increasing inequality also resulting in an overcrowding in luxury services is vaguely funny
July 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
increasing inequality also resulting in an overcrowding in luxury services is vaguely funny
Roses are Red,
Google is Unassailable
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Google is Unassailable
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June 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Roses are Red,
Google is Unassailable
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Google is Unassailable
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Great chart (via @adamtooze.bsky.social) that speaks to the issue above. China took pain when it rapidly began to deflate its property boom in 2021. But that pain was part of a broader plan, and paired with a positive vision for new industry.
March 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Great chart (via @adamtooze.bsky.social) that speaks to the issue above. China took pain when it rapidly began to deflate its property boom in 2021. But that pain was part of a broader plan, and paired with a positive vision for new industry.
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Kieran Culkin's publicity team deserves an award because I did not care about that man six months ago.
(No, I did not watch Succession)
(No, I did not watch Succession)
March 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Kieran Culkin's publicity team deserves an award because I did not care about that man six months ago.
(No, I did not watch Succession)
(No, I did not watch Succession)
This bit from thediff.co extends out to fiction as well - there isn't really a need for genai fiction because there's already more fiction than there exists appetite for it, and people often read specific works for paratextual reasons as well.
March 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This bit from thediff.co extends out to fiction as well - there isn't really a need for genai fiction because there's already more fiction than there exists appetite for it, and people often read specific works for paratextual reasons as well.
The period of 'Consumers expect computers that talk to have human-like intelligence' and 'Computers with human-like intelligence are really expensive' probably would have been lethal to Alexa had it not been an 'Amazon terminal', but now quality tokens are cheaper, but still squeezes Alexa margins
March 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The period of 'Consumers expect computers that talk to have human-like intelligence' and 'Computers with human-like intelligence are really expensive' probably would have been lethal to Alexa had it not been an 'Amazon terminal', but now quality tokens are cheaper, but still squeezes Alexa margins
This bit from Dave Wiens (Siemens) reminds me that there are a lot of jobs that are in v high demand but
1. It takes some level of industry knowledge to know about the existence of/train into them
2. It's not clear if the demand will still exist after retraining
semiengineering.com/what-scares-...
1. It takes some level of industry knowledge to know about the existence of/train into them
2. It's not clear if the demand will still exist after retraining
semiengineering.com/what-scares-...
February 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This bit from Dave Wiens (Siemens) reminds me that there are a lot of jobs that are in v high demand but
1. It takes some level of industry knowledge to know about the existence of/train into them
2. It's not clear if the demand will still exist after retraining
semiengineering.com/what-scares-...
1. It takes some level of industry knowledge to know about the existence of/train into them
2. It's not clear if the demand will still exist after retraining
semiengineering.com/what-scares-...
2027 US administration policy will be the annexation of Jamaica over bauxite /alumina
From Dow Jones, CEO of Alcoa speaking at a conference:
*Alcoa CEO: 100,000 US Jobs at Risk of Being Eliminated from Tariffs >AA
*Alcoa Would Not Reshore Aluminum Production in US Based On Tariff Structure In Place for Short Time Period >AA
*Alcoa CEO: 100,000 US Jobs at Risk of Being Eliminated from Tariffs >AA
*Alcoa Would Not Reshore Aluminum Production in US Based On Tariff Structure In Place for Short Time Period >AA
February 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
2027 US administration policy will be the annexation of Jamaica over bauxite /alumina
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1/7
WSJ: "The top 10% of earners in the U.S. now account for 49.7% of all spending, a record in data going back to 1989. Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%."
What is driving their disproportionate spending seems to be surging stock and property markets.
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
WSJ: "The top 10% of earners in the U.S. now account for 49.7% of all spending, a record in data going back to 1989. Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%."
What is driving their disproportionate spending seems to be surging stock and property markets.
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People
The highest-earning 10% of Americans account for almost 50% of all consumer spending.
www.wsj.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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WSJ: "The top 10% of earners in the U.S. now account for 49.7% of all spending, a record in data going back to 1989. Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%."
What is driving their disproportionate spending seems to be surging stock and property markets.
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
WSJ: "The top 10% of earners in the U.S. now account for 49.7% of all spending, a record in data going back to 1989. Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%."
What is driving their disproportionate spending seems to be surging stock and property markets.
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
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imo there’s a pretty tight flywheel between the stock market going up, high-end consumption, and lack of layoffs at the moment. We’d better hope stocks don’t go down.
February 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
imo there’s a pretty tight flywheel between the stock market going up, high-end consumption, and lack of layoffs at the moment. We’d better hope stocks don’t go down.
The Brothers Karamazover.
The book club has selected The Brothers Karamazov
February 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The Brothers Karamazover.
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it is this cold in chicago
January 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
it is this cold in chicago
brandon johnson plz
DC Metro Rewind just dropped!!
I’m proudly a top 5% transit user—and visited almost half the stations in the system! (you have no idea how much it bothers me to not be a top 1% rail customer though)
Metrorewind.com
I’m proudly a top 5% transit user—and visited almost half the stations in the system! (you have no idea how much it bothers me to not be a top 1% rail customer though)
Metrorewind.com
January 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
brandon johnson plz
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One of the key problems with making indie games is discoverability. I am someone who is fairly plugged in, but I miss all kinds of stuff. This is a thread for me to recommend games you might not have heard of going forward. Here we go:
November 17, 2024 at 9:29 PM
One of the key problems with making indie games is discoverability. I am someone who is fairly plugged in, but I miss all kinds of stuff. This is a thread for me to recommend games you might not have heard of going forward. Here we go:
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I did something dumb
December 11, 2024 at 4:26 AM
I did something dumb
So, in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, in response to players ignoring bodies, they instead made it so that, if any are not hidden when an invisible script trigger is crossed, an alarm will sound. 3 alarms means a game over - and these triggers are placed in a manner that could be called 'cruel'
I hate hide body mechanics in games. The bodies are not my business.
December 9, 2024 at 3:18 AM
So, in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, in response to players ignoring bodies, they instead made it so that, if any are not hidden when an invisible script trigger is crossed, an alarm will sound. 3 alarms means a game over - and these triggers are placed in a manner that could be called 'cruel'
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I think AI is eating tech employment from both ends.
Gen AI doesn’t just make software programming more productive, reducing the need for new hires. It’s also INCREDIBLY expensive to buy GPUs/data center space/run inference, so the capex budget could easily nibble into the new-hires budget.
Gen AI doesn’t just make software programming more productive, reducing the need for new hires. It’s also INCREDIBLY expensive to buy GPUs/data center space/run inference, so the capex budget could easily nibble into the new-hires budget.
Continues to be a brutal labor market for the tech sector—net hiring has been 32k over the last year, compared to ~175k pre-COVID and ~250k at peak in 2022
December 6, 2024 at 1:56 PM
I think AI is eating tech employment from both ends.
Gen AI doesn’t just make software programming more productive, reducing the need for new hires. It’s also INCREDIBLY expensive to buy GPUs/data center space/run inference, so the capex budget could easily nibble into the new-hires budget.
Gen AI doesn’t just make software programming more productive, reducing the need for new hires. It’s also INCREDIBLY expensive to buy GPUs/data center space/run inference, so the capex budget could easily nibble into the new-hires budget.
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I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever
December 5, 2024 at 12:45 PM
I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever
It used to be that the finest minds of our generation were at least spent improving market liquidity, but now they hold your relatives upside down and shake them for pocket change
A craze for betting is sweeping over America. It should be celebrated, not feared econ.st/4fYTrIL
December 5, 2024 at 5:51 PM
It used to be that the finest minds of our generation were at least spent improving market liquidity, but now they hold your relatives upside down and shake them for pocket change
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📢 Preapre all your limbs, heads and butts...
It's almost time to QUD!
It's almost time to QUD!
December 4, 2024 at 4:20 PM
📢 Preapre all your limbs, heads and butts...
It's almost time to QUD!
It's almost time to QUD!
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OKAY! So. Thanks to popular culture, when most people hear "pirate ship" they think of a big, intimidating, heavily armed vessel like a galleon or a man-of-war, like this commandeered Spanish vessel from season 2 of BLACK SAILS. 🏴☠️
December 4, 2024 at 3:58 AM
OKAY! So. Thanks to popular culture, when most people hear "pirate ship" they think of a big, intimidating, heavily armed vessel like a galleon or a man-of-war, like this commandeered Spanish vessel from season 2 of BLACK SAILS. 🏴☠️
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I was studying the Pentium processor's die and I noticed strange connections that I didn't understand. These turned out to be "antenna diodes", special diodes that protect the chip from damage during manufacturing. Let's take a look... 1/6
November 23, 2024 at 8:30 PM
I was studying the Pentium processor's die and I noticed strange connections that I didn't understand. These turned out to be "antenna diodes", special diodes that protect the chip from damage during manufacturing. Let's take a look... 1/6
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When it comes to pretty Amanita muscaria, it doesn't get much better than this! ⚪️🟡🟠🔴 🌱 🌿 🍄📷 📸 🎞
November 2, 2024 at 2:05 PM
When it comes to pretty Amanita muscaria, it doesn't get much better than this! ⚪️🟡🟠🔴 🌱 🌿 🍄📷 📸 🎞