ON graphic design and AI

My interpretation is that usage is very high, people are hitting their limits, and they don’t want this to slow the deep adoption in the workflow wave I suspect many of us are doing. I’m going over my Max 20x and I’m a heavy but not insanely heavy user

Gen X nerds will get it

First crossing of Portage and Main.

every time

Out of an abundance of caution my Department of Public Safety is recommending that people do not attend any political rallies today in Minnesota until the suspect is apprehended.

We allied ourselves with Stalin so

"Ukraine’s resilience is inconvenient for those Americans who are eager to proclaim that the geographically largest nation entirely within Europe is inevitably doomed to defeat, dismemberment and domination," George Will writes. wapo.st/45FPLt4

Heads up, this includes faculty and staff www.foxnews.com/politics/sta...

Harvard alumni are organizing to defend the university against the Administration's execrable, illegal attempt to destroy our school: www.crimsoncourage.com

Once again, not only an assault on higher education, but also an unprecedented authoritarian attack on property rights, the sanctity of legal contracts, & the rule of law. Even if you hate everything about academia & professors, you should be terrified & furious about this. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

"o3, give me a screenshot from that one safety video in the 1950s about how to care for your giant killer squid" "great, a second shot from when it all goes wrong for poor Timmy." "show me that one moment people always talk about" (this was all the first output from the AI for each prompt)

In the first of 12 economic history papers May 30 at the Canadian Econ Assoc conference in Montreal Jevan Cherniwchan & Juan Moreno-Cruz ask if future energy changes will reshuffle the economic landscape as did the replacement of wood with coal in England virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73715/...

Coming out of Starbucks this morning I saw a man stop next to his Porsche and gaze with satisfaction at his reflection in the windshield

How long before grant dependent researchers start to leave?

NY Times: Our tips for fighting authoritarianism: 1) Acknowledge the authoritarians are popular with some 2) Many of the intentions they claim are good 3) Many of the goals they claim we can get behind 4) Some of the people they're killing are let's face it mad annoying 5) oops out of space

Mark Carney: You’re supposed to campaign in poetry and govern in prose. Some members of the media will know I sort of campaign in prose. Imagine … I’m going to govern in econometrics. What you hear are all economists swooning at once.🥰

Really time to step up and advocate for the importance of our role.

I’ve been pleased to see universities opposing the administration’s destructive and coercive agenda, but it has me wondering what their threat points are. It doesn’t seem obvious to me that there are any. Faculty could strike undergrad classes, but I don’t see university admin supporting that

Trump's executive order directing DOJ to investigate ActBlue makes clear we no longer a fully democratic country - my comments to the Associated Press apnews.com/article/wisc...

This is how Kaganovich talked about Stalin.

The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation…explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

Again openly treating human beings like freight. Disgusting. michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/i...

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

If I could be a factory foreman for a 50% wage bump I’d totally consider it.

Request is for 13x the current annual custody budget. Not sure people are preparing for the scale of the domestic gulags this administration wants to build and how many more people will be snatched if this operation gets up and running.

For this to work there need to be 77 house Rs and 20 senate Rs who feel their political futures are not tied to Trump fealty. I have a feeling we are not even remotely close yet

Just noting that Congress can stop the market carnage anytime they want to by rolling back these tariffs. 100% in their power. They're watching a house ablaze with a firehose sitting at their feet and just refusing to use it. GOP leadership, not the Fed, should be having emergency meetings today.

A lesson from Israel: Do it again next week.

I kind of want to go

I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.

Substituted by one American penguin with a BS in industrial technology, a CNC machine, and a robot.

We’re gonna party like it’s 1929! 🎶

Hey finance guys, has a single man’s hubris ever cratered a major stock exchange before?

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

British historians: Brexit might be the most catastrophic act of national self-harm ever deliberately perpetuated. America: Hold my beer.

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

With tariffs of 25%, the USA will be either the country with the second highest tariff rate in the world after North Korea - or else the highest (N. Korea isn't reported in the World Bank, so who knows?) Going into autarky mode now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

BREAKING: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday signed into law a massive higher education overhaul to ban diversity efforts, regulate classroom discussion, and prohibit faculty strikes, among other things. The law will take effect in 90 days.

"An emergency rally has been called for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Powder House Square in Somerville to protest a Tufts international graduate student being taken into custody Tuesday by federal authorities." www.cambridgeday.com/2025/03/26/p...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Lenin discovering Alexander Kerensky has accidentally added him to the Provisional Government group chat.