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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 29/06/2026

I was very curious to see how they would tie themselves into pretzels to explain why the Fed is different. I didn’t expect the answer to be “we don’t you an explanation”

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 21/11/2025

It’s insane that a major university like UConn in 2025 still doesn’t offer paid family leave. But the fact that grad students and admins have it but faculty don’t is a testament to just how spectacularly inept the UConn chapter of AAUP union is.

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 22/09/2025

That's what the FTC's “Click-to-Cancel” rule tried to do, but consumer protection is dead now

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 21/09/2025

Why is MAGA pushing its gender ideology?

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 09/09/2025

The number of baseball caps worn to class increases markedly on exam days

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 28/08/2025

This is the deadly price of electing anti-science clowns whose only real talent is being confidently wrong in the face of overwhelming knowledge.

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 28/08/2025

Vaccines are some of the top achievements of human civilization—up there with clean water and antibiotics. Gutting CDC expertise and dismantling vaccine policy isn’t “health,” it’s medieval nonsense that will kill people.

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 18/08/2025

Warning: Binary 101 is not an intro class

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 15/07/2025

They have to create their own account and scan a QR code from my device to gain access

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 14/07/2025

The Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022 that Commissioner Carr is choosing to violate was passed by unanimous consent in the Senate and an overwhelming voice vote in the House. Will legislators do anything about their bipartisan will being ignored? Of course not.

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 14/07/2025

The failure of democrats to achieve lasting policy wins is not drivel

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 14/07/2025

It does, but I'm okay for anyone on earth who so desperately wants to see a hundred chickadees to hack in

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 13/07/2025

My bird feeder app requires two-factor authentication. Threat-modeling is now a creative writing class.

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 04/07/2025

Considering where most of our ilk are politically, perhaps it’s for the best

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 24/06/2025

Does anyone else write "Great! Thanks for your help!" to ChatGPT following a particularly good answer? Seems rude not to, and yet I question everything

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 06/06/2025

Remember that cottage industry detailing "the habits of very successful people"? Getting up at 5 am, focusing on what's important, not wasting time, avoiding conflict, etc.? Now think of Trump and Musk

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 24/04/2025

My first time in The Stacks of the library in a decade and I find myself in the Chomsky section. What’s the world telling me?

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 21/04/2025

Greenland must be thinking they could take over the US right about now

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 20/04/2025

He did write it on a Saturday, to be fair, and had to pretend to care about precedent

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 18/04/2025

Yeah, one that puts pure partisanship above any actual knowledge of what an agency does, whether it is good or bad, or why you have those opinions. It's an answer, just a shallow, dumb one.

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 18/04/2025

I discovered the same at UConn after being here for eight years

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 18/04/2025

🎓It’s a rare privilege to mentor someone like Ana—brilliant, curious, and kind. Ana’s research asks tough questions about gender, work, and family. Congrats, Dr. Karaban! 👏 #PhDone #EconSky @akaraban.bsky.social @remylevin.bsky.social @deliafurtado.bsky.social

Department mailer congratulating Ana Karaban on defending her dissertation

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 17/04/2025

Rubio holding dear to one of America's greatest values -- immigrants and refugees trying to shut the door behind them.

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 10/04/2025

Someone quickly tell Trump that Chinese fentanyl shippers don’t pay tariffs

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 10/04/2025

How much lost productivity will result from the many meetings across institutions dealing with Trump’s avalanche of executive orders?

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 07/04/2025

We have the anti-fluoridation wing and everything!

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 07/04/2025

Isn’t this kind of disloyalty to the party line dangerous for a government employee?

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 04/04/2025

Following in the footsteps of the Che Guevara-worshipping WSJ

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 04/04/2025

“Susie Wiles will be a great Chief of Staff and regulate access to Trump”

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 02/04/2025

Make America Great (depression) Again

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 02/04/2025

Liberation Day has become so commercialized. I happen to think Liberation Day should be spent enjoying tariffs with friends and family.

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 01/04/2025

April 1st seems like the perfect day to re-up this excellent article on how not to fall for scams tinyurl.com/fraud-10-tips

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 29/03/2025

1. Short sellers 2. Owners of puts 3. Most humans

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 28/03/2025

Here’s the downpayment

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 28/03/2025

To be fair, it said "roughly." What's 60 orders of magnitude between friends, right?

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 26/03/2025

Those MAGA states rights types will be super pissed about this, right?

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 26/03/2025

She probably thinks that D.C. is named after the South American country

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 26/03/2025

CIA Director Ratcliffe just testified how China is leveraging “soft power” in the Americas through direct foreign aid, education funding, and other methods. They’re *so close* to understanding

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 12/03/2025

Oh I don't doubt that he's a true believer, I just question what he believes in

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Mike Shor @mikeshor.com · 12/03/2025

Jesus: "turn the other cheek" Evangelicals: fvck you, weirdo

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