John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Guess that the producers really wanted to minimize the risk of anyone saying anything remotely off script with the minimal award speech time 000
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 10/09/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigni...en.wikipedia.orgIndignité nationale - Wikipedia 010
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Fordham does this and it requires the community to take a very long walk around its campus in the Bronx to get to where they're going. 020
Reposted by John 🌝Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century 7234431178
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Centrist schtick is basically "every Bad thing is Normal and Inevitable" Even if people engage to disagree and refute the inevitability, engaging concedes the initial premise that any disagreements are non-normative. I think it's a part of the outrage industrial complex. 130
Reposted by John 🌝alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper. 2130291022
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 12/08/2026If people are getting push notifications from FB/Insta (or in-feed ads) to check out Threads, it makes sense they'd tap on Threads at least once a month, and maybe even accidentally "wow such MAU" 000
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Also "active user" is measured and defined pretty differently across sites DAU/MAU % is product stickiness Depends on: - how aggressively bots are removed - how aggressively users are verified Threads also can cross-advertise and send "check it out" notifications 100
Reposted by John 🌝Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1% 11780241990
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 11/08/2026bluesky's engagement metrics are possibly more reliable than other social media sites as well 010
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 09/08/2026It was baffling to see talking points amount to: "AI will take everything from you. Someone (but not AI companies) might help you afterwards." Maybe the industry, in its hubris, thought that people would see them as saviors and pledge fealty in droves. 1170
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 08/08/2026It's not too late to hold the perpetrators accountable in a court of law, however. 000
Reposted by John 🌝Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This is the key takeaway: Haley Stevens got everything she could have asked for. AIPAC spent the most it ever has. The party pulled out all the stops. Millions were even spent to spread the false idea that the most popular president in modern US history endorsed her. And it still wasn’t enough. 946090
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I think that overall debt measures (both mean and median) can hide the extremes of the distribution. If most of the short term debt is concentrated in the lower income quintiles (renting, high credit card / payday loan debt) -- the scenario for those households is markedly worse, but less visible. 000
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 31/07/2026It depends on debt structure, refinancing terms, and maturity. And policy. For a household with high revolving debt: Monthly interest payments jump 50%, essential spending jumps 20%, and income increases 40% over 4 years. Raises are uneven but interest compounds continuously nonetheless.consumerfinance.govCredit card interest rate margins at all-time high | Consumer Financial Protection BureauThe annual percentage rate (APR) margins, the amount of interest credit card issuers charge cardholders on top of benchmark rates, have reached an all-time high. 100
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This is an example of a totally misleading headline backed by "real wage growth." "Enjoy" is relative. 13->15 dollars/hr over four years during high inflation shouldn't be touted as policy success. Obviously worse QoL for large swaths of the populace despite selectively true econometrics.ft.comLow earners in the US enjoy fastest wage growthOther charts of the week: climate change in Europe, Americans and taxes, the popularity of big cars and job losses at news organisations 100
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Definitionally it wouldn't, but it's used to make claims that QoL improved which are not supported by the data. That graph is showing the average increase across every household. Are payday loans and BNPL tracked there? What about DSR by quintile? 110
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Economics fans always showing "real income" because it has "real" in the name > doesn't include debt burden > treats inflation as affecting everyone the same it's actually not very "real" at all 200
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Low margin != low profit. Grocery stores can earn competitive returns on capital despite "thin" margins. The policy objective isn't to insulate incumbents from competition anyway. They can respond by improving operations or by changing their product mix. 000
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 28/07/2026But, debt burden has outpaced corresponding (by quartile) real wage gains. 001
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 12/07/2026NPS recommended 23 meters and not to approach "within any distance that disturbs or displaces the animal." Read together, one might think that the recommendation was a generally safe distance. www.nps.gov/yell/planyou... 000
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 26/06/2026As reactionaries, centrists never see themselves as extremists, it's always everyone else. 010
Reposted by John 🌝regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 21/06/2026this should be mandatory reading for the entire country 162235723
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Wonder if there was any overlap with the group chats reported last year bsky.app/profile/melb... 010
Reposted by John 🌝Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/06/2026Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich. 314116502770
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 27/05/2026"20% higher wages is 20% quality of life gain" vibecession messaging was such bs 1) QoL wasn't good at $10, isn't at $12/hr 2) debt payments easily outpaced real wage growth for the same bracket But payment processors and insurance companies are donors so we're told it's the best economy ever. 041
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The macro data didn't even support the argument. People that know where to find macroeconomic data would also know full well that "wages adjusted for inflation" doesn't account for things that people have been concerned about. It just seemed like an openly bad faith argument. 130
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The "vibecession" folks would show something like a "real income" chart, which doesn't even account for those real debt increases! 130
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 18/05/2026He worked for pltr from 2014-2019 -- his final position was "US Government Lead." Public contracts were not new news in 2019. He's kind of implied it's a useful tech if used properly with safeguards, but it already has safeguards and audit functionality. So idk. 010
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 09/05/2026No, this would be more like regulating gambling because there is an addictive component. 130
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 01/05/2026This is true -- though because of increased debt burden (high interest rate for credit cards) the quality of life got much worse It's like one person going from $10k to $12k a year and another going from $100k to $110k a year 20% vs 10%, but the person making $12k isn't having a great time 010
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 19/04/2026This is pretty cool stuff. Is there also data about who the editors were? Curious about who was making decisions about article titles at various moments in history. 110
Reposted by John 🌝Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Change in Abstract 57512
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I'm skeptical. It just sounds like marketing for defense contractors. 010
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 19/03/2026That is what I'm asking OP to do. What is the concrete idea being supported? 010
Reposted by John 🌝Wim Vanhaecke @wimvanhaecke.eurosky.social · 19/03/2026I still get Fetterman vibes from Platner. 132607
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Right, anyone can just see the news or the many credible sources that the Wiki page cites -- not sure why people pretend that this information doesn't exist 261
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Okpatch.comEvanston Fires Chief DEI Staffer For Supporting Palestinians: Lawsuit"They're attacking, essentially, the racial equity movement," says Liam Bird, who is suing city officials for First Amendment retaliation. 040
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 18/03/2026"In recent days, another AIPAC-aligned group, Chicago Progressive Partnership, put out ads attacking Abughazaleh and propping up another progressive in the race, Bushra Amiwala, in an apparent effort to split the vote." 030
John 🌝 @heres.bsky.social · 18/03/2026"Local strategists noted the abrupt shift when the Biss attacks stopped earlier this month." www.politico.com/news/2026/03... 240
