Will Royce @willroyce_
Researcher. Fan of the welfare state. See also https://t.co/Q7l6Kt7ouK. willroyce.substack.com Joined July 2023-
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@LeePrevost @_carlbeijer @MattBruenig The book was published in 2022 and the op-ed I’m referencing is from December 2025. The op-ed was by Gramm and John Early, who was also a co-author on the book. The op-ed was grossly wrong at the time of publishing. So I’m skeptical of the book. wsj.com/opinion/the-bi…
@LeePrevost @_carlbeijer @MattBruenig I haven’t read the book, but the WSJ op-ed I wrote about in the post was co-authored by Phil Gramm. He consistently overcounts benefits and makes elementary errors. Take the CTC, for example:
@_carlbeijer @LeePrevost @MattBruenig He's referencing Phil Gramm's (obviously wrong) math willroyce.substack.com/p/defining-awa…
@LeePrevost @MattBruenig Gramm is wrong willroyce.substack.com/p/defining-awa…
Ok clanker 🤣🤣😂😂😂
Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids. An OpenAI model has now disproved that
All three of the letters here appear to be AI generated, per @pangram. Have to imagine papers are receiving a lot of AI generated letters these days. Would be interested to see if/how they try to detect and weed them out.
Letters to the editor in @nytopinion about my column on sexual assaults of Palestinians: nytimes.com/2026/05/18/opi…
@DarkEnergyBand @PEWilliams_ From what I can tell it seems more likely that they're running automated arbitrage (with a likely flawed algorithm/method) than mass buying for AI training?
@DarkEnergyBand @PEWilliams_ For the books that they bought, are the next lowest-priced copies available online much higher than what you sold them for? Seems to be a common theme for sellers in the Amazon Sellers threads, even though they often say that the next lowest price is completely unrealistic.
@RedOctoberJuls @PEWilliams_ Huh. Fascinating
@RedOctoberJuls @PEWilliams_ Multiple sellers said the books bought could be seen as underpriced, and one of them mentioned a first name that matches one of the Canadian company's co-founders. Nothing definitive of course, I could definitely be wrong! Just thought it pointed in that company's direction.
@PEWilliams_ My best guess is it's this Canadian company that "uses proprietary software to list and price books" across platforms. A "Zoom Books US Operations Corp" was incorporated last week in OH—suggests subsidiary of foreign company? May be wrong. Not sure what the Henderson NV angle is.
What so a guy's not allowed to have a pet with a short name?
In the Louis Theroux manosphere doc, it’s quite striking how all of the subjects, who are clearly virulent misogynists, insist that they love women
Strikingly, young women are *a lot* more negative about the opposite gender than young men. ✴️U30 women are 3x as likely to hold a negative view of young men than the other way around ✴️Just 35% of u25 women hold a positive view, only 11% a very positive view
The FEC really needs to restructure individual contributions data such that people stop double-counting donations made through Joint Fundraising Committees. Way too common
Cory Booker's new tax plan provides the most benefits to people who have a $587,000 household income.
@tysonbrody Have Claude code grab the javascript file that runs the calculator, rewrite it in python, and then iterate over all 273k+ combinations to find the max savings possible:
Tonight Trump said the White House "will give" ~half of all American workers matching retirement contributions of up to $1,000/year “We will match your contribution with up to $1,000 each year,” Trump said A WH official tells me what is being proposed is unilaterally expanding eligibility for a limited means-tested account cut off for those earning more than $20.5K/year Separately the WH may also explore additional legislation to submit to Congress, the official says
It's silly to pretend like fiscal policy doesn't exist or won't respond to a crisis, but it's even sillier to not start working on fixing up our fiscal infrastructure right now, when we can see labor market disruptions coming from a mile away.
This is a joke, but we *can* and *should* make this happen. The fact that COBOL systems are somewhat difficult to change should not be an intrinsic limiter on our ability to have a safety net! (And it WAS a limiter on our pandemic safety net! I can tell you firsthand!!!)
This is wrong. See why --> willroyce.substack.com/p/defining-awa…
The Census Bureau says that 11% of Americans live in poverty. But when you count the federal benefits that people receive, it’s really closer to 1%. We should be honest and give the American taxpayer a little credit for lifting folks out of poverty.
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