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Christopher Mims

@mims.bsky.social

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WSJ tech columnist. Dog person. Author of Arriving Today, an unfortunately timely book about the global system of trade we're currently flushing down the toilet: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/arriving-today-christopher-mims

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 18d

The world is on fire and the future in question but, small ray of sunshine:

Solar-powered cars are coming next year. Yeah, you read that right.

Imagine getting 10-40 miles a day of range from just parking your car someplace sunny. It's coming.

www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Solar-Powered Cars and Trucks Are Almost Here

New, power-sipping EVs due next year are efficient enough to gain 10 to 40 miles of daily charge from the sun alone.

www.wsj.com

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1h

right, very true

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1h

lots to digest - ty for sharing!

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1h

I mean I think that's an underestimate, I probably have like a dozen of these and I think I'm a pretty normal consumer of content

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1h

not understanding why this is unusable, it's awesome

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1h

good reminder of how much things can change in just 5 years:

in October 2020, wearing stuff like this all the time in public was completely plausible

a woman wearing a space-suit like helmet for preventing the spread of COVID, made by Air. Microclimate

man sitting on a bench in public, wearing a space-suit like helmet for preventing the spread of COVID, made by Air. Microclimate

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1h

I've experienced some of what they describe first-hand and it's terrifying to imagine it getting so much worse!

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1h

This is a REALLY good video that gets into the *specifics* of how AI is degrading our information environment and putting truth further out of reach for the average person / the population as a whole

🎃 🧟 Prof. Dr Beth Singler 👻 🎃 @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 8h

I walked into the lounge last night to find my teenage son watching this. We have long admired @kurzgesagt.org and found their videos to be extremely illuminating. But this one in particular I think is so important right now!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1h

see also: influencers and sponcon (is that still being enforced at all?)

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1h

1 in 5 people who follow influencers on social media have changed their opinions on a social issue due to influencers

(76% of Americans follow influencers)

partnercentric.com/blog/influen...

Statistics on Influencer Power and Spending by PartnerCentric

Report highlighting statistics on influencer trust and use by PartnerCentric

partnercentric.com

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1h

it's weird that advertorial has to be labeled and is frowned upon but this... isn't

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 2h

terrifying

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 2h

Humans evolved a cognitive 'social proof' system for establishing what's true (if enough of the people around me believe something, I'll go along) and media fragmentation + social media has completely and totally hijacked it

Feels like AI will only make this worse

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2h

"no in the future people will cryptographically verify what's true and-" no they will not. People are fucking stupid.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 3h

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 2h

yes; but probably not forever

www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

If AI is a bubble, the economy will pop with it

The old truism that the stock market is not the economy risks underplaying how much today's powerful investment trends could impact the prosperity and lives of the whole country.

www.reuters.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 3h

the fact that the U.S. and the U.K. managed to do it & now there's a backlash against it shows, I think, not how awful humanity is but how good we can be (& why this is worth fighting for)

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 5h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 3h

waaaait a minute, that's Baltimore Penn

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 3h

forgot the two most important ones

Gold Rally Points to Eroding Faith in Central Banks Worldwide

In Japan, as in the U.S., a new leader wants the central bank to make government debt more bearable, which could feed inflation

A New Wall Street Trade Is Powering Gold and Hitting Currencies

Investors are pouring money into dollar alternatives like bitcoin and precious metals

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 3h

If the economy could be represented by a giant dashboard of lights, they'd all be flashing red

soybean farmers are panicking over loss of Chinese buyers, declare possible 'bloodbath'

Trump assault on wind projects hits red states hardest

businesses that depend on government contracts are already feeling the pain of the shutdown

no official jobs numbers during shutdown means Wall Street is turning to alternative measures -- and they show the situation is bad

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 16h

America’s Soybean Farmers Are Panicking Over Loss of Chinese Buyers

* China hasn’t booked any U.S. soybean purchases in months

* Without a deal soon, one farmer warns of “a bloodbath”

* The economics are bad enough that some farmers are already calling it quits

www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

America’s Soybean Farmers Are Panicking Over the Loss of Chinese Buyers

China, the world’s biggest soybean buyer, hasn’t booked any U.S. soybean purchases in months. Farmers warn of a “bloodbath.”

www.wsj.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h

Oscar Issac looking at some kind of electronic tablet.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 17h

In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan

mymodernmet.com/daniel-korda...

Kazakhstan's Mangystau plateau, near the border with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, at sunset. Layers of ancient salt deposits resemble fjords of white, pink, red and orange icing spilling into a vast gray plane

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 23h

curious: how?

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 23h

somewhere in midtown Manhattan, a reporter sheepishly takes down the motivational sign above their desk which for nearly a decade has read "let's do the fucking news"

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