The person who originated this claim (Gregory Clark, 1986) walked it back when it was revealed that he came to this conclusion was because he was uncritically reading 13th century manorial records What those record actually reflected was labor *owed to the lord*, not the peasant's total labor

I’m a huge Al evangelist. If you’re not onboard with Al you need to wake up and get with the future.

When you’re one of the best basketball players in the world but the other team has Victor Wembanyama

Victor Wembanyma and Alex Caruso

Look at how tall this mfer is

My analysis of tonight’s playoff game

George is a kind and magnanimous man, but you can’t put the finest blood sausage ever made next to the cruddiest gas station corndog in America and tell me these Albions are in America’s league

Boiled Peanut Eater Cope

probably my favorite thing about dropping the assumption of general or even partial equillibrium in econ is that you don't have to pretend everything is always already the best it can be, and that asking questions is actually insulting peoples' authority

Damn that guy on the left looks bomb as hell

finally, some Keynesianism from the folks at Liberal Currents !

I think Taiwo is right. “Degrowth” as a concept is aimed at a broad Clinton-Brown-Merkel-Bush-Hu-Etc political that doesn’t really exist any more

I wouldn’t see the point. The four great novels are Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Dream of the Red Chamber and Journey to the West. I’d just inform them of this

theoretical criterion cover for one of my favorite movies

It’s very funny that nobody watches TV anymore because nobody (including me) recognizes this as a thrown together ad for what is apparently a very successful and mainstream tv show

“The moon is more important than the sun!” “Why, Hoja Effendi?” “Because at night we need the light more!”

Of course we can credit Powell for the global soft landing. open.substack.com/pub/mikekonc...

Ironic that if you put this chart, which is itself AI output see the citation, into an AI, the AI would give you a long list of what’s wrong with it

I post this frequently so you may already know this, but this is the single most important and mysterious thing I have ever discovered. Fig Newtons and Leibniz Keks were both invented independently in 1891!!!

The Minnesota Timberwolves are a fine team that played with grit and determination. Anthony Edwards played hard and made it a series. I think we should all be proud of how hard they all worked. Wembanyama tall as hell.

The next james bond should be Brian Eno and it should be entirely about Sigint and just hardware

“Nope.” - @kofie.bsky.social on seeing one frame of Bert Kreischer

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I want to make it clear that I don’t support translating polytropos as complicated because it’s accurate. I support it because Emily Wilson having to awkwardly explain to interviewers that she’s never heard of Shaft was adorable

pictured: a discourse about what it means for US-CN great power competition, for all values of "it"

What I wonder is if any of these are bots. Anti-LLM slop to fish for organic followers

Just before the Warriors moved to Chase Center, they had a life size replica of Yao Ming at a kiosk in their previous venue. Holy crap, what a humongous person

Full support for UW-Madison. John Bardeen, Richard Bellman, Alvin Hanson - the list goes on!

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

I felt that this was one of the best gags I’ve ever posted

Victor Wembanayama vs a guy who is merely seven feet tall

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Look at how tall this mfer is

He only claims to have found $1.77B in savings in the video

This paper is in line a lot of what I said about Bohr in my post, though with all the values transvaluated arxiv.org/abs/1705.03483

This could be us but you playin’

rejected Great Ace Attorney ancestor for Larry

This is straight up @blockedforthispost.bsky.social material

THATHERTON

new from me at FORCES OF PRODUCTION! a short history of the transition from goods to services alongside some recent discussion from @rajakorman.bsky.social and @conorsen.bsky.social on What Is Going On With Healthcare www.forcesofproduction.com/p/services-o...

One interesting thing about the distribution of dark matter is that it congregates in a halo around the periphery of galaxies, like right behind you

Happy 62nd Birthday to the great Tim Blake Nelson, Grammy-winning actor, writer, director, and producer, acclaimed for THE THIN RED LINE, O BROTHER WHERE ARE THOU?, THE GOOD GIRL, CHERISH, MINORITY REPORT, SYRIANA, LEAVES OF GRASS, LINCOLN, THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS, BLACK DYNAMITE, and more.

Here’s my Dark Matter opinion: he’s adorable

1. No more owners. Baseball teams are now owned by the city in which they operate 2. Pitchers don’t have to wear shirts if they don’t want to 3. Yankees are disbanded and all their accolades given to deserving charities

I finally read the Oliver Sacks piece. Maybe I don’t get New Yorker style but it didn’t seem as bad as I thought it would be

Great thread on Book of the New Sun

severian from book of the new sun

Severian in Book of the New Son: why not both