Genuinely insane that Republicans hate the pride flag only slightly less than democrats hate the confederate flag

The US tech sector continues bleeding jobs—American tech sector employment is down 49k over the last year in data released this morning. That's nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and significantly worse than either the 2008 or 2020 recessions

NEW US JOBS DATA: Non-farm Payrolls: +57k Unemployment Rate: 4.2% (-0.1%) Prime Age (25-54) Employment-Population Ratio: 80.2% (-0.6%) Average Hourly Earnings: +0.3%

American factory construction continued declining in official data released today as CHIPS Act projects finish, IRA projects get cancelled, and tariffs weigh on nearly all industries Total US factory construction is down 30% from its 2024 highs and 20% over the last year alone

US data center construction reached another new record high in official data released today, hitting a pace of nearly $60B/yr (and this only includes data center facilities, not the expensive computers within) Spending's up 23% over the last year and 328% since ChatGPT's launch

NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵

Metro job data is in today, & only 27 of the 50 largest metros have gained jobs over the last year as the labor market slows Fastest: Raleigh (2.2%), SLC (2.1%), Vegas (2.1%), Fresno (2%), San Jose (1.5%) Slowest: DC (-3%), Portland (-2.8%), Providence (-1.2%), Indianapolis (-1.1%), VA Beach (-1%)

NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵

cope, seethe, etc

Official data is in today, and US solar power generation continues to grow rapidly, up 15% compared to this time last year!

American Time Use Survey Data, the most detailed look at how the country spends its days, is out today, so here's a quick thread Time spent socializing in person slipped again to below 35 minutes/day, slightly above 2022 lows but still down 10% since 2019 and 25% since 2003🧵

very on brand for Donald Trump that the first time Congress gets together to pass a major bipartisan YIMBY bill he throws a tantrum and decides he won’t sign it on like two hours notice

Regardless of the moral worth of AI art, even as a pure business proposition, this stuff is dumb. There's no money in this compared to the money in getting AI better at, like, software development. I genuinely think Elon is like personally enraptured by the Grok Imagine stuff in insane ways.

Listen up, liberals: *forfeits the game* www.abc27.com/local-news/y...

INDOPACOM century of humiliation continues apace

I do think probably the clearest and most annoying example of the Trump admin trying to portray their election as a cultural project rather than any attempt to improve public policy

Poetically ironic combination of ads at this bus stop in DC

Still a brutal time for me and all the other US caffeine addicts—coffee prices are up 18% over the last year and 56% since 2020

NEW: US CPI inflation rose to 4.2% year-on-year in data released this morning, hitting the highest level since 2023 while increasing 0.5% month-on-month Core CPI inflation rose to 2.9% year-on-year, increasing 0.2% month-on-month

I mean it’s kind of ridiculous to remember that at one point a core selling point for Trump’s candidacy was that he was the “Art of The Deal” guy

some more upcoming Talarico scandals— He got asked to the prom by four girls and had to turn three of them down In 2022 a waiter told him to enjoy his meal and he said “thanks you too” He agreed to foster a puppy but decided he couldn’t give her up and ended up adopting

April US transit data is in today, & all of the 10 largest US rail networks are growing! SF is seeing a real boom, with ridership up 17% on Muni & 15% on BART SEPTA (Philly, 10%) and PATH (NY/NJ, +7%) are also seeing strong growth, while MTS (San Diego, +0.8%) is the slowest🧵

NEW CANADIAN JOBS DATA: Employment Growth: 88k Unemployment Rate: 6.6% (-0.4%) Prime Age (25-54) Employment Rate: 83.5% (+0.3%) Employment Level: 21.1M

Federal government employment is down 333k since the start of 2025 amidst DOGE cuts—that's more than 11% of the Federal workforce The large drop last October was caused by many workers who had been on deferred resignation becoming officially unemployed

US tech sector employment is down 43k over the last year in data released this morning—that's nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and significantly worse than either the 2008 or 2020 recessions

NEW US JOBS DATA: Non-farm Payrolls: +172k Unemployment Rate: 4.3% (+0%) Prime Age (25-54) Employment-Population Ratio: 80.8% (+0.1%) Average Hourly Earnings: +0.3%

Metro job data is in today, & 29 of the 50 largest metros have gained jobs over the last year Fastest: Las Vegas (2%), Raleigh (2%), Fresno (1.7%), SLC (1.3%), San Jose (1.3%) Slowest: DC (-2.9%), Portland (-2.8%), OKC (-1%), Detroit (-.9%), Milwaukee (-.9%)

okay I will give Steyer my "best Pride Month Campaign Ad" award

NEW: US labor market flows remained sluggish in April data released this morning, as hiring fell to the 3rd-lowest level since early 2013 The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs fell to 1.1%, quits fell to 1.9%, and job openings rose to 4.6%

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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

US data center construction rose to a new record high in official data released today, hitting a pace of nearly $51B/yr (and this only includes data center facilities, not the expensive computers within) Spending is up 28% over the last year and 268% since the launch of ChatGPT

It’s time to R E A D T H E O R Y

Thanks to @disjunctionsmag.bsky.social for allowing me to publish this piece defining exactly it means to "take on Big Tech"! As long as tech discourse remains stuck in the old "state vs. market" dichotomy, we won't be able to critically analyze the situation and bring forward new alternatives.

genuinely why does google do this every search now. If I wanted to ask the AI a question I would just ASK the AI directly not open up the google SEARCH button

California continues losing tech jobs—in data released yesterday, the Golden State lost more than 14k jobs over the last year and more than 23k since 2020

really funny that Erdogan seemingly AI-generated some praise of Trump and he posted it? Lmfao

State jobs data was released today—26 states, DC, & VI have lost jobs since 2025 as the labor market slows Fastest Growth: Nevada (1.9%), SC (0.9%), NC (0.9%), Puerto Rico (0.8%), Utah (0.6%) Slowest: VI (-7.4%), DC (-5.2%), Oregon (-1.7%), Maryland (-1.2%), Virginia (-1.1%)

Official data is in today, and US solar power generation continues to grow rapidly, up 22% compared to this time last year!

Total Canadian housing permits inched up to the highest level in 5 months in data released today, with multi-family permits at the 6th-highest pace since monthly data began, and single-family permits at the 5th-lowest

Metro job data is in today, & 26 of the 50 largest metros lost jobs since 2025 as growth slows Fastest Growth: Fresno (2.1%), Raleigh (2%), San Jose (1.6%), Vegas (1.5%), Austin (1.1%) Slowest: DC (-3.2%), Portland (-2.6%), Baltimore (-1.4%), Louisville (-1.2%), Boston (-.9%)

the essense of Colby's ideology was supposed to be "what if we abandoned our democratic allies in Europe to concentrate on China", in practice it is "what if we abandoned all our democratic allies to become even more invested in stupid wars in the Middle East"

Professional forecasters' inflation expectations took a major jump up in data released today by the Philly Fed The Median forecaster now expects Q2 CPI to run at a 6% annualized pace, double the previous forecast. Expectations for Q3 are also up, though less dramatically

Genuinely the stupidest possible move, all this will do is further embolden Trump to run the same election denial playbook in 2026 and 2028 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

US battery production inched up to a record high in data released this morning, up 36% from this time last year. Total output has more than doubled since 2022

British monthly GDP rose 0.3% over the last month and 1.2% over the last year in data released this morning. Output rose 0.6% total in the first quarter, the fastest pace of growth in a year. UK GDP is now up roughly 6.3% total since January 2020

Still a brutal time for caffeine addicts like me—coffee prices are up 18% over the last year and 56% since 2020