I'm planning a cold fusion-powered time machine
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 3h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
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i find a very old piece of mine impinges on last week's bluesky controversy du jour. www.interfluidity.com/v2/5730.html
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“Whether you believe that you can change the future or not, you are certain to be correct.” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/against-se...
Against Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The prize for asking for less is less.
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This is, to put it bluntly, not good at all: · the new owner publicly put his name forward to be Trump's transportation secretary last year · 54 of 128 employees were laid off the moment the sale went through, including the editor and director of content, news editor, and assistant news editor.
WEHCO sells Chattanooga Times Free Press to Craig and Max Fuller | Chattanooga Times Free Press
Freight media executive and entrepreneur Craig Fuller and his father, Max Fuller, have purchased the Chattanooga Times Free Press from Arkansas-based WEHCO Media Inc. in a deal announced to newspaper ...
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a thing about coding LLMs is you can be working entirely old school, manually, and still love them because for the first time in your life there's someone actually interested in the details of your work, willing to take the time to look and comment intelligently and say something nice.
It’s so funnily brutal to read this after weeks of essays in this issue.
Another factor here is that national income statistics count costs of travel, including commutes to work, as consumption. US commuting expenditures are much higher than Europe due to our car dependent land use. This difference is worth a few percentage points in the comparison.
It's just simply not true that the US is particularly wealthy v peers at median (mass society). What is true is that the US is 3rd at the mean behind banking havens Switzerland and Luxembourg and in line with banking haven Hong Kong. The US has a ton of wealth but it is held by very few people.
“Democratic Socialism Gets Serious” by @mattpolprof.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/democratic-s...
Democratic Socialism Gets Serious
"The Blueprint" demonstrates how the new generation of democratic socialists are providing real, practical proposals for economic transformation.
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“Western Europe Is Richer Than the US” by Matt Bruenig peoplespolicyproject.org/2026/08/04/w... // Bruenig’s ability to cut through a noisy argument with the most straightforward possible case is unmatched.
Western Europe Is Richer Than the US
Let's put an end to the stupid GDP discourse.
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Hard to say. I think he likes the discretion it affords him. Behind which he can lean on policy to please his sponsor. But it’s not knowable yet.
"Our so-called free press can no longer do what it used to do. That’s because it presumes an audience that shares the same factual reality most of us see. And that audience, a national citizenry that shares the same set of facts, no longer exists."
Jay Rosen@jayrosen.bsky.social · yesterday"Nothing moves the needle." craigunger.substack.com/p/nothing-mo... In case you missed it. Best thing I've read recently about the crisis in journalism.
FDR literally had the president of Montgomery Ward arrested and the company seized for not negotiating with his workers
"The best writing is inevitable, but not predictable" @brennan.day brennan.day/the-itch/
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Trying to figure out what 'the itch' is—my drive to create and contribute to the digital commons. A review of past projects, current interests in Indigenous data sovereignty and self-hosting, and the ...
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hypothesis: there's an important cohort whom not only did the financial crisis fail to chasten, but instead emboldened. all you need is the levers of power, was the lesson. now they are extravagantly putting that to the test. we are along for the ride.
the blast radius hinges on just how load-bearing it proves to be.
“First, industrial policy should foster entry: it should aim to increase the number of credible producers at the technological frontier.” @jeffgordon.bsky.social
Jeff Gordon@jeffgordon.bsky.social · last mo.Industrial policy is often in tension with competition - a problem I call "the dilemma of picking winners." In this essay and the associated working paper, I propose a framework for doing industrial policy without entrenching the winners. lpeproject.org/blog/the-dil...
more than 8 percent of all American newspaper journalists work in Manhattan, up from 2 percent in 2005 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
lots of controversy surrounding this one. i think the core point in the paragraphs i excerpted is right on, but i agree there's a lot in terms of how the author describes the social commons and its decline that is a bit off. 1/
Steve Randy Waldman@interfluidity.com · 3d agoThis is excellent, by Johann Kurtz becomingnoble.substack.com/p/young-adul...
"very often, legacy software is simply software that solved a problem so well nobody felt the need to replace it." @davorg.davecross.co.uk perlhacks.com/2026/08/the-...
The Future Isn’t Evenly Distributed - Perl Hacks
"The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed."— William Gibson I was reminded of that quote this week when I received a support request for a Perl CGI script I helped write about twe...
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If you talk about migrants like they’re a type of weapon system and hybrid warfare I think you should restore your honor
Lars Christensen’s “implied inflation” framework is admirably straightforward. marketmonetarist.com/2026/08/01/w...
Warsh, you are way behind the curve
Second-quarter GDP figures arrived this week for both the US and the euro area, and the coverage has been almost entirely about a single number. US real GDP grew at an annualised rate of 1.5% in th…
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“If Elon Musk ran the GPS system, you’d hear abt it nonstop, valorizing this great man who built something so remarkable and valuable. But since it’s govt invented, owned, and operated, it just works, quietly and without fanfare… that’s…ideology, not so much what you hear about, but what you don’t.”
Google Maps, Uber, and Wall Street Run on Socialism: How the U.S. Government Built the Global Positioning System
The Federal government built a global navigation system, nicknamed "Lighthouses in the Sky" on which Google Maps, Wall Street, and shipping rely. Just don't call it socialism.
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