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Lisa

@footenotes.bsky.social

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Greetings from Central Minnesota Econ, politics and old movies (Mute #TCMParty if it's not your cuppa) (Banner photograph by Seth Caplan, Architectural Digest.)

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · Jul 25

"The so-called 'knock-on' effects of a crypto currency 'bank run' happening simultaneously with a massive equity correction were not understood until it was too late for any Central Bank to meaningfully intervene."

#EconSky

Jared Harris plays Valery Alekseyevich Legasov in the 2019 historical drama "Chernobyl." Legasov stands next to a presentation board with blue cards with white words arranged vertically. He points to the board with his right arm while explaining the nuclear disaster that occurred in 1986. A crowd of people sit behind him.

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 2h

She's also pretty introverted, so it was quite the journey!

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 2h

Chili and Beans with an Ice Lemonade, please!

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 2h

They did this in Richmond VA when I lived there!
"Trick or Drink" served candy to the kids and shots to the (walking of course!) adults

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 2h

Made a new friend for the first time in many years and for me, an introvert, it's an earth-shattering event

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 3h

"Grack-ti-ka!
Grack-ti-ka!"

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 4h

Insanely wide range of uses is pretty mind-blowing as well

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 13h

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 6h

"First, the smaller AI companies will go down. ...The last one to go down will be OpenAI. ...

Google, Microsoft, and Amazon can finally admit this never made any money. They have an excuse to account massive losses and go 'oh well.' "

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/10/o...

OpenAI does deals to make a deal — and the money is getting worried

The AI bubble is the bubbliest bubble that ever bubbled. We’ve covered at length how venture capital is moribund except AI and especially OpenAI, how the VCs are desperate to keep the party pumping…

pivot-to-ai.com

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 18h

Only the softest and most insecure are drawn by a cult
that gives them permission to feel superior to every
fellow student who out-performed them and
permission to be their worst selves

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 18h

"This meeting could have been a meowmail"

David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 18h

Girl tabbies discussing Goose's staff meeting. goose in the background is not impressed.

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 18h

We're at least gonna get great art outta this, right?

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 18h

"...and the venous sufficiency of a 90 year old"

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

reut.rs

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 22h

Take heart: he looks like a three-day old bowl of room-temp oatmeal

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 22h

Shoops knows the kids won't eat vegetables, so why bother serving them any?

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Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 23h

China put Trump in a corner. Every way out hurts. www.barrons.com/articles/chi...

China's latest threat to clamp down on exports of rare earths appears to have blindsided President Donald Trump. The Chinese plan "came out of nowhere," Trump said Friday in a social media post.
"Nobody has ever seen anything like this."
Beijing's escalation of the trade fight has put the Trump administration on the backfoot at a moment of weakness. China's actions show that the U.S. is vulnerable to economic pressure, and China has forced the administration to choose between further escalation or a humiliating climbdown.

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

In 3... 2... 15

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

Try your favorite blueberry recipes with fresh cranberries instead

Added nutmeg and cardamom to this batch of muffins

Bowls of almond flour with a spoon resting in it, melted butter and eggs share the kitchen counter space with measuring cups of whole, fresh cranberries, and milk. A bottle of vanilla rounds out the ingredients.

Twelve cup muffin tray holds eleven golden muffins. Bright red cranberries poke through the surface. They are flying the "Missing Man" formation.

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

About to make a batch of nutmeg-cardamom fresh cranberry muffins....

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

I am deeply enamoured by this garment 😍

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

SCOTUS could still declare emergency tariffs illegal — which would be a fun cherry on this sundae. 🍨

Barchart @barchart.com · 1d

BREAKING 🚨: Stock Market

We got rugged 📉📉

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1d

dear jesus, I saw that America’s dumbest fascists were ready to relitigate the ACA for the 84th time during a shutdown they caused just before troop pay was about to stop, and I wanted that for me

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 1d

Lol

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷💣

Didn't have Dear Leader acting out after not getting a participation trophy, and China then starting the AI bubble pop on my Fanduel parlay, but here we are

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing in particular this morning, I've been told that, in essence, there are two things that physicians can't do at the White House medical unit: MRIs and surgeries. Virtually anything else can be done there if you have to or want to.

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

John Carpenter's Wonderful World of Tupperware

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