Lived on & off in San Francisco, 1987-90, & while most were still shocked there about #Reagan, there's also been this 'making-it porn' all around the 🧵 speaks of regarding the socialization in the 1980s as a possible link to today's #GOP voters & #MAGA:

I just learn that the motif: 𝘓𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦, which traveled from Muddy Watters (1950) via my favorite rock orchestra's band name (1962) to #Dylan (1965), can be found already in 𝘐𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘥'𝘴 13th song (XIII: 137 ff.): #MusicSky #Homer #RollingStones | #BookSky #History A happy Sunday everyone!

Here my own experience w/ #AIslop from the 'early days' when the term wasn't yet around: Met a young guy in #Alta / #Norge who's been up to #Nordkapp w/ his bicycle & bought some of the designated postcards you get there. We were pondering what he could write on them & I gave him some formulations.

Is Freeman #Dyson, 'Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation,' Science 131 (1960), 1667 f. (the #DysonSphere paper), which was apparently a joke targeting the alien hunters,... 1/3

Oh boy, why not just sit in your armchair & cut your toe nails? #PhilSky #PolSci #BookSky | #welfare #economics

Well, another one from Robert #Brandom: 'Tweety is a chicken' — & with a broken wing at that! Who would have thought...?

It's my last try, too:

We despise #AIslop in #academia, but there's lots of #slop in academic #publishing already—even w/o #AI. So, when you write, always ask yourself: Do I have something to say that hasn't been said by everyone else? If you apply this 'test' to every single sentence, you'd save a lot of everyone's time

Interesting: "The #IRGC is in effect not just blocking a strait—it is attempting to build an alternative payment rail under live fire. The $2m toll in #yuan is not a fee. It is potentially a proof of concept for a post-dollar energy settlement system, argue some." #Iran #IranWar #oil #oott

If you copy the #right, you'll get run over by the right. Same for the German Social Democrats, #SPD, who increasingly lose voters to the #CDU, even to the #AfD, in recent state elections.

All while #Fed already exited Network of Central Banks & Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) & withdrew federal bank regulatory agencies from interagency Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management for Large Financial Institutions: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...

Holding rates at 3.50-3.75% (Miran only dissenter for a 25 bps cut). Very redundant #FOMC statement which may leave the door open for a #Fed emergency meeting should the #US #Israel #war against #Iran spiral out of control? Essentially watching & waiting: #IranWar

Just ordered your book 𝘡𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘬𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘶𝘴, Suhrkamp 2021, @jwullweber.bsky.social; recommended by @annpettifor.bsky.social, 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘰, 2026, 97 f., who works with the English translation: 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘉𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, StanfordUP 2024.⁣⁣ So, congrats on both & a happy Sunday evening from here!

Oh! #RIP Jürgen #Habermas:

According to #MMT, public debt is NOT the problem (cf. @stephaniekelton.bsky.social, 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩, ch. 4). Fun fact I learn from @annpettifor.bsky.social, 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘰, 71 f.: Shortage of US #Treasuries, typically used as collateral, led to those 'synthetic securitisations' that caused the #GFC.

I've missed this—in case you did too, check it out:

What a BS shop #$GS is: #Brent #oil #Trump #Israel #IranWar | #oott

I neither knew the term was Whewell's, nor that @nature.com still struggled with it as late as 1925. So thanks for this! (via @anitaleirfall.bsky.social): #Science #PhilSci #HistSci

So far, the Yankees bought the dips (appetite's apparently getting weaker, tho): #Iran #$SPX #$SPY #ES_F:

Spring time:

Check out the #Brent #WTI spread (spot) in the European premarket: #Iran #OOTT

#Iran ⤵️

Support the #Libraries & the Librarians! (via @terjehaakstad.bsky.social):

Wut, 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤'𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐰 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲?⁣ That's lazy! #SCOTUS #Trump #tariffs

Any #bridge nerds on here? Went through the photos from my #bikepacking trip to #Tromsø, 2023, to choose a banner for my profile & found these two pics: #Andøybrua, on the Fv 82 between #Sortland & #Andenes. #Norge #Norway #Bridges #cycling

Yup, 100%! Plus, a belt is not great for steep uphill climbs, where you want as high a gear ratio as you can get that's as easy as just walking uphill. Belt gear shifts don't give you that either #bicycles #cycling #bikepacking

For those who read German: Michel #Foucault would've turned 100 on Oct 15 this year. To mark the occasion, @taz.de, a left-leaning daily newspaper, will be publishing an article on one aspect of his work every month on the 15th until then. Here the first piece of the series (I may add the others):

Almost comical struggle of #conservatives to understand how #Conservatism got so off the rails. #Trump #MAGA is 𝘯𝘰𝘵 off the rails, though! It's right mid-range of what the conservative mental #infrastructure provided all along. And it's all in Edmund #Burke already, their hero of the ages:

Check out the evolution of the #Fed balance sheet from the Fed's founding in 1914 thru 2025—w/ special emphasis on how it changed as the gold standard ended early 1970s, as the Fed shifted to interest-rate targeting early 1990s, & as it responded to the #GFC 2008 ff. (via @econreporter.bsky.social):

A half a meter wider bike lane on the #Tromsø Bridge makes all the difference. I've seen people collide with each other, even fall, because the current lane is too narrow for bidirectional traffic. Via @krijen.bsky.social:

On the way to my wonderful mother (oh, & since I've seen all the Yankees whining about their bit of #weather, no big deal here...). #Winter:

Certainly an underappreciated aspect in the #UBI debate generally (never mind the BS coming from the #tech & #AI industries):

Interestingly, Bill Clinton's response seems to be more forceful than @barackobama.bsky.social's (via @kairyssdal.bsky.social): #Minneapolis #Minnesota

Same here, but somewhat remarkable that it's prominently the central bankers, of all people, that showed a spine against #Trump at the #WEF2026 in #Davos: @mark-carney.bsky.social @lagarde.ecb.europa.eu @president.ecb.europa.eu

Gentle reminder, particularly for the US: When you have a stable & reliable public #welfare system, folks are more inclined to have confidence in the future (well, & not having a #Gestapo -like #ICE militia that's grabbing their kids off the streets may help too...):

Speaking of #Greenland: Greenland sharks (𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘴, w/ an estimated lifespan of up to 400 yrs) show no obvious signs of retinal degeneration (but was there really no other way to find out than by killing them, @drdorotask.bsky.social?) Cc @efvogel.bsky.social @johnmdudley.bsky.social

Another (albeit somewhat fringe) confirmation that particularly the poor & less educated on the Right 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 vote their pocket book but rather according to the #resentment they harbor. #PolSci #EconSky

Here, btw, is Max #Tegmark in 𝘗𝘩𝘺𝘴. 𝘙𝘦𝘷. 𝘌 61 (2000), 4194, calculating neural decoherence rates & disagreeing w/ suggestions by Roger #Penrose et al that the brain acts as sort of a quantum computer & that quantum coherence is related to #consciousness in a fundamental way #PhilSky #PhilSci:

Disquieting paper from the 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘺𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴, Helsinki/FIN,⁣ on #Russia operations to destabilize #Svalbard & threatening all #Arctic, Dec 2025. By @kariagam.bsky.social, @stianbones.bsky.social (both UiT #Tromsø) & @thomasnilsen.bsky.social (ed. @thebarentsobserver.com):

Right up there... #NFP

Actually don't recall Dummett positing "that Frege created logic & analytic philosophy out of nothing," which would have been stupid, o/c. Only thing I take away from this rather boring Lemanski paper is why Alexander Frege might have named his son Gottlob... (via some RT @anitaleirfall.bsky.social)

Hell yeah!! (WSJ piece is shit, tho):

Was recently waiting in an ophthalmologist practice (no pun!) 'reading' the German edition of #Vogue: Every second page a full-page ad. Then was wondering whether you actually have to pay for it & checked the cover: Yup, € 9.00, if I recall correctly. That's quite a business model... #Fashion

#Trump #Tariffs vs. #China #RareEarth export restrictions Sure, likely a #Taco situation, but just in case it's not, will we see a revival of the old contraband trade? Adam Smith, 𝘞𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, Bk I, ch xi, in his digressions on Gold & Silver, wrote at some length abt it to give us an idea 😉

Lotta things you might not know! I, for instance, didn't know that Kristofferson's “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose” was inspired by the final scene of Fellini’s 𝘓𝘢 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘢 after Zampanò had abandoned Gelsomina while she was sleeping... (via @anitaleirfall.bsky.social)

That was close: "On the right, there was a surge in support for the populist Progress party – especially among young men – in what has been described by some as 'the Maga-fication' of Norwegian politics." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... #Norway #Norge

Just learnt from Kurt Flasch, 𝘋𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘮 𝘔𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳, 4th ed. 2020, 549 (magnificent book, btw, for those who read German), that we find the idea of animal ratiocination even in Buridan's (1301- ~1360) 𝘋𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢-Commentary (RT via @anitaleirfall.bsky.social):

Madam Curie's Nobel Prize speech in 1911 Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements radium&polonium&for isolating pure radium. This was her 2nd Nobel Prize; she’d previously shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics w/Pierre Curie&Henri Becquerel youtu.be/yyWzaowsibI?...

Nice conversation @pkrugman.bsky.social & @adamposen.bsky.social, which I've missed in July:

There are two camps in #AGI: (1) It'll become more intelligent than us, & perhaps conscious & sentient. (2) It'll never become more intelligent than us, or conscious, or sentient. I'm somewhat in a 3rd camp: #AI may lead to a manifest disillusionment re our intelligence, consciousness, & sentience.