Jason Smith
@newqueuelure.bsky.social
physicist messing around with economic theory and science fiction; he/him; ALX; was @infotranecon on twitter; gmail and ig are this username bsky DMs open econ: https://information-equilibrium.ghost.io/ sci fi: https://innerhorizon.substack.com
We need a War on White Collar Crime. We shall fight them in DC. We shall fight them in the states and towns. We shall fight them in the courts, in the agencies, on the web, and on the picket line. bsky.app/profile/kqed...
KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 21h ago
“When did you first become aware of these feelings of a loss of essence?”
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3d agoNEWS: The Pentagon has announced mandatory low-testosterone screenings for male troops 30 and older, including screening for symptoms such as “reduced libido, loss of spontaneous morning erections, erectile dysfunction,” and other symptoms.
Personally thinking “Fermi paradox but for AI agents” is the stronger argument
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · last wk.Toby Ord, Cofounder of the Effective Altruism movement, longtermist who believes humanity's goal is to create vast amounts of digital beings to colonize the cosmos, is the one advising your lawmakers on "AI".
Absolutely love when I’m about to leave work on a Friday—trying to get out early—and my computer just has to update.
While generally I agree with this mode of analysis—if it’s global then it’s not US-specific—I’m not entirely convinced in this case. If the US is at a 10% risk of cratering under debt and mismanagement it seems like it could contaminate the entire global supply of purportedly “safe” assets.
George Pearkes@peark.es · 2w agoAttributing the UST selloff this year to US-specific factors requires ignoring that the rest of the world is doing the same. It’s a global thing not anything about the US.
Well at least we’re going to set up the next civilization 100 million years from now with some oil deposits formed via large scale anoxic events.
Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 2w agoScientists predicted a brutal year ahead as climate change and the El Niño pattern collide, after the latest data showed sea temperatures broke heat records for 100 days and August was the equal hottest on record www.ft.com/content/3014...
struggling with quantum superposition? don't worry! just follow this helpful diagram drawn by my kiddo
Oh that just means the NPV of human annihilation is $300 trillion
Robin Wigglesworth@robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 2w agoReally looking forward to the “the chance that we kill all humans is above 10%” slide next to the $30 trillion TAM in the IPO filing.
My hot take is that there should be an uncomfortable amount of space between you and the shelves for this to happen
mave@mave.bsky.social · 2w agoNo one is coming to save you. However, someone is coming to stand in front of what you want to look at in the grocery store
Personally think they should pass the One Person on the Supreme Court Act followed by another Act restoring it to 9.
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 2w agoReally rare to spot something like this in the wild, but The Wall Street Journal ran a "Supreme Court Expansion Is Secretly Unconstitutional Actually" column that directly refutes its thesis in the paragraph that immediately follows. Beautiful stuff. www.wsj.com/opinion/is-c...
The increasing annoyance I have with software making the experience feel worse are its negative externalities on my attention. There’s always an update. There’s always a new pop-up. Interfaces change. Since I deal with about 10-20 different apps per day at least one is being needy or making me wait.
conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 3w agoa take I’m working on is that when people say software is getting worse, that’s something like how people always say crime is going up even though it’s been going down for 30 years
The new tech company package system at my apartment doesn’t seem to be able to achieve to even a single 9 of uptime.
The universe is probably going to decay, but not soon, and we knew that already.
Fun fact: the “vibescession” now has had a larger negative impact on job openings than the Great Recession.
Jason Smith@newqueuelure.bsky.social · 4w agothe shape of the JOLTS job openings might benefit from a second shock analogous to the unemployment rate but SNR not quite as good here
Good to know precedent has been set that we can decolonize tons of place names with executive orders if there is another election. Start making lists.
Dave Jorgenson@davejorgenson.bsky.social · 3w agoThe renaming of this lake is so dumb and petty and should not be the focus of the news right now but … I cannot overstate enough just how sad and pathetic this update is for Google
Fun fact: language, usage, and pronunciation changes are more often than not originated and propagated by women. And I have a hunch that complaining about them, while obviously small-c conservative, is indicative of sexism.
Whenever someone says there are always trade-offs you just need to understand that person is assuming they are at a local optimum and you should empathize. Tell them you’re there for them. Recommend therapy. There are other Pareto improvements in the sea. Things can get better.
One of my shining moments in college was not going to my linear algebra class all semester instead copying down the homework assignments through the window. I went into the final not knowing what Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization was but made it up based on the name and got it right. Final grade: B.
Jason Smith@newqueuelure.bsky.social · 4w agoBelieve the claim is that given this set of Bluesky basis vectors B we are all in span(B). But the specific basis is arbitrary and others are related by linear transformations. Any one of us could be the starting point of a Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization but this guy started with Will Stancil.
Astrophysicists really dropped the ball when they called a model of a possible new object discovered by the JWST a Black Hole Star and not a Black Hole Sun.
at home with a post-surgery puppy so have had some time to update the models; there's more data for the 'core' unemployment rate (U3 minus the temporary layoffs that went haywire in the pandemic) and we're able to make this claim a bit more robust
Jason Smith@newqueuelure.bsky.social · 5mo agofor years it looked like the "littlest recession" was converging on returning us to the pandemic recession equilibrium after the stimulus faded through 2023; however, core unemployment started rising again after jan 2025 (yep) and apparently no single shock can account for both segments of the data
My grand theory is that this is generally what motivates people who run businesses or go into management. The actions of tech leaders are just more visible and consequential.
Anil Dash@anildash.com · last mo.It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.
This one is going to become evergreen for me isn’t it
Jason Smith@newqueuelure.bsky.social · last mo.think I’ve come up with a genuine use case for ai: telling me the context of the latest stupid thing that’s apparently happening i don’t care if it’s right; i just need to stop my brain from trying to figure it out
