Todd Richard Yarbrough

I cannot imagine the degradation of content over there now. When I kicked off over a year ago it was already reading like an old Ebaum's World thread, with even more racism and misogyny.

you truly could not pay me to rejoin Twitter on any regular basis

"All up in the videos..."

Puff Daddy was so uncool he made Suge Knight (also a monster) seem palatable.

Watching all these Northeast liberal academic powers fold like cheap suits to Trump reaffirms my strong belief we need far more southerners getting PhDs.

Mark my words, Trump will rip the football away again very soon and Columbia will give more and Trump will move it again. Does nobody at Columbia understand game theory?

When Trump trolls dem politicians, I think, wow that's immature for a president, but not a crisis. When the president trolls the Fed chairman, I think, wow that's bad for the long-run solvency of our economy.

This is problematic because a president personally attacking a Fed chairman is a VERY BIG DEAL. Presidents have (though they should not) commented on Fed policy before, but leveling personal grievances publicly hasn't been seen since Nixon brutalized Burns in the early 70s. Then we had Stagflation.

One of the things I was not prepared for was extent simply holding to account a president over decorum would be considered silly political correctness, so much that a so-called hostile press seems to largely turn a blind eye. POTUS called the Fed Bank Chairman "stupid." And it wasn't even a story.

It's my love language, so I'm told.

Every year goes by and my self-delusion of enjoying the beach, despite almost never really doing so when there, is bitterly eroded. It's self-care.

I'm slowing realizing the only way people will ever accept replacing human customer service with AI is to get them so used to terrible service they will willfully accept the high propensity of error in AI service functions (e.g. insurance denials) because it will seem no worse.

I was there for MK from the jump. It was culturally significant in ways I cannot explain. I had 3 xmases of MK, MKII, MKIII Ultimate for the SNES as THE gifts I wanted.

Passing notes of fatalities, blood codes, Reptile, Smoke, "Toasty!"

Cinematically this might be manure, but I'll love it still.

Having to go inside the bank to get money from your checking account.

Keeping phone calls to family outside your zip code short due to high long-distance fees.

Andreessen is a literal billionaire. I just recently and barely became net positive in assets at the age of 40. For my entire adult life I've felt nothing but stupefying and unearned privilege despite being from a broken home absent any college degrees. What the hell is Andreessen whining about?!

Yip yip yip yip!

While many people seem to verbally acknowledge the difficulties of being a parent, my personal experience is that non-parents don't seem to have a clue the time it takes to have a kid and a lot of parents don't seem to extend much grace to other parents. It's more isolating than I expected.

The report looks strong. The Powell attack was disconnected.

+147K jobs gained last month (mid-May to mid-June).
+16K jobs in revisions of prior 2 months

The big picture

The overarching idea most consistently in my head while watching The Bear, other than how much I love it, is:

Is every aspect of your job-process, philosophy, personality, quality, quantity, delivery, and wage rate- meticulously scrutinized and criticized publicly?

Welcome to being a professor.

I'd certainly love to dissect and debate the merits of Mamdani's proposals, including which I disagree with. But as long as elected officials are floating denaturalization, what is the point of even trying? At this point, I want him to win mayor just to spite that level of insanity we're seeing.

It is pretty wild how all the dudes I went to HS with who didn't read more than one page of text the entire time get the exact same level of electoral influence on economic policy as me. That doesn't bother me at all, certainly has never kept me up at night wondering what the hell it was all worth!

Young People Face a Hiring Crisis. AI Is Making It Worse. Artificial intelligence is transforming the entire pipeline from college to the workforce: from tests and grades to job applications and entry-level work.

Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social) has an interesting new Substack blog that echoes the trendy pundit finding that unemployment rates for new college grads are at record highs relative to the overall employment rate. open.substack.com/pub/derektho...

The clear subtext here is they expect a contraction. Otherwise, you don't get inflation and a need to cut rate targets.

How Tariffs Are Breaking US Trade A Detailed Look at How US Trade Flows Are Unraveling Amidst Trump's Trade War

Since becoming President, Trump has imposed the largest tariff hike in modern American history and is continually threatening further escalations

That trade war is costing the US billions—and breaking the country's trade flows in important ways🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/how-tariff...

When Trump said that immigrants were bringing drugs into the country, I didn't realize he was talking about Elon Musk.

That's pretty on brand. In my 8 years in NYC I had a landlord who slashed my bike tires, sent threatening texts, and eventually stood outside our window one night, belligerently drunk, and yelled at my wife about how he was going to kick us out. And we had a hole in our roof the entire time.

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Dark Money Hit a Record High of $1.9 Billion in 2024 Federal Races Spending by groups that do not disclose their donors has increased and become harder to trace.

NEW: Dark money spending in the 2024 federal elections hit $1.9 billion — nearly double the previous record.

This is an unprecedented surge in secret political spending.

Here’s the full @brennancenter.bsky.social report with all of the details: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...