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delong, 1 day ago to random

This, from the "Financial Times" Editorial Board, Neither Tells It Straight Nor Plays Its Proper Position. So What to Do?
What to do when the Editorial Board of a usually very good newspaper goes all-in on the stupid?...
< https://braddelong.substack.com/p/this-from-the-financial-times-editorial >
2024-05-23 Th

delong, 13 days ago to random

Doctor Frankenstein's Venture-Capital Pitch
Very lightly edited from ChatGPT4. Cosma Shalizi should in no way be held responsible for anything...
< https://braddelong.substack.com/p/doctor-frankensteins-venture-capital >
2024-05-11 Sa

cstross, 13 days ago to random

Welp, in just three days Edinburgh's weather has done a screeching handbrake turn from spring into summer. As in, I'm no longer tweaking the central heating—it's off for the next few months—and the windows are open and it's nearly time to dust off the office air conditioner.

delong, 21 days ago to random

Macroeconomy Soft Landing Watch: Still in the Groove

I have to confess, I do not see where the upward swing in long Treasury yields is coming from. But then I did not see where it was coming from early last fall either. I get that a lot of rich people wish to keep their Trump tax cut—a most notable thing that was, for who other than Donald Trump could devise a cut on taxes on capital that provided 0% net incentive to invest and 100% net incentive to do stock buybacks?—& that a lot of... 1/

delong, 23 days ago to random

Tesla Needs Its Tim Cook Now!
What is Tesla, Anyway? And What Is to Be Done About Its Management? Now that Elon Musk is no longer a fundraiser, cheerleader, & sometime coach for engineers pushing forward remarkable & essential technologies and has become a meme-stock tech-bubble carnival barker, is he the right CEO for Tesla? No. What Tesla needs now is its very own Tim Cook…
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/what-is-tesla-anyway-and-what-is>
2024-05-01 We

delong, 1 month ago to random

Why Is the Apple Vision Pro Going to Get Its Shot, While the Humane AI Pin Is Not Going to?
How much rationality is there in the market reactions so far—rationality in individual assessments and intentions, & rationality in the workings of humanity considered as an anthology intelligence here?…
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/why-is-the-apple-vision-pro-going>
2024-04-19 Fr

delong, 1 month ago to random

READING: Jo Walton (1998): "The Lurkers Support Me in Email"
Perhaps the best poem written about the early internet. The main implicit point still holds true today...
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/reading-jo-walton-1998-the-lurkers>
2024-03-29 Fr

annaleen, 3 months ago to random

I have trained my media studies students to refer to Stuart Hall as "Uncle Stuart Hall" and I'm not sorry.

delong, 4 months ago to random

Bill Ackman: A Four-Thousand Word Tweet
& then there are six hundred more words in his next tweet...
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/bill-ackman-a-four-thousand-word>
2024-01-06 Sa

delong, 5 months ago to random

The Fed’s Remarkable Feat
The published column over at Project Syndicate <https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/fed-monetary-policy-near-perfect-humbling-for-commentators-on-all-sides-by-j-bradford-delong-2023-12>...
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/the-feds-remarkable-feat>
2023-12-22 Fr

delong, 5 months ago to random

HOISTED FROM THE INTERNET OF LONG AGO: Cosma Shalizi (2010): The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone
What Cosma Shalizi calls "yet another semi-crank pet notion, nursed quietly for many years, now posted...
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/hoisted-from-the-internet-of-long>
2023-12-15 Fr

delong, 5 months ago to random

REPOSTED: SubStackers Against Nazis
I agree with this 100%. The proper number of Nazi-propagandist SubStacks is ZERO. Where, exactly, the line is between “a hands-off approach and putting your thumb on the scale” via algorithm is something we can discuss. But I am not interested in any more discussions with anyone who thinks that line is anywhere near Nazi propaganda like “Jewish Question” or “Great Replacement”…
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/reposted-substackers-against-nazis>
2023-12-14 Th

delong, 5 months ago to random

Elon Musk Today Claims Wealth Equal to 2.5 Million Times Median Household Income; His Predecessor Daniel Ludwig in 1982 Claimed Only 85 Thousand Times
Yes, Virginia: income and wealth inequality has grown in the Neoliberal Age—and by a lot…
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/elon-musk-today-claims-wealth-equal>
2023-11-29 We

delong, 6 months ago to random

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-11-24 Fr
The reality of Bayesian-distribution tails; Britain’s George Osborne imagines that not friendship but money is magic; Team Transitory!; you should read Matt Yglesias especially if you find him annoying; Republicans as cause & effect of major societal failure; Andrej Karpathy on LLMs; very briefly noted: & notes on the OpenAI coup, index funds & private equity making the economy less fair?, & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-11-19 Su
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/briefly-noted-for-2023-11-24-fr>
2023-11-24 Fr

annaleen, 6 months ago to random

So annoyed when somebody says "oh that person/civilization is so foolish and simple -- they are obsessed with superstition." Do you know how much brain power it requires to create and maintain superstitions? A W H O L E L O T

cstross, 6 months ago to random

#fedibookfair "Season of Skulls" is the third book in the New Management trilogy.

It's 2017, and the UK languishes under the dictatorship of Nyarlathotep, the Black Pharaoh. Bad magic is oozing out everywhere, they're racking up skulls on Marble Arch, and there's no brexit like a brexit led by an Elder God! But it's business as usual for sorcerer Eve Starkey, until she receives a summons from the PM, who has a problem with her predecessor ...

https://publishing.tor.com/seasonofskulls-charlesstross/9781250839398/

https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/season-of-skulls?_pos=2&_sid=2b784b872&_ss=r

delong, 6 months ago to random

Chat-GPT as Clever Hans Once Again
It flubs on what my general orientation thinks ought to be a relatively easy task for a near- but sub-Turing intelligence that can do internet searches...
<https://open.substack.com/pub/braddelong/p/chat-gpt-as-clever-hans-once-again>
2023-11-01 We

marcoarment, 6 months ago to random

First plausible M3 tests are hitting Geekbench, presumably from press-review units: https://browser.geekbench.com/search?q=M3

Single/multi-core:

M3: ~3000/~11,700 (if these are real)
M2: ~2600/~9700
M1: ~2300/~8300

Looks great! A 30–40% improvement over three years is remarkable, especially for such a low-power and low-cost chip.

(No Pro or Max scores yet.)

delong, 6 months ago to random

REVIEW: Manville & Ober: "The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives”

Another attempt to write a review of this book, after failing to successfully do so last month…
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/review-manville-and-ober-the-civic>
2023-10-26 Th

delong, 7 months ago to random

After 30 Years, the Bond Market Vigilantes Are Back!
The end of the long era of "secular stagnation"? Or have bonds now been oversold?...
<https://open.substack.com/pub/braddelong/p/after-30-years-the-bond-market-vigilantes>
2023-10-06 Fr

delong, 7 months ago to random

A Note of Puzzlement on Kevin McCarthy's Strategy

I read this as McCarthy tacking left while trying not to say so, and throwing Ukraine under the bus—for the moment at least—to give MAGA-heads & those with embarrassing videos from the Red Square a face-saving way to declare victory. But I do not really know—and if anybody really knows, they are not talking…
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/a-note-of-puzzlement-on-kevin-mccarthys>
2023-10-03 Tu

Green_Footballs, 7 months ago to random

The House has passed the Continuing Resolution, averting a government shutdown.

delong, 7 months ago to random

PROJECT SYNDICATE: America's Broken Civic Bargain
I was going to write a review of Manville & Ober’s brand-new survey of democracy in four societies, but I got sidetracked. So instead, I wrote about how since the Republican Party has no plausible economic policy all it can do is gin-up culture war after culture war. As Marc Cooper put it this morning of last night’s Republican debate: “The one issue they all agreed upon was that Americans should be afraid, very afraid, actually scared... 1/