i love the tiny but deep pool of finance folks on here tbh

Adjust for inflation, and US office construction is holding at worst-of-the-great-recession levels, falling nearly 60% since the onset of the pandemic in 2020 and down 9% over the last year in data released today

"computer science posts actually drafted by psychoanalysts"

its so funny that the Bogle-heads werent able to see index inclusion as the next like, "IG/fallen angels/junk bonds" divider over the long term, and have no plan for dealing with or even explaining what Elon is doing rn great job guys, really defeated capitalism there

speaking as an american, it's a huge problem how funny this situation is. this is so much funnier than the ballroom

why did pound make great fascist art? because he had a rich relation to the heritage he was working with and a vision of human flourishing toward which he directed it

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

slowly learning just how many things are based on aristotle's account of chrematistics vs economy and adding another line to the board of "longstanding conceptual problems created by aristotle"

The debate on if open or closed models win comes down to if there is disproportionate value to marginally better intelligence. The believers of this sit across from the open models will be good enough camp. Closed models will stay slightly smarter. Open models will be cheaper.

assuming a lifespan of 80 years, the length of the entire human civilization is only about 70 people old. The US Civil War was two people ago and the Ottomans sacked Constantinople seven people ago. Not very long!

the world would be different if you could just select to see the timelines that are delivered to other accounts you interact with, thats so much better than exposing likes

A rare treat: Meat Puppets at Knockdown Center in Queens tonight. #NYC 🔥

"ah shit, that was it huh"

We all know exactly who he means & the fact that this doesn’t immediately end his presidency is a total failure of the constitutional order.

the thing with this is that it is self-reinforcing, so the more you feel it the truer it gets, which is a good reason to not frame claude this way imo

I am begging these guys—this Princeton prof in particular, but also a lot of other guys in positions of influence—to stop making their midlife crises everybody else’s problem

"yea verily"

oh this is cute

i think if i ever opened a bar or concert venue or whatever, i would call it Bar Nearby

yannow if conservatives could actually go out and advance their own creative and artistic vision, they probably wouldnt be so damn political about everything

Texas A&M spends about 1.5 billion on research in a year, about as much as the nation of Czechia.

The options are to either condone violence and match it or to oppose it rigorously through nonviolent means. Both, however, require an acceptance that the opposition is committed to violence. Democrats refuse to do this, and it has contributed heavily to the party being viewed nationally as "weak."

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

This is the guy Vance imagines himself as

i went to the nyt op ed desk and no one knew you there

i feel like people miss the real lesson of zizek's career, which imo is "even something as unsexy as this can be Hot if you understand how desire works"

who can i call at anthropic to explain "y'all have built the Barred Subject from lacan's famous short lecture "we are always stuck building the barred subject" " as tho it is sci fi

Consumer purchasing power taking a hit from the war in Iran and other various and sundry self inflicted supply shocks. For now consumers are doing a lot of smoothing but the boost from tax cuts was gobbled up and then some

"Can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding" is such a hard line and it's accompanied by accordian. TMBG, man

its crazy how much every picture of Bessent looks like a parody of the Bush dynasty

jeezuz "What this office is doing is taking the parts of the federal government that touch you directly, your prescription, your voter registration, your passport, your federal login, out of the agencies that legally own them and rebuilding them on White House infrastructure."

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

that's all, folks

BLS and federal data agencies are one of the great triumphs of liberal democracy: an extraordinary wealth of information, collected at the highest possible standard, insulated from politics, and astonishingly open to the public, literally provided freely for the benefit of the nation at large

this platform is called "bisky" and a post is called a "bisk"

Called this back in October

when you know who really loses the equation

transfixed watching a man consult chatgpt in explaining peter sloterdijk to a woman in the seaport mcnally jackson

NPR is shrinking its newsroom through layoffs and buyouts and is reducing staff dedicated to covering both climate and science. "The climate desk no longer exists separately but has been folded into the National Desk," writes Neela Banerjee, who headed the climate desk but was just laid off.

real

its kind of wild that the republicans are all just carnies now. like, its all carny culture: scams, blinking lights, temporary stages, confused old people, obscene sexual violence happening just out of view, cheap hot dogs,

operation jawbone gasoline lower before july 4th underway

"Beyond Strava"

if it saves lives i think it's okay for europeans to invent a slant where they're somehow dunking on americans by installing air conditioners. "you american pigs with your coddled central air systems could never compete with our graceful ductless mini-splits" something along those lines

Today's economic reporting will focus on 1st-Qtr GDP being revised lower and how incomes/spending are stagnating. But what's most notable from the flood of today's data? Over the last year, Americans have burned through half their savings, seeing them fall from $1.27 trillion to $612 billion

being an entrepreneur is genuinely a weird kind of mindset/mode of being and, imo, 1. most people do not enjoy it 2. it puts you on a path to consistently face trade-offs and decisions you would not have encountered otherwise, and it can feel very weird especially when it seeps into social life

I have been saying for decades at this point that the logical end point for libertarianism is the HOA. It’s possible that the *necessary* end point for libertarianism is the HOA.

gender:

can we get this post avout the consumer sentimebt data to the For You page, i wanna see how people react

mostly i think this is an attempt to squeeze a psychological wage out of the experience of being constantly bombarded bh scams, to remember that you are better than the people out there scamming