$ME - KATIE PLANS CAREER IN DRESSAGE, POWERED BY TAMAGOTCHIS
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Jan!
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Econ/finance only account to keep me more sane for the duration of the crisis
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h ago
in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
VT musical director of planned 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' created fake threats, police say
The director of a planned production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" admitted to sending himself threatening texts that eventually got the play canceled out of safety concerns.
mynbc5.com
Time to offer this seminar again I see.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d agothere are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
From a peak of more than $40bn per other reporting so they have beat Archegos by a factor of three on the all-time trading losses rankins. *SITUATIONAL AWARENESS ASSETS SAID TO FALL TO $10 BILLION
Communication can keep yields down But I don’t care I don’t care
The promise of New York City is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: this place would welcome anyone seeking refuge or a better life.
an 18 yo who skims the economist once a month has a coherent macro view
George Pearkes@peark.es · 7d agoI cannot overstate how “coherent macro view” is something I could put together in an internship interview my junior year of college. It’s absolute bare minimum table stakes in the waters Warsh is swimming in.
Tornado watch in effect, thanks MD for setting me straight forever on this
The only service billionaires are serving is to prove to everyone that wealth power and sex do not, in fact can not, make you happy.
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last wk.being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
climatecoloredgoggles.com
it would look like parties giving up power to people
Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · 2w agoResearch here suggests question: What would it look like for traditional parties to organize continuously rather than episodically? Not just parachuting in at election time, but building relationships, skills, and trust through year-round work in communities. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...
who wants to pass out participation trophies now
Haydon@haydonmp.bsky.social · 2w agoHeinrich - “I want to see the strait open again without shipping getting extorted and I’d like to see that before our oil reserves run out. “ Fair enough dude. Caine: “CENTCOM is working very hard on this problem and the senate would be proud of them. “ DAWG
Big news that excess profits will be taxed. DSA Will love to hear it
EconReporter@econreporter.bsky.social · 3w agoThis comes amid debates here on what defines “excess” gains, whether they should be shared with subcontractors or even with the public, and how much each subcontractor or contributor is entitled to. (2/5)
This is a great point - semantic mapping in these huge dimensional spaces is really interesting!
tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · 3w agothis is absolutely my hobbyhorse but nothing I've seen yet has convinced me that we do a good job of evaluating how the sort of solution manifold of LLMs diverges from that of humans and that strikes me as so much more important than pure performance
I think Taylor is the academic economist most overrated by the street
EconReporter@econreporter.bsky.social · 4w agoI think Warsh not picking John Taylor to the task force would make Taylor a strong candidate for this year's nobel~ :) This is how these things work!!
At some point, and this is inevitable for any politician, Mamdani will stumble and get involved with some legitimately objectionable scandal around his administration. It will be an opportunity when this happens to observe if this gets more coverage than every Trump admin scandal combined (it will)
US workers seeing the smallest share of corporate growth in decades as inflation and productivity rise. "There's a greater tilt toward capital over labor with the returns going largely to shareholders, not workers" says @byheatherlong.bsky.social Read: www.capitaliq.spglobal.com/apisv3/spg-w...
