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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 5h

We didn't start the fire

Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 5h

No way to run a government. Fired. Not fired. Fired again. Not fired. Pants on fire.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 8h

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 11h

Me too

paulnotelteirs.bsky.social @paulnotelteirs.bsky.social · Apr 5

Ik beken: mijn zelfbeeld wordt voor 75 procent bepaald door hoe goed ik Karels Crypto kan invullen op zaterdag.

Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · Apr 4

Before trying to do a crossword:
I'm a smart guy!

After trying to do a crossword:
Who will care for me, the dumbest man in the universe

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 12h

Het geeft een idee van de belangrijkste onderwerpen in onze gezinschat dat de autocomplete steevast de naam van de kat aanvult met "heeft nat voer gekregen" en de naam van de hond met "gaan wandelen".

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 13h

'Politicians decry decisions made by the EU as if they were edicts handed down by some foreign power. But given that national governments form the backbone of the EU, “blaming Brussels” is akin to a ventriloquist haranguing his own puppet for being foul-mouthed'
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

“Brussels” is the phantom menace Europe loves to blame

Why bashing the EU is likely to become ever more popular

www.economist.com

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 13h

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 13h

A passage that will always throw me back to "Howard's End"

open.spotify.com/track/13o5ov...

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: III. Allegro -

open.spotify.com

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, but in which solar system?

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 16h

Here's the full conversation

youtu.be/E0eB0Zo5Ln4?...

youtu.be

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 17h

quite different cases before and after lunch. Which just shows the importance of identifying all relevant possible explanatory variables, which shows the importance of in-depth understanding of the context- something at which, AFAIK, humans are still much better at than AI.

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 17h

In an otherwise very interesting discussion with Paul Krugman on the economic consequences of AI, Martin Wolf refers to the research that showed that judges in the morning behave quite differently from judges in the afternoon. The problem is that new research has shown that these judges treated/

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 17h

Kijk eens hier, een Georgist op BlueSky

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 17h

The US has already reached the point of Argentina and China where you use non-conventional indicators of the business cycle to understand what is really going on.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ: “.. the portion of subprime auto loans that are 60 days or more overdue on their payments hit a record of more than 6% ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/business/aut...

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 17h

Ik gebruik Excel *alleen maar* voor zeer eenvoudige dingen, zoals draaitabellen om de resultaten te bekijken die R heeft berekend.

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 18h

Biscornu

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 1d

The guy shouting at the bins in the car park outside Tesco is sparking debate with claims that Fidel Castro ate his shoes, but I’m just trying to pick up some milk.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sparking debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

Here’s what the science actually says:

RFK Jr. linked circumcision and Tylenol to autism. Here’s what scientists say.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparks debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

wapo.st

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 18h

I can't wait for macroeconomic models that integrate AI generated errors as exogenous shocks

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 20h

For my own prognose, I will stick with empirical IO (one at least out of Bresnahan, Berry, Levinson and Pakes) or environmental economics (Dasgupta). It worked with Acemoglu.

laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 20h

This is what will happen to me on Monday with the economics Nobel, I'm sure.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 20h

Nah. But I asked my old army pals if they could bomb the Sveriges Riksbank if I wouldn't win it. But they started about woke stuff like international law.

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 20h

This is what will happen to me on Monday with the economics Nobel, I'm sure.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 1d

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 1d

"You can use Paris as a basis for your activities, but don't kill Brits on our soil"

laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 1d

A terrorist who got quite close to support from the French state...

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 1d

TIL that, in 1947, London narrowly escaped a biological attack by a Zionist terrorist.

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