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YouTube video by The Nick Standlea Show The AI Revolution Is an Ownership Problem, Not a Tech Problem — Economist Justin Wolfers

I sat down for a nice long chat on the Nick Standlea Show
about the economics of AI: How it's changing our labor market, who it's going to help and hurt, how policy can help, and what each of us can do to stay relevant.

Posted to my (fledgling) youtube channel here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oful...

I think more people should be aware of how much cool stuff Link does in real life. He’s not just a poster.

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law “I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

In this episode of "The Professor Is In," economist Justin Wolfers explores the economics of high-skill immigration. Do high-skill immigrants take jobs—or help build more of them? Economist Justin… The Professor Is In—Justin Wolfers on H-1B Visas: H-1B Talent Lifts U.S. Wages and Innovation

My favorite gig in the world is this "Professor Is In" segment I do with @anacabrera.bsky.social , where we step back from the news cycle to do what I really love: Teach economics.

Our latest: The economics of high-skill immigration, and the H-1B visa program.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sxg...

Government shutdown threatens food aid program relied on by millions of families Experts say a food aid program that helps 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money unless the government shutdown ends within two weeks.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, also known as WIC, will run out of federal money within two weeks unless the government shutdown ends, experts say. The food aid program helps more than 6 million low-income mothers and young children.

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

like why is my skyline filled with shit like “LLMs could be conscious! do we even know what consciousnesses is?” when communities filled with PEOPLE are being destroyed so that techbros can have the fantasy of enslaving machines? cause that’s what they are fucking talking about

“I’m all for unifying. I’m all for bridging gaps. But not at the expense of my neighbor’s humanity.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

i love ta-nehisi coates so much

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

Per this article a crew hired by landlord went in & cleaned out units/hallways shortly after raid. ICE didn't raid the leased units. I wonder how they knew which was which?

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/02/s...

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

So many people’s liberalism ends at water’s edge. Always shocking when people who would call out such abuses in the US will give Israel a pass.

Lewy body dementia promotion by air pollutants Evidence links air pollution to dementia, yet its role in Lewy body dementia (LBD) remains unclear. In this work, we showed in a cohort of 56.5 million individuals across the United States that fine p...

🧪 NEW STUDY: Air pollution increases risk of Lewy Body Dementia, the 2nd most common dementia after Alzheimer’s*

Your reminder that air pollution is just another name for fossil fuel combustion byproducts.

*linked to air pollution in previous studies

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Head of Eisenhower library forced out after sword spat with Trump The Army vet and historian declined Trump's request to gift Eisenhower's sword to King Charles out of obligation to preserve it for the American public.

www.airforcetimes.com/veterans/mil...

It’s amazing how many Israeli military “accidents” seem to focus on hospitals, doctors, press, aid workers, etc.

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

Please amplify this demand. We need y'all. I was there. We were not in the road. ICE simply let loose on us to film themselves brutalizing and arresting protesters—and state police assisted them. They brought charges against scattered people to create a pretext for this inexcusable violence.

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Of course Roberts issued a stay

Put yourself in SCOTUS's shoes. Your options are:

➡️ uphold the law, get ignored by Trump/Musk, and lose all your power in the public's mind

➡️ protect Trump, pretend there's a reason this is OK, and remain exalted after he's dead

They will pick Door #2 every time

Ring founder 'backs the blue,' says AI is helping Amazon-owned doorbell unit fight crime Ring founder Jamie Siminoff returned to the company he founded in April to lead the business, which is part of Amazon's devices division.

Ring founder: “I’m focused on: How can I get the highest density of camera coverage in a neighborhood matched with AI to make neighborhoods safer?…It’s not just hard crime.”

Just put this guy and the Flock guy on a deserted island together so they can surveill each other until the end times.

ICE agents dragged naked children out of homes in Chicago: Neighbors Two residents reported witnessing federal immigration agents forcibly removing unclothed children from apartments during the raid.

And they dragged children naked out of building
www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-d...

We're not at war with Venezuela, these boats are many hundreds of lines from our waters, much less our shores, there is no threat, this is just murder.

I really do think everyone from the SecDef to the guy who pushed the button should be tried for murder on this.