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Nick Geiser@nageiser.bsky.social |
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(ex?) political philosopher. now teaching kids how to add and aspiring data cowboy.
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Nick Geiser
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As the philosopher Kevin Hart recently put it: "Some people frown upon gambling. But life without a gamble is a weird thing, man. ‘Cause that’s acting as if you know."
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Here's a lesson for all of these "why should I have to choose the lesser of two evils" Democrats out there.
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Nick Geiser
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The French understood the assignment.
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Danny Rubin
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This. Roberts pretending that the dissent is “fear mongering… hypotheticals,” when it’s about an actual coup attempt.
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Nick Geiser
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The majority opinion in Trump v. United States is truly, off-the-walls crazy:
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Max Kennerly
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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.
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Nick Geiser
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Apropos of the Grant's Pass decision, here's Jeremy Waldron on turning basic human necessities like sleeping into crimes:
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Adam Serwer
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The right wing majority on scotus legalizes bribery and criminalizes homelessness because to them, rich people deserve rights and poor people deserve nothing. If they were deserving they’d be rich.
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Nick Geiser
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He... he literally said the Anatole France line. "The law in its majestic equality prohibits the backpacking influencer and the homeless alike from sleeping in the park."
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Nick Geiser
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"This short piece started as a WhatsApp group chat to debunk the argument that LLMs might have achieved sentience."
I would simply not intimate the existence of expletive-filled, unhinged WhatsApp group chats among senior Stanford professors, but what do I know?
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Nick Geiser
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I want to know the other three years when Andrew Johnson graduated.
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A very simple Intro IR argument: countries negotiate when the costs of fighting are greater than the alternatives. If a cease-fire raises the costs of fighting, a negotiated settlement is more likely. So the US should push for a cease-fire.
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Nick Geiser
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62% supported Hamas maintaining a ceasefire with Israel, and half (50%) agreed with the following proposal: “Hamas should stop calling for Israel’s destruction, and instead accept a permanent two-state solution based on the 1967 borders.”
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Nick Geiser
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Hamas is not popular in Gaza.
www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analy...
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Andy Vitek
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In the words of a friend and colleague, acknowledging that the violence carried out by Hamas today was legitimately provoked by the Israeli state does not mean you need to accept or sanction the response to that provocation.
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Nick Geiser
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The big problem seems to be that there is too much recency bias toward Peace Prize recipients. OTOH, they do award it to large organizations as well as specific individuals, which the other prizes should start doing as well.
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Prof. Farhana Sultana
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Katalin Karikó, who won the Nobel Prize, was threatened with deportation as an international grad student by a toxic advisor once. Professors, please don’t be jerks to international students. This happens too often & students shouldn’t have to win Nobel Prize for it become newsworthy. #academicsky
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Nick Geiser
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I would simply just not write anything about the racist dude's new book:
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One idea from IPE that ordinary ppl should appreciate more is that issuing a reserve currency has large costs since you have to absorb capital inflows/protect int'l owners of capital at the expense of the domestic economy:
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Nick Geiser
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What Arrow and social choice theory calls a "dictator" is not what we would ordinarily call a "dictator." The "non-dictatorship" condition should really be called the "no coincidence between the social ordering and a random person who could be totally oblivious" condition.
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