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Daniel Zhao @danielzhao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sep #jobsreport flips back to weak again after a strong Aug: -Payrolls +29k vs. +133k in Aug (revised down from +162k). Jul back in the red, revised to -10k from +21k -Unemp rises to 4.2% (though labor force participation jumped) -Wage growth down to 3% YoY from 3.1%

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I read other things too, but at this point I just always have it loaded on my kindle and as soon as I get to the end I start over. Nothing else hits the same note.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Good luck! You’ve got this!

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Agreed, it was fine but we thought it was overhyped. I thought How to Get to Heaven from Belfast did the comedy/horror thing much better.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Important PSA: Look at this belly

Soft and fluffy calico cat stretched out in a box with her fluffy belly to the sky

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 03/09/2026

I remember learning in grad school (econ PhD in the mid-late 2000s) that the labor/capital split in output was roughly 2/3 vs. 1/3 and that was, if not quite a law of nature, a relatively stable fact. Times have changed.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My first round criteria for a car is that I can adjust the seatbelt so that it doesn’t cut across my neck- and I’m 5’6”. You’d be shocked how many fail that stage.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Need a pinch hitter? I assume this is bird related and i have no experience with birds but can provide free labor

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Any chance there’s a gift link?

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My dead grandmas phone number was reassigned to someone who joined Snapchat !

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

He's a sitting senator, he could call up an expert on anything he wants at any time of day, and they will all drop everything to answer his questions. I just don't understand why an LLM is preferable.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Reddit is all astroturfed marketing now too. Retailer sites (Sephora/ulta) are mostly incentivized (ie free product programs). Quince straight up doesn’t post any bad reviews. there is nowhere left with unbiased product reviews at scale.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

And all things I did not have in university grad housing! I will never take them for granted again

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Recipe Pls, I would like to see god

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Again, idc about the odyssey. casual viewer who doesn’t care to engage with it any deeper. But this is what makes it to the public: variety.com/2026/film/ne... And shes probably right! but yes it is mean. Idc if other men are also mean, they should also find kinder ways to communicate

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‘The Odyssey’ Translator Emily Wilson Slams Christoper Nolan’s ‘Abysmal’ Screenplay: ‘I Would Be Ashamed to Have Written Any Part of This Script’

Emily Wilson, whose 2017 translation of 'The Odyssey' was praised by Christopher Nolan, is slamming Nolan's movie for its bad writing.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

IDC about this debate, but to be clear, yes, the vast majority of the public have never been to an academic conference. That doesn’t mean we need to make conferences kinder (idk, maybe we do, separate q), but at a very basic level we absolutely do need to adjust to speak to general audiences.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I loved the Big Door Prize and I still do not know if the viewership was higher than 2

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Could you share the link for the Austin one?

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Missed the obvious one: LOTR is not subtle at all about JRR’s desire for agrarianism against the evils of industrialization. Bonus “no one cares for the trees anymore” for an environmental tie in

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Real answer: scarcity, property rights, trade all super common themes in sci-fi (firefly is a good one off the top of my head) Fun answer: I wanted to write about Sauron and the Nazgûl as organized crime hierarchy/ state power as an undergrad, but the prof vetoed it 🙁

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I ventured into my first points card last year (previously maxed cashback) but now I’m struggling to get good payoff from the points so they’re just accumulating. Bad timing for big international trips (job mkt), how else can I spend them with good payoff?

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Definitely. I think the vodka sauce was also a big improvement over marinara for this, but I can’t remember if it had both.

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Marcella Alsan @marcellaalsan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Open access in QJE!📢 Using newly assembled archival data, we show how the AMA's nationwide campaign against national health insurance, labeling it "socialized medicine" and promoting private insurance, helped steer the U.S. away from universal health care academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

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Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association

Abstract. This article examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Is it just penne? Pizza place near my hometown in NY did this with chicken parm + penne all a vodka, I remember it being incredible.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’m just a TA, not a prof. But the simple answer is that we often do! However only some of them are very obvious, other times it can be borderline and those situations become frustrating and difficult.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Writing courses have also gotten VERY rough

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Just fyi the amount of foundation required to get the stated spf is probably way way more than you’re using or would be comfortable wearing

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Rainier Cherries the 2 weeks each year they have them at my Costco $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Don’t know how nobody mentioned “Hey Ya” by Outkast but this is a PSA to please stop playing this song at weddings. I cannot emphasize enough how much this is not a wedding song.

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Oh cool, I have new neighbors!

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

There are so many races! I do not have time to research them all!

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

But without doing the math out on longterm personnel costs here (benefits, pensions, etc) or looking at service impacts (e.g. revenues, audits), it's really difficult to evaluate that trade-off at the margin (making a general point abt gov staffing, even though IRS was/is under-resourced) /2

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It's worth highlighting that with staff downsizes, either you 1) have fewer people doing the same aggregate amount of work, leading to overtime increases like this, or 2) you just accomplish less aggregate work, leading to service impacts like I find in SSA under Reagan. /1

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

this finally pushed me to watch it. I was this way with the D&D movie but after about 100x i did eventually get sick of it

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I think my mom is still disappointed I didn’t go to law school instead of PhD. I try to tell her that now I get to argue but also have facts on my side

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

These are all obviously correct

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Congrats & best of luck in the new role!

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Yes, they do! I had a family friend “correct” me when I said “I have some work to do later” with “oh, homework?”

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I wonder how much of this is driven by a shift in revenue source for artists- they used to make money selling records, and went on tour to promote record sales. Now streaming makes zilch and the music is meant to promote the tour (except the market there is losing profitability).

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I know it seems silly because it turns out most of the stuff in here may (allegedly) be made up, but its also sentimental because it was my first ever pop-econ book in early high school, way before I had any idea what “economics” was

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Guys I’m packing up my books, what do I do with my copy of Predictably Irrational? Bonus: it’s from Borders (RIP)

Paperback copy of the book Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

Barcode sticker on the back side of the book from defunct bookstore Borders

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 05/05/2026

1.7 American employees quit their jobs in March for each employee fired, per today's @usbls.bsky.social #JOLTS data. This #LaborLeverageRatio, which proxies for labor bargaining power in jobs, declined slightly as firings (=layoffs + discharges) rose faster than quits www.upjohn.org/labor-levera...

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