Alfredo Paloyo
@alfredopaloyo
Professor and Economics Department Chair | University of Wollongong, Australia
Indeed, shopping on my credit card card is a critical emergency. Successful AusAlert! 👏🏽
New paper out. The child penalty in Vietnam, in one picture: at the first kid, mothers’ earnings and employment fall off a cliff and never recover. 🔗: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Not that there's anything wrong with wearing eyeliner, but clearly, I was not the first person to have wondered. Blues in Game 3!
She seems utterly harmless until she decides to poop out of her litter box. But then again, with toe beans like that, how can I hate her?! 🤩
Our new paper using 21 years of longitudinal data shows food insecurity in Australia is a structural income problem. Low-income households spend 30%+ of income on food. Also, food stress isn't a localized quirk—the Illawarra tracks the national average. 🔗: doi.org/10.1093/heap....
OK, maybe Google heard me. You can now export files from Gemini. Source: blog.google/innovation-a....
OK, the new trains are all right. It’s not the Shinkansen, but at least they’re a smidge better than the old carriages. 🚉
Absolute cracker of a day for golf. Just don’t ask me how many balls I lost. 🏌🏽♂️
Graduation day, fun day at the University of Wollongong. Truly my favorite “service” duty. 🎓
Excuse me? Are we meant to take the train to Central and change there to get to the airport? 🤦🏽♂️
I had a successful SMILE surgery for my eyes, so now I have daily contact lenses (-6.00 and -6.50) to dispose of. But I’m happy for them to go to someone (in Australia for postage reasons) who can use them. DM/email me!
Maccas has stopped serving chocolate ice cream. Meanwhile, I’m still trying to find a branch that consistently has any soft serve ice cream at all! Why are the machines always out of order?!
In this house, we donate plasma. If you’re in Australia, Lifeblood has some pretty good milkshakes to offer while or after you donate! 🥤
From @kevinroose.com over on X: “During testing, Claude Mythos Preview broke out of a sandbox environment, built ‘a moderately sophisticated multi-step exploit’ to gain internet access, and emailed a researcher while they were eating a sandwich in the park.”
Imagine being upset at me but, like, this is my view whenever I go out for a walk?! 💅🏽
I gave a short talk upon the invitation of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX). Title? “The Philippine Economy: Five Lessons from KPop Demon Hunters.” 🌈
I don’t know why any person with at least half a brain takes Jason Hickel seriously. And for a BMJ journal to publish this is just crazy. Draw a DAG, for fuck’s sake!