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Rafe Meager (they/them)

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Aspiring wastrel, applied econometrician. At http://rachaelmeager.com for bayes, dev econ and meta science. Also at http://rottenandgood.substack.com for writing, art, death and emotions. Gay academic nonbinary weirdo, cursed to be serious in life.

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Rafe Meager (they/them)·Sep 15

ok but see the thing you have to remember about "come and take it" is that the persians very much did come and take it

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Rafe Meager (they/them)·Sep 2

A case study in how Cowen's uncritical use of GPT/o3 is causing him to spread misinformation on Marginal Revolution, from @pappubahry.com pappubahry.substack.com/p/misinforma...

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Rafe Meager (they/them)·Aug 26

So what do “let’s be lead by the polls” liberal centrists plan to do if the independence of the fed doesn’t poll high

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Hi folks -- CAYLUS (Central Australian Youth Link Up Service) is advertising for a community worker position and I thought I'd put the call out. Scroll down the list here until you see "Community Development worker" for details. www.tangentyere.org.au/work-with-us

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fox "good for henhouse"

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well hold on now bsky.app/profile/bloo...

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I'm reading an old icelandic to english dictionary and got to the part where I find out saurr means filth

dramatic dmitry meme with text that says PROFESSOR TOLKEIN DONE IT AGAIN
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absolute solidarity with ricardo, this is an outrage

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This did happen in the early days of atomic physics! Szilard over many years had to convince the US government that the research should be a state secret

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tell em terry

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"In fact, it is now the identification of a promising problem which is the scarce and precious resource."

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I think this is very aptly said. White patriarchy’s objection to Islamic immigration has the fundamental structure of a trade embargo.

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this story is crazy. also, looks like academia's not so obsolete after all.

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