again the average customer for shein is an upper middle class woman who wants to buy trendy clothes

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 6h ago

Since people are still relentlessly abusing me over this, here’s why the so-called “boots theory” doesn’t make any sense. First, what is it? Some people have suggested I haven’t done the background reading, but it’s not a deep idea. It’s from a passage that’s four sentences long.

hi bluesky, i am logging back in after a really special time on maternity leave. i'm back at Vox today. will be around here more now and please do help me cope with the transition by saying hi and sending me all your great tips/story ideas email: rcohen.booth@voxmedia.com, or Signal: 202-681-6194

LinkedIn histories aren’t fixed; 19 percent of users edit past jobs. These “time-travel” edits track job moves and reveal rising AI language after 2022, and fading DEI mentions after 2025, from @nickbloom.bsky.social, @gideonmoore.bsky.social, Simon, and Wilkie-Rogers www.nber.org/papers/w35546

"Domestic drama" is an interesting way to describe horrific sexual violence and child abuse.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 6h ago

A domestic drama involving a House lawmaker and his former father-in-law, a U.S. senator, has shocked Capitol Hill and prompted escalating accusations with both personal and political consequences.

main problem is that outside of latin america the category of "person who is famous for no reason in particular" wasn't part of the media ecosystem so they let very dumb and annoying people think they were valuable members of the culture

Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social · 6h ago

This is such an great feature (Rebecca is great!), and I've been thinking about it for a few days. IMO, "Influencer" in the ten-years-ago sense was really a LOT of jobs (spokesmodel/copywriter/etc.) but now it's morphing, at least in part, into "intentionally annoying person" which feels worse.

"Whether we like it or not, the future of jobs lies in largely non-traded, labour absorbing activities such as retail, food services, hospitality, care and other personal services. The Left cannot evade this reality."

Dani Rodrik@drodrik.bsky.social · 8h ago

My thoughts on where Andy Burnham’s (and the Left’s in general) priorities on the economy should be futureoftheleft.substack.com/p/the-left-m...

New post: Hyperpolitics - what is it? Well, it’s everyone being crazy. But why is everyone crazy? And what does that mean for politics? open.substack.com/pub/someunpl...

Hype or Politics

You just created a million Club Chalamets

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all my missiles gone

idiot markets hypothesis

Saganomics@saganomics.bsky.social · yesterday

”We have nothing to fear but fear itself” was a great, succinct description of markets as social phenomena, and this year has shown that there’s a corollary “everything is great if we all believe together that it is” to some degree as well.

open.substack.com/pub/besttrou...

The Vibecession Hasn’t Gone Away

And the most comforting explanation of it is wrong

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The past few years have been an explicit test of two theories of how to win back AfD voters: first, the CDU just needed to pivot to the hard right under Merz and second that the Linke as a party was too woke and needed to turn to workerist anti-migrant nationalism via BSW. Both failed.

Marcel Dirsus@marceldirsus.com · yesterday

The latest poll for Saxony-Anhalt has the far-right at 41%. If some of the smaller parties (SPD, Greens, BSW) don't clear the threshold to enter parliament, the far-right may gain an absolute majority in September.

centrist democrats: no taxes on the poor, no taxes on the middle class, no taxes on small businesses, no taxes on tips, no taxes on groceries the dsa:

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · yesterday

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

continental philosophers most vindicated people in existence for having the basic decency to abide by the "we're not discussing made up questions" rule (phenomenology)

it's because american sports culture is completely colonized by money. parents spend insane amounts of it because the kid either goes pro and turns into a lottery ticket, or uses it to get into "a good college". why would you be nice about people "scamming" you out of your investment

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d ago

the obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.

today in "headlines you'd see on a background TV in a disaster movie" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Rhine Falls to Lowest Since 1880, Disrupting European Trade

The Rhine River’s water levels dropped to the lowest in nearly 150 years as hot, dry weather grips Europe, threatening to disrupt a crucial route for transporting coal, fuel and industrial commodities...

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“We can't solve a housing crisis without building more housing.” SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS 🗣️

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2d ago

We can't solve a housing crisis without building more housing. Today we broke ground on the Casanova Residence, which will soon be nearly 100 affordable and supportive homes with on-site services for New Yorkers. Every new home is a step toward a City that everyone can afford.

Would be really cool if the organizations that could call out actual antisemitism centered around the state of Israel - migrants as pawns of an Israeli-led Great Replacement conspiracy - had not burned all their credibility defending Netanyahu and the IDF from highly credible war crimes charges.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2d ago

A shocking number of people believe, with zero evidence, that Israel is behind Moroccan migrants into Spain, which is just the Great Replacement conspiracy. Meanwhile, US Jewish orgs have declared war on Mamdani for accurately describing Netanyahu as a war criminal. www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

this reminds me of how americans said that any state school sports team could win the world cup. watch any video the kids who play in la masia to immediately abandon that notion

Sonicscrewdriv4@sonicscrewdriv4.bsky.social · 2d ago

What sort of delusional BS is this??? www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...

"It's about protecting women's sports which, by the way, I hate more than anything in the world."

Sonicscrewdriv4@sonicscrewdriv4.bsky.social · 2d ago

What sort of delusional BS is this??? www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...

i was early to the "kevin warsh is a fraudulent moron" notion because i have the superpower of remembering things that happened more than 2 years ago, especially the time he was almost chosen by trump to run the fed and everyone thought he was too much of a stupid hack

I'm slow to this, but here is a beautiful piece on the dynamics of the AI buildout and how they could flip into reverse. Wish I had written it tbh www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-second...

The Second Derivative: Why No One Understands the AI Boom

The market misremembers 2008. That same blind spot sits at the center of the AI boom.

groundbrkr.com

vaccines alienated facebook with progressive issue positions on gender and race

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2d ago

Right as RFK Jr and Republicans spread COVID disinformation on national TV and public hearings, Meta decides to roll back its COVID-19 misinformation rules.

Meta is bad.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2d ago

Right as RFK Jr and Republicans spread COVID disinformation on national TV and public hearings, Meta decides to roll back its COVID-19 misinformation rules.

not sure if it's good or bad that the dsa, which until 5 months ago was a book club for underemployed grad students, is beating to a pulp the billion dollar harvard educated democrat operative janissary class with 5 shitty flyers and some twitch streams

main problem is people want to buy things more often to be trendier. the median customer at, say, shein is a 35 year old woman making six figures

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

the new york times assignment editor job has moved from the twitter algorithm to viral tiktok sounds

The craziest part of David Bowie moving to Berlin with Iggy Pop to quit drugs is that it worked. Like, guy who loves drugs moving to City that loves drugs with another guy who loves drugs to quit drugs sounds like a recipe for disaster, not Heroes

"The suitors have imposed experience rating, making it hard for Telemachus to start a job."