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Ellen Evers retweeted
Racism and classism is hilarious (derogatory) bc before getting to the end of reading this post, you would think her issue would be with an exploitive, heartless healthcare system that will literally let you die if you canât cover your expenses but nope. The villain in her story where her husband almost died and they had to drain all their savings to keep him alive is a black kid who got to look at some koalas for $9.
âDebaucheryâ aka my husband fell through a roof and almost died on a roofing job. Had to literally rebuild his body and his bank account after being financially raped for a week long stay in the ICU. Savings all gone. No one came to save us
He worked his ass off so we could get married and buy a house and have a baby. I had to get back to work at 3 weeks postpartum because nothing is ever enough to stay afloat. We donât eat out, we donât travel (unless weâre staying with family) and we donât party
But we still pay for the laziest fuckers in the world to go to the zoo
So âeliteâ
(And you losers have more in common with the elite than we do. You both steal taxpayer money and hate the middle class)
Ellen Evers retweeted
When I was in college I sold computers retail. There were two of us on commission one day when a woman came in and was looking at laptops. The other salesman sized her up and decided she didnât have any money. I had been telling him you never know who has money and you should help everybody equally. I went over and showed her the laptop computers, and then she wanted to look at the desktops. After about 20 minutes, she said she needs 27 PCs and laptops. It ended up being my largest sale.
Ellen Evers retweeted
Norway's controversial 2021â2024 reforms nearly doubled the tax on business wealth. Firms of affected owners did not invest less, and outmigration was limited to the very top, from @Mariusring nber.org/papers/w35854
Ellen Evers retweeted
I want to talk about Patrick Collison.
Letâs start with a simple acknowledgment: he is one of the most impressive philanthropists right now:
- When Covid hit, he and Tyler Cowen launched Fast Grants and got money to scientists within days.
- He helped launch the Arc Institute, so biologists could do science instead of drowning in paperwork for grants.
- And Stripe, under Collisonâs leadership, built Frontier: a super ambitious pledge to guarantee a market for carbon removal tech.
This is all really awesome! Few billionaires have thought harder about how to do a lot of good with their money.
But now we have to talk about what the hell Patrick Collison is doing in California.
He has given $15 million to âBuilding a Better Californiaâ, one of the most cynical political campaigns Iâve seen in a long time. It's the main vehicle fighting Prop 40: a one-time 5% tax on the state's ~200 billionaires (to make up for federal cuts to healthcare for low-income Californians).
And look at how this group does it:
- Itâs funding an extremely aggressive "No" campaign (opponents are outspending supporters roughly six to one).
- It also put two decoy measures on the same ballot. Prop 41 *seems* to be about good governance. Prop 42 is sold as âprotecting your retirement savingsâ. But both contain a clause: if either gets more votes than the billionaire tax, the tax is cancelled.
- Meanwhile, the retirement story is total nonsense. Prop 40 already exempts pensions. CalMatters calls the deluge of ads misleading and the SF Chronicle calls Prop 41 a âcynical poison pillâ.
- The sad reality is that all this misinformation is working though. Polls show small majorities backing the billionaire tax and the measures designed to kill it. You can vote yes on all three and cancel out your own vote. Most people donât realize this.
Through all of it, Collison HASN'T SAID A WORD about why he's funding this slimy campaign.
This is a public intellectual who writes thoughtfully about progress. If he believes Prop 40 is bad policy, he should do the honorable thing and make the case! And tell us what he'd rather do about extreme concentrations of wealth and power, or explain why he thinks they aren't a problem for our democracy and civilization.
Instead we get silence + $15 million for a campaign built on misinformation and shady political tactics.
@patrickc, what are you doing?
Ellen Evers retweeted
just as an hypothesis: if in seemingly romantic or quasi-romantic circumstances at 11 PM a young woman indicates "consent" with a partner that does not rule out that, abruptly at 1 AM, when the circumstances have changed considerably, & are no longer even quasi-romantic, she can't "withdraw consent"; it is only reasonable to think that if circumstances change even more grimly, by 4 AM, if the young woman, now coerced, treated brutally, is desperately pleading to be let go, her stated or implied "consent" at 11 PM is now rescinded?
would guess that variants of this distressing experience happen often to girls & women & the consequence is that "blame" seems ambiguous, so the victim retreats in silence, abused, humiliated but unwilling to even talk about it let alone press charges.
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Ellen Evers retweeted
for years now we've been deluged with opinion pieces & full-length books about how young men are so sad/isolated/afraid to approach girls & women/oppressed by feminists & #MeToo/victims of a cruel anti-male culture ad nauseam; yet, as we see here, these entitled young men at Cornell had not the slightest hesitation or the mildest anxiety about committing a group rape of an intoxicated young woman, a classmate of theirs.
please spare us any more of those pathetic opinion & books pieces about sad young men pining away in loneliness & fear of girls & women.
& especially, please spare us blaming girls & women for their being so sad & oppressed.
Ellen Evers retweeted
excellent, morally imperative piece by the Cornell Daily Sunâs editorial board, eviscerating the universityâs cowardice, hypocrisy, lack of transparency, and pattern of failing to adequately address the growing issue of campus sexual assault.
cornellsun.com/article/2026/âŠ
Ellen Evers retweeted
Absolutely the funniest sentence in this otherwise very sad article is, "In a separate meeting, the author of one paper tried to describe the methods they used for analysis, but inadvertently ended up describing an entire p-hacking workflow."
TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity
Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission?
medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-aâŠ
Ellen Evers retweeted
if youâre a grown man and youâre still saying stuff like âpeanus hortsâ and âbig chungusâ on the internetâŠyou need to come to my house for dinner tonight. thereâs about fifteen of us and weâre all 52 years old and Professors at elite universities
Ellen Evers retweeted
When writing, I use the 40/40/40 rule:
40 minutes of writing, followed by 40 hours of procrastination, followed by 40 weeks of self loathing because now I have no time to write
This seems a really important paper for anyone that needs to evaluate research that uses Google trends data.
𧔠New DP from I4R co-director Lester Lusher, with @Sonia00621, @IslamShafi21676, Huda Osman & Jacob Stenstrom (Pitt): "When Samples Shape Significance."
What happens when you re-estimate published results using fresh draws of the same data? Some evidence from Google Trends!
Ellen Evers retweeted
Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2
Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination (Ariely & Wertenbroch 2002)
datacolada.org/139
Ellen Evers retweeted
An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data.
Post 1 of 2.
datacolada.org/138
Ellen Evers retweeted
Researcher Rebecca Sear, who has long critiqued the âfundamentally flawedâ database linking IQ and nationality, says its most recent version is "not fit for purpose."
retractionwatch.com/2025/11/âŠ
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/26âŠ
Ellen Evers retweeted
đŁ Closing on Monday! @amandaegeiser and @squig invite your predictions of whether "head" vs. "heart" manipulations affect Prolific participants' likelihood of making a hypothetical risky choice.
đ Time: 5 min
đïž Close: Aug 31
đ Field: Psychology
socialscienceprediction.org/âŠ
