Seems bad

pods from @jeffdean.bsky.social and @mitsuhiko.at for the weekend

if bluesky was a short film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEVl... (very good short!!!)

#$CCJ doing the shoulders thing

Gentle downtrend in core CPI inflation though early estimates suggest that will not be the case for core PCE in part reflecting rising health care costs not captured in CPI

M2.5-Lightning has a throughput of 100 tokens per second costs $0.3 per million input tokens and $2.4 per million output tokens

I feel this shouldn't have to be said, but if you're running an @OpenClaw bot please don't let it spam GitHub projects with PRs and then write aggressive blog posts attacking the reputation of the maintainers who close those PRs simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/...

#$FIG IPO'ed at $85 it traded at $29 after the 180-day lockup

This is a really nice new Cloudflare feature: on-the-fly markdown conversion. Tools like Claude Code send an "Accept: text/markdown" header when making web requests. If you enable this it, it will send these agents a markdown version of your page instead of the full HTML. Really good for docs.

Betting on Jesus returning by 2027 and the Backstreet Boys singing about crypto are kind of the same thing. Speculation and nostalgia are both exit strategies from the present, and neither provides answers. New piece on what happens when the economy grows without… people.

Budget data confirms Dept of Ed grants running -50% Y/Y. Grants make up ~8% of public sector ed budgets & cuts are weiging on hiring. Budget cuts, tariffs & other headwinds are factored into new CBO projections (not just OBBB) of a deficit steady at 5.8% of GDP in 2025/26. No huge fiscal tailwind

a love letter for @aldasoro.bsky.social

Stock-based compensation is to growth stocks what pension reform is to emerging markets. I will not be taking questions at this time.

Person who was fired here - you should still trust BLS data. The agency is being run by the same dedicated career staff who were running it while I was awaiting confirmation from the Senate. And the staff have made it clear that they are blowing a loud whistle if there is interference.

H/T @rani.bsky.social

not all synths are created equal and it's probably a net good when "good" synths are deployed on the internet

have used Bitcoin as excess liquidity indicator for a long time and it does not have any juice

Benchmark revisions had large impacts in retail (-128,300 to Mar job level), leisure & hospitality (-153,000), wholesale (-114,700), prof & biz services (-126,000) and more Notably, health care almost entirely unaffected. 5/

dollar still getting faded

3/ Prime working age employment population ratio rises to 80.9%, the highest since July 2024.

been wondering how much KPop Demon Hunters hurt Disney

would be careful when people throw around the term "supercycle"

"Something about the experience of watching performances makes the audience simply prefer to be impressed by other talented humans rather than by machines."

@corrywang.bsky.social did a great thread for this back in 2023 How many industries have been propped up for the last 50 years by a small cohort of people?

#$MNDY move reminiscent of #$CHGG move late 2021

I spent a long time testing the new Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 models, but the most striking thing was how so many people are reacting to model releases wrong with how we now use models. In my post-benchmark era. Claude is still king, but codex is closer than ever www.interconnects.ai/p/opus-46-vs...

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

alright, first issue is out for Forces of Production, Common Wealth's new monthly newsletter on the US supply side, from a macro point of view! www.forcesofproduction.com/p/slow-slide...

supply won't be sleeping anytime soon

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

"we're doing mass surveillance for finding lost dogs"

This map is just...wow.

oh boy

looking at people posting coding benchmarks

basically same dot as March 2020

December JOLTS data - in line with what I expected: 1/ Very weak hiring (though not weakening further at present). 2/ Quits stable. 3/ Low firing. The fall surge in layoff announcements has barely materialized into any actual layoffs.

US JOLTS Job Openings Dec: 6.542M (est 7.250M; prev 7.146M; prev R 6.928M) - Job Openings Rate: 3.9% (prev 4.3%; prev R 4.2%) - Quits Lvl: 3.204M (est 3.102M; prev 3.161M; prev R 3.193M) - Quits Rate: 2.0% (prev 2.0%) www.bls.gov/news.release...

between the naming and only 7Hz closed-loop control still a long time before actual production

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook delivered a speech on the economy highlighting the challenge she felt the economy faced. Most notably, improvements in inflation have stalled. That acts as a regressive tax on the economy. It hits those who can afford it least and opens the door to a prolonged..

Bitcoin is flat since 11/5/2024

probably has implications for system/network of synths