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Taiwan's Modern Miracle The AI Boom Has Delivered a 2nd Economic Miracle to Taiwan, Pushing GDP Growth Above 23%. It Must Navigate Rising Geopolitical & Economic Tensions to Keep it.

NEW from me:

Taiwan's GDP is growing at a 23% annualized rate, driven by record exports as the country's semiconductor industry ramps up to meet AI demand

It's a modern economic miracle, but one that comes with major macroeconomic & geopolitical risks🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/taiwans-mo...

robots in disguise?

When official statistics are unavailable or unreliable, researchers can use a range of forensic methods to extract credible economic information, with North Korea illustrating both the possibilities and limits of studying economic ‘black holes’.

Read today's article to learn more:

its kinda funny that, as we are re-running the 80s (iran, dementia president, culture boring, etc), the big technology upending everyone's worldview is......Transformers......

the us launching a regime change war on behalf of hardline pahlavi restorationists is genuinely insane, it's kind of like if china fired missiles at london tomorrow to put the jacobites back on the throne, or invaded spain until an absolute carlist monarchy ruled the country

javier milei (for whatever reason) publicly identifies as jewish. did he have something to say about the christian nations bit?

What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

by far the funniest part is that their "western" nationalism includes the decidedly not western nations of latin america

Big Revisions Are a Reason to Question Jobs Numbers, Not Dismiss Them

More in my story today. Oh, and happy #jobsday!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/b...

the problem isn't that the first search result is from a widely popular video game. it's that *it does not contain the first fucking word of the search*

where's the "on alan greenspan's 100th birthday" speech that includes "you were right. we did it. but thanks to you, we won't do it again" about inflation

Fed Chair Jay Powell with a birthday message to former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who turns 100 today: "You are a legend among economists and central bankers with no peer."

North Korea's economy: The study of economic black holes When official statistics are unavailable or unreliable, researchers can use a range of forensic methods – such as satellite imagery, mirror trade data, price monitoring, refugee surveys, humanitarian ...

🆕 North Korea's economy: The study of economic black holes

Today on VoxDev, Stephan Haggard (@gpsucsd.bsky.social), Kyoochul Kim & Munseob Lee discuss the range of forensic methods available to researchers when official statistics are unavailable, or unreliable: voxdev.org/topic/method...

Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

what the fuck are we doing

www.wsj.com/business/med...

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Read @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social on the "intellectually insecure reactionaries" around Epstein. Much here that I did not know

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

bro google search is cooked

if karl popper was alive today he'd write one of those inexplicably lengthy airport books that's 70% liberal triumphalism about how things are better than in 1765 and 30% whining about stupid cancel culture bullshit

anthropic should rename claude for different nations like those ethnic trader joe's sub-brands. i have taken to calling it "claudio"

"war of choice" is the "unalive" version of war of aggression

Time to End the American-Israeli Alliance Alliances are built on shared interests. Those do not exist here.

time to cut em loose prospect.org/2026/03/05/i...

the rejection of international binding rules and an impersonal international order built on the fundamental equality of peoples and nations was (and is) a cornerstone of fascism

In defence of hand-wringers and pearl-clutchers To surrender the fight for international law is to accept worse outcomes and more civilian deaths

"Simply sighing in response to the new facts of life will not do. To surrender the fight for (admittedly imperfect) international rules is to accept worse outcomes and more civilian deaths" - terrific column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social:

there's fundamentally a flawed understanding of the public where people just believe what they're told by party bosses, but centristly, and would never dare disagree with or desert them

Curbing the influence of criminals on public officials Better pay for politicians is associated with less corruption in public procurement.

Higher wages reduced corrupt procurement practices among Italian municipal executives, but increased the likelihood that those officials were subjected to criminal attacks, say researchers at Università Roma Tre and NYU. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Bro a *majority* of people believe the UK shouldn't even defend itself *at all*. The bloodthirst of the establishment, especially when it comes to Muslims, is insane and unbelievable

well, today in floridly depressing news: the French helpline for female victims of male violence is facing "coordinated" attacks from men's rights activists, who keep calling up in the hope of making it harder for women to reach their services

okay so grey market chinese supplements are okay but vaccines and hormones are "untested" these people just think we're all stupid

I'm generally in favor of letting people take what they want (with appropriate warnings, limits on false marketing, and purity/quality assurances) but these peptides aren't benign. They blind and kill people, and they will be gray market imports with no assurance of quality or purity.

google gemini users / claude users