#EconSky It's tragic to be daily reminded that the "net present value" of Kant's Theory of Human Dignity has been set at zero rather than infinity as he argued. When everything is for sale, human life is cheap indeed.
Cape May Dave
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Born in the 60s. Physics/Philosophy major. Retired Wall St. derivatives trader. A guy who believes the US experiment in self-government is a less than 50/50 proposition going forward. Opinions all my own (who would claim them anyway?)
#EconSky A $1 Gold coin so perfectly captures the essential quality of this con man - FAKE. I bet, once he vacates our White House, we will discover most of the "gold" on the walls is equally base.
Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · 3w agoThe US Mint will begin striking a $1 gold coin featuring President Trump, announces Treasury Secretary Bessent.
#EconSky How long can Singapore's oil industry survive without new oil imports through the Strait of Hormuz?
#econSky "Remember that time in 2025 we voted to deprive health care to millions of families and food to millions of needy children?"
Homer Simpson: What A Great Day
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Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 3w agoWhat I’ll remember most about Senator Graham was his sense of humor and how he deployed it to move his policy positions forward. Though we did not often agree, Senator Graham was never disagreeable.
It's sad, but not uncommon, to see a man conflate his own identity search with that of the culture he grew up in - and be on the wrong side, in both senses, of that search to boot. It's tragic when it's in a NYTimes Op-ed. But I relish the political fall out. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/o...
Opinion | JD Vance Is Worried
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Elvis entering the stage for the last time (1977) #elvispresley #presley #foryoupage #fyp #singer #sing #kingofrockandroll #elvis #foryou #elvis1977
TikTok video by Elvis Presley
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Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · last mo.Yikes, catastrophically low turnout for Trump's "rally" last night kicking off the 250 festivities...
Andrew Mellon, November 9, 1932. "Last night we saw that FDR was the leader of the Democrats!" Maybe. cc @rauchway.bsky.social
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last mo.US Treasury Secretary Bessent: Last night we saw that Mamdani is the leader of the Democrats
Mullock wins NJ-2 DEM Primary. Excerpt of victory speech in alt text
Mullock wins NJ-2 DEM Primary. Excerpt of victory speech in alt text
Is #AI a new euphemism for nepotism? Asking for a opinion writer's son.
New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · 3mo ago“We are the first college class of the A.I. era — ChatGPT arrived on campus about two months after we did,” writes Theo Baker, a graduating senior at Stanford. “For all of us, A.I. has permanently changed how we think and behave."
Slightly increase a band: Grateful Comatose
mr. mayor bubba jorts the third@jortscity.bsky.social · 3mo agoSlightly increase a band: Paraevenmore
Cape May Dave@capemaydave.bsky.social · 3mo agoA bit of a stretch on your point but for a fun trip down memory lane (and kind of a starting point for market worship) here's a reminder of Greenspan as Ayn Rand acotlye in 1974. Ah the good old days when philosophy (or the lack thereof) matterred. newrepublic.com/article/9149...
THIS is part of the coming singularity - not when computers gain sentience - but rather when every person has easy access to the information guiding policy.
Internet Archive@archive.org · 4mo ago🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now. More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive. Full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u... @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social
#EconSky Collateral Damage of Regime Change gone wrong. What if the IRGC is just as willing to risk great damage as #Netanyahu and #Trump apparently are.
Institute for the Study of War@thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW: The IRGC appears to be controlling Iranian decision-making instead of Iranian political officials who are engaging with the United States in negotiations, particularly Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi. (1/7)
Great thread. As with all things #AI the choice to conflate or not conflate meaning across domains is the issue. What is a "search". Can an LLM search? Is that just a fig leaf covering up 4A violations? Lots to unpack. Thanks. cc @braddelong.bsky.social
Wolff is one of many people who could have spoken up sooner and louder but did not. Not only because he too prefers to use phrases like "models" or "women of indeterminate age" instead of "children" when referring to Epstein's victims but also because he is always out for a $.
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 4mo agoI don't think Wolff is the primary target of Melania's ire, but he is one target and may limit Melania's ability to respond to Amanda Ungaro.
My new masterpiece: vibe-coded chart showing the collapse of the New Deal financial order and rise of Wall Street, by flow of deposits from small to big banks. From 1990 to 2024 NYC banks more than double their deposit share. Small banks and thrifts go from more than half of deposits to <20%.
Now that we've managed to NOT destroy a civilization overnight I went in search of a good book to read and BAM This looks very on point. How to live under the whims of a madman. #history #Nero #Seneca www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
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So much evil has emerged from the Calvinist doctrine of "the elect" - not that Franklin has likely given the doctrine much thought.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoTrump just posted a letter from Franklin Graham assuring him that says "you commented to the media that you might not be heaven bound. Maybe you responded in jest, but it is an important issue to know for certain that your soul is secure and will spend eternity in the presence of God."
#Media #Oligarchy And how was this accomplished? The media was skeptical of Harris and credulous of the known liar, #Trump. All so the very rich could pay less in taxes. It was all so very obvious. youtu.be/8Ev7UkQLicM?...
WATCH: Harris warns Trump wants unchecked power
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G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 4mo agoOur new poll finds 1 out of 8 Trump voters regrets how they voted in 2024, and Harris would win a hypothetical redo by almost 3 points www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-03-27...
As with climate change have we gone too far past a tipping point in this matter? We are led by a man who doesn't read, doesn't reflect, never self examines .. and it shows.
You know JD. After reading Hillbilly Elegy all I have to say is: "children all over the world had it so much harder than you did, so shut up your moaning already."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoJD Vance offers some cold comfort: "As much as we've gotta focus on gas prices down, the reality is overseas they're feeling it far worse than we do"
Via @katemanne.bsky.social #Epstein emailing with Joi Ito. Just as Trump diagnoses detractors with Trump Derangement Syndrome, so does Epstein. katemanne.substack.com/p/theres-ano...
The U.S. government is in the hands of a disturbed authoritarian who is surrounded by people who either share his delusions, are too sycophantic to confront him, or believe the president’s delusions serve just fine as a vehicle for their own greed and ideological extremism.
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Bonnie Honig@bonniehonig.bsky.social · 5mo ago/5 “Neoliberals in the university combine innocence about larger social processes with dogmatic claims about their own prerogatives. I wonder whether they realize how the hubris they carry in their briefcases helps to pave the way for the very state takeovers and anti-university drives they oppose.”