Dean Baker

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Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk Faced with an incredibly lopsided ethical dilemma, Grok prioritizes saving Elon Musk at the expense of millions of Jews.

Elon Musk's AI bot says it would kill every Jewish person on earth to save Elon Musk.

We talk so much about antisemitism, but somehow it's not considered antisemitic to use Elon Musk's apps.

Kristi Noem to Trump: "Thank you for letting us get up every day and have a purpose."

@deanbaker13.bsky.social  tells 
@newsweek.com  shrinking availability of blue-collar jobs: "Companies are reluctant to invest in a context where they have no idea what tariffs will be in place six months from now, much less three to five years from now." https://bit.ly/4anHOuW

On the Money: Making Sense of the Latest Jobs Numbers The September report shows a weakening labor market

Donald Trump's labor market is so weak that it warrants a Fed rate cut in spite of inflation being well above its 2.0% target themoneytrail.substack.com/p/on-the-mon...

You would have to be pretty damn stupid to expect any loyalty from Donald Trump. He throws people under the bus before the bus even arrives.

congrats

My Miami Month We’re back from a month stay in Miami, helping out with the new grand-daughter (seven months old now).

sawicky.substack.com/p/my-miami-m... My Miami month.

“No ceiling”strikes me as uncomfortably close to “no brain”. But it doesn’t matter because, like all Jeffries’ other attempts to connect with where people are at, this one’s going to fall flat.

"GENERATIVE AI WILL EAT ITSELF . . . "

"PUSHED BY NOT VERY CREATIVE PEOPLE . . . "

"AI SLOP AT SCALE . . . "

"POLLUTION MACHINES FROM THE FUTURE . . . "

"MAN-EXPLAINING HALLUCINATIONS AS A SERVICE . . . "

"BROUGHT TO YOU BY ASPIRATIONAL TRILLIONAIRES . . . "

ANOTHER DECEMBER
MADE IN USA MMXXV

I hope Hegseth is googling "bars in The Hague" tonight.

$30-an-hour for interns is what we fought in the digital media union movement

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Why My Law Firm is Litigating 63 Voting Rights Cases Read here.

Two months ago I wrote about why my law firm is litigating 63 voting and election cases. Today it is 65 cases covering more than half the country. Eleven of them involve redistricting.

Where are the big law firms? Why isn't legacy media covering this? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/why-...

Amid unprecedented hiring push, ICE and CBP both lose HR chiefs One of the executives was fired without explanation, while the other voluntarily moved to a different agency.

Amid unprecedented hiring push, ICE and CBP both lose HR chiefs

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Doesn't look like good news for the Silicon Valley AI bros
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In case you needed even more motivation to vote in the Midterm elections...

#AccountabilityIsComing

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

Trump just gave a commutation to David Gentile, a private equity executive who defrauded investors of $1.6B.

Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.

A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.

Pretty noteworthy.

A Red State education miracle turns mirage.

In short: MS used to pass 3rd graders who couldn't read into the 4th grade. So when all 4th graders took reading tests, as a group, they didn't read good.

When the state stopped promoting poor readers, 4th grade scores soared!

Oops.

Jeffries’ Strong Floor and No Ceiling: We Need to Fix the Roof Owen Libby promotes old policies, like UBI and patent monopolies, as new solutions that still favor the rich.

There seems to be an infinite market for centrist drivel reprocessed as new thinking cepr.net/publications...

The third richest person on earth uses his newspaper to argue that the richest people on earth should have more money.

Trumpian Nonsense on Employing Native-Born Workers Trump’s claim of soaring native-born employment is based on misunderstandings of CPS survey data, not real labor-market gains.

No, we did not create millions of jobs for native-born workers under Trump cepr.net/publications...

In Bid to Look Youthful, Trump Adopts Orban Middle Part Hairstyle

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.

What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

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The "no ceiling" stuff is third grade crap that would only be taken seriously by newspapers and politicians owned by billionaires. We can structure the market to make clowns like Musk & Zuckerberg incredibly rich, or we can structure it to promote more equality braveneweurope.com/dean-baker-b...

Eh, until it goes to 0, it’s overvalued

Good to see the fundamentals reasserting themselves in the crypto market finance.yahoo.com/quote/BTC-USD/