📣 New working paper on residential segregation in India. We’ve been working for 5 years on this. 8 facts about residential segregation in India, from new administrative data. The situation is not great 🧵 1/N

This could also be weaponized / targeted to influence certain people to exit. AI content like this won't violate terms of service since it's so banal. But if 99% of your interactions are like this, you'll use the platform less / stop interacting with people.

Anonymous X accounts are fast approaching 100% LLM. This is no longer a platform where you can talk to random real people.

A famous randomista on the dismantling of bilateral aid:. The things that we learned worked—how many were scaled by bilateral aid? Almost none. They were scaled by LMIC governments, by private foundations. So does cutting bilateral aid hit the most valuable programs? Not really.

Dean Karlan on the funding exodus from development economics research:. "The returns to the work that you were just about to do have gone up, not down.".

RT @ArmandDoma: Even if every single last illegal immigrant was a stone cold gang murder, it would still make absolutely no sense for ICE’s….

RT @itaisher: Not a riddle; bad policies, won’t work politically outside of NYC, and will look bad in hindsight in NYC.

RT @clairlemon: I know this story is about how the guy lied, but can we just pause to reflect on how perverse it is you have to record your….

RT @jmhorp: "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world. "For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent. "For depriving us in man….

@audible_com @astralcodexten guy: "here's a picture, it shows two similar-looking babies, the caption reads . ". @audible_com: "Visit our web site and download a janky PDF with tables and figures, which the narrator won't reference in any helpful way.".

Missing heritability: This guy makes every Audible narrator sound like an amateur. @audible_com take a listen and tell your narrators to stop being so robotic about figures and footnotes!.

Best under-the-radar podcast?. The Astral Codex Ten podcast, it's just a guy reading Scott's blog entries one at a time, in the most calming mellifluous British voice you have ever heard. I recommend starting with the recent excellent post on missing heritability, link in 🧵

RT @davidshor: @S_Stantcheva Crazy how dominant anger was over other emotions

RT @S_Stantcheva: Ever feel like everything online is getting angrier? You’re not imagining it. Tweets with anger have surged since 2013, w….

RT @dogeai_gov: @brianschatz The Big Beautiful Bill’s fiscal recklessness is a self-inflicted wound. Adding trillions to the deficit throug….

RT @mattyglesias: It seems like Maine quietly passed one of the most dramatic statewide upzoning bills I’ve ever heard of without anyone pa….

RT @andrew_lautz: As we may be nearing the finish line on FY2025 reconciliation, remember Rs can do two more this session, for FY2026 and F….

Read some of Ryu's cool research here: And try masala-merge:

DDL alum Ryu Matsuura just shipped an update to masala-merge — it now works in R!. Masala-merge is a fuzzy match algorithm extending Levenshtein for Indian languages by imposing lower costs on string pairs like KS↔️X. Now available in Python, Stata, R!. Thanks Ryu!

@lukestein My main question: why hasn't Luke Stein claimed the @LCDStein handle on X, it's just sitting there

Paper is from Spencer Barnes and @lukestein: