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I feel like this is both probably true and the uncertainty from policy shocks is still higher than a year ago

Total home sales are still lower…not enough buyers to meet the moment. FTHBs are also a record share of purchases. BUT I like the optimism

Smiley face in Spanish is “carita”

Messy cleanup attempt on aisle 1600.

Haven’t heard anyone talking about this but as far as I’m aware, there are still no penalties to firing all of your US workers and rehiring abroad

Software engineers, call centers, etc

Only penalties importing physical goods. Seems like a big loophole

@conorsen.bsky.social @weisenthal.bsky.social

Marry someone who knows when jobs day is:

This list is not exhaustive, I am aware. Not sure the scope of what it reflects, but the reality is unfortunately worse than this

How many group chats are changing their name to Houthi PC Small Group?

Sure, eggs are expensive but Trump has made stocks affordable for everyone.

*laughs in X*

Tariffs are the new infrastructure week

All of these examples use the written word *as a vehicle* in a wider oral culture which is implied and *not written*.

Now that the written word is so easy to create and share, so ubiquitous, it serves a different purpose, or importantly - purposes. It shows which team we’re on (do we say Columbus Day or indigenous people’s day), it shows if we’re in on the joke (do you get the reference?), it’s meme’d and reshared.

To elaborate on this, when the written word was scarce (limited to publishers, hand written artifacts), it served a set of premium objectives with mostly static context. It cost money or effort, and was meant to inform, document, persuade.

The written word can be serious, ironic, memetic, depending on the wider oral/cultural/group context.

Some thoughts:

I think an important point here is that this is the result of the flood of the written word in our information space to the point that it is *fungible* based on the context in which it’s used.

All of these examples use the written word *as a vehicle* in a wider oral culture which is implied and *not written*.

Now that the written word is so easy to create and share, so ubiquitous, it serves a different purpose, or importantly - purposes. It shows which team we’re on (do we say Columbus Day or indigenous people’s day), it shows if we’re in on the joke (do you get the reference?), it’s meme’d and reshared.

To elaborate on this, when the written word was scarce (limited to publishers, hand written artifacts), it served a set of premium objectives with mostly static context. It cost money or effort, and was meant to inform, document, persuade.

I think an important point here is that this is the result of the flood of the written word in our information space to the point that it is *fungible* based on the context in which it’s used.

The written word can be serious, ironic, memetic, depending on the wider oral/cultural/group context.

Unmistakable how they talk like mob bosses, move like mob bosses, understand the world like mob bosses. Everything makes sense when you look at them through the lens of being mob bosses

Today is a good reminder of two things:
-the stock market (even the S&P) is now more tied to AI sentiment than the US economy
-if you want mortgage rates to fall you need AI to bust

Conor Sen unleashed

Starting to feel the heat from my previous post

And criteria for social selection is much different. When IRL humans make friends, they have to deal with people around them, their differences, the nuance, etc if they want to have friends. Online humans can be much more dismissive/selective. We really are a different species socially now.

Beyond this, “online humans” are almost a different species in terms of social behavior than “IRL humans.” You would hardly ever see people say things to people’s faces the way you see people talk to each other online.

Brace yourselves, cold is coming.

The European mind cannot comprehend the backstory to this picture

I’ll take SNE over on the 1”

Heartened to see plenty of Bourdain in the reposts