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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 9h

Biology says "continue." Economics says "stop." What happens when older adults lose weight and critical muscle mass on GLP-1s, only to lose access when Medicare's funding bridge ends in 2027? I ran the numbers. We are engineering a massive frailty crisis.

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The GLP-1 Exit Problem

GLP-1 drugs work. Roughly 3–4 million Americans over 65 may be heading for the part nobody has studied: rapid weight loss, some muscle lost along with it, discontinuation, and substantial regain.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“We’ve seen about 8-12 inches of sea level rise due to climate change historically over the past century in California, which has already caused its own problems.This (upcoming El Niño) event will probably add another foot on top of that just between now and December.”~Swain, climate scientist.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Intelligence deployed without discipline is not a safeguard; it is an accelerant.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The biggest mistake we make when valuing companies like Anthropic is treating them like traditional SaaS businesses. It's an industrially depreciating asset that requires continuous, multi-billion-dollar reinvestment just to maintain baseline relevance.

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The $900 Billion Prepayment

Anthropic may become one of the largest companies ever built. That still does not make it worth $2 trillion today.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

America is building the car. China is building the train. When you look at the current trajectory of AI development, a massive divergence is forming. History tells us exactly how this plays out... safety and reliability aren't properties of the driver's intelligence.

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Why Are We Building the Car Before the Train?

America is racing toward general-purpose AI agents with open-ended agency. China is putting its industrial weight behind AI inside defined systems and workflows. Two centuries of transportation engine...

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I thought I would never see this period again in existence after 1996. Life will never look the same in a few years.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Frontier models are testing the founders this weekend to see who breaks first… They only started this pace… some of us have been keeping it since before they were born. Challenge accepted

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meta doesn't need you to see an ad if it owns the agent that decides where your money goes. Every dollar you spend on Facebook ads today helps build the toll booth you'll be paying tomorrow. I would not use Muse.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have been apprehensive about putting my proprietary models that I spent a decade writing within reach of any frontier model. Even with the agreements stated, I don't feel comfortable doing it. For most of what I do, I do not care. Most of what knowledge workers do is mundane...

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For decades, the competent middle band of analysts earned a premium simply for paying attention. Now, AI is commoditizing that diligence. But the cost of price discovery hasn't vanished; it's just being converted into compute expenditure, proprietary data licenses, & massive infrastructure race.

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Where the Displaced Return Goes

If AI compresses the return that used to accrue to skill, that return does not evaporate on contact. It has an incidence — and three of its four destinations are unreachable by the person who used to ...

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What if the bond market isn't breaking? What if it's just searching for a new clearing price in a world where everything else is competing aggressively for the same pool of savings? My latest on why 5.5% or even 6% might not be a crisis, but the mechanism that ultimately stabilizes the market.

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The Treasury Market May Not Be Breaking... It May Be Searching for a New Price

Why 5% yields, record equities, fading foreign demand and the AI capital boom may all be part of the same feedback loop.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We keep pouring compute into massive AI models, assuming that if we just build one organ big enough, the rest of the mind will come for free. But what if the current approach to AGI is a category error? Prediction is not understanding. A monolith is not a system.

blog.sliceofnow.org

The Cortex Came First

Six ways the scaling bet could be wrong — and why, if it is, the correction is to the noun rather than to the work.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For years, .NET MAUI on Linux was a glaring gap in the cross-platform ecosystem. Now, that gap is being closed from two completely opposite directions… and they force a massive architectural choice. Do you want absolute, pixel-perfect control over your UI across every OS?

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Two Roads to Linux: Introducing OpenMaui and Microsoft's GTK4 MAUI Backend

Two very different bets on how .NET MAUI should feel on the Linux desktop: one paints every pixel itself and speaks Wayland and X11 directly, the other borrows GTK4's furniture.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I can understand an emergency docket for genuinely time-sensitive matters. What I cannot understand is allowing consequential Supreme Court decisions to alter the law or government policy without requiring the majority to identify itself and explain the legal basis for its decision.

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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 13/12/2025

When I first introduced my bill to ban stock trading in Congress 5 years ago, only a handful joined us. Since then, we’ve built a movement of bipartisan reformers committed to ending the corruption once and for all. The time is now Speaker Johnson. Put the bill on the floor.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Suffering can push people in two very different directions. They can become broken, hardening themselves against further pain, or broken open, becoming more vulnerable, reflective, and willing to change. Real transformation requires the second response. The same applies to societies...

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Every cultural moment already contains the seeds of what will rise against it.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Macklemore did the right thing. And as for Ed Sheeran… when you have extraordinary power, wealth and reach, I don’t think you get to treat moral responsibility as something you can simply opt out of because speaking might upset the apple cart.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What ever they did to McConnell can only be classified as elder abuse. That man is not representing. How far we have fallen that deciding what qualifies as leadership now depends less on someone’s ability to serve than on how useful they remain to those determined to keep them in power.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rumor has it that Google just cracked Recursive Self Improvement and the rest of the labs are trying to slow them down by pitching doom and gloom to regulators. If true, the hockey stick is about to go vertical.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A voluntary slowdown is structurally unstable... Each company immediately has an incentive to believe the others might quietly continue training, architecture research, synthetic-data generation, inference scaling, automated AI research, hardware procurement, or post-training work.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If by some means they succeed in openly slowing AI progress it will be only optics. A rubicon has been crossed.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Part 3: The Global Bifurcation Three balance sheets... the PBOC, the National Bank of Poland, and Tether spent the summer doing the exact same thing. None of them are talking to each other. All of them are stockpiling gold.

blog.marketally.com

Dollars Are for Using. Gold Is for Holding.

The private issuer, the sovereign, and the reserve manager reached the same conclusion about the dollar system from three different directions. The GENIUS Act wrote half of it into law and made the ot...

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Part 2: The Inevitable Backstop You cannot have a run-proof, par-on-demand digital dollar without eventually relying on a public balance sheet. We have spent a century and a half trying to make private money safe without a government backstop.

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Every Fix for a Stablecoin Run Ends at the Fed

The design space for making digital dollars run-proof is small, and every exit from it leads to a public balance sheet standing behind private money.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As a direct result of Trump's action in Iran, economists point out it will cost every American $4000 extra this year due to increased costs of gas, diesel, and groceries. All three Trump has repeatedly emphasized matter less than the ballroom, which he tore down, a perfectly functioning East Wing.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Let us all not forget the only reason we are in stuck in this [Iran] war is because we allowed a foreign govt’s interests to carry more weight in Washington than our own, and a president with dangerously poor judgment chose to strike another nation, legality Americans have every right to challenge.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets." —Jonas Mekas

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As scathing as the new four-hour Elon Musk documentary is sure to be. I almost cannot bring myself to watch what is surely going to be a nonstop abuse of our democracy, rights and blatant disregard of systems meant to protect the public. We know he openly lied about...

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Part 1: The Setup & The Trap Stablecoins are supposed to solve America’s Treasury problem. Instead, they might be wiring a digital bank run directly into the fragile $1.8 trillion repo market. The GENIUS Act just turned stablecoin issuers into captive buyers of short-term U.S. government debt.

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The Next Run on the Bank Won't Look Like a Bank Run

Stablecoins may solve America's Treasury-demand problem. In doing so, they could build the architecture for the next liquidity crisis.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

With the level of AI right now... I literally give ZERO Fs about a foldable iPhone. It's like looking in the rearview mirror and seeing a buggy with 2 horses as I drive away in an automobile.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The biggest risk for companies in the AI era isn’t moving too fast. It’s moving too slowly because employees gatekeep their judgment as a form of job security. Even more dangerous are those who quietly disengage while using AI as cover for declining performance.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We are building a trillion-dollar AI infrastructure on a massive contradiction. A productivity boom and a credit crisis aren't competing forecasts... they are two sides of the exact same event. Here is why the AI boom isn't just preceding the next crunch; it is engineering it.

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The Boom Is the Fuse

A productivity boom and a classic credit crisis are not competing forecasts. They can be two sides of one event — and the boom can be part of the mechanism that produces the collapse.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

By year end, a considerable amount of the public will prefer AI generated entertainment. The Long Tail is approaching

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Giuliani attacking Mamdani’s Muslim faith just days before the disclosure, including saying Mamdani shouldn’t attend the 9/11 ceremony is peak hypocrisy. Have you noticed every attack by republicans is an admission of guilt.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The housing market isn't waiting for a crash... the correction is already happening completely off the index. We are watching a structural standoff between builders who are forced by time to find the true clearing price, versus existing homeowners sitting on 3.4% mortgages who can wait forever.

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Two Clocks, Both Running Backwards

Lennar handed back roughly $55,000 a home. A meaningful share of the correction has already happened off the index, where the measurement apparatus was never built to see it.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When a man does something long enough, it stops being something he does. And starting being who he is.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

AI is an accelerant. Pour it into the cylinder of a visionary, and it becomes combustion... compressed, directed, productive force. Pour it over someone without direction, judgment, or a mental model for what they’re doing, and it doesn’t create propulsion. It just spreads the fire.

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David H Friedel Jr @davidhfriedeljr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What happens when the marginal buyer of U.S. debt shifts from a slow, mandate-driven government reserve manager to a yield-chasing commercial bank? You replace permanent capital with a fragile carry trade. The demand caps the upside for now, but...

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The Marginal Buyer Is a Carry Trade

Chinese banks are buying Treasuries. Nobody knows how much. The interesting part is who stopped.

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