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Spec @spectresnack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The economy is doing a very good job responding to wealth concentration
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Spec @spectresnack.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Apparently Bessent is the real shadow fed chair
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Spec @spectresnack.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Workers are being paid less of that incremental spend when profit margins are at all time highs and only continuing to rise.
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Jesse Boo-rascia 👻 @jesseguarascia.com · 06/07/2026
Trying to figure out if there was ever a sign that things were about to get fucky
A screenshot of an article titled "The New Head of Xbox Is Worried About Birthrates, But Says AI Will Save Us" by John Walker for Kotaku, featuring a picture of current head of Xbox, Asha Sharma
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Spec @spectresnack.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The theory is it serves as a cathartic pressure valve - a way to vent frustration on actions that achieve little on their own. It pacifies people into feeling impactful while the actual levers of power remain entirely unobstructed. They already know they’re unpopular, and they don't care.
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Spec @spectresnack.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Imputed financial services capturing only interest rate spreads is problematic for measuring expenditure inflation, doubly so for anyone not sitting on large interest-earning cash piles (in comparable size to their current or desired debt). Which is probably the vast majority of the population.
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Spec @spectresnack.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Wage growth was higher than CPI* Which understated housing price inflation, and ignores mortgage interest and auto loan interest. Which maybe is kinda important during a generation interest rate hiking cycle. Average mortgage payment figures from private data suppliers dwarfed wage growth.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
fox news two hours ago: THIS IS GONNA BE A SHOWDOWN WITH SOCIALISM trump: zohran is great and we basically agree and i think he's gonna be a great mayor
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
for days we got the "Showdown with Socialism" buildup only to get the payoff of Trump essentially saying "wow this socialist guy fuckin rules. I, on the other hand, am a fascist". what a country. what an era bsky.app/profile/self...
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
There is no thinking going on here. The reason an LLM can answer a factual question is because someone has posted text on that specific question. The reason they are such good coding buddies is because people have posted immense numbers of code snippets (and that code is so strictly grammatical.)
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
At some point having supported military aid to Israel is going to be a political liability - quite possibly in 2026 and definitely in 2028.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
These are the same Senate Democrats who lectured the base for years about the importance of preserving the filibuster so it would still be available when Democrats were in the minority
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The pain is so real. If you’re more upset about mean jokes than the suffering fueling them, you are deeply out of touch
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