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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 3h

Saw AC/DC this summer - incredible show - and would have killed to have been able to go to STL to see FF opening for them last month. Only now realizing that between them there’s a combined 80+ years of being bands…

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 4h

And just demographically you’d expect upward pressure on that number to continue for quite a while, presumably.

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R @ersquare.bsky.social · 6h

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 6h

Just typical city council meeting, with talk of fixing potholes, updates from the parks department, and predictions of the imminent apocalypse. “On the current path, I think it is more likely than not that humanity loses control to these AIs, and it could end in human extinction.”

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 15h

Incredible, surely nothing to see here

A 3-month log scale chart ranging from 0.64 to 16

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 15h

Sewerage Bureau mascot or Meta AI agent mascot?

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 16h

Came across a gas station dealing with the problem of ever-rising diesel prices by happily announcing that they will no longer be selling diesel. Permanently converting the pumps.

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 18h

Landscape orientation, 25-foot wide shot, friends still just out frame, laughing, too.

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 21h

really liked the way you framed this on the podcast. Interesting lotto ticket.

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 21h

I knew someone in college who was a big “everything happens for a reason” person, and that’s really not an ethos I ever anticipated being shared by a POTUS.

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 23h

We need a new button on Bluesky, right next to reply/repost/like/share, that automatically posts this response.

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 23h

The bond market: a gruesome business for 800+ years and counting.

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Drew Rappolt @lidlwig.bsky.social · 23h

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nice that every additional basis point can generate the same headline now.

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ridership on the additional Chicago - St. Paul line has exceeded state estimates by 65%; adding passenger car to increase capacity. You love to see it.

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The last three “Breaking News” push alerts from NYT have been: - Brazil election heads to runoff - Nobel Prize announcement - Fox News part-time hiring announcement

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That’s a good framing, thanks - I try to directly engage with an argument being made and consciously tamp down the Godfather-like “you’re nothing to me now” tendency, lol, so that’s a good distinction.

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s never outcome-based, but rather process/logic-based. Examples of ridiculously flawed prospective thinking that bring any other conclusions into question by association.

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Re: that OER/inflation note, is there a behavioral bias that causes one to forever discount *all* of a person’s takes based on 1 astonishingly absurd one? “50 yrs of stability” is obvious, but several from others: “100% chance of recession”; “Powell should resign to protect Fed integrity”; etc.

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That’s solidly in assume a can opener territory, sadly

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can’t remember what it was as a child, but I found the first piece of media truly frightening me as an adult

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I saw someone post this last week and 100% thought it was a joke. Not great.

Kornacki doing his bit, but with gambling, on Sunday Night Football

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s very silly, since they literally cannot even see highlights from them all by the time they need to submit the votes. Most often it’s a top 10-15, then very little thought to whatever they need to complete the rest of it. It is, however, content, and these days that’s all that matters.

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Although several of those phrases should never have been committed to ink and paper, it is indeed in the printed edition. If I get asked questions about this, whether in meetings or by family members, I’ll be suing The Economist for damages.

The Economist - print edition table of contents

How effective altruism conquered the world
And how the 21st century's most important social movement might yet end it

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mississippi State ranked #17, good for 9th w/in the conference.

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Watching Hassett critique the Michigan Survey… CNN really could have just brought this guy on set to step in for that portion of the interview.

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AI is taking jobs* *talking to Uncle Bob for five hours at Thanksgiving and debunking all his insane conspiracy theories from Facebook

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And if we’re talking about the impact of another full-blown rate hike cycle, then sure. But if we’re looking at 2-3 hikes in total I’m not sure that materially changes the new development supply outlook.

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On a long-term indexed view, it’s not hard to see where OER took off in 2021 and was a major contributor to overall inflation rates. But thus far at least, it has not been re-accelerating, though has been stuck north of 3%

Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers:
Owners Equivalent Rent of Residences in U.S. City Average

Index Dec 1982=100

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That chart of effective rents in 5 individual cities aside, this is the chart of y/y OER, fwiw.

Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Owners' Equivalent Rent of Residences in U.S. City Average

Peaked in the spring of 2023. Downward trend until spring 2026, then between 3-3.5% the last few months.

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Novel strain of the Sunday Scaries: worries that someone might ask you about Slutcon this week

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know a lot of older, extremely not-online, readers of The Economist and I’m worried they are going to have an aneurysm reading this. If the “sex with dead cows” line doesn’t get them the description of the “conference” from the “rationalist, sex researcher and prostitute” will.

the movement. But opponents on the
"Tech right" are trying to discredit an AI slowdown by tying it to unsavoury advocates of effective altruism. A campaign group has attacked an Anthropic-backed outfit as "Sam Bankman-Fried 2.0". Some rationalists fear their association with AI safety may end up harming the cause. "I think it really does damage the credibility of a movement with 60-year-old voters in Ohio when it's hosting Slutcon and asking questions about sex with dead cows on its application forms," Scott Alexander, an influential blogger, has written on X. Slutcon is a conference set up by Aella, a rationalist, sex researcher and prostitute, where participants pay up to $18,000 to attend sessions on topics including "flirting for the submissive man" and "vaginal gymnastics". Then there is another

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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 04/10/2026

Current* conditions near Duluth, MN:

Easterly view of Lake Superior from The Inn on Lake Superior overlooking The Lake Walk and the Duluth Harbor inlet in the distance. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-10-04 07:18:12 CDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@InnOnLakeSuperior // Current Temp in Duluth: 48 F | 9 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: WSW at 10 mph | 16 kph // Humidity: 85%

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Bancroft Sutherland @bancsutherland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Two extremely cursed paragraphs, which just keep getting worse as they go. WTF.

"We are seeing demand from parents saying, 'I want my child in a travel program even if they're not necessarily on a competitive level to do that," said Jordan Baltimore, the chief executive of New York Empire Baseball, which has 1,100 young players in Manhattan and Long Island.
"They want to keep up with the Joneses, and they see their friends' kids always at these tournaments," said Gader Ibrahim, a baseball mom influencer from Orange County, Calif. She has three boys that play, ages 14, 11 and 7. One family in her social circle told her they took out a second mortgage on their home rather than forgo baseball, she said, adding, "I really do truly believe it is parents having FOMO."

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Important to help users avoid whiplash from bad takes.

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Bill Connelly @espnbillc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel this was all a big setup to try to bait me into a "Missouri fell six spots after coming up 11 yards short against another ranked team on the road! That's extremely normal!! What are we all yelling about???" rant, and the joke's on you, it didn't work.

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