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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD

@mroddc.bsky.social
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Head of Data Science & Geospatial @ Cushman & Wakefield | Economist & urban planner. Passion for cities, data, real estate, & transpo. 🚉 DC area's journeyman adjunct professor of planning and policy. 🎓. 🐶 are the best.

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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Insufferable thing when you go to a restaurant, it’s like not even 50% full, and the hostess says there’s a 20-30 min wait. Brings out a Larry David in me.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“That’s No Moon: Capital Misallocation and the Political Economy of Imperial Megaprojects” Quarterly Journal of Galactic Economics, 8 ABY
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
At least El Nuevo Herald never promised Miami in the name
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Gonna start a business and the business is an app of eye contact drills so that Gen Z can fix themselves.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
They should do a prequel in the same Odyssey extended universe where we get to see more about the Troy stuff, Agamemnon, and meet other of the heroes.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
When you call USAA and they call you Rank Surname
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Does the answer have to be one of the “safe” Japanese animation choices?
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Golf game. ☠️💀
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
So Argentina won the Falkland Islands rematch. We almost would’ve had a Spanish armada rematch. Instead we have like… a Jose San Martin vs King Ferdinand VII rematch.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Exactly why.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Kane shouldn’t have gone golfing that day
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
He put the eggs away and knew that it would add chaos to that morning, but he did it anyway and he smiled and ate his scramble.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I would be so proud to see the president give 250 minutes of speech about our nation tomorrow, one minute for every year, perhaps while wearing an original uniform of George Washington from 1776.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
There's a case for 192khz in recording and then applying some huge chain of studio plugins to ensure you don't have odd aliasing or that pitch-shifting and time-stretching shit is precise. But at the end mixing down to 441.khz preserves what not-bats and not-dogs can hear.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Usually, if you do hear a difference its not because you're hearing the extra data of frequencies that only bats or dogs can hear. Its because maybe the master file is different, and maybe you can here the tiny subtleties. But 99.9% of you cant even hear that.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
and if you THINK you're discerning 24b/44.1khz vs 192khz I really want to play a money-betting game of A/B tests with you because I think you're just convinced on mysticisms. Like I have hifi Yamaha studio monitor headphones and all that shit, and I promise you you're lying to yourself.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Spotify lossless does sound pretty good for any hi-fi geek and I'm not sure what the Tidal or Qobuz argument is anymore.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Plastic bottles for water are banned from my home. It least if you’re gonna waste plastic needlessly, do it for something with value-add like syrupy carbonated water.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Why do they even stream the Lindsay songs when people only really want the Stevie songs?
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
As a Spanish speaker, I still find it bizarre that the store “Chicos” is, apparently, not a menswear store.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
If they genetically eradicated thistle weed nothing bad would happen and only good would happen. In fact you’d probably have less toxic Monsanto use. Just eradicate thistle. There’s no reason for it to exist.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Reflecting pool is one step from being tentacle porn
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
People should be able to once annually use their 401ks to pay for home debt or student debt, penalty free. Tax the withdrawal, no penalty. Because reducing debt = building wealth, so why compel someone to “invest” at x% when they can reduce debt at a known 5-15% guaranteed. It’s the same thing!
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I’m so High Millennial that I cannot for the life of me fear past in my head that $35k gets you a BMW 3 series entry luxury car, a nice Accord is like $15-20-ish depending on upspecs, and $20-30 is like SUVs depending on specs. I refuse to adjust that price anchoring.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
according to some I should perhaps also compile my own binary. Maybe do everything on a TI89 rather than excel, or perhaps on a manually written ledger with an abacus.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
probably one of the most efficiency-improving AI things I find is its ability to QC a technical write up against an excel or csv model outputs. I find it quite good at simply reconciling report text to output, especially if you are making many changes last minute and easily get tripped up.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I like that it’s been eight different champions for eight years
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Sorta concerned about Mr. Noodle’s cognitive health.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Economicics
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I thought tickets were hard to come by and like a bajillion dollars why’s the stadium look like it’s at 65-70% only ?
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Team USA’s offensive formation
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Sorry but the kits look like cheap candy canes
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
anyone else have a hispanic mom who will literally just sit and watch mass and Spanish rosaries on TV?
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Very rarely is a culturally relevant creator contemporaneous with that generation. Partly because we’re so formed in our teen years and early 20s for our nostalgia, so it’s too young to have produced directors, writers, lead actors, and, often, quality musicians. Especially HS years.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Likewise Gen Xers are into stuff made by Rob Reiner, John Hughes, and late Boomer Quentin Tarantino
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Every generation’s cultural touchstone content is often made by creators slightly to a bit older than them. Millennials were shaped by Gen Xer Eminem. By boomer comedian writer Mike Judge and Gen Xers Seth McFarlaine and Judd Appatow. …
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Your constant use of two word sentences is a vary obvious AI writing tell. Lazy execution. Fake boldness. It’s not effective, it’s distracting.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I’ll never comprehend wearing shorts on a flight. Airports and planes are so filthy it just seems so unclean to do so.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
And yes $200 / mo is the highest level that can be necessary for heavier data analysis, more complex consultant level report writing, and complex government reports. Also for data analysis pipeline development, and some heavy visual tasks like marketing graphics and such.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
If companies aren’t paying for AI tools and protecting their data it’s setting up a perverse incentive for many employees to pay for their own AI costs out of pocket. For lower-paid employees in the knowledge economy this sets up a class divide for those with money to pay $200/mo and others
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Cue people flexing their arm: “well I can’t contribute to a Roth anyways, I’m phased out, it’s really annoying.”
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Yeah. Millennials have this pathological issue that they think all video games should grow up to exactly where they are in life. Like they didn’t play Yoshis Story on N64
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Chait seems to think it’s dispositive of anti-monopolist theory that Walmart was supplanted by Amazon. I mean it’s not. If markets operate like the Sith, with a master and a jealous apprentice who will kill him, that’s not quite a free market working. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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A Sweeping Theory of Everything Is Revolutionizing the Democratic Party
Democrats are in thrall to the idea that corporate consolidation is America’s biggest, and maybe only, problem.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Fiction best sellers: “Fascists won: A novel” “Shoes and sex: part XIV of horny middle age women series 💄” “I’m a man with ennui, I think I’ll buy prostitution” “AI future kills us all: a sci-fi novel” “Francisco Franco and Hitler’s whores, a novel” “She and colonialism trauma” ::shut down::
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Nonfiction best sellers: “fascism is killing us”. “Why we are burning to death” “The assholes of tech will kill us” “AI will destroy us more than fascism” “trite solipsistic memoir: I’m special!” “biography of fascist” “My horrible, traumatic experience: a memoir” ::scrolls:: ….
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Me: “doc says to shut down internet stuff an hour or more before bed. I should read books. Let me buy some ebooks for my reader” ::searches for books so I won’t be as stressed at night, but also interesting:: ….
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Oh we made sure that her US passport is correctly labeled. One first name. One middle name. Then two surnames: Paternal Maternal.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
What I mean by this is a third party choosing to just drop a name when referring. First, I wouldn’t. Second, if I were to I’d drop the second because in my head a persons first last name is where I put them in a bin, not the second.
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I don’t get Anglophile people: if one has a double barrel last name (no hyphen) and you’re gonna go and drop one of them, why in the world would you drop the FIRST one? (We went with Spanish convention for my daughter.)
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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Holy —
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