Joey Politano digs, interestingly; I would not, however, say he has firm conclusions about the 300,000 net creative-arts jobs we have lost over the past seven years...

Watching the coming of the info-bio tech-attention economy Mode-of-Production: how soon? how fast? how complete?...

Mike’s subheadline: “Shoot the moon! Ten hypotheses, ten charts, and no payoff for native-born workers”; the phantom deportation dividend as foreign-born complement, not substitute for, native-born...

Here in the info-bio tech-attention mode-of-production age, advanced technology is double-edged magic; trying to adapt healthily to live in a world of new wonders...

And yet the inflation-breakeven dog is not barking, so look elsewhere than inflation and its vicissitudes for an explanation...

Paul’s subheadline: “Another Trump enabler pays the price”...

& the firehose-flood of “content” that is my feed these days...

Sinead’s subheadline: “Starbase, we have a problem”; the megabear case on SpaceX makes a lot of sense; as Nilay Patel ways: it’s broadband telecom with a splashy marketing department...

Not “journalism” but rather “journamalism”: words that have absolutely no relationship at all to the project of informing your readers about the state of the world, but are rather a cynical game...

The diesel-fuel price spike of 2026 is showing up as a major thing in America’s poliiical balance this fall, at least according to my feed...

Henry’s subheadling: “There are other ways of thinking about AI”; socio-cultural technology, normal Schumpeterian creative-destruction, new windows into the real ASI of human knowledge for three...

OpenClaw, but it watches what you do and then tries to sell you ads on other platforms...

Not many businesses not named “NVIDIA”; and perhaps not that much money by Silicon Valley-standards even to NVIDIA when all of this is said & done...

Below the fold, mostly, because I am not sure the sourcing for this number really is as thin as I think it is likely to be...

Nicholas’s subheadline: “The more things change, the more spin and bullshit pile up!”; with one difference: in the past an advocate’s case had to survive immediate attempts at contrdiction; not now...

Two Unrounded Floats & a Loss Leader: What Claude’s Leaked Limits Revealed About Anthropic’s Money Problems & Opportunities as of Last January...

The Reagan Bargain’s Real Winners: Car Dealership Owners, Not Coders...

& U.S. airstrikes are apparently now being launched off of carriers supplied from Diego Garcia 3000 miles away from Tehran, and from Muwaffaq Salti in Jordan 900 miles from Tehran..

Politics, Culture, & c.; Patrick Wyman saw America’s élite gentry in his Yakima hometown decades ago; now economists Zidar and Zwick show that he understated the case...

FaceBook bankrupt in one scenario in fifteen in five years? SpaceX & Oracle one in six? That appears to be what those willing to lend to FaceBook right now are thinking...

Steve’s subheadline is: “ In refusing to put the USPS mail-in ballots rule into effect, the majority didn’t say very much. I still think there are (at least) three important lessons...”;

Trump nuked male employment-heavy green-tech infrastructure, nuked reshoring, damaged our manufacturing firms’ abilities to be efficient producers in the modern globalized value-chain economy.

Andrew’s title: “I am shocked, shocked to learn that this 2002 paper by Dan Ariely is based on dubious data & doesn’t replicate”; but in addition to frauds, there are the honest but non-robust too...

Economic history & related topics: The man who woke up eager, and the discipline of working as hard as you can to get the numbers right...

Since Gutenberg, most intellectual relationships have involved running an author-instantiation n your own wetware; compared to that, the coming of a subtturing ‘bot is small potatoes, I think

Admiral Daryl Caudle: “We’re not getting back in there” to Naval Support Actiity Bahrain “anytime soon. I want to be completely honest with that...”; the U.S. Navy was not prepared for Drone-Age war..

I Am Become Meme, Destroyer of USAID: is the journey the reward: looking back at DOGE, DogeCoin, & chaos-monkey grifterarithmetic

Halina’s subheadline: “Generative A.I. gives institutions the chance to re-evaluate their values”, &, I would add, their value propositions as well...

Economic history & related topics: The man who woke up eager, and the discipline of working as hard as you can to get the numbers right...