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Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 1d

Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 1d

Awarding the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to someone for their work on how tech innovations generate economic growth only when ppl understand why they work is an interesting thing to do in a moment when AI’s most ardent proponents can’t explain how it works

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Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 2d

👍Yeah! "Buy low, sell high" how hard is that?

Or was it "Buy high, sell low"? (Googling it.... 🤪)

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Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 2d

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 2d

Edward A. Rowe @edwardarowe1.bsky.social · 2d

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Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 2d

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

We fired people we had no reason or budgetary need to fire and we actually screwed up and fired the wrong people and then rehired them the next day and all because of Chuck Schumer

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 2d

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 3d

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 3d

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 4d

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Trump will just have to keep murdering fishermen until you stupid jerks give him the peace prize

Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 4d

David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 4d

In my email this morning. Well done, @mit.edu.

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Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 4d

Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 5d

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

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Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 4d

Sounds like a message to the Nobel committee. Maybe she was washing her hair on the day she was asked to give it.

Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 5d

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 5d

I stand with Attorney General Letitia James. This attack won’t silence the truth.

Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 5d

Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · Aug 4

Could someone please teach this massively influential Nobel laureate some game theory and political economy?

”Of course, we’ve got to make sure it gets distributed fairly, but that’s more of a political question”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’

The head of Google’s DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of ‘incredible productivity’ and ‘radical abundance’. But who will it benefit? And why does he wish the tech giants had...

www.theguardian.com

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Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 5d

Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · Aug 27

Europe is selling its soul to Trump

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Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 5d

Roberto Weber @robertoweber.bsky.social · Aug 28

A brave and powerful statement. More people need to speak up about what they are seeing, rather than keeping their heads down and hoping that the administration's ill-informed and spiteful destruction of American institutions will somehow stop when confronted only with silence.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back.
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

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Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 5d

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 5d

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

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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Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 8d

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 8d

First Monday of October.

Happy First Day of the Supreme Court's 2025 Term to all who commemorate.

Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 8d

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8d

/2 ...for the anti-SLAPP statute to protect speech in connection with it. My point is she was capable of good and right.

It's always more upsetting when someone like that chooses evil. Because make no mistake, she's chosen evil, and she wallows in it.

Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 10d

God @thegodpodcast.com · 10d

Thou shalt not shut down your entire government just to protect billionaire pedophiles.

Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 10d

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

www.nytimes.com

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Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 10d

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11d

“The source told CBS News that [Kash Patel and Dan Bongino] asked for "large, beefy" agents to conduct an arrest of Comey "in full kit," including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.” The leadership of the FBI is now in the hands of infantile psychopaths.

The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey — and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say

The FBI is considering carrying out a "showy" arrest and perp walk of the agency's now-indicted ex-Director James Comey, sources tell CBS News.

www.cbsnews.com

Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 12d

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17d

Part of ICE’s efforts will be setting up random traffic stops and checkpoints throughout the city and making educated guesses about who to detain and who not to detain. These 'Guess Stops' will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or 'Guess-Stop-O for short.

ICE’s Training Manual for Determining Who to Terrorize

“The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making indiscriminate immigration-related stops in t...

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Vince Crawford @vincecrawford.bsky.social · 13d

Or, snowy paperweight. James Thurber had a famous collection of them.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13d

I’m sorry, please help. It’s round. A globe. You shake it and the things inside it fall down.