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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The new world map might shift Trump's attention from Greenland to Sahara

Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

You'll stop laughing when Marines capture Antwerp, supposedly in revenge for King Leopold II so that you won't be even allowed to complain about it on bluesky

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My reading of the literature on employment effects of minimum wage is that nobody who works on it will ever be unemployed

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

My advice as an economist is to avoid keeping your savings under your mattress for 125 years in stacks of $100 bills. I also advise not to keep bars of gold under your mattress because it's very uncomfortable. You're welcome for these insights

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Unsurprisingly, it's mostly a shrug here except for a few people who pretend it is ok. I'll add another one in this genre that made my jaw drop.

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I've been on nine flights in the last 10 days, in the US and Europe, and have not seen almost any masks, but this is a perfectly enjoyable discourse to have for both sides

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I read it in Polish. Nothing in this article (which is a summary of her live answers to questions from readers) implies that AI writes anything for her, only that she uses it and has thoughts about how it might be used in the future. This thread selectively picks and incompletely translates quotes

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

is there a way to have all the different sides of this issue lose?

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

DOGE, but this time definitely good.

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Bipartisan view of the US government budget

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

They also believe that half of the budget goes to military. Not much is left after that.

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Grisly, but you have to be impressed by crocodiles using drones

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Bill Gates would be among these 12 but he gave too much and is no longer on the list. It tells you something about the methodology

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Ok, the infantilization of college students has gone too far. Now there is a parents' union?

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I've known since 1973 that this would be about Marx

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

💔 Their friendship could survive only one Papal assault

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Weak. Fewer people, easier to take over than Greenland.

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It is a perfect airport for a layover if you are flying from New Zealand to South Africa.

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Halloween year round in National Parks

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

When archeologists decipher our records in 1000 years, they will find out that Big Pharma was the ruler who killed the most people, with Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Chuck Norris and Lenin distant also-runners

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This is how you implement "cap-and-trade" in practice, kids

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

In the future when we look back, it will be clear that Musk and Trump were the two people most responsible for transition to EVs

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I might be in minority here, but the real problem here is that we do not have enough Grand Conspiracies and, thus, we cannot reliably study them empirically so that we have to rely on theory and anecdotes. Hopefully, one day, we'll have more data.

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The UI team even added an arrow there. Unreal

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I have to admit that Hormuz is a very clever design that keeps things interesting. Kudos to Slartibartfast. You can't convince me that it was an accident.

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Oh yes, all those important conversations taking place on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

That's unfair. It's well-known that five-year olds cannot control their tantrums

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I appreciate the throwback to the popular joke (but, really, the truth) under communism, but I am actually usually sure that corruption in this administration is true whether they deny or not

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I hope she stapled her paperwork before filing

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The lawyer said with a straight face that it'd take an act of Congress to stop the president from sending military to deal with the Beatles

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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I'm teaching uncertainty in GE soon and I'm going to steal this thread

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I'm disappointed but not surprised that referring to capitalism as gospel got no traction on Bluesky

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Protestantism started with a vicious attack on capitalism (selling indulgences), but it ended with accepting the gospel as its "ethic"

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The death toll is now higher than Tiananmen Square or October 7th and Iran is barely news. Not trending here, a bit more but also little on X, scroll down the feed to #9 on NYT

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I totally expected the attempts to seize private property, but seizing the CEA took me by surprise

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Me, for perhaps a 1000th time in my NYC apartment: "Alexa, what's the weather like?" Newly LLM-trained Alexa: "Today in Ann Arbor it will be..." Me: "Why are you telling me about A2?" Alexa: "Our records show that you live in A2" It's been 24 years since I lived in Ann Arbor...

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I don't have five minutes to read it, but in my personal case I'm pretty sure that the biggest factor influencing it would be just watching it

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

My take on this is that doctors are usually not PhDs.

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Received on December 23rd. Luckily, it is a European publisher so "two working days" means it's due on January 15.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

His point was "some people will like using Twitter more than Bluesky because the range of topics on which Bsky will allow respectful disagreement is fairly narrow" and the fact that that, in itself, is not something you can say on Bluesky without getting this much vitriol sort of proves the point.

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I've been told that the other site is toxic but this one is not

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

This site doesn't have censorship, it has community-induced self-censorship.

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I did not know that the president owned an apartment in Ann Arbor

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

'My papers say what I have researched. And therefore neither I nor my papers have any more to say. I am a researcher, not a speaker. Do you hear me? Actually, if you're going to interview anyone, you can interview my papers. If you don't find an answer there, then that's your own fault.'

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