Paul Sengmüller

Once the missiles go up, who cares where they come down?
That’s not my department, says Wernher von Braun.

Consol?

And this is how, ladies and gentlemen, Lucas and Sargent came to France, in a volume on post-modernist architecture and macro, communism and pacifism, their attacks on Keynesian large macro-scale models intersected with architects' sketches and postmodern pictures of topless women

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Sick to my stomach

People saying that they are shocked, or that Putin is hoodwinking Trump still don't get it. Putin isn't fooling Trump or Trump has not changed his position. He is pro-Putin, he wants Russia to do well and he could not care less about Ukraine (and he hates Zelensky).

„We don’t need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we’re willing to do to achieve it.“

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

9/ Musk made his endorsement of Trump on July 13, 2024. The analysis suggests that Musk did more than merely give verbal support for Trump, but also changed X's algorithm on the same date to systematically promote his own and other prominent pro-Republican acounts. /end

a Tweet where Mike Lee says "The Executive Branch should be under the direction of the president That’s how the Constitution was designed The Federal Reserve is one of many examples of how we’ve deviated from the Constitution in that regard Yet another reason why we should #EndTheFed"

may I present our current leading candidate for Attorney General

Paper of the Day: "Who values democracy?"

Democratizations had a large, negative impact on asset valuations and elevated risk premia driven by a rise in redistribution risk.

Autocratizations led to negligible asset pricing responses.

www.hbs.edu/ris/Publicat...

Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.

It's not very surprising to read that another LLM transcription tool makes things up. It's still an open empirical question IMO whether the risks of errors and time consumed by correcting them is outweighed by the time saved using these tools. apnews.com/article/ai-a...

There's also a responsibility on those large accounts because if they move, they can help the tiny ones solve *their* coordination problem. Communities have leaders!

Respect for Joey making the move from the other place. He had a v large following over there and there are not many in that US econ and finance cohort who have come over so there is some sacrifice to doing it. Please follow if you are interested in the US economy and finance and, well, data.

Stundenlohn: 7,40 EUR

Und das war’s #beifunk

He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice … #beifunk

Derzeit Flaute … #beifunk

WE DID IT!!

Worauf ich warte: Wählerverzeichnisnummer = Fortlaufende Zahl
#beifunk #fixedpoint

Gutmenschen brauchen kein Essen 😜

Alle außer ich haben Essenspakete bekommen #beifunk

Wir stehen bei 14

Wieviel Prozent der Bevölkerung sind heute als Wahlleiter:inne, Beisitzer:innen etc tätig? #beifunk

A gaggle of geese, a flock of ducks, a pride of lions, a pack of wolves, a murder of crows … and a panel of experts.

We are super excited to get the printed copies of my book--Cities in the Sky--coming **May 14** from Scribner Books. #CitiesintheSkyBook

Pre-order Now! www.citiesintheskybook.com

Getting academics talking to non-academics is like trying to compile untested and very buggy source code to production in one pass

Getting nonacademics to talk to academics is like decompiling binaries that work into intelligible abstractions and theories

Legible wrongness meets illegible myth

Here’s your chance to own Rene Benko’s bog brush Not so much a firesale as a smoke Signa

Of course Rene Benko had a Noguchi coffee table.

www.ft.com/content/bdc7...

Ambitionslos gelbt die Sonne die Wolken, der Standler schmeißt die Glücksbringer aus Glas so schlecht gelaunt ins Sackerl, dass beim Auspacken Scherben zu erwarten sind.
Es ist mild und wüsste man nicht das Datum, könnte man nicht herausriechen, welche Jahreszeit grad ist.
Grumpy Viennese Silvester.

Robert M. Solow, Groundbreaking Economist and Nobelist, Dies at 99 His elegant work established that the main determinant of economic growth was technology, not growing capital and labor.

‘“Milton [Friedman] was going on about the money supply,” he recalled in 2009, “so what I said was everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my written work.”’

🤣 from NYT obit of Robert Solow ($: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/b...) 📉📈