Bizarrely, it may not actually be as bad as the dot com bubble. AI "only" accounts for 40% of the value in the stock market. The dot com bubble was 80%. The big difference is that instead of Keynesian boosting, the current president will make Hoover's response look good.

Even westerners should know by now that Hindu/caste supremacists are every bit as virulent as white supremacists. They just don't have as much power (though they do have a significant amount of it), which is why they love kissing the asses of nazis higher up on the global hierarchy.

Looks like NYT is rage-baiting like an average Twitter/X poster

🤩 What a phenomenal record-breaking win by Indian women over Australia—that old nemesis—in the cricket #WomensWorldCup2025 semifinal today w Jemimah Rodrigues scoring a 💯 for the ages! Never have I been so glad for insomnia that woke me up at 4am, allowing me to watch the entire game. 🏏 #IndVAus

This is pretty accurate, especially in the imperial core, and most especially in the US. The dominance of finance capital over industry has characterized capitalism to varying degrees since the late 19th century but it goes into overdrive circa 1980: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h022...

Tirzepatide is used to treat type-2 diabetes and for weight loss similar to Ozempic.

Hot take: More sociologists and economists need to work together.

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

I know the stereotype is that college profs want everyone to learn their subject. Interestingly, if I had the power to reshape undergraduate requirements, I wouldn't make my subjects (various forms of bio) required. I would make a substantial probability and statistics class required. For all.

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

Saw a clip of Cillian Murphy talking about enjoying using his normal accent in film and why the fuck would you have a guy who can do an Irish voice not do the fucking Irish voice in everything? WE DONT CARE, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the biggest star in the world playing guys named “Tom Miller”

This sort of stuff gets laughed at as impossibly naive and simple-minded - “Yes, yes, be nice to people who are different than you and who are struggling” - but then, as we can see it’s actually a pretty big ask, consistently through history

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

"nobody you can yell at is a decision maker" -- the decision makers have ensured that

it is never okay to take out your frustration on service people and people who do have low moral character

Welcome new people, here are some soccer analytics and tactics accounts to follow if you're into that

I think the taboos against commenting on other people’s bodies are generally well founded but there has to be discursive room to talk about the moral injury of being a woman surrounded by aggressive, invasive, and inhuman-looking plastic surgery.

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

Unsurprisingly, I was just talking about this topic *yesterday* — @espiers.bsky.social perfectly describes the power of blogging. And the best part? It can still have that power right now. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-... So glad to see @talkingpointsmemo.com and @joshtpm.bsky.social doing it!

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

this marc jacobs suit looks like a spanish textbook

The spreadsheet is one of the greatest user interface design tools ever created. "How to tame a user interface using the grid."

It's open enrollment time so here's a convenient peg to hang a little tutorial about how to choose your health insurance. Most of the advice you get is bad. Most of your instincts are bad. I however used to work for a health insurance company and I do arithmetic for a living so I can help.

if you ask the average American to describe what they think a tougher immigration system should look like, they will describe something a degree of magnitude softer and more generous than the current reality. The lesson here is that people are both better and dumber than they appear.

As you get older, try to keep an open mind for what younger people enjoy, and engage with it how you can. This is easier the more you do. You'll enjoy a wider band of stuff, younger people who need you will find you more approachable, and you won't turn into a "in my day" grump.

It does always amuse me when people talk about high-emotion people as being "fragile." YOU try carrying around a hurricane inside you for 50 years, tough guy. You're the one who can't handle the sound of someone crying.

WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.

i was invited to a gathering tonight and initially wasn’t gonna go because every extra thing feels like so much these days but i made myself go and i’m so glad i did because it turns out community is so fucking important right now

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

Since there is an entire discourse going on about #GenAI.🧵 I feel compelled to share sone of the Black Women Data Scientists/Engineers that are in AI and fighting tooth & nail for #EthicalAI even at the cost of their jobs & livelihood. Nothing is ever just one sided. 1st up: Dr. Joy Buolamwini

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

By the time you’re 30 you should have perfected… - the weird little jog when someone holds the door but you’re a bit far away - the overly delicate apology walk when somebody’s mopping the floor - the fake ‘oh I forgot something’ turn-around when you realize you’re walking in the wrong direction

It's CHICKEN TAQUITO day! We're doing a massive x4 batch and I'm not sure how many taquitos this will end up being--somewhere between 80 & 100 I think? The ingredients cost us ~$50 and we'll have 8-10 meals for both of us from it! ourbestbites.com/baked-creamy...

"RSS feed comeback" is very literally something that more and more people are saying

Saw this viral post going on IG about how Vera Wang started over at 40 when everyone in fashion told her she was too old, and launched a wedding dress empire. And I was like hell yeah that’s awesome, and then in the 8th slide “her father gave her $4 million to open a boutique” ah there it is

this is more or less a conspiracy theory. it is parasite load and the fact that there are not websites anymore. there just more or less not any websites, and those that exist, exist solely to trick google into serving them to you.

The reason many of the commentators don’t like Bluesky is because the infrastructure is set up in a way that no longer benefits them. On Twitter it was always easier to gain an audience by purposefully saying things that upset people. Getting ratio-ed was a tactic. Here, that’s much harder.

This is going to seem very random but I miss how the old bird app would have worked brilliantly for this: I’m looking for someone who can help me find information about how, and in what - if any - capacity, the Salvation Army might have been involved in adoption processes in London in the 1910s.

Also note that one key to hands off parenting (from the African perspective) is a more communal view of children. If children belong to everyone then nobody’s sense of self is defined by their “parenting ability.” A kid fucking up is everybody’s “fault” not just your own. So less pressure to mold

*cracks knuckles* okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public? now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.

these people need to log off. seriously. bluesky this, bluesky that, how about you look at some actual blue skies and get off the internet for ten minutes

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

it also leads to a dynamic that someone (can't remember who, sorry!) posted a while back -- that there are plenty of people whom I like personally and whose work I respect, but who I don't follow because their posting style doesn't work for me, personally. which makes me feel bad, b/c they are cool!

Stop adding extra stuff to my appliances. I don't need my washing machine to answer my calls, I need it to wash my clothes and preferably be energy efficient. I don't need my fridge to be wifi enabled, I need the condenser to work for more than 3 years. Just make things cheap, reliable, and dumb.

I'm so mad that streaming devolved back to the cable model, as it turns out.

I'm so fucking tired of logging into things and everyone wanting me to have an app. Leave me alone

put headphone jacks back & make them waterproof

The pivot to video ruined our ability to find information on the internet. I used to be able to find a written document I could ctrl F to find what I need. Now I have to watch a 45 minute video with 10 ads to get it

I don't want a video explaining how to do the thing. I want step-by-step instructions in a plain text document, on a single page, ideally that I can see all of without scrolling while using a reasonably big font.