Jazi Zilber

Judge reproaches defendant for "instructing" his lawyers to cross-examine government witnesses accusing him of crimes, as though there is something malevolent about this. Completely insane: but all you have to do is scream RAPE, and every normal standard goes right out the window

The gaps here are not all that large in the scheme of things but people who can’t tell the truth about it aren’t good people to entrust with power over complicated policy questions or political strategy.

New blog post: I used Claude to audit the reproducibility of every journal paper I've been an author on in the last five years. Our commitment to openness meant that the code and data were available, but there were some significant issues. 🧵babieslearninglanguage.blogs…

DataColada[141]: Evidence of fraud in 5th paper co-authored by Francesca Gino datacolada.org/141 (Grant, Gino, & Hofmann, AOM, 2011)

Random Japanese people I've talked to seem to know every bit of local place history and nothing at all about the world. Multiple people had no idea who Japan was allied with in World War II.

For 2 years @travis4nh has been asking Republicans in NH whether their proposed zoning deregulation would help make the state more red or blue and they would stare at him like they had never heard such an absurd question and say "they're good zoning changes sir"

I believe the exact opposite of this worldview. I'm okay with waiving the fine on a first offense, but anyone who drives recklessly ten times a week even after repeatedly getting ticketed for it should just lose their license forever.

Greg Abbott and Texas Republicans have been hoarding so much money in the state’s Rainy Day Fund that our new Governor elect, Gina Hinojosa, is proposing to send $1,500 checks to every Texas household. Your vote matters.

An interesting contrast. In response to a tweet (in english) on the California tax on super rich, a tsunami of responses, nearly all on the same theme: Do not take money from the super rich: they put it to better use than the state. In response to an article in Le Monde (in French) on the need to reduce the budget deficit, a large number of comments, nearly all on the theme: Take the money from the super rich. They don't deserve it. Fascinating difference.

According to @reason, science fraudster Francesca Gino has lost her lawsuit against Harvard. I guess she's learning that sometimes it doesn't pay to "break the rules at work and in life."

France is one of the richest nations on earth and spends a higher share of its wealth on government services than almost any other country, yet people feel it's not enough. Humans adjust their expectations to whatever they have and want more. Always. lemonde.fr/en/france/article…

Terrorist and rapist immigrants sue Denmark for violating their human rights. The lawsuit is based on their stay in the deportation center, where the complaint is that it is mandatory to report in daily, as well as: "In addition, there is a ban on cooking and eating food in rooms, a ban on visitors staying overnight in the center, and the inability to live alone." One of those making the lawsuit, Rakim Akkaoui, has not in fact met up for the mandatory reporting for 4 years. According to the defence attorney "The mere fact that the ECHR is communicating these cases means that there is a good probability that you will be successful". We must leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

Look to be 100% clear, I stand by my original tweet. Books can be great, but they're just words on paper bound together. Blog posts can be as good. PDF lecture notes can be as good. Powerpoints can be as good. Video documentaries can be as good. etc

Voters (globally) move against the party in power, often faster than they have time to implement their plans. One of the most important empirical patterns to guide discussion: nytimes.com/2026/10/30/magaz…

Um... the correlation here is almost perfect good lord even I didn't expect this. Swing towards the Democrats was essentially perfectly predicted by the perceived ideological position of the two candidates:

Fears that top AIs might do recusive self-improvement to dominate world fast depend on a key assumption: that intelligence is low dimensional, so super AI mathers and coders can quickly get super-good at most everything. This I doubt. overcomingbias.com/p/how-low…