'Music when we were growing up was the best. Everything these days is so terrible.'

Turns out across every single generation, quality of music peaks at age 17 and you begin to start hating any music made after you're 35.

The Nostalgia Effect is powerful!

James Leibold introduces and analyzes new CCP textbook that codifies emerging racialized theory of Zhonghua-ness, erasing distinctive features of non-Han minzu (Uyghur, Tibetan, Mongol etc.) through spurious historical narrative: jamestown.org/program/new-te…

Don’t Believe the AI Hype by Daron Acemoglu - Project Syndicate

Summary of my new paper on macroeconomics of AI project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-…

Generative AI has the potential to improve social science research, online experiments, automated content analyses, agent-based models, etc

But there are many limitations, including bias in the data used to train these tools, as well as challenges related to ethics, replication,

Can you guess what happened when Poland established 'LGBT-free zones' in 2019/2020?

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Annual suicide attempts increased by 16.5%, or 5 attempts per 100k as a direct result.

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Quick look at Joint Sword 2024A compared to the opening days of previous major exercises.
John M. Larrier Ray Powell 🇺🇸 Kyle Bass 🇹🇼 michaelturton OSINT Northwest - Global News and Intel Monitor OSINTdefender Brian Hart

On The Diplomat
1)Not bc DPP.
2)KMT&TPP forcibly pushed the bill unnecessarily
3)So ppl doubted the motivation, e.g. the #China factor.
4)Care natl security&low poli trust in Legislative Yuan.
thediplomat.com/2024/05/why-ar…
UNLV PoliSci Fang-Yu Chen Charles K.S. Wu Yao-Yuan Yeh UNLV

5月23日，国内多家地图可查询到驾车跨海前往台湾路线，页面中有一段虚线显示“跨海大桥(拟建设中)”

Removing Confederate monuments decreased racial resentment, increased support of affirmative action, and decreased anti-Blake hate crime, with effects strongest in communities closest geographically to removal, finds Roxanne Rahnama journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Mechanical Turk greatly lowered the costs of running experiments. Instead of generating new knowledge, researchers used it to publish false positives. So depressing and embarrassing.

Interesting article on the turnout effects of early voting. It appears that for early voting to increase turnout, you need campaigns to give a little push.
doi-org.libproxy.mit.edu/10.1177/153267…

According to Google Trend, #Taiwanese people care more about #Jujutsukaisen than the military drill nearby today.

While China announced another large-scale military drill around Taiwan as a response to the not-friendly enough speech made by the newly elected President Lai, Taiwanese people live their lives normally. The stock market is even up today (and up 5% since Lai's inauguration )

New survey data!🧵

How do Taiwanese see the likelihood of war with China compared to two years ago?

Despite significant increases in PRC military activity in the Strait—a trend observers worry could lead to war—we find a modest increase in worry.

My latest for The Brookings Institution :

Empathy and quality of answers on reddit about common medical issues, doctors vs. GPT-3.5. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

🚀Our field experiment (Yan Chen Alain Cohn & Al Roth) on Twitter shows that social media promotion can boost job market outcomes, especially for women❗️

✅Job market candidates in the treatment group received one additional flyout, with women receiving 0.9 more job offers.