Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm seeing lots of people talking about the music graph but the headline one I think is pretty troubling 100
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The more I read about the AI sex doomsday cult the more I am convinced that it actually is an AI sex doomsday cult. www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...iankduncan.comSex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian DuncanHow a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ... 030
Reposted by Ben PhelpsExtreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026EXTRAORDINARY EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE 41 DEGREES Never happened anything like this Almost 41C again in SPAIN today Almost 30C in Germany And it will get much worse. Thousands of records will fall next days in Spain,France,Benelux,Germany,Switzerlands,Scandinavia,Baltics etc.. 011984
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Most macro-economists unquestionably believe that higher interest rates cool economic growth. So we are most likely going to be caught in a spiral: Inflation > Fed raises interest rates > Higher Bond yields > Higher Federal deficits > more inflation. This will continue until something breaks.ft.comSoaring bond yields ‘not even close’ to cooling red-hot US economy, investors sayRising borrowing costs show no sign of putting a brake on activity in world’s biggest economy 110
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If I instruct my AI agent to "make me rich" and so it goes and hacks Citibank to deposit $1 billion into my bank account who is responsible. 020
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If you build a robot that does crimes you should be held liable for those crimes 130
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I'm voting for the terrible billionaire tax now because I'm lashing out and Dem leaders have given me no other options 050
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The vibecession is getting rough for middle income renters. 120
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Still sad and disgusted at Bonta and Newsom just caving to Paramount 1120
Reposted by Ben PhelpsNick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026gee gavin excellent work, bravo fuckface 0351
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 21/09/2026GOD &$^$&^#(#() DAMNIT www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...nytimes.comParamount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. AcquisitionThe deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN. 020
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Even though I'm religiously opposed to AI, I am just going to lay down a marker that I don't think it will kill us all until it can assume physical form 110
Reposted by Ben PhelpsBen Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026One thing about the AI Rationalists as religious sex cult is I find it actually supports my position that the true argument against AI is also fundamentally religious. We Humanists believe that AI is not actually inevitable and actually we, as humans, have no need for it. It makes us less human. 151
Reposted by Ben PhelpsStrahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 18/09/2026He destroyed it because he could not force the community that made it function, a community he wishes he could be a part of, to worship him. He is humiliated by that and is doing anything he can to erase the humiliation. All the wrecking and screaming flows from that. 26520
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If Bonta @robbonta.bsky.social settles with Paramount I will lose my shit unless it basically involves the sell off of Warner Bros. 140
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So far my Anti-AI religion seems to be winning in terms of popular adoption 150
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026One thing about the AI Rationalists as religious sex cult is I find it actually supports my position that the true argument against AI is also fundamentally religious. We Humanists believe that AI is not actually inevitable and actually we, as humans, have no need for it. It makes us less human. 151
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Alone, whispers to self: Raising interest rates will not lower inflation. 100
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Which is more true, Navier–Stokes or the Well-Tempered Clavier? 100
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I think definitionally Navier–Stokes is not proven until a human understands the proof. 190
Reposted by Ben PhelpsQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st... 381556449
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026You cannot escape the politics of urban agglomeration and land rent 180
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If we HAVE created artificial consciousness, I'd argue it's amoral. Or at least antihuman. 120
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The solution is to make your mortgage more expensive! 130
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I feel like relatively recently I could still do a quick Google search and relatively easily find an answer to almost any IT computer problem and this is no longer really the case. AI might tell you the answer, or it could give you the answer but 1 step wildly incorrect. 130
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Most economists will tell you the solution to this is to make mortgages more expensive. 010
Reposted by Ben PhelpsFrank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The President of the United States today: 35728881144
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Wait there's a hundred million year gap in the insect fossil record? 210
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I realize everybody is negatively polarized against anything Trump says for obvious reasons, but this is actually pretty dangerous. Raising interest rates would be bad. They should be lowered. 110
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026my 2 year old just rather gently moved a plastic toy out his way by throwing it into my laptop screen and now I think I have to go buy a new laptop 120
Reposted by Ben PhelpsCalifornia YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A bill meant to reduce condo construction-defect lawsuits (AB 1903) - a major reason developers avoid building condos - died without a single "no" vote when the legislative session ran out the clock. calmatters.org/housing/2026... 0214
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Will Stancil: nobody can understand the vibecession 041
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It seems like nobody on Bluesky is countering my main point right now. Theosophite blocked me and is an asshole, maybe he is. There is no bond yield crisis. Anybody? 310
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I'll participate and I'm pretty proud of my 20 year old selfstatic.klipy.comJulianne Moore: Shame on You!ALT: Julianne Moore: Shame on You! 131
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Unfortunately this requires you understand how bond markets actually work and ignore a ton of charlatans that have obtained "expert" status and get to control the major media narrative 000
Reposted by Ben PhelpsAnil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise is a simple, correct one: you can't trust what Big Tech says in its promises to a local community. 522525502
Reposted by Ben PhelpsJesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 02/09/2026utterly psychotic. Bass gotta go 071
Reposted by Ben PhelpsStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Really easy to see how the leadership of Daimler-Benz were so happy to get all those contracts to build tank and aircraft engines in the 1930's. 45912
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Mainstream monetary macro is totally incoherent: 1. Higher bond yields will increase affordability pain on ordinary Americans as mortgages and credit card interest rates are based on them 2. Bond yields are rising because of fears of government debt and inflation... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...nytimes.comBond Yields Hit Highest Level Since 2007 as Inflation Fears Set InThe 30-year U.S. Treasury yield hasn’t been this high since the lead-up to the global financial crisis. Across Europe and Asia, yields are also elevated. 110
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Can you spot the bond yield spike the NYTimes is freaking out about 000
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's amazing how wildly people misunderstand the bond market, including famous journalists covering it and like the economists and bankers running it. Pretty dangerous actually. 100
