Trumpists want to argue for a future-world that doesn't yet exist, in which the tariffs create a perfect equilibrium for US growth. But the tariff plan announced yesterday does exist. We can read it. It does not make sense and is not defensible on its own terms.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The oil price collapse tells me that the Trump recession has already begun, we are just waiting for the statistics to begin recording and measuring the downturn

Dialogue from more than 139,000 movies and TV shows has been used without permission to train generative-AI tools, including by companies such as Apple and Anthropic, a new investigation from Alex Reisner reveals: theatln.tc/iYjUdBzR

Study linked on Twitter/X : approximately mid-July, the algorithm was modified to subject users to more pro-Trump content whether they sought it or not. Link to the study eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/

it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!!

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Another to follow on Bluesky as an antidote to echo chamberism bsky.app/profile/jeff...