medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 4h“Because spending is growing faster than disposable income, it might stall as people face the limits of what they have in savings or want to borrow, said Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon.” 130
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 4hWSJ: The Mighty American Consumer Is Crashing Through Inflation and Driving Growth Paragraph 19: “Americans are taking on record levels of debt to fund their lives.” 150
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 6hI hope there’s a word missing here bc infusing Mexican *people* to takes is either impossible or illegal 010
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 9h*you will have to click on this screenshot to enjoy the notification synchronicity 280
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 9hcircling back to this every time you open the app the “top story” placement is bumped by a large “LA Times Studios Streaming” tile which is never updated & contains no info on its contents, anti-breaking news essentially 020
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 10hwsj.comSpending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to BudgetArtificial-intelligence use is measured in tokens, but the models’ use of tokens at any given task can be unpredictable. 030
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 10hWSJ: Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to Budget *story notes that choosing lightweight models over $$$ flagship does not necessarily help 192
Reposted by medievalmvbLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Hate it when you see what you think is a cool bird and you look it up later and it’s called like the Common Dumb Asshole. “Birders throughout history have hated its guts. It can’t even fly right.” I thought I saw an interesting guy. 473488377
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026pregaming by rooting on my late tomatoes to ripen while we’ve still got sun 150
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026the @latimes.com app might be the single worst instance of informational architecture I’ve run across in the news space more accurate to say it’s anti-architecture, like a collage that’s meant to defeat sense-making it’s an achievement to leave the map so completely so I grudgingly applaud it 110
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026thought you might want to see this driftwood log, nbd if you’re busy 170
Reposted by medievalmvbjulia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026endnotes are a plot by big bookmark to sell twice as many bookmarks 19137
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026As the legends say, the strongest sweaters are assembled in ull-höll 020
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026also a little on the nose that a movie that wraps with a few evacuees entering a nuclear bunker, as humanity is about to be razed by bombs, was written by a guy named Noah Oppenheim 010
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026yes, I’ve had this exact dream, when wearing my silk eye mask 020
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026*eye twitch* just finished Bigelow’s ‘A House Full of Dynamite’ and she cannot keep getting away with making adrenal dysregulation our problem, that film ought to come with child-size beta blockers great to see our dozy stroke-addled guy on TV every day so his decline is super visible worldwide 140
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026they DON’T?!static.klipy.comJohn Candy's Polka Polka in Home AloneAlt: John Candy trying to elicit some recognition of his Polka King character’s album “Polka Polka Polka” in Home Alone 010
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026today was pedicure & leg day, pushed a PR on basis of being told I have “beautiful feet” by the nail tech 🦵🏻 170
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yesterday’s bird bystanders, a flicker and heron 040
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026WSJ “just asking questions” about AI: “To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will have to spend as much of their income on this one technology [in 2032] as they do on food.”wsj.comWill America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on ItTo justify staggering investment sums, Americans will have to spend as much of their income on this one technology as they do on food. 000
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026static.klipy.comFozzie Bear's Classic 'Wokka Wokka' Stand-Up ComedyAlt: Fozzie Bear's 'Wokka Wokka' Stand-Up, looking around in vain for positive reactions 010
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026nice try, Noel, but maybe let the medievalists talk 😤 0344
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 02/10/20262nd season of intrepid Danish journalist Nora Sand (MHZ/Prime) retains & amplifies its approach to “slow TV”, 5 ruminative seconds pass before anyone responds to “hello”, but the best part is a captive fleeing through the woods at a sensible walking pace, and you know what, they don’t trip 000
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026from my pitch for a live action Bambi (& Thumper), not necessarily these two, it's just conceptual 190
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026PS: I got the password reset to work by switching to desktop and giving up on the phone, despite the original link arriving by text 030
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026static.klipy.comEnthusiastic 'Yes Yes Yeeess' Meme ReactionAlt: Enthusiastic Jack Nicholson 'Yes Yes Yeeess' Meme Reaction 010
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just got a V-safe text from the CDC (“Vaxxed?”) & since I had the mini-malaria chills this time tried to respond. Old password expired and CDC site reset button doesn’t work. Can’t create new account, error message. Tried ‘Help’ email form, got 2 Captchas, form stopped responding. #publichealth 240
Reposted by medievalmvbNicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you're doing unstable remnants of empire trying to bolster a humiliated military via spiritual warfare, it would be far more based and trad - not to mention economically efficient - to just stick a stylite on top of the Washington Monument 131
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026and this extends to almost all third-party stuff, a lot of devil-in-details, like you might buy a multi-leg airline ticket from Expedia that is two cheaper one-ways stapled together, which means that the airline isn’t required to rebook you if the connection goes south 110
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it’s not too soon to call this work “definitive” 010
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I stopped using Booking.com about two years ago bc I’d specifically used their map to choose a place near a resort, months in advance, and when I put the name into Apple Maps on the day it was 20 miles away, next to an airport. Customer service acted like *I* was trying to scam them. 120
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026👏🏻 Alt text coming through in a pinch with graphics not loading on our vibe coded social media 000
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Matt Levine on agentic AI killing customer lock-in: “They will tirelessly move money around to pay the last basis point to market makers.” I’m a frequent Levine reader but if you don’t mention that AI solutions come with a tireless error rate that can exceed basis points, it’s bad 020
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Anecdotal, but I think newsletter subs are being impacted strongly by recessionary budget-guarding, meaning new sub acquisition is critical, and Substack has the *reputation* of being the biggest marketplace where one can easily reach new subs 021
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yes! Every time Frank shows up I think, Where’s Poochie?* *the workplace ensemble comedy 020
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026just popping in to say gosh my heart sank when he showed up again ugh 120
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Medieval coroner, looking up from body: He’s been ælf-shot. Reeve: I don’t see… Coroner: The arrows are invisible. 141
Reposted by medievalmvbCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Gasoline will have a big impact on September CPI. EIA data show Sep YoY gasoline inflation is 36%. Diesel (not a line item in CPI) will be worse, at 68% YoY. (Diesel demand is half of gasoline by volume; shows up more on the PPI side, and/or embedded in inflation of other goods with lag in CPI) 825270
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s a commonplace insight by now but it has been really instructive to see the CEO of six separate casino-hotel bankruptcies steering the wealthiest country in the world hard onto the Shoals of Stagflation Like, if you ever thought, “no, SIX times?” it’s all big as life on the national IMAX screen 050
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026good, I see we’re all on the same page at leastbloomberg.comUS Consumer Confidence Plunges to Lowest Level Since 2014US consumer confidence fell in September to the lowest level since 2014 as views about the economy and the labor market deteriorated. 030
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“[T]he diaries of a Jesuit colonist in Mexico record buffalo being kept in the nature gardens and zoo of the Aztec emperor Moctezuma. There was no North America without buffalo. There is no North America without buffalo.” 020
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026of course but *produces chart* global demand is creating inflationary pressures even there! 020