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I wrote an essay about the idea of “time” in AI. AI fakes it at this point in time and probably for a long time.

Throughout my life, my mom has found 4-leaf clovers on a wish. I walk regularly and occasionally looked, but never found one - until today while waiting for my car to be serviced, in a grassy area between a golf course and the dealership. I am asking it to do a lot, including for the election.

This document is going to be an assigned reading in college classes that cover this moment in time, there's a lot happening in a few paragraphs... www.ahmath.org/statements

> @cnbc.com #Tariffs www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i...

This describes the AI companys’ “fears.” They are creating the framework that will allow them to *avoid* current and future accountability for their choices in the design of AI. They decide which actionable tools, vacuums or weapons or anything really, to attach to their models.

Art through nature: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

Here’s an oldie but a goodie: “.. During Warsh’s term (if he lasts as long as prior Fed chairs), he will preside over the dreaded crossover point: in 2031 entitlements, interest and other mandatory outlays are projected to permanently exceed Federal tax revenues for the first time.” - JPMorgan

Consumer complaints against financial companies have skyrocketed over the past three years. How is Trump responding? By gutting budget and staffing for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — and stopping the agency from publishing consumer complaints.

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Supreme Court narrowly stepped up for the Fed's independence. That keeps the data, not the President, the thing to watch for monetary policy. New post on the decision, where inflation is headed, and what the Fed owes us. stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/where-is-t...

Labor share of income--the "fraction of economic output paid to workers as wages and salaries"--is at its lowest-ever level since WWII. @federalreserve.gov

I have been working on societal impacts of language technology since late 2016, and my nightmare example since pretty early on has been using automatic transcription in emergency services systems. And today I learn it's happening *in my own city* www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Short 🧵>>

Well-written hed. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/06/06/p...

This is 💔. I am not familiar with tick preventatives but will research soon. Sharing for awareness and regretting this administration who is so incapable at sharing information or working to keep any of us, human or 🐈‍⬛, healthy.

Kevin Warsh has tapped two outside associates as advisers—in as temporary contractors for now. Both are budget policy specialists, and one wrote the Fed chapter of Project 2025, which endorsed a radical restructuring of the central bank.

There has been little on BlueSky about Kevin Warsh moving in as Federal Reserve Board Chair but it will affect all of us. Roger Ferguson is a past Vice-Chair and a great source of info about what may come.

Tried to distinguish our AI #WITHPod series by taking to boosters AND critics and lots of people in between. I got a ton out of this conversation with @timnitgebru.blacksky.app podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Pope Leo wrote on AI. Catholic, atheist, no matter. Pondering how we bring AI into our lives is good for anyone using any technology.

The powerful forces trying to dominate our country want us to fall into cynicism. That way, they win everything — and they'll be able to take it all without the rest of us putting up a fight. If you are worried about the future, you are not alone. I am too. But please do not fall into cynicism.

The Fed is a creature of Congress and Congress is the source of its independence. With Warsh, it will be more important for more of us to understand the Fed and hold Congress accountable if Warsh does Trump’s bidding and dismantles the final damper on inflation. An easy-to-digest primer -

Powell’s term ended but he will stay on, Warsh will be sworn in as Chair of the Fed. The latter is a significant change but has been buried in the news by the China Summit. The Fed affects all of us every day. We can’t afford the inflation that will pile on if Warsh does trump’s bidding.

Sean Duffy’s reality series is getting slammed for all of the obvious reasons, but don’t look past the fact that his show is being sponsored by companies his department oversees and regulates. In other words, it’s not just a political mess, it’s also an ethical one. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

I thought this was The Onion. Building a 🏠 with Pulte is disappointing as is without also assuming the servile role of caretaking an AI’s power source. Bill Pulte gave up his seat on the builder’s board to join Trump’s admin over the FHFA-doesn’t mean he doesn’t retain financial interest.😖

This is a feel good image for me. These two adorable young Australian superb fairywren staying close to each other.

Announcing: Platypus Economics — a Substack, YouTube channel, and podcast built around one idea: Economics is one of the most useful, surprising, and weirdly beautiful subjects in the world. It belongs to everyone — not just the people who happened to take it in college. 🧵

As I read this, I imagine a time in the future 🙏 when our right-left division has resolved to shared common goals of, say, not burning the Earth up, but we then divide along the lines of whether AI is a friend, to be trusted, etc. Some AI is amazing, no AI can be a true “friend.”

Adding a blunt-force prohibition of goblins to a public-facing, internet-trained AI isn’t a solution. This is why we can’t take the results of public-facing AI too seriously.

The best deterrent ever to cash for an impulse purchase!

What frightens me most are the hints that he will reform the Federal Reserve according to Trump’s vision, another organizational loss that will take decades if it can be fixed. Bottom line - the Fed is a creature of Congress - getting Republicans out of Congress in Nov is critical for this, too.

Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs. Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026. This is what corporate greed looks like.

In case you are considering ChatGPT or other large language models for taxes…

Powell exemplifies public service, standing up to trump now and in his first term to fulfill the mission of the Fed as defined by Congress. “The announcement…commended the Fed chair for withstanding “years of personal attacks and threats from the highest levels of government.”

Dr. Gill I was wondering what your thoughts are about the news of USA 🇺🇸 being insolvent? 6 trillion in assets and 47 trillion in debt and no one is talking about it. Why? fortune.com/2026/03/23/u...

Powell: "The thing a good number of people on the committee are concerned about is very very low level of job creation. If you adjust the trend job creation over the past 6 months for what we think is overstatement due to overcounting, effectively there is 0 net job creation in the private sector"

Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.

Never in my memory has the ⏰ change caught me by surprise, until just now. Yes, I am older and no one else mentioned it, but I believe my lapse is more a sign of the challenges and heartbreaks of this time in my life, my 🇺🇸, and the 🌍. Today, I remind myself there is still the moment of now to tend.

The Pentagon is pressuring Anthropic to strip out AI safeguards and give the military unfettered access to its models. Cato’s Benjamin Giltner warns that this push undermines layers of accountability and cuts off human judgment from critical decisions about war and peace.

The grift that keeps on grifting.

Minnesota’s flags will fly at half-staff in honor and remembrance of the Reverend Jesse Jackson. He spent his life pushing America to live up to its highest ideals and his fight for civil rights, dignity, and fairness will inspire generations to come.

"if human beings are nothing more than machines — stochastic parrots — then it's easy to justify replacing us with other machines that can do certain things better and faster." I'm not religious, but do appreciate thoughtful insights. Nice article in this vein: www.ncronline.org/opinion/lent...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Please watch. This is important because the independent (from trump) Fed is all that is stopping a crashed economy right now. trump is already spending like a mad man, Congress isn’t stopping him, and the Fed is the only remaining defense against nightmare inflation.

Tillis is spot on. The Senate can't confirm a Trump toady to succeed Powell at the Fed. The rest of the game is now out in the open, and it doesn't end well.

Of course the Admin favors developers’ profits over our wetlands. I am learning about the state-level protections in IL, hoping it is enough. The comment period has ended but this is a good read.

The DOJ is trying to get all your individualized voter data (including SS number, DOB, current and previous addresses, voting records, etc.) in order to intimidate and undermine elections. Please listen to this and re-post on all your social media. Email this video to you friends & family members.

Morning.

Oh how I laughed! And yelled into a pillow! And then cried for 10 minutes! And then looked up therapists online!

From the article - “The only mitigation is to treat an AI agent as an employee working for you, one who could go rogue. Not as an extension of yourself.”