From Jon’s piece.

just watched Cure (1997) for the first time highly recommend

Abundance! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/c...

This notion that the Knicks won is mostly an online phenomenon; people frying their brains on social media. The "title" certainly isn't based in material conditions, it's a vibes-championship.

guy standing next to me at the bar kept calling Wemby a baguette lol

42nd street

"[Jose] Alvarado is the only native New Yorker on the team and wears the number five on his jersey, a number he said he chose in part as a nod to the five boroughs." gothamist.com/news/from-ny...

Imagine making enemies of the Pope and Bad bunny…. reality Stranger than fiction

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[chef's kiss]

“In interviews, a dozen drivers who’ve worked for other DSPs in three states describe them as Potemkin businesses that enforce Amazon’s extreme rules, constant surveillance and grueling quotas that in some urban areas can reach 30 stops an hour.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

eating lunch and this guy won’t stop staring at me

The Social Security Trustee's report is going to come out on Tuesday and folks expect to see the reserve depletion date move up a bit...maybe into 2032 meaning the next president will inherit the task of updated OASI for the first time since 1983....1/3 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

absolutely hilarious that Wemby smiled for the kid’s selfie but the kid fumbled and didn’t get Wemby in the frame

I’ve been listening to Greg Grandin’s THE END OF THE MYTH (2019) on audiobook. Highly recommend. (I know it’s not exactly a little-known book)

I hope people will read the article. It is thoughtful & laments what AI is doing to university education. The snippet in the post below is only one part of a much broader discussion (I don’t share his view in that one part, but it’s worth reading it in context, which I just did).

the new Blowback series is 🔥

Feeling good today 😎 This is all very validating considering I’m just a labor economist that decided he wanted to do work on the history of economics. I’m happy to be a part of this community and have my work recognized.

Veep was a documentary

Created this tutorial for anyone interested in learning how building costs and rents work: rentrentier.com/housing-fina...

just transported a box of 40 books via the Q train to the Strand to sell and damn that was a more intense workout than I was expecting

skeptical

“This is CNN history, in which talking points are repeated exactly as delivered by the press secretary and backroom details often include how many espresso pods someone pushed into a backpack or whether someone has salt-and-pepper hair.” ouch, @quinnslobodian.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Highly recommend this recent essay, "AI as Social Technology," by Henry Farrell (@himself.bsky.social) and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...

This was fun

Oh this is delightful. Let's start with SpaceX's violation of 17 CFR § 229.504 (Item 504). Their "use of proceeds" neglects to mention they are contractually obligated to use the first $20 billion from it to pay off a bridge loan. This is also while their quarterly cash burn exceeds $8 billion. /1

finished grading in a 3-hour sprint this morning so spending the day with these two:

Breaking News: Suspected deaths in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo rose to 131, and suspected cases jumped to more than 500, the health minister said.

when @rajakorman.bsky.social is talking about healthcare as a markup-absorbing drag, this is how that works at the structure level doing health care inefficiently has been a huge employment growth ballast esp now that it is broadly pulling workers away from other sectors of the economy

Hugely enjoying @holsmith.bsky.social’s ‘Up in the Air: A History of High-rise Britain’ (@versobooks.bsky.social). Thoroughly and imaginatively researched, and with the detail, particularly qualitative, to bust many myths about public and cooperative housing in the UK—whether tall or short!

young Schumer 🤯

Dawn of the Electric World Order: Global shockwaves from the war on Iran are accelerating the energy transition “What makes this shock different from the 1970s? As analysts at Ember put it: “this is the first energy shock with a superior alternative.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

maybe they should try calling them urban cabins instead?

told someone in the elevator “have a nice night” at 10:30 AM … the effect of a few hours of morning grading

looking forward to this tonight

🏦 A Mission-Aligned World Bank IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @laramerling.bsky.social's new working paper considers how the World Bank’s operational architecture & institutional design need to evolve to deliver mission-oriented development. 🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/fYhyHev

this is how all articles should start

RIP Rahghu Rai. the greatest indian photographer His photos of Delhi, books were legendary. Taj as a memento mori raghuraifoundation.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=602V...

coincidence?

The Department of Justice on Friday dropped its criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, removing a major hurdle to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh to replace him. Full details: cnb.cx/4tZ7dla

Military spending is bad industrial policy if you actually care about the working class. My @transitionsec.bsky.social colleague Lorah Steichen riffs on @tkbarnes.bsky.social's new research, detailing just how bad the jobs in the military industrial complex have become. Link to the report below

My presentation at Wesleyan was titled: 'Iran War Shockwaves & the dawn of the Electric World Order' You can find my slides here. tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...

I picked a great book to bring (and actually read!): CRACK-UP CAPITALISM by @quinnslobodian.com I went thru Liechtenstein yesterday on train to Zürich. In Vienna, I visited the Albertina, which houses the Batliner Collection. Herbert Batliner, a Liechtensteiner lawyer, was a pioneer in tax evasion.

Revoking kids' visas because their parents criticized Elon Musk.

everything in american politics boils down to this

apple strudel in custard with plum sauce might be my new favorite dessert

deciding what book to bring and not read is always the most difficult part of packing for a trip

Anyone teaching energy/IR/finance/ecology/political science etc, please do share with students & colleagues I concluded my talk with @picharbonnier.bsky.social wise words. Slides here: tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe... @katemac.bsky.social & my podcast ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER tinyurl.com/PolycrisisPo...

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