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today we directly purchased Argentine pesos Blogging at https://someunpleasant.substack.com/

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 6d

New post: Gen Z is mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore. But what are young people mad about? And why is it lowkey like Taylor Swift's latest album?

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Rage For The Dying Of The Light

We are the world, we are the children

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2h

ranked by declining wokeness i assume

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 3h

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go be my goodfriend

Maia Mindel

Maia Mindel has 33 books on Goodreads, and is currently reading What Do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents by Nina Power

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 3h

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3h

more and more convinced of the need for a sort of plastic surgery norm around Gen AI: it’s fine in of itself to use, any use of it where it’s clear to a layman that you used it should face severe ostracism. If you can’t get away with it without me knowing, you aren’t responsible enough to use it

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 12h

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 3h

I like how Scott Bessent is pushing to bail out Argentina basically as a way to do Kaldor-Hicks compensation for his buddies who sank billions into the pump and dump shitco scheme known as "the Argentinian peso"

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1d

The three AI outcomes
- we all become one with the machine god and shuffle off our mortal coils to live as a hive mind of cyborg superbeings
- we all die horribly and painfully in an alien world that has no use for human emotion, creativity, or intellect
- 1.5% TFP growth for seven years

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran Mamdani phasing out gifted programs for kindergarteners is fine.

But in later grades, progressive opposition to "tracking" is misguided imo. Ability sorting can be beneficial for all students, when done right www.vox.com/politics/464...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

"If your government is for sale to any billionaire willing to pay, you do not have a democracy." www.liberalcurrents.com/billionaires...

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1d

Groan

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of horror stuff comes from made up shit about Gein it's insane

Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d

Scott Bessent trying to spend the Argentine pesos he bought in 2026:

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d

TL: DR kept a peg on for way too long and then set up a nonsensical system to replace it where the peso appreciates *and* interest rates go up *and* they don't buy any reserves which made everyone pissed off

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Homo Economicus or Homo Argentum?

My "I will defend the exchange rate at any cost" t shirt is leading people to ask too many questions already answered by my shirt

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Scott Bessent to make purchases of Hawk Tuah Coin to support investment in strategic partners of systemic importance and achieve fiscally sound economic freedom via lower taxes, higher investment, private sector job creation, and partnering with allies.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d

Surprising absolutely nobody Ryan Murphy has shown a complete absence of tact or even factual accuracy handling a story with sensitive implications and that *originated* most of the offensive stereotypes against a minority group

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d

The problem is that none of it was true. There's no evidence that Gein would crossdress or use the skin or body parts of his victims as a costume. It was included because it's the version that quack 50s psychoanalysts and yellow journalism invented and which inspired Psycho and Silence of the Lambs

🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 2d

it’s awesome that Netflix’s new tv show about Ed Gein where he’s depicted as a psychotic maniac dancing around in a 50s housewife outfit and wig while wearing the face of one of his murder victims has been #1 on the platform for the last week. this is awesome for my rights specifically

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d

First chart from this paper, second from the new IMF agreement back in April

www.periodicos.unimontes.br/index.php/ec...

v. 12 n. 1 (2024): Revista Economia e Políticas Púlbicas | Revista Economia e Políticas Públicas

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d

Milei has cut spending by 30% and the deficit by 5% of GDP, which isn't just large for Argentina, it's large for *any* stabilization program ever - the median adjustment is 1.4%.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d

Unlike Chappell Roan I don't hate to say it: I told you so

Though I don't think this is about the political capacity to reign in spending, it's about the program requiring either a higher exchange rate or higher interest rates and Milei not wanting to pay the political price of either

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

The problem, in Argentina, was utterly predictable. Milei repeated the exact same mistake of the 1990s, stabilizing the peso by tying it to the dollar, without having the political capacity to reign in spending (driven by state governments) enough to make that sustainable.

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Adam Posen @adamposen.bsky.social · 2d

Global growth holds up despite policy headwinds and rising risks - New blog by Karen Dynan
Latest global economic propsects from @piie.com

www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

Global growth holds up despite policy headwinds and rising risks

The global economy is growing more strongly than expected this year, despite rising trade tensions and high uncertainty around US economic policy. Optimism about artificial intelligence (AI), particul...

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d

idea: defund all universities and kick out all the foreign researchers they attract

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2d

No doubt we will soon get an Economist thinkpiece explaning why Europe is doomed if it does not copy America's worldbeating Dutch Disease

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d

mean

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 2d

We have a lot of studies of cash transfers on education. What do they tell us about impacts for specific vulnerable groups? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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