The mild 0.2% monthly increase in core inflation in May will be viewed positively by officials at the Fed. Their primary concern is that price pressures caused by the war could start to broaden out beyond categories like food and energy www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
Live Updates: Inflation Jumps as Iran War Intensifies Price Squeeze
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hype for the @noahgervais.bsky.social video on the 5x disco successors in 2031
printing was so awful we got rid of paper instead of making printers better
Well, isn’t this a sight for sore eyes! 😍 Our beloved Hubble appears in this amazing image from one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites. It was 36 years ago today that Hubble was launched in the bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Vantor.
In 1980, Intel released the 8087 floating-point chip, making math much faster. I'm reverse-engineering this chip, 46 years later. Most of its instructions are implemented in microcode, but some are implemented in hardware. Let's look at the circuitry that decodes instructions and decides what to do.
the lawyers will be fine because there's latent demand for litigation but we're 6 years out from fully automated microlawsuits
the US' aluminum supply is heavily dependant on Canada and if it's domestically produced, such production is: Small Made with Jamaican Bauxite or Brazilian Alumina.
this post involves a large flowchart
Path of Achra
Greetings from the Eighth Cycle of Passion
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increasing inequality also resulting in an overcrowding in luxury services is vaguely funny
Roses are Red, Google is Unassailable ERROR: (gcloud.compute.ssh) Could not fetch resource: - Policy checks are unavailable.
Great chart (via @adamtooze.bsky.social) that speaks to the issue above. China took pain when it rapidly began to deflate its property boom in 2021. But that pain was part of a broader plan, and paired with a positive vision for new industry.
Kieran Culkin's publicity team deserves an award because I did not care about that man six months ago. (No, I did not watch Succession)
This bit from thediff.co extends out to fiction as well - there isn't really a need for genai fiction because there's already more fiction than there exists appetite for it, and people often read specific works for paratextual reasons as well.
The period of 'Consumers expect computers that talk to have human-like intelligence' and 'Computers with human-like intelligence are really expensive' probably would have been lethal to Alexa had it not been an 'Amazon terminal', but now quality tokens are cheaper, but still squeezes Alexa margins
This bit from Dave Wiens (Siemens) reminds me that there are a lot of jobs that are in v high demand but 1. It takes some level of industry knowledge to know about the existence of/train into them 2. It's not clear if the demand will still exist after retraining semiengineering.com/what-scares-...
2027 US administration policy will be the annexation of Jamaica over bauxite /alumina
Joe Weisenthal@weisenthal.bsky.social · last yr.From Dow Jones, CEO of Alcoa speaking at a conference: *Alcoa CEO: 100,000 US Jobs at Risk of Being Eliminated from Tariffs >AA *Alcoa Would Not Reshore Aluminum Production in US Based On Tariff Structure In Place for Short Time Period >AA
1/7 WSJ: "The top 10% of earners in the U.S. now account for 49.7% of all spending, a record in data going back to 1989. Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%." What is driving their disproportionate spending seems to be surging stock and property markets. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People
The highest-earning 10% of Americans account for almost 50% of all consumer spending.
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One of the key problems with making indie games is discoverability. I am someone who is fairly plugged in, but I miss all kinds of stuff. This is a thread for me to recommend games you might not have heard of going forward. Here we go:
So, in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, in response to players ignoring bodies, they instead made it so that, if any are not hidden when an invisible script trigger is crossed, an alarm will sound. 3 alarms means a game over - and these triggers are placed in a manner that could be called 'cruel'
10,000 Motivated Rats@bombsfall.bsky.social · 2y agoI hate hide body mechanics in games. The bodies are not my business.
17 years later, Caves of Qud 1.0 is here store.steampowered.com/app/333640/C...
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I think AI is eating tech employment from both ends. Gen AI doesn’t just make software programming more productive, reducing the need for new hires. It’s also INCREDIBLY expensive to buy GPUs/data center space/run inference, so the capex budget could easily nibble into the new-hires budget.
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2y agoContinues to be a brutal labor market for the tech sector—net hiring has been 32k over the last year, compared to ~175k pre-COVID and ~250k at peak in 2022
I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever
