are fucked. That's a technical term, I'm a scientist.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 30/09/2026

The students were like 'uh obviously. Do people need to be convinced that description matters' so I had to tell them yes. Happy to report that the next generation are part of Team Description? Description Squad? Las descripciónistas?

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 30/09/2026

I saw this and look forward to reading it and working it into class in the future!

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 30/09/2026

Dear Hispanic Friends and Family- Can you all secretly not be hurt in falls? This guy is pioneering new types of racism.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 30/09/2026

Speaking of which I'm doing undergrad methods for the first time and did a whole unit on description and used and appreciated @carolyneholmes.bsky.social et. al. intervention in the topic. (I can't remember who else is on this website. I think @mkguliford.bsky.social is)

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 30/09/2026

There are still huge swaths of political phenomenon (granted, mostly outside the US) that could use 'here is my book on how X works' or 'some thoughts on Y'

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 30/09/2026

A wholly own subsidiary of Definitely Not Problematic Corp.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 30/09/2026

I put a lot on inflation. Unemployment isn't that different from 2019 to today (3.9 vs 4.1) but in the same time it now takes $134 to buy what you could for $100 in 2019. In some sectors that's a lot more. I never go to the movies and was surprised to learn the theater w the nice seats is now $18

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 30/09/2026

My favorite was one I got to review where a term I coined was referred as 'commonly called' and didn't cite me.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 29/09/2026

Sometimes I spot a person over here I remember being a sea lion or weird online shit stirrer from Twitter and I love hitting that nuclear block so fast.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 28/09/2026

I think people hear “feel like you did at 16” and think “healthy and strong” but your knees will still be and at 50 and now you’ll have acne and aggression too.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 28/09/2026

Just all the gender politics aside (or maybe only some of them aside)….having a super-natural level of testosterone in your 40s and 50s sounds miserable.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 28/09/2026

I’ve been reading this same story for 20 years. It’s always wrong and always ignores black (and often Latino) dems.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 27/09/2026

Happy to report people are clowning on this guy, including my favorite which is "With all the recalls I'll take any extra scrutiny we can get on the food: halal, kosher, whatever."

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 27/09/2026

None of this is to say that it's not worth making sure programs are worth it...that's a good thing! But it applies just as much (if not more) to things the administration likes, or claims, to like skilled trade apprenticeships or 'staying at home'

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 27/09/2026

That, despite the fact that most graduate education in most fields is a net positive for lifetime earnings (there are a few where it isn't, and it is probably worth looking at those more carefully. This isn't how we do that though).

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 27/09/2026

The proposed mechanism is also a sneaky attack on graduate education. ONE of the ways a student with one of these degrees might be 'earning less than a high school graduate four years after graduating' is if they are in graduate school.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 27/09/2026

Getting a bachelors degree remains a great idea. Getting an associates degree remains a great idea.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 27/09/2026

Most Bachelors degree holders were not unemployed. Unemployment was sub 2% for most of them. Very few were in poverty, approximately half the rate of the US Average.

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 27/09/2026

Let's just trying to take something relatively measurable (unemployment) and see whether a BA is worth it. The most unemployed BA the Census tracks is 'fine arts.' In 2022, it had a 2.9% unemployment rate. Some college was 3.8%. High School only was 4.3%

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 27/09/2026

There's a local pastor yelling on social media about halal products in stores here saying it's idolatry. Of every claim you can level against Islam, the one I think with the least evidence is 'idolatry' ....Christian megachurches on the other hand....

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 27/09/2026

(I have never had a post doc and almost surely never will)

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 27/09/2026

Folks are not groking the public university scenario in most of the country....

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 27/09/2026

Emails I get: "I'd like to come do a Post Doc, are those funded?" Emails I send: "Do you think if we reduced the printing budget we would have enough Scantrons to at least cover the intro classes?"

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