Feb 17
Ploughing farmers under along with the rest of the nation.
Destroying the economy is the point.
Edited 1y ago
economics
Aug 4
4 min
Epstein Nation
It's just a cozy community helping each other out. Billionaires repurpose the federal government to finance a new economy’s for human trafficking and crypto financial fraud and by its major client.
The two are intimately related through crypt o financial transfers
Epstein Nation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5D_QaDiqbo
Edited 195d ago
What I’ve been reading (and listening to) this week ending 18 January 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-listening-to-this-week-ending-18-january-2026-a3d228ed216f #Misinformation #SoftwareEngineering #Economics #AI #Management
The Soundtrack of Online Piracy by Patch#piracy #music #video #history #technology #chiptune #keygen #edm #electronic #loops #invisiblehand #economics #software #gaming #eattherich #fyp #documentary
Edited 256d ago
Since “there is…no appetite in Washington to tackle the ($36 trillion) debt,” the wealthy are tying themselves in knots to figure out—
get this—
Not how to get out of debt (per se) but how to shift the debt inward—
/1 of 4 🧵
#USA #USEconomy #economics #USdebt
“Forget the Mar-a-Lago Accord” —
To help the US get out of its “explosive debt,” a Deutsche Bank strategist introduces the ‘Pennsylvania plan’
mar 15
5 min
How to kill the goose which lays golden eggs. University layoffs.. censorship, research shutdowns, cuts to basic research in government foundations and agencies, universities revoking degrees, and all the crazy shit ICE is doing, I certainly painting an American education and a unique fashion.
And you can have a side of deadly preventable diseases!
Edited 335d ago
BREAKING: Attorney General Bondi says she will "move the court tomorrow to unseal the Epstein grand jury transcripts."
#news #finance #economics #stocks #options
US Economy Flashing Warning Signs—
with the services sector showing signs of stagnation~
Services make up ~”more than 2/3 of overall US economic activity,” yet seem to get little attention from the Trump Admin, which is highly focused on the production of goods.
The data from The Institute for Supply Management coincides with the BLS’s revised jobs report (which #trump fired the BLS commissioner over).
/1🧵
#USA #USeconomy #economics
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* https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2024/07/the-rise-of-services-in-the-us-economy/
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-05/us-service-activity-nearly-stagnates-as-employment-contracts
Edited 196d ago
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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Iran vs. Israel... On the Blockchain
The cease fire between Israel and Iran does not appear to apply to cyber warfare. #Tether and other #stablecoin companies have been seizing a lot of Iranians' assets almost certainly at Israel's request... which is kind of funny when you know that:
1) Tether has more or less openly encouraged Iranians to use Tether as a way to evade sanctions for years
2) Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair spends a lot of time with Tether's founders.
(RTs appreciated)
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/israel-vs-iran-on-the-blockchain
#iran #israel #HowardLutnick #economics #netanyahu #gaza #uspol #uspolitics #MiddleEastCrisis #Nobitex #Citex #IRGC
Edited 176d ago
US tariffs boil down to a regressive sales tax that largely affects non-wealthy people after the removal of the de minimis exclusion. Combined with the bill that reduced the tax burden of the wealthy and corporations, the net result is to accelerate the movement of wealth to the wealthy. That's been happening for decades, but at this point it's now eroding ordinary peoples' hobbies to the point that they might have to give them up.
https://mastodon.social/users/jasonkoebler/statuses/115174753970647636
#USPol #economics #tariffs
https://mastodon.social/users/jasonkoebler/statuses/115174753970647636
#USPol #economics #tariffs
A subtoot: corporations, and corporate(-like) behavior, are political. Anyone claiming that corporate-like work is apolitical--work that includes business-friendly software development whether it occurs within the walls of a corporate entity or not--is either naive or deliberately obfuscating reality.
"Politics" isn't only about institutions. It's about organizing large numbers of people to do something they wouldn't otherwise do. Corporations organize large numbers of people to do things they probably wouldn't do if they weren't paid and/or didn't need the money to live. 10,000 people wouldn't spontaneously get together and spend the best hours of their days for months building a commercial jet airliner if there weren't corporate structures in place and a society that keeps them close enough to deprivation that they will do this in exchange for money.
#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #software #OpenSourceSoftware #tech #dev #SoftwareDevelopment #politics #economics #corporations
"Politics" isn't only about institutions. It's about organizing large numbers of people to do something they wouldn't otherwise do. Corporations organize large numbers of people to do things they probably wouldn't do if they weren't paid and/or didn't need the money to live. 10,000 people wouldn't spontaneously get together and spend the best hours of their days for months building a commercial jet airliner if there weren't corporate structures in place and a society that keeps them close enough to deprivation that they will do this in exchange for money.
#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #software #OpenSourceSoftware #tech #dev #SoftwareDevelopment #politics #economics #corporations
Edited 61d ago
A few inchoate thoughts on Gas Town, since I think this example has more to it than “it’s just a meth binge/crypto scam/one-shot AI poisoning”. Part of the reason I think this is that some of the rhetoric it deploys dovetails perfectly with broader trends and phenomena, and I think it's worth pulling those out.
1. Economists from the physiocrats (18th century) onward promised society freedom from material deprivation and hard physical labor in exchange for submitting to an economic arrangement of society
2. In a country like the US, material deprivation and hard physical labor have been significantly reduced since then:
1. Economists from the physiocrats (18th century) onward promised society freedom from material deprivation and hard physical labor in exchange for submitting to an economic arrangement of society
2. In a country like the US, material deprivation and hard physical labor have been significantly reduced since then:
Though too many clearly still suffer too much, a large proportion of people live free from fear of starvation or lack of shelter
The US has deindustralized, meaning hard physical labor is not the reality for a lot of people. For a lot of people labor is emotional or symbolic (“knowledge work”)
In other words, for lots of people the economic promise has been fulfilled
It is not coincidental that “Gas Town”’s announcement post mentioned Towers of Hanoi, an undergraduate CS student homework problem that for most students requires thinking hard. It’s designed to encourage a kind of “eureka” moment where recursion as a computer programming technique becomes more clear. GT claims to fulfill the promise of not having to think hard like this anymore: the LLMs will do that thinking for you
It is not coincidental that Gas Town is described as being very expensive. Economic power in the form of asset accumulation is what earns you freedom in this way of conceiving things. If you want the freedom from having to think hard, you’d better accumulate assets
Since the promise is greater collective freedom, endeavoring to accumulate assets is, in this view, a collective good
This differs from effective altruism and other “do good by doing well” conceptions. Rather, the very mechanism of economics produces collective wealth, so the story goes, which means the more active one is as an economic agent, the more collective good one produces (“wealth” and “good” being conflated)
Accumulation of assets is the scorecard, so to speak, of such enhanced economic activity, and the individual reward can then be freedom from having to think hard
Lotka’s maximum power principle (supposedly) dictates that those entities that transform the most power into useful organization are most fit from an evolutionary standpoint
Ernst Juenger’s notion of “total mobilization” brings this principle to politics/political economy/geopolitics: those nations that “totally” mobilize their national resources are the ones that will dominate geopolitically
See, for instance, the RAND Corporation’s Commission on the National Defense Strategy: “The Commission finds that the U.S. military lacks both the capabilities and the capacity required to be confident it can deter and prevail in combat. It needs to do a better job of incorporating new technology at scale; field more and higher-capability platforms, software, and munitions; and deploy innovative operational concepts to employ them together better.” (emphasis mine). In summary: the US is about to be outcompeted (lacks fitness); in response, it should go big (“at scale”, “more”) in an organized way (“deploy innovative operational concepts”, “employ them together better”)
The rhetoric around LLM-based AI includes similar language, exemplified in the GT post: burn through as much infrastructural resources as possible to produce organized outputs “at scale”, while avoiding having human beings think too hard to produce those outputs, an indication that the power was burned to produce useful organization
LLM-based AI plays a prominent role in US federal government strategy, particularly military strategy, with language about dominance serving to justify its use
It is not coincidental that Gas Town uses many orders of magnitude more resources to solve the Towers of Hanoi problem (“Burn All The Gas” Town). This rhetoric dovetails perfectly with the “total mobilization” concept
Edited 21d ago
Why Every Senior Developer I Know Is Planning Their Exit, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
i keep talking about how fantastic engagement on #Mastodon is
But i actually have a test, & it can also answer a question
i received feedback from #econsky from a Uni Econ Prof, so i'm curious what i'll hear from #economics or whatever they use on #Mastodon
Back in '08, i was listening to #RobertReich beat the stupidity out of kudlow & stephen moore. it led me to my hypothesis on
The Disaggregation of Supply Side Economics
i welcome feedback - from economists💙
What I’ve been reading this week ending 11 January 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-this-week-ending-11-january-2026-2cfb895c1fd1 #economics #statistics #pricing #vaccines #lean #liberalism
What I’ve been reading (watching, and listening to) this week ending 25 January 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-watching-and-listening-to-this-week-ending-25-january-2026-9c368055fb96
#Lean #Depression #SoftwareEngineering #Politics #Economics #AI #Science #ProductManagement
What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 8 February 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-8-february-2026-9f887c2b6715 #geopolitics #strategy #engineering #economics #mvp #physics
"The National Institutes of Health has, in large part, managed to withstand the Trump administration’s attempts to slash its budget and upend how it distributes grants, thanks to decisions from the courts and Congress. But the agency now faces a growing vacuum in leadership in its top ranks — one that offers the administration a highly unusual opportunity to reshape NIH to its vision."
#healthcare #NIH #biomedical #research #science #security #economics #USpol