network papers from the 80s can be so funny sometimes

so the thing i wonder about is, if the data center thing now is a mass buildout of GPUs, its kinda funny to look at the 90s as having been about the mass buildout of CPUs, i wonder what the next piece of the Big Computer will be

i blame the crypto people for the basic idea of "AI" being "we dont need people anymore" because "what if you told yourself you dont need people anymore" was most of the pitch for cryptocurrency protocols

never violate the Pythagorean maxim

this is nuts

Trump will have a plan to reconstruct a lot of his tariffs after this SCOTUS ruling through a combination of other legal authorities (232, 301, 122). But those authorities are more narrow and process-intensive, so he has lost the ability to just rapidly slap tariffs on any country on a day's notice

There is so much pent up demand for joy and to believe in the future.

Really interesting stuff.

Core PCE inflation is stickier than CPI reflecting pressure in health care and other services. The diffusion index shows a broader base of price pressures. We expect little progress toward 2% this year, a challenge for the incoming Fed chair w/ an FOMC starting to talk hikes at the hawkish edges

::bounce:: My upcoming book - "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the U.S. Census" - is on the shortlist for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize!!! Thank you CJS/Nieman for your encouragement!! journalism.columbia.edu/news/lukas-s...

Did an interview for this and I really appreciate NPR for continuing to cover the surreal situation facing observers and commuters here in Minneapolis, even as the attention of the world moves on.

This is just really embarrassing for these guys. Your intellectual hero is an amphetamine casualty from the Britpop years. It would be less ridiculous to be queuing up for a lecture by Ginger Spice.

administrative reforms are grand strategy for HR types

"guy who thinks increasing precision cannot harm accuracy" is a really common type of annoyance imo

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Fannie Buttman Johnson Spouse Wisconsin, Marriages, 1836-1930

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

i think the left wing use case here is to get things running locally and disintermediate as much of san francisco as possible from one's online life

if they had just paid me 40 grand a year to be a aound recording tech i never would have had to learn what a "centrist" was

deportation abundance seems to be making faster progress than the other pitches lately, seems like

“.. dismal ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/aut...

who the hell cares

Like, USAID still legally exists, still receives budget from Congress, and the few dozen remaining employees (who work at State) still have usaid.gov emails and all our systems and databases still exist. It's just the 10k of us who actually did the work are gone. Just do that to ICE and CBP.

Holy shit we're actually on track to see solar-powered batteries squeezing out gas power for days at a time. It will be interesting to see what happens this summer in California.

"Claude code is about ergonomics", he says, after spending 15 minutes on a script to associate screen location history by-pointer-device so as to use the mouse on the external monitor, and the trackpad on the laptop monitor without having to move them

skills develop because learning is not the filling of the bucket, but the growing of extra arms

so much online infrastructure is so psychologically unpleasant these days that it feels like a conspiracy to get ordinary people to stop using the internet so that the channers get to keep it all because they only love psychological pain

- bernard stiegler

its funny too bc everyone can tell that either AI is gonna pull profits in from elsewhere in the system so minimal GDP gain out of their profitability or it hits everything with The Speedup and gets GDP up thru the Velocity of Circulation channel but not clear why that would happen outside marginals

also this is an absolute banger imo, if i was 23 in nyc this is what i would want to be playing youtu.be/DyqnjGmY3Nk?...

A strange find from the Epstein files: A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev." Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies." www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that

"Measured Labor Productivity Per Wage Unit Rises"

that’s the big thing, the ability for a lay person with limited time or technical skills to create reliable, bespoke tools with relatively minimal overhead across a wide variety of disciplines is genuinely a new thing

this is, tbh, my take at the end of the day. qualitative shift in the labor process agnostic to technique of production, which is why its labor market impacts will be down to how it alters the terms of class struggle imo

choosing to believe these are stills from a movie where John Stewart is poking fun at the idea of Benicio del Toro

Classic Miami experience. Cut off in traffic by a Cybertruck. Google the website on the license plate to find a private-jet brokering business owned by a guy with a lifetime FINRA bar after being convicted of securities fraud.

I have been thinking a lot about this question. I saw David's YOLO'd paper, and have done similar things on my own. His paper's abstract is pasted below. 1. It's a remarkable achievement that CC can do this with minimal prompting. 2. The paper is unbelievably banal from a research standpoint.

psychoanalyst George Strait: All my cathexis live in Texas

"Reducing reliance on fossil fuels looks like Europe’s best shot at saving its domestic manufacturing and stopping other governments from pushing it around." Outstanding article in The Wall Street Journal. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

When he's not in character Conner O'Malley looks like a divorced Middlebury literature professor from 1987. Just like a guy with a midcentury modern house and two hunting dogs who's spent sixteen years poring over Milton or w/e

yep. you can’t overdose on gambling but it’s also pretty hard to blow your entire life savings in 5 minutes doing opioids

This may be the most dangerous development of all. It will give Trump fake legal pretext to reject Nov election results. American democracy has like 9 months left. Trump says he will issue executive order to get voter-ID requirements before midterms www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/t...

no one has any understanding of material reality and how things get done anymore

Same with solar panels. www.newscientist.com/article/2357...

i think no one should use large language models for anything except for me and other people who would like to use them

text is as far up the supply chain as it is possible to go

CBO does excellent work modelling, and I don't think this exercise is useless, but I also think we need to be VERY skeptical of any long-term forecast for interest rates. It's extremely difficult to generate one that is even remotely accurate. And that applies to explicit forward pricing.