Cape May Dave - proud vermin

As @timothysnyder.bsky.social suggests - the fight against the coming fascism will be personal. If you are not in the targeted groups, talk to those you know who are. Let them know you are on their side. Give them your cell # Help them prepare.

#EconSky wolfstreet.com/2025/09/01/o...

#EconSky Has it occurred to anyone that the guy who just: - fired the head of the BLS for reporting employment data - wants to fire the Fed chair cuz he wants 1.5% Fed funds - tells Americans that foreigners are paying the tariffs ...might be intervening in the stock market?

#EconSky Whose expectations? This is something we will all learn in the coming years. Prices are not set by demand. Prices are set by suppliers at the highest possible price the market will bear unless engaged in competition destruction. Inflation is not a one-off. It's here to stay.

Mullock wins NJ-2 DEM Primary. Excerpt of victory speech in alt text

#NJ-2 #DEM What an exciting primary. Now it's time to unseat Jrff Van Drew.

Is #AI a new euphemism for nepotism? Asking for a opinion writer's son.

Slightly increase a band: Grateful Comatose

#EconSky

THIS is part of the coming singularity - not when computers gain sentience - but rather when every person has easy access to the information guiding policy.

#EconSky Collateral Damage of Regime Change gone wrong. What if the IRGC is just as willing to risk great damage as #Netanyahu and #Trump apparently are.

Great thread. As with all things #AI the choice to conflate or not conflate meaning across domains is the issue. What is a "search". Can an LLM search? Is that just a fig leaf covering up 4A violations? Lots to unpack. Thanks. cc @braddelong.bsky.social

#WW3 #Trump has ordered ALL traffic going through the Straits of Hormuz blocked and the interdiction of toll payers. I presume he means the Chinese and Indian vessels that have been given free passage recently. Silly me. Out of practice on the hiding under my desk nuclear war drills.

Wolff is one of many people who could have spoken up sooner and louder but did not. Not only because he too prefers to use phrases like "models" or "women of indeterminate age" instead of "children" when referring to Epstein's victims but also because he is always out for a $.