Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 16hIf I were in charge of the central bank, I would simply set inflation to 2.5% and unemployment to zero. 290
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 30/09/2026Some Australian voters have seen the Greens’ theory of change fail repeatedly over the last 20 years, despite the Greens promising over and over again that it would work next time—but still intend to vote for them again. And I think you know the exact percentage of voters in that category 252
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 29/09/2026The Greens have 11 federal MPs, of whom 10 are running for the party leadership 001
Reposted by Jamie HallLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 27/09/2026This is a shopping list of Australian housing myths, including my favourite, ‘there used to be housing commissions’. Yes, and the absence of public housing is a real factor in crisis. But the Cwth and State housing commissions built a tiny fraction of our cities, the vast majority was private built 62817
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 26/09/2026I thought you were going to link it to Kojève’s theory (via Queneau) that the end of history is equivalent to a permanent state of Sunday afternoon, but perhaps that would be too pretentious and continental for a Brit like you. Congratulations on the citizenship! 120
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 21/09/2026Your point about ownership is very important, but you’re conflating it with a mistaken point about efficacy and drudge work. This is the same canard that’s been trotted out since J S Mill in 1848, that these so-called labour saving devices are yet to save a minute’s labour 010
Reposted by Jamie HallKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy. 17392150
Reposted by Jamie HallMichael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 17/09/2026Robert E Lee was the most overrated general in history. Woof. towardsdatascience.com/napoleon-was... 4138856
Reposted by Jamie HallLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 14/09/2026It is good, proper, and effective to make people ashamed of their political views. There seems to be some sense that it’s impolite to actually confront One Nation voters with the racism of ONP. But I ask: why. Racism is a shameful thing and has been for a long time. 89433
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 14/09/2026The photo’s got him right in the middle of saying “you don’t even think to call me Godfather” 000
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 13/09/2026I only count three cars in that floor plan. Are you supposed to park your other five cars on the Entertaining Area?! 010
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 12/09/2026Get absolutely fucked, you boring old fart www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...smh.com.au‘Don’t insult me’: Labor luminary unleashes over falling house prices, real wagesBill Kelty, a mastermind of reforms that set up Australia’s modern economy, has delivered a stinging critique of the economic record of Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers. 021
Reposted by Jamie HallRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The most fundamental question in politics is: whose support do you need to win and hold power? Is it warlords, aristocrats, empires or "the demos"? If the answer is "billionaires", you are not a democracy but a plutocracy. That's why democracies *must* erect barricades against capture by the rich 4248104
Reposted by Jamie HallRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Mr The Conquerer to retain the median voter you will have to go moderate on trans rights 121
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 11/09/2026I am contacting William The Conqueror via ouija board to inform him his numbers are tanking 2397
Reposted by Jamie Hallscwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This man won his primary by 30 points. 4590011878
Reposted by Jamie HallBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Facebook Beefplayboy.comPeople Are Buying Facebook Beef to Avoid "Mystery Meat"After Trump announced a huge beef import, people freaked out by the move are looking for local meat—on Facebook. 86978121
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 06/09/2026A fun fact I learned from this book is that the horse was originally domesticated for meat. Grass on the Steppe is often below winter snow. Cattle and sheep would starve; horses instinctively dig with their hooves. The Proto Indo-Europeans discovered they could ride them later, by accident 100
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 04/09/2026Apparently people from Rhode Island sound like Australians?! mydialect.us/quiz-standar... 100
Reposted by Jamie HallRichard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is a minor part of it, but taking a posture that economists are fundamentally wrong is a really good way to find marks, and this is largely uncorrelated with political alignment defined conventionally. No one is as credulous as a proud skeptic 063
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 03/09/2026It’s so strange whenever you see an ibis outside its natural habitat (garbage bins). Just now I watched one gliding majestically through the air on a thermal updraft. What are you doing up there, buddy?! 110
Reposted by Jamie HallWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit 391766322
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 30/08/2026I was floored by the connection between J L Austin and the Butlerian Jihad 020
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 29/08/2026I thought I knew about Simone Weil already but learned so many new details from last week’s Runciman podcast, including: - she was a classmate of de Beauvoir’s at the ENS, and they vied for first place - her brother was Andre Weil of the Mordell-Weil theorem - name pronounced like “vie”, not “vial” 030
Reposted by Jamie HallAmerican Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Yayoi Kusama (Japanese, 1929-2026) Grapes, 1983 0222
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 28/08/2026Comrades!!! The Relevant Organs have made it to BlueSky! I’m reaching for the extra-large flagon of Laobaigan to celebrate 000
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 27/08/2026O̢v̝̮ē͝r̓̾͠fu͇̻l̦̤ͭ̍l̛̤̻̓̈ h̛̗̠͆͛b͚̽o̹ͪ͒x͕̞ (b̛̥͚ͯ̓̀ͯa̽͑͂ͩ҉̭̪d̖͙͖̮͕̏̄̋n͉̮̞̰͆̇͑̔ͬé̶̦̝̯͙ş̶̰͎̈͐̑͛s̥̯͕̺̯ͮ̈́͒̇ 1̰̙̲̮͈͋͗͆̊͆0̪̹̑̄̂̿͆̀̕0̷̛͕̺͖̃̄ͅ0̯̦̮͈͎͒ͣ̌̏͢0̴͖̣̱̻ͣͥ͝) 010
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 25/08/2026I left my AirPods on my work desk but realised I’d forgotten them before I got on the train, thanks to Apple’s “Device Left Behind” alert. Only 537 cumulative false alarms preceded this moment of glory 020
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 22/08/2026Maybe we need a Judith Shklar moment in the AI debate: the thing we have to be most worried about is cruelty (eg Robodebt), so we should learn to live with smaller vices like hypocrisy (eg everyone “hates” AI but uses it anyway) 010
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 15/08/2026Deranged. They have to rip this agreement up and start again. If WA has a sook about it, they should hurry up and secede 000
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 12/08/2026I’ve been reading “The Line of Beauty”, which has been on my list since @ppfideas.bsky.social’s series on political novels. It’s magnificent, and has an interesting new insight on the Thatcher era: everyone was incredibly horny. And gay. Five stars 010
Reposted by Jamie HallJason Murphy @jasemurphy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I can't help but wonder how massive the benefit would be for Aussies if we let a foreign bank do an Aldi, and undercut our lazy locals . 121
Reposted by Jamie HallChris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 11/08/2026America’s population might be 12 times bigger than Australia, but we’ve just installed more home battery capacity in a single year than they have in their entire history. 2020065
Reposted by Jamie HallB. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Which is really just Boyd being vindicated. 420919
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 09/08/2026But it’s not a commodity price, it’s an asset price—so it is the expected present value that prices in all its future possibilities (like abruptly pivoting to being an AI-powered crypto token, or discovering a seam of bauxite) 000
Reposted by Jamie HallLeft Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Burnham is going to take every easy lay up he gets www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.com‘It is British life’: No 10 vows to stop councils trying to limit standing in pubsWestminster council has recommended banning ‘vertical drinking’ or ordering at the bar in new draft licensing policy 2162
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 05/08/2026👀 www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/last-b...blackincbooks.com.auThe Last Best Place on the Internet by Richard CookeA playful and provocative exploration of mighty Wikipedia: how it was built, why it thrived and what we lose as its ideals disintegrate 000
Reposted by Jamie HallAndreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Last week a live stream of President Prabowo speaking to business leaders was cut off and journalists ejected after he said "it is being said that Iran already has nuclear weapons", and that could lead to further proliferation in the Middle East www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auIndonesians mock Trump-style 'personality politics'Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's repeated controversial comments spark debate over his "populist" communication style. 032
Reposted by Jamie HallAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin... 295114802682
Reposted by Jamie HallDavid Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 01/08/2026“That’s one of those irregular verbs, isn’t it? *I* restore orderly functioning in FX markets, *you* are manipulating your currency, *China* is using predatory mercantilism to deindustrialize the planet” 1124
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 01/08/2026I want to buy an ownership stake in the concept of football itself. Why won’t FIFA sell it to me!? I want it 010
Reposted by Jamie HallBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth. 360124433127
Reposted by Jamie HallLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 18/12/2024JOHN WAYNE: They’re ah taking the hobbits tah Isengaard 057
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 26/07/2026The fact that “Pret”, with its mediocre cold sandwiches, is considered to be quite fancy is such an indictment of the UK as a whole. What are they trying to do 010
Jamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 24/07/2026It’s poorly understood, would be my 2c worth. I used to work on LLM factual grounding research. Your description of the factors that journals need to consider is right, but (unlike with search ranking algos, which are secret but in principle transparent) the exact mechanics are only known roughly. 010