“Even mild inflation is unacceptable” doesn’t follow from this data. Will is assuming that people are reacting to current inflation levels. More likely, they think that prices are too high relative to what they remember. They may well complain about inflation at 0% because they want it negative.

Bumpin’ that youtu.be/-mY4CRzIKag?...

I’m so used to weird right wing things in other countries being funded by the US government that I’m surprised but not shocked when it happens in reverse.

That the Pope should “stick to morality” reveals a conception of morality (that Vance shares with “realists”) according to which states bombing and burning civilians is not a matter for morality.

“We must stop eating!” cried Toad as he ate another.

I don't know everyone's expenses, but my sense is that these days endnotes are somewhat more expensive to typeset. They don't cost any more in PDF production, that's taken care of by any decent software, but they are more expensive in XML/HTML typesetting.

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One step closer to everyone having their own personal Marvin.

New from the BJPS Review of Books Deflating Mental Representation – Frances Egan Reviewed by Nico Orlandi www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #philsci #philsky

Faculty on the move…

This was really good, gets into how hard it is for a reporter to get a piece done even on an open secret like Swalwell, and how this really raises questions about everyone who endorsed him while probably knowing about it

86 year old French citizen, widow of a US army veteran, shackled and detained by ICE in Alabama.

Trump crashing out biblically tonight

JD Vance has the opportunity for a v lucrative new venture: sell his services to the highest bidder to campaign for their opposition in any given election.

Local Whole Foods playing one of @pmomtch.bsky.social’s songs. Not what I normally get from in store music.

They’re here, in settings. If you are basically normal you probably don’t have any. But “app passwords,” aside if you ever reuse passwords across services, you should stop doing that and change to unique ones.

Hey gang! Exeter’s looking for a 4-year postdoc in philsci & AI. Sweet gig at a great place - share around :D #philsci #philjobs www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD641/p...

Edinburgh Castle and Rainbow :) #moody #urbanphotography #photography #edinburgh #scotland

Oh... my God. My first tweet to be stolen by the President of the United States 😅

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Glad we’re finally getting a WNBA team back.

There are so many great projects happening at Bristol.

Daniel Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature— new collected volume is now out. All chapters open access, including my paper with Acyuth Parola on what emergence can possibly mean. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

Today's fun with Editorial Manager. I put together a submission. Hit submit. It says it has to make it into a PDF, and send it to me for approval. Fine. This takes several minutes. Surprising, but fine. I get it, and follow the link to approve it. There's a link saying "Action Links". I click it.

I didn’t think we’d get to this point but here we are. Please support our fight for a fair contract by honoring our strike today. The sooner we can reach an agreement on the contract, the sooner we can get back to doing journalism in this urgent time.

Added emoji reactions to quarto-revealjs-chat-bubbles ⭐ github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

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This seems plausible, and also true for academics.

For those curious. This is the Stawell Gift. Australia's oldest and richest short-distance running race which has a handicapped start. It's a great watch. The US sprinters are through to the semis. Read more about the Gift here if interested en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stawell....

US: Detroit International: I always rave about Melbourne so leaving it aside, Oslo in the summer was great

Iran is threatening to target American universities operating in the Middle East. Georgetown, Cornell, Northwestern and other university campuses closed their premises in Qatar until further notice. New York University’s Abu Dhabi operation has done the same.

This thread is shocking in the best possible way.

Striking violation of Betteridge's Law.

How many horses are getting cake because of this op-ed?

United really hoping that their customers are happy with increased cognitive load.

Seemingly all of Silicon Valley is convinced that A.I. will bring on the end of work, or at the very least massive job losses. Economists have been skeptical, bordering on dismissive. But lately that has begun to change. Economists are starting to take A.I. seriously. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/b...

This is obviously right as far as it goes. But I don't buy the implication that this is something new with LLMs. We could remove plenty of grunt work with tools available in 2019 (e.g., Python rather than punch cards). What did we learn from several decades of computers removing grunt work?

The publisher-introduced errors to my "On the hyperintensionality of relevant logics and some of their rivals" have been corrected and the new version has been posted at the Synthese website. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

city captured by barbarians in Civilization economic plan: sell off all improvements, put all funds into building level 1 warriors as fast as possible

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It's too far in the past to be politically useful, but Britain in the 1920s really did try to create that world. They had massive, perhaps over 50%, inflation during demobilization. Then there was a 'successful' push to get prices back to familiar levels. And unemployment was over 10% until WWII.

Electricity prices are essential to the US economy. But it’s very hard to get recent, granular data on them. We’re changing that. Today, @heatmap.news and MIT released the ELECTRICITY PRICE HUB, a new tool breaking down local power rates and bills going back to 2021. electricity.heatmap.news

I am not going to be able to latch onto the latest cool trend because several extremely clever people who I've known for years and respect immensely are currently producing very good work with AI. It would be more socially convenient if this wasn't true but it is.

Sauer walking into SCOTUS not prepared to answer a question about American Indians

philosophie.univie.ac.at/news-events/... deadline extended until April 14 #philsky

this argument is always such a tell that the speaker conceptualizes the US as an extension of Europe, rather than as part of the Americas

*Demand destruction watch* BYD is now doing a fortnight's worth of sales each day, in several Asian countries. "Wang singled out markets such as Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines, where he said daily sales volumes are now as high as what the carmaker could previously sell in two weeks."

Highly recommend this piece by Tobin Harshaw at @bloomberg.com, flagged by @pkrugman.bsky.social. It's very illuminating.