Five years ago, it was rare for escorts to charge more than $1K per hour. Now, a handful of women charge much, much more: $3k, $5k an hour. $23k a day. $30k a weekend. Inside the shifting economics of intimacy in Silicon Valley: forbes.com/sites/annatong/20…

Gavin thought this wouldn’t age poorly because he couldn’t fathom completing a public works project.

During WW2, some American high schoolers were working for companies like Lockheed Martin helping support wartime manufacturing. When you watch interviews of teenagers from the 1940s–1960s and compare them to modern TikTok brainrot culture and the difference in maturity, vocabulary, and composure feels surreal

Almost every research internship I had, I had to do this monkey dance. It was ridiculous. Like, I published papers at the conferences they care about. I have led students. But no, I got to also now take time out of my day to prepare for these interviews cause they can't evaluate.

When our Administration took office 16 months ago, Haiti was teetering on the brink of collapse, with violent criminal gangs threatening to take over the country and trigger a complete social breakdown and a new flood of migrants (on top of those the Biden Administration affirmatively enticed to come). Things could not be more different today. Under @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and @SecRubio, we built an international coalition to stand up a dynamic new security force and helped stabilize the political situation. I was proud today to visit Prime Minister @citoyendidier at the historic National Palace in downtown Port-au-Prince, newly rid of gangs. Security, stability, and prosperity in Haiti is in both our nations’ interests. 🇺🇸🤝🇭🇹

There are a number of important economics citations out there that do not exist. As in, people cite them, it is standard to cite them, referees may ask you to cite them, and the underlying paper does not exist anywhere and never has. (And no, I will not name names!)

if you are alive in 15 years you are gonna be able to upload your mind and become semi-immortal

I want to clearly state where I think @christopherrufo has been harmful for American civic life. He has certainly done some good. My concern is that his tactics are a kind of civic poison. They salt the social earth, making trust hard to rebuild and polarization hard to reduce. I'm part of the Ohio civics project. I left an ordinary academic job to throw myself into the work of academic reform, building institutions that serve as a counterweight to left-wing overreach. The academy is in deep need of reform. I am not a beautiful loser asking conservatives to disarm. But this work requires being charitable to people we disagree with, and Rufo's rhetoric is not uniformly welcome among those of us doing it. Consider his own words: "We will eventually turn [critical race theory] toxic, as we put all of the 'various cultural insanities' under that brand category. The goal is to have the public read something 'crazy' in the newspaper and immediately think 'critical race theory.'" This isn't arguing that a view is false. It isn't trying to remove it from a curriculum. It's category construction. It has always read to me as engineered so the public can't distinguish thoughtful people who draw on CRT from crazy ones. That's not necessary to win the argument, and it corrodes the civic ground any future reform has to be built upon. I'm not tone-policing. I'm saying what Rufo gives with one hand, he takes with the other. Many of us are doing the hard daily work of academic reform, and we do not uniformly welcome his efforts, because his tactics are too bare-knuckled and, frankly, unkind. So to be clear: the academy needs reform. I am giving my career to that project. But I will not thank Rufo for anything as long as his rhetoric salts the earth for rebuilding trust with the left.

I have a project for Gen Z / Gen Alpha: revitalize terrestrial radio. This could do wonders for society, I’m convinced of it.

They can try to dox us but we're just normal men. Just innocent men.