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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 2h

If the Norwegians had a sense of humour, they'd give Obama a second peace prize today.

Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 9m

“I tried to help OpenAI raise some money by starting a GoFundMe for them, but those fundraising campaigns are capped at a mere billion dollars. Which doesn’t even pay for snacks at OpenAI.”

squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 51m

Charles fucking nails the landing with Wiley E.

Charles Fitzgerald @charlesfitz.bsky.social · 3h

platformonomics.com/2025/10/they...

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Antonio Fatas @antoniofatas.bsky.social · 48m

If true (that FDI heading to the US is increasing), this means that current account deficit is about to increase or that other capital flows will go in the opposite direction. If current account deficit increases, it might boost growth somewhere else.

America is sucking in growth from the rest of the world

Global FDI is flowing west — this may well be one of Trump’s biggest legacies

on.ft.com

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 4h

*PERU LAWMAKERS OUST PRESIDENT BOLUARTE IN IMPEACHMENT VOTE

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 3h

the whole furry thing never appealed to me, but now i think it'd be cool to be a froggy.

ht @guillaumee.bsky.social

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Ernie Bornheimer @erniebornheimer.bsky.social · 3h

It seems like, increasingly, business models just consist of ways for firms to exploit/monetize human irrationality (rather than to provide value).

What can/should I read on this subject?

#philosophy
#economics
#exploitation

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 8h

I can’t wait!

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 8h

i’m so proud 🥹

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 8h

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 14h

(i guess in deference to Poe's Law i should explicitly note this is intended as mockery, not in earnest.)

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 14h

it’s pretty bad.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 14h

wasn’t subtweeting this (or anything in particular really). but now i’ll end up reading it!

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 14h

All else equal — ceteris paribus, as the economists say — if you were to just grab that expensive watch from the jewelry store counter and walk out the door, you'd be better off.

Only all else would not be equal.

Lots of data-centric political punditry is basically "grab the watch".

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 14h

(i guess in deference to Poe's Law i should explicitly note this is intended as mockery, not in earnest.)

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 15h

"we could call this a…muscular, socialism-inflected version of antitrust. Rather than (or in addition to) playing constant…whack-a-mole against market concentration…the govt steps in directly and creates the competition it wants, either thru subsidies or outright state-owned firms." @ryanlcooper.com

The Socialist Case for Antitrust

Markets need regulating. Always have, always will.

prospect.org

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 16h

Tom Lehrer died a few weeks ago I guess

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

"Norway is bracing for the aftermath of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on Friday as the Nordic nation has faced increasing pressure from Donald Trump and his administration to award it to the US leader."

Norway on Edge Over Trump Ahead of Nobel Peace Prize Verdict

Trump’s aggressive push to secure the prize, including public declarations he deserves it and calls to Norwegian officials, has intensified with a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and a possible pea...

finance.yahoo.com

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 16h

i hope they stop murdering people there. i am rooting for that.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 16h

“In smaller courses, the difference in the quality of…discussion where 70% of the students have done 50% of the readings and one in which 20% have done 10% of the readings is obvious in the same way…a cold Coke tastes different than lukewarm spit. The former is no Chablis, but it is more palatable.”

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 17h

Another excellent piece by Professor Musgrave. In my own undergrad "Enlightenment" seminar this semester, only one student had heard of Robinson Crusoe [which I was first assigned in 8th grade]. I asked her to summarize; she told the plot of Tom Sawyer! musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

musgrave.substack.com

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 16h

"Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes."

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 17h

“It’s true that Bush did more to infringe on civil liberties than Trump did in his first term, but if Trump had been president on 9/11, he probably would have put the country’s entire Muslim population in internment camps.” @mattyglesias.bsky.social www.slowboring.com/p/the-author...

The authoritarian menace has arrived

And so has the backlash — but the resistance needs to be smarter

www.slowboring.com

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 18h

One of the major problems we are going to have going forward is that search makes is extremely heavily biased towards recent updates / info / pages. Like monumentally so.

It’s very challenging to search for anything that happened in the even recent past.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 1d

what variety of exquisite corpse is this?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

ESSILOR LUXOTTICA CEO SEES META GLASSES AS REPLACEMENT FOR PHONE

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 1d

that would be racism and posting racism is illegal.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

'By applying protections meant for vulnerable groups to shield government actors, Apple has created — within its own ecosystem — a new kind of protected class: state power itself."

migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 1d

Defying a *mandate* in a specific case is an extreme measure, but ignoring *precedent* is like, not even that extreme

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