Thomas Durfee

This is also why I hang on to my 10 year old laptop evem though I have a new one. I already own Futurama on DVD, I am not going to pay for access to a thing I already own.

Many are saying...

We don't know how to make them, we forgotten how...

Wait, is Hume Wario or is Hume Luigi?
What does that make Hegel?
THE PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT NOW KNOW

(tone indicator: his id strat is bad, criticism)

I mean, isn't that Dan Hammermesh's schtick?

A news headline about Larry Summers leaving Harvard, followed by the BlueSky app option to "show more like this"

Wake up babe. New empirical finance lit IV just dropped

Stop 👏 having 👏 unrealistic 👏 body 👏 standards 👏 for 👏 camels 👏

Public Econ is my passion

Got a new paper coming out soon with a lot of co-authors but this one has us beat

An old fashion shout can be cathartic. Hard to say if it the response or the next step.

Rachel Weisz as a competent academic with a himbo swashbuckler to be hot at each other?
It'd never work.

It’s too easy to go to war

If they don't appreciate your cooking, let them eat cake

A list of someone's top 9 video games, but one of them is the logo of the statistics software Stata.

Top 9 seems to be the trend

Not another dime.

This is not a lack of training. This is a lack of humanity.

Each person only has one childhood.

Their experiences trigger lifelong consequences for future neighbors.

Investing to propel them to success rather than dysfunction is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Action cost $ today. Inaction costs $ down the road. That's how investments work.

Heathcliff sits contemplatively in an armchair, surrounded by several framed pictures of meat, with a few pieces of meat hanging from the ceiling on wires. Grandma Nutmeg stands at the doorway with her friend and says "His aesthetic is meat core."

07 Mar 2026

Thank goodness they've built such good diplomatic relations.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

A thought-provoking read!
With local crime victim rates, the CPS tells a different story than admin data from police dept's ( Myers Jr vs Levitt). The mechanism is some residents report events that don't get filed in county data.
You find a different relationship when using federal migration data.

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How do health shocks effect productivity?
I study the effect of a novel plausibly exogenous adverse event (burning my thumb on my cast iron) on the rate at which I enter mid term grades.
Literature posits an IV for the thickness of my hot pad, but further study finds this a weak, USELESS instrument.

I think the most important thing I did this week as an educator is tell one of my students it's absolutely okay to write about Death Note for their game theory paper

In this year's academic market, you could probably hire a post grad for the same price

Also sometimes he posts videos where plays bassoon, and that's just neat.

I can't imagine I have many policy/econ followers who don't already follow Gbenga Ajilore, but just in case, he is a must follow on the labor force.