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Well I guess if their share is shrinking, it's all the more important that workers' productivity increases

Just the general idea that increasing productivity benefits anyone but the richest people is pretty stale. The last 50 years show us that this is a false hope. It would have been better for most people to have falling productivity with redistribution.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 56m

To show the importance of healthcare Justin groups everything besides healthcare and social insurance, which together are net negative. But there are other growing industries. Leisure & hospitality, construction, durable goods, retail trade, and utilities have together have added 312k jobs. Details:

Change
Health Care 610
Social Assistance 388
Leisure and Hospitality 137
Construction 100
Durable Goods 40
Retail Trade 21
Utilities 15
Wholesale Trade 5
Professional and Business Services 2
Private Educational Services 1
Transportation and Warehousing -56
Nondurable Goods -61
Financial Activities -105
Information -138
Nonfarm private payroll, BLS data via FRED.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 4h

This story doesn't help Cornell pass the buck as much as they hoped. The conclusion is basically: No DA should ever trust campus police. (Raising the question: why do private universities have real police again?) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...

The former prosecutors, however, said the district attorney's approach fell short in multiple ways, including his failure to bring Jane Doe in to be interviewed by his office and his apparent total reliance on a statement recorded - and, more broadly, an investigation conducted
— by the university police.
"We would never rely on a campus police investigation," said Rick Trunfio, a former sex crimes prosecutor in upstate New York and now an adjunct law professor at Syracuse University. "There's too many problems with that"

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 5h

Dang, now the mailbox is full

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 5h

187. Asked to list top five life goals, young adults in Finland (age 20-29, 2022), rank having children 6th (37%), behind romantic relationship, meaningful work, income, health, and friends. ht @jessicanisen.bsky.social www.e2.fi/media/julkai...

What do you want to achieve in your life? (Select the 1–5 most important) Percent
A romantic relationship and love 61
Meaningful work 58
A stable income 55
Physical and mental well-being 48
Close friendships 45
Children of one's own 37
Financial wealth 27
New experiences 27
Personal growth 25
Home ownership 19
Success 14
An eco-friendly lifestyle 12
Experience living abroad 7
A leadership position in one's career 4
Fame 2
Something else 2

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 7h

America will continue punching itself in the face until morale improves: NSF eliminating social science funding

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 7h

89% of SBE NSF grants were never awarded!! My field (Cognitive Neuroscience) is included in this gutting, as are so many others. Plenty of horror stories in the same space are also coming from NIH. It’s not just delaying research; it’s labs shutting down and a next gen that won’t be trained.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 9h

I assume that net negative line includes a mix of positive and negative sectors though?

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 10h

No, it's a new phenomenon. Her point is AI increases productivity so it's good.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 18h

For all the times I've seen someone post 10 papers at once, I have never once thought they were were disseminating.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 18h

That said, @socarxiv.bsky.social allows 2 per week, more than arXiv's 2/month, and (because we have no way to automate this), mostly use it to stop big paper dumps. If you have three dissertation chapters or are on a conference deadline, we have the discretion to allow it, and you can ask.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 18h

If your AI agents are cranking out so much content that it won't fit into a few papers, disseminate it some other way -- don't force it into "paper" form just to get it on a preprint server. Make a collage, a movie, a data repository, an interpretive dance. Let papers be things humans read.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 18h

I disagree with this post almost completely. Done right, a reasonable paper limit is not "asking scientists to slow down" because progress isn't measured in the number of "papers." It's the old salami. Write a good, thorough paper, instead of 10 padded slopbombs or inconsequential mini-pies

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 21h

I try to remember to speak as if everything will come out. I don't think the newspaper chain is the issue. Unless you're off the record, or make another arrangement, the journalist can use it however they like (or so I assume)

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 02/10/2026

I could do better with more volunteers or more money. You know where to reach us. Tx!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rare you get live visuals of state capture.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

if you've been wondering how thin the commitment to the cultural is as an. 'alternative' to explicit racism of the more clearly segregationist sort, consider the implications of "the mere fact of us being able to notice" that someone is of South Asian heritage as ruling our assimilation

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 02/10/2026

Agree. Especially if by "investigate" we include asking, "can I please read the whole thing?" I have to assume the hours of incompetent interviews by Cornell staff also undermined the eventual prosecution, but I guess that remains to be seen.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 02/10/2026

Like a "wait for it" TikTok video, the best stupid clickbait headline is one where you have to read through the entire article trying to find "this mistake" revealed. When, as in this case, it never appears, who cares? Eyeballs achieved.

Nyt:
OPINION
GUEST ESSAY
This Mistake Doomed Biden. Trump Is Falling Into the Same Trap.
Oct. 2, 2026

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm wary of politicians telling people that we can solve problems by taxing Other People. I'd like to see this framed as an issue of fairness: We're good at taxing labor income. But through an array of tax breaks, we don't tax income from wealth and pass-through income as much. We should fix that.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 02/10/2026

Creating two every week would be too many, but uploading two at once is often just reasonable workflow.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 02/10/2026

In the reality of this case, and many others, it was instead of.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

Contrary to the headline, no bigger questions are asked or answered. It only takes a single sentence.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

If only the fans who feed this brain grinding machine had the slightest concern for its effects on young men's brains

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

I played this clip for my undergrads yesterday. Mario Savio was 21. I guess adulthood comes later these days even though college (usually) happens at the same age.

youtu.be

MARIO SAVIO Speech Sproul Hall Steps, December 2 1964

YouTube video by Bill Foust

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

If you are generating two papers per week, you're wasting everyone's time and resources (moderators, readers, earth). Slow down and ask your robot to make something more valuable.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

He said, because she "calls herself a socialist... you don't belong in America if those are your views." (For the 10,000 people are aren't going to listen to the clip.) Which, obviously is outrageous, in a slightly different way than Rupar implies

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

Just don't leave home without this

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

I agree it's an empirical question, I just think the incentives skew wrong. It also could depend on local politics (Ithaca is not Hillsdale, MI), small/big, state/private, etc. But my (untested) bias is toward public over private police.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

Those are some reasons, but the more perverse ones are crucial. Think of it this way: what large institution would not prefer to control policing in its own space? Google and Walmart would love to be in charge of crimes committed on their property, and not because they value democratic justice.

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

really glad to see this - no system of "justice" meted out by colleges is ever going to be as democratic and transparent as the system we already have

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

Universities has many reasons to want to be involved, none of them having to do with justice.

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am seeing many trusting reposts of this graph. I call bullshit. Here are the most recent actual data from the cited source: www.trade.gov//sites/defau...

trade.gov

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

Should be. When university has a real police department, though, 911 goes to them first. The small town police consider this a relief, cuz they are sick of frat party noise complaints. But they should just tax the university enough to cover it instead of giving up the power.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

100%. Universities have their own police only for bad reasons - because they want police powers to do things real police don't want to do (suppress protests, hush up rape cases, make sure the president is not charged for running over students, protect children of rich donors, etc)

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

Whatever the (many) problems with police and prosecutors generally, adding the university layer just compounds the perverse incentives. It's insane that a (Cornell) Title IX officer was present during the (Cornell) police interview.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

Private universities having real police powere has always been a terrible idea, as student activists all understood when these departments where formed. Cornell is putting on a malfeasance clinic that might just help drive this point home

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

NYT today: victim "spoke for hours to a Cornell police investigator and an investigator from Cornell’s Title IX office." Cornell damage control from the beginning. You might improve university practices here, but my conclusion is the university has no good role to play in a criminal rape case.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

Ah, no, I think it this. The text says: "Overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million." So not counting Mexico and Canada

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

Two million? Doesn't the graph show a drop of about 20 million?

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 30/09/2026

Did you ever notice the lion's tongue in Madonna's Like A Virgin video?

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 30/09/2026

Laughing Kookaburra, I reckon

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 29/09/2026

Is this Marc Novicoff who doesn't want free day care the same Marc Novicoff who wrote, "The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard—It's Worse"?

The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't As Bad As You've Heard-
It's Worse
June 30, 2025
Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, June 30, 2025

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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The idea that we can't build a working child care system without simultaneously paying a stipend to people who opt out of that system that's just enough to promote marriage but not enough to allow equal opportunities for single mothers is fascinating to me.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 29/09/2026

It may be from social media or other mentions, as a way of identifying self-promoting authors who are actively looking for audiences. Better than a list of all books

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