@MattBruenig Matt Bruenig

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Social category influence finance 14.5% technology brands 9.92% countries 5.34% stocks 4.58% social networks 3.82% nba 0.76% nfl 0.76% celebrities 0.76% financial services 0.76%

Social topic influence llm #77, level #1795, in the 5.34%, strike #441, youtube 3.82%, if you 3.82%, public #2168, how to 3.05%, claude code #220, health #2538

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @dkthomp @kelseytuoc @jaredrfrancis @colindr @noahsloss @theargumentmag @thestalwart @bubblingcreek @mtkonczal @artclone1 @mcottone @bigdeaner @jamandabop @riccoja @ppmcderm @momorganmoprobz @mattyglesias @zaidjilani @capitanojacko @devedy

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"Again with the comedy of a second-gen Cuban immigrant maneuvering his way into the federal government and clearly using it to pursue his stereotypically Cuban-immigrant LatAm fixations that are totally irrelevant to most Americans saying this. Armies do not fight for abstractions. They fight for a people a nation and a way of life. That is what we are defending. https://t.co/vxxg3hFqT2 Armies do not fight for abstractions. They fight for a people a nation and a way of life. That is what we are defending. https://t.co/vxxg3hFqT2"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:29Z 186.9K followers, 325.8K engagements

"@CentralUnplan @KelseyTuoc @colindr @noahsloss That's not true. Most US workers are covered by union-enabling legal frameworks. In fact the only place that is not true is state-level public sector workers (in some states obviously not California). It is a departure from the US labor relations norm to not enable unions"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:02Z 186.9K followers, 12.5K engagements

"@TheStalwart @AlecMacGillis There is skill in using it because you need to know how to navigate around its limits"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:29Z 186.9K followers, 17.5K engagements

"@bubbling_creek @KelseyTuoc @colindr @noahsloss The two things are totally unrelated and don't trade off with one another. Whatever level of welfare state you have you still have to separately decide what labor regime you want (whether slavery feudalism at-will collective bargaining). It doesn't select itself"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:29Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@bubbling_creek @KelseyTuoc @colindr @noahsloss Don't seem to see that at all in the data from the countries with the highest unionization rates"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:38Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@NotJackKemp college football more so state-owned teams"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:24Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@mucha_carlos If only they had prompted claude code to write a python script to derive the figure from a csv"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:26Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"NFL really needs to do something to solve the crowd noise problem. Aside from hearing loss issues nobody wants to watch a game where the players cant communicate strategy to one another"
X Link 2026-01-25T23:46Z 186.9K followers, 3.5M engagements

"looking at my half-done aluminum plant that I built with the understanding that there would be protections from foreign imports sigh he got me again BOMBSHELL @FT scoop: Trump admin mulls cutting steel/aluminum tariffs bc these taxes 1) raise US prices; 2) are insanely complicated; 3) had other unintented consequences (incl lobbying). They're admitting in other words that gravity exists. Good. https://t.co/o4RkfMWxlF BOMBSHELL @FT scoop: Trump admin mulls cutting steel/aluminum tariffs bc these taxes 1) raise US prices; 2) are insanely complicated; 3) had other unintented consequences (incl"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:30Z 186.9K followers, 116.1K engagements

"@AlbertoMiguelF5 Your rebuttal which is that it's fine and good is OK. But the idea that foreign policy agenda-setting should be "a right only to be given to someone named Albright or Blinken not Rubio" is indeed a good distillation of what Miller is saying"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:22Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@Ed453164711 are you worried Cuba is going to shoot missiles at the US"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:23Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@EnriqueDiazAlva Though I suppose you could also flip it on its head and see that there is something uniquely American about it in a beautiful way. Even our blood-and-soil white-nationalist immigration/foreign policy faction is led by minorities and recent immigrants like Miller and Rubio"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:05Z 186.9K followers, 10.9K engagements

"@KelseyTuoc @colindr @noahsloss Ok so it's not additional legal protections you are concerning yourself with. It's just you prefer an at-will regime. I think it's pretty clear empirically that allowing workers to bargain as a unit (just as employers do) generates better/fairer/more egalitarian outcomes"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:18Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@jaredrfrancis @TheArgumentMag In labor law we already have an understanding of this idea that certain sectors are potentially different when it comes to striking. Railroads and airlines are treated differently. Health care institutions are treated differently. Got nothing to do with public/private"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:22Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@jaredrfrancis @TheArgumentMag What Kelsey really wants to argue is that education should be in this railroad/airline/health care bucket because education strikes cause too much disruption etc. But she's spinning her wheels on ownership as if she'd be fine with the strike if SF school were owned by KIPP"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:24Z 186.9K followers, 11.4K engagements

"NLRB judge issued a decision yesterday in which he concluded that a Starbucks manager who was testifying for the company was not credible because he spoke in "corporate speak" including calling a dirty store a "cleanliness opportunity." 😂"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:46Z 186.9K followers, 102.7K engagements

"No tax on tips. I mean right"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:57Z 186.9K followers, 12.7K engagements

"Making Labor Law More Accessible with LLMs Read my piece at OnLabor https://onlabor.org/making-labor-law-more-accessible-with-llms/ https://onlabor.org/making-labor-law-more-accessible-with-llms/"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:30Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"I think this kind of discussion demystifies LLMs in a helpful way. The thing that keeps coming to my mind on this was the reaction to Moltbook where people didn't understand that this was just feeding posts back and forth to often the same LLM models totally meaningless. Joseph Heath coined the term 'highbrow misinformation' for climate reporting that was technically correct but arranged every line to give readers a worse understanding of the subject. I think that 'stochastic parrots/spicy autocomplete' is similarly highbrow misinformation. https://t.co/cJlDmvkW10 Joseph Heath coined the term"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:38Z 186.9K followers, 61.5K engagements

"Discourse is messed up because people are associating the claim "LLM is simple/normal tech" with "LLMs will have no impact" and on the other side that "LLM is magical tech" with "LLms will have huge impact." But whether it's simple or not is different from the impact question"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:49Z 186.9K followers, 20K engagements

"People can wrongly jump from "it's simple/normal" to "therefore it's useless" just as they wrongly jump from "it's very useful" to "therefore it's magical." Anyways watch my Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watchv=pT8TK0VA09s https://www.youtube.com/watchv=pT8TK0VA09s"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:50Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Systematically walking through all 1600+ employer rules analyzed by the Board under the Lutheran Heritage/Stericycle coercive rules standard with Google Gemini. Fun stuff"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:12Z 186.9K followers, 13.1K engagements

"@bubbling_creek @KelseyTuoc @colindr @noahsloss For any given level of welfare state picking collective bargaining is the more egalitarian approach than picking one of the other ones"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:29Z 186.9K followers, 10.7K engagements

"@jeffspross Similar sorts of issues arise in other industries and there are special rules for them most similarly in the health care industry where the right to strike is very different than other industries despite being privately owned and all that"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:36Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@jaredrfrancis @TheArgumentMag Core of her strike objection remains whether the schools are owned publicly or by KIPP. School buses are good comparison. Some districts operate buses publicly others contract out. Kelsey thinks the contracted ones should be able to strike but not the public ones Nonsensical"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:29Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@jdcmedlock Like I get how being able to put an LLM inside a robot could help make it more functional. But these robots you see videos are struggling with things like picking up a stick. Doesn't seem like an LLM-solvable problem though potentially solvable"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:48Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@Artclone1 @jaredrfrancis @TheArgumentMag That's what you see in the Nordics a lot. Allowing solidarity strikes and intermittent strikes creates a much larger range of activity you can do and let's you fine-tune the level of disruptiveness and who is affected by it much more. Both are illegal in the US"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:56Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Soon people will come around to the thing I have already come around on: simply lop a zero off the currency. Price level comes down without "deflation" in the ordinary sense. Psychological reset. the people want deflation which would to be clear kill everyone the people want deflation which would to be clear kill everyone"
X Link 2026-01-22T15:07Z 186.9K followers, 107.8K engagements

"An update on the ACLU NLRB saga The ACLU Is Attempting to Limit the Speech Rights of All Private Sector Workers (link below)"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:22Z 186.9K followers, 453.5K engagements

"Subsequent events have proved that Belichick simply had little to do with the Patriots success. Brady went on to win without him as did the Patriots front office. Bill Belichick the 8-time Super Bowl-winning HC is not a first-ballot Hall of Famer per @SethWickersham and @DVNJr. Belichick fell short of the [--] out of [--] votes needed for induction to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. https://t.co/ooJutI0C0Q Bill Belichick the 8-time Super Bowl-winning HC is not a first-ballot Hall of Famer per @SethWickersham and @DVNJr. Belichick fell short of the [--] out of 50"
X Link 2026-01-27T23:52Z 186.9K followers, 149.9K engagements

"Had Claude Code make over my NLRB Research website"
X Link 2026-02-01T17:00Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@PEWilliams_ What are you saying is the problem Clearing out your current inbox or handling future flows"
X Link 2026-02-02T21:55Z 186.9K followers, 20.6K engagements

"must be fun to make the best model avoid all image/video slop stuff focus on enterprise application and then dunk on the flailing first mover Anthropic just took a big swipe at OpenAI's decision to put ads in ChatGPT. Anthropic is airing ads mocking ChatGPT ads during the Super Bowl and they're hilarious 😅 Anthropic is also committing to no ads in Claude https://t.co/LR1v4xz9ds https://t.co/PXoaZtmCWA Anthropic just took a big swipe at OpenAI's decision to put ads in ChatGPT. Anthropic is airing ads mocking ChatGPT ads during the Super Bowl and they're hilarious 😅 Anthropic is also"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:06Z 186.9K followers, 128.9K engagements

"@xzenova well codex is the harness is GPT [---] better than Opus [---] consensus seems to be that it is not"
X Link 2026-02-04T21:12Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"I will never watch another Dallas Mavericks basketball game BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks are trading 10-time NBA All-Star Anthony Davis Jaden Hardy D'Angelo Russell and Dante Exum to the Washington Wizards for Khris Middleton AJ Johnson Malaki Branham Marvin Bagley III [--] first-round picks and [--] second-rounders sources tell ESPN. https://t.co/sfrQQubI5i BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks are trading 10-time NBA All-Star Anthony Davis Jaden Hardy D'Angelo Russell and Dante Exum to the Washington Wizards for Khris Middleton AJ Johnson Malaki Branham Marvin Bagley III [--] first-round picks and 3"
X Link 2026-02-05T00:21Z 186.9K followers, 29.5K engagements

"@lavitalenta The luka trade was genius. Nico got AD Kyrie and generational talent Cooper Flagg on the same team ready to win championships once everyone is healthy. And now they are pissing that all away"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:21Z 186.9K followers, 19.9K engagements

"@DKThomp what does bubble even mean"
X Link 2026-02-06T02:53Z 186.9K followers, 16K engagements

"@Noahpinion Census does do that except for black Hispanics such as from the Dominican Republic"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:04Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@ShawnFremstad Isn't there a provocative theory that being straight is to blame since gay men go to college at the same rate as women"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:03Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@tysonbrody i will never watch another skills challenge after what they did to CP3 and wemby last year"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:06Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@tedcruz Proportional representation now"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:17Z 186.9K followers, 12.9K engagements

"@ShawnFremstad TANF or at least AFDC made more sense as the "secondary" component of the survivors insurance not UI. But yes the proper way to construct income-replacers is earnings-related formula or a minimum benefit whichever is higher. We don't do that"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:07Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@zendaimyo No way around payment processing. But these e-commerce platforms people use pay both stripe and a platform fee"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:17Z 186.9K followers, 13.8K engagements

"Technical Details of My LLM-Generated Book -- https://mattbruenig.com/2026/02/10/technical-details-of-my-llm-generated-book/ https://mattbruenig.com/2026/02/10/technical-details-of-my-llm-generated-book/"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:38Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@ChadNotChud Gemini flash has the [--] million token context window and there are some cases that are quite long (Anthropic's models have 200k token window but they have a [--] million window now in beta). Also cheaper. Claude has best writing styles. Opus overkill for writing text. Sonnet cheaper"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:08Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@binarybits @rcobooth It really depends. Substack is mostly just a mailgun/stripe wrapper. If a large share of your subscribers are paid subscribers and you are a big account there would be a lot of savings. And you can bring your users with you since you have their stripe subs"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:53Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@LY87888724 @Leigh_Phillips Hallucinations and errors can be greatly reduced by carefully providing it the source material and prompting well but they cannot be eliminated. So you have to set up your system to be resilient to that"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:37Z 186.9K followers, 13K engagements

"@PuckFupett69 @ChachaMarquis NLRB uniquely suited for this because it makes nearly 100% of its substantive law through adjudications. The statute itself is one of those old-timey ones that just say things like "unfair labor practices are illegal" and leave it to the agency to figure it out"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:00Z 186.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@ModeledBehavior @DKThomp Why even bother trying to convince people. You can show people what it can do but doing stuff with it"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:28Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@aoxamaxoa @DKThomp @ModeledBehavior At the highest level of abstraction the idea is just more output per unit of human labor. Someone working with Claude Code can produce much more than without in certain professions at least"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:53Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@mtkonczal @DKThomp Can cut out the academic by seeing if you can replicate things already out there (also how I taught myself how to do statistical coding). -- https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/2017941353989099669 Having some LLM fun today. Can you recreate that Average Wealth by Generation by Age graph with one prompt Yes. https://t.co/oqezn88cRk https://x.com/MattBruenig/status/2017941353989099669 Having some LLM fun today. Can you recreate that Average Wealth by Generation by Age graph with one prompt Yes. https://t.co/oqezn88cRk"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:43Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@mtkonczal @DKThomp Ultimately this is just like any other API that you send text to and then it sends you text back. It's a very weird version of that sort of thing. If you are clever you can do a lot with these text exchanges but that's still all the LLM is doing. I think people don't know that"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:53Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@adamjohnsonCHI @M_Cottone @DKThomp Look at Blurred Lines which was until people developed personal dislike of Robin Thicke a very successful song that seemed to be quite popular. Judge said it was so similar to a Marvin Gaye song that they had to pay millions in damages"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:07Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@riccoja @mtkonczal @DKThomp It's the ultimate vindication of unix is it not. I mean it's notable that the way it leaped into being "an agent" was just to hook it up to unix tools that are designed for piping text back and forth"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:01Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@riccoja @mtkonczal @DKThomp If I have time this weekend I might make a youtube video of me creating my own "coding agent" in Bash (just like looping over curl calls to claude)"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:03Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@MattZeitlin they should be banned it's worse than football concussion every turn"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:37Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@junior_miller Is Mark a savvy investor He sold his company for a lot. Has he been all that savvy in the last twenty years"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:26Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@ppmcderm All the "see the doctor you like" stuff is nonsense in every direction. What do people even mean by this Doctors retire. They die. They move. They change what insurance they take. Your insurance changes. etc. etc"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:31Z 187K followers, [---] engagements

"Alright. My LLM-generated book about the top [---] NLRB cases is now actually done. Learned a lot. Already got ideas for how to do a better version of this sort of thing for targeted areas of NLRB law. I will probably put it out next week"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:26Z 187K followers, 17K engagements

"For those interested in the technical details of my LLM-generated labor law reference book -- https://mattbruenig.com/2026/02/10/technical-details-of-my-llm-generated-book/ @MattBruenig Might be useful to have an article explaining how you did it. https://mattbruenig.com/2026/02/10/technical-details-of-my-llm-generated-book/ @MattBruenig Might be useful to have an article explaining how you did it"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:31Z 186.9K followers, 18.9K engagements

"The fascinating thing about the Green Bay packers discourse is that "public ownership" is thrown around over and over again to describe a private shareholder-owned company. It's a weird private shareholder-owned company but what's the public part In the modern era of pro sports major league executives have throttled public ownership preferring to run the leagues like old-boy networks with little publicly disclosed financial information. But there is one exception. https://t.co/4tIme0sBOM https://t.co/EsFr9jgkxH In the modern era of pro sports major league executives have throttled public"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:15Z 187K followers, 17.9K engagements

"@Zebbart See but with college football I think they really do. Like a lot of college football fandom really seems to be oriented around state flagship universities the idea that say the University of Arkansas is an institution that belongs to Arkansans"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:04Z 187K followers, 14.7K engagements

"MY RETURN TO YOUTUBE What even is an autonomous AI agent Let me demystify https://www.youtube.com/watchv=pT8TK0VA09s https://www.youtube.com/watchv=pT8TK0VA09s"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:30Z 187K followers, 17K engagements

"i swear to god Sources: The NFL informed all [--] teams today in a memo that it prevailed in its grievance vs. the NFLPA and its team report cards.An arbitrator determined that the NFLPAs conduct violated the CBA and ordered it to stop making public any future report cards. https://t.co/mss5WUQjhF Sources: The NFL informed all [--] teams today in a memo that it prevailed in its grievance vs. the NFLPA and its team report cards.An arbitrator determined that the NFLPAs conduct violated the CBA and ordered it to stop making public any future report cards. https://t.co/mss5WUQjhF"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:43Z 186.9K followers, 36.1K engagements

"If that $30000 were to get moved from box 12DD to box [--] I would be pissed though. I want that money electronically sent to Cigna not the Treasury"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:06Z 187K followers, 12.2K engagements

"@MoMorganMoProbz I'd rather give $30k to Cigna than $20k to the US Treasury because I hate tax"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:26Z 187K followers, [---] engagements

"@tomer_stern The underlying LLM also is not learning. Opus [---] or GPT [---] or whatever is a specific thing. They train new models separately from anything having to do with the using of the existing ones"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:03Z 187K followers, [---] engagements

"@mattyglesias @TheStalwart @AlecMacGillis Things like context management still an issue"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:36Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Given the whole recursive aspect of all this where you can use current LLMs to train future LLMs seems like you are always going to have the option of using free open source models that are only a few months or so behind frontier models. All else equal that's a lot of fun OpenAI has warned US lawmakers that its Chinese rival DeepSeek is using unfair and increasingly sophisticated methods to extract results from leading US AI models to train the next generation of its breakthrough R1 chatbot https://t.co/siq46jRyM1 OpenAI has warned US lawmakers that its Chinese rival DeepSeek is using unfair"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:04Z 186.9K followers, 17K engagements

"@exante_me @jaredrfrancis @TheArgumentMag Not really an answer. I am asking you in a regime where the schools were private (such a regime could exist look at health care) should the rule be that the teachers can strike or not"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:38Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"In keeping with the spirit of the overall project I had Claude code set up a little flask app with stripe/resend integrations so I can sell my book without having to pay out to any of e-commerce platforms"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:43Z 186.9K followers, 19K engagements

"@BigMeanInternet Happening in romance novels though that genre is uniquely formulaic and full of self-publishing"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:06Z 186.9K followers, 29.7K engagements

"tax time you know what that means get to see how much health insurance costs"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:57Z 186.9K followers, 16.2K engagements

"If I worked overtime I could get all three of the wacky trump tax asymmetries"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:51Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"LLMs quite good at this sort of thing We built Jikipedia a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal. It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated. Here is https://t.co/QOSWsQKMKd We built Jikipedia a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal. It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated. Here is"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:21Z 186.9K followers, 37.9K engagements

"@lemmy_caution2 Definitely. And I find it very weird that people seem to be offended by it. That suggests a level of investment in a computer program that is not healthy. If anything telling people it's just a better autocomplete seems like a good thing less alarming"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:06Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@bubbling_creek @KelseyTuoc @colindr @noahsloss High social income floors greatly reduce the downside risks of trying something and failing. Good benefits for unemployed people make job transitions less painful facilitating labor reallocation reducing resistance to layoffs RIFs and restructuring"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:42Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@petermlaffin which is why Cuba should be deprived of oil imports of course"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:49Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@AlbertoMiguelF5 It's at odds with the blood-and-soil nationalism that Rubio is himself aping and more broadly at odds with the MAGA paranoia about immigrants coming into the US and twisting it towards their own ends. Rubio is doing the thing they say their policies are aimed at stopping"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:21Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@bubbling_creek @KelseyTuoc @colindr @noahsloss These little toy mental models you are working with don't take into consideration all sorts of countervailing aspects of egalitarianism. Wage compression makes it cheaper to hire "higher-skilled" workers. High wage floors push to bankruptcy the most unproductive firms"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:39Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@Artclone1 @jaredrfrancis @TheArgumentMag Like it's easy to imagine in Finland a scenario where the teachers struck for one day. Came back. Indicated they would do it again in a couple of weeks if no agreement is reached. If things got real heated then the postal service might strike instead of the teaches"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:58Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@ZaidJilani @jaredrfrancis @TheArgumentMag But again this is a point totally unrelated to publicness. You are making a case for why education should as an industry have different strike rules but this would hold regardless of public or not. So the analogy is to the special rules for airlines/rail/healthcare"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:40Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"The [----] numbers are in for my house's solar panels. Up to $5900 of return (net of solar loan terms)"
X Link 2026-01-26T21:43Z 186.9K followers, 13.2K engagements

"@dmrtcwsh @MattZeitlin replacing human labor with energy inputs seems like an interesting idea worth exploring"
X Link 2026-01-27T00:29Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"In my new database of everything filed on every NLRB docket I found that I got a cite in a brief filed by the Starbucks union. Fun stuff"
X Link 2026-01-27T02:33Z 186.9K followers, 11.2K engagements

"is it more populist to get your meds from the postal service or cvs what are we doing Any time we get weather like this I wonder & worry about neighbors pressured by Big Insurance into getting their prescription medications through the mail. No mail today. Local pharmacies are open though. https://t.co/GITQnYX9vs Any time we get weather like this I wonder & worry about neighbors pressured by Big Insurance into getting their prescription medications through the mail. No mail today. Local pharmacies are open though. https://t.co/GITQnYX9vs"
X Link 2026-01-27T15:33Z 186.9K followers, 23.7K engagements

"Why on earth are they doing this It's insane. https://www.nlrbedge.com/p/the-aclu-is-attempting-to-limit-the https://www.nlrbedge.com/p/the-aclu-is-attempting-to-limit-the"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:27Z 186.9K followers, 23.6K engagements

"Just seeing the head of Norway's SWF gave this statement on Claude"
X Link 2026-01-27T20:50Z 186.9K followers, 139.3K engagements

"@bigdeaner_ writing complicated SQL queries can take time but I suspect having an LLM that is able to digest and summarize the newsflow and earnings calls of [----] companies is the big time saver"
X Link 2026-01-27T21:39Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@Legal_Fil the Pats front office did a good job signing good defensive players"
X Link 2026-01-28T02:25Z 186.9K followers, 10.8K engagements

"@rightwingkpop @Legal_Fil GMing doesn't get you into the hall of fame"
X Link 2026-01-28T02:52Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@TheStalwart Yes it's because the unit economics are ridiculous. Same as every other industry where there is essentially zero marginal cost per consumer but you can charge above-zero prices: entertainment finance etc"
X Link 2026-01-28T13:37Z 186.9K followers, 41.1K engagements

"@bigdeaner_ @M_Cottone @CapitanoJacko I found the comment interesting because this is the central bank of Norway that operates the SWF considered the most transparent such fund in the world. He gave concrete examples that are plausible time savers. He has no particular incentive to say any of this"
X Link 2026-01-28T14:01Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@bigdeaner_ @M_Cottone @CapitanoJacko As far as notable reactions go you had a very reflexively dismissive reaction but you probably don't know very much about what work the Norwegian SWF workers do (I had to learn all about it for my American SWF proposal)"
X Link 2026-01-28T14:04Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@bigdeaner_ @M_Cottone @CapitanoJacko They already run a very lean operation. Their expense ratio is competitive with something like Vanguard. But for various ESG-related reasons they spend a lot of time monitoring companies meeting with companies and voting their shares. This involves lots of unstructured info"
X Link 2026-01-28T14:08Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@TheStalwart Do we really believe that the people at Anthropic are individually responsible for the value created They didn't invent the transformer and their models in the most literal way possible are fully dependent on the linguistic universe created by the whole of society"
X Link 2026-01-28T15:32Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"It would be https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3561906/this-guy-thinks-football-would-be-much-better-if-everyone-would-just-quiet https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3561906/this-guy-thinks-football-would-be-much-better-if-everyone-would-just-quiet"
X Link 2026-01-28T22:54Z 186.9K followers, 31.5K engagements

"@tim_cato People used to think nonwhites should not be allowed in professional sports. Sports fans sometimes need a wake up call"
X Link 2026-01-28T23:40Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Nico vindicated BREAKING: Luka Doncic has injured what looks to be his ankle and hobbled to the locker room. https://t.co/XxFvjIjUlr BREAKING: Luka Doncic has injured what looks to be his ankle and hobbled to the locker room. https://t.co/XxFvjIjUlr"
X Link 2026-01-29T00:28Z 186.9K followers, 13.2K engagements

"@Noahpinion Very sad when immigrants don't assimilate"
X Link 2026-01-29T18:16Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@Deve_Dy @RichardHanania Libertarianism is an intellectual project that ignores the inherently coercive nature of government-imposed property institutions but then calls out as coercive all measures meant to counteract or balance that coercion"
X Link 2026-01-29T18:29Z 186.9K followers, 47K engagements

"@Deve_Dy @RichardHanania And I mean sure if you simply ignore that property is the most coercive economic institution there can possibly be it's easy to see how every accommodation meant to defang it is incomprehensible"
X Link 2026-01-29T18:31Z 186.9K followers, 16.5K engagements

"@Artclone1 @Deve_Dy @RichardHanania what is total freedom Surely it includes that I am allowed to walk anywhere I'd like without being physically prevented from doing so right Libertarian oppose that. Indeed it is the chief thing that libertarians oppose the freedom to move around"
X Link 2026-01-29T19:03Z 186.9K followers, 21.2K engagements

"Again this argument is conceptually mistaken. The question is whether to use tax or fee revenue to fund buses. If you use fee revenue then that reduces your ability to tax. Stuff like this proceeds as if this tradeoff doesn't exist. https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/06/17/bad-arguments-against-free-buses/ A Better Billion a report by the NYU Marron Institute and the Transit Cost Project on a [--] mile subway expansion we could do instead of free buses https://t.co/wo5VaevYBT https://t.co/IPN9ITxUs4 https://t.co/2rjWPLc0SZ"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:59Z 186.9K followers, 101.2K engagements

"@Navglad Stipulating as a way of constructing the debate that you get to $2 of revenue every time I raise $1 of revenue gets you a win but only because you are granting yourself twice as much money as if tradeoffs don't exist"
X Link 2026-01-30T17:13Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@mattyglesias Any time you see a claim that seems to show a wild gap between two otherwise similar policies it's almost always due to not EMTR-equivalizing or revenue-equivalizing which lets people magically give themselves massively more money than you can access"
X Link 2026-01-30T19:09Z 186.9K followers, 10.1K engagements

"Put an LLM on this to find the good shit"
X Link 2026-01-30T21:53Z 186.9K followers, 22.6K engagements

"@bracketdan Not good to retire numbers eventually you will run out or be forced to go over 99"
X Link 2026-01-30T21:54Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@ddayen Funny to watch the right try to understand the world like this. Welfare reimbursement fraud by some Somali-run businesses reflects their "pastoral culture." Resistance to ICE reflects "Nordic culture." Nevermind that "Pretti" is an Italian surname. Maybe he's anarchist or the mob"
X Link 2026-01-31T10:54Z 186.9K followers, 16.6K engagements

"@ddayen Surname is Rufo I am seeing that's mostly found in Spain Italy and Portugal all places with 20th century dictatorships. Perhaps authoritarianism runs in his blood"
X Link 2026-01-31T10:57Z 186.9K followers, 21.9K engagements

"@nzsd The proposal is not to reduce revenue and cut service. It is to hold revenue the same but change its composition so that it uses less fees and more tax (it already uses a combination of the two)"
X Link 2026-01-31T11:01Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@mateosfo Nope. Has nothing to do with the income level of anybody. It has to do with the fact that fees tradeoff with taxes"
X Link 2026-01-31T16:44Z 186.9K followers, 11.1K engagements

"@mateosfo @FistSteakface @samth @Mental339631 de Blasio ran on a universal pre-k program that required the state legislature to pass specific fiscal policies to achieve. He succeeded in pulling that off. Mamdani is trying the same thing for universal child care (Hochul is on board) and buses. He may or may not succeed"
X Link 2026-02-01T01:06Z 186.9K followers, 15.9K engagements

"But also here is the exact same data except I isolate it at age [--]. Average wealth levels are about the same at [--] for all cohorts. But what happens when we divide that by overall average wealth of that period Again I think inequality might matter"
X Link 2026-02-01T12:43Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@joshuetree Point it to whatever files you have that are determining the look of it and just ask it to look at it and give you three different options for how to redesign the look to make it look better"
X Link 2026-02-01T17:13Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@joshuetree I use terminal. I've not used the desktop app but I assume it's the same thing. So long as it can read/write files it should be able to read whatever files you have and give you some suggested changes"
X Link 2026-02-01T17:15Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@ZaidJilani Can throw some frozen chicken tenders/fries in an air fryer. Maybe [--] or [--] minutes of active work"
X Link 2026-02-01T22:43Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@JuniorMinton @mateosfo @davidcrespo @Mental339631 It really does seem to have a meme-like quality"
X Link 2026-02-01T22:48Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@jeffspross definitely don't need to learn it in person with the supervision of someone who can already do it you can just watch youtube videos"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:17Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@WonderMutt20 @annbauerwriter they were prosecuted and convicted that's how you even know about it"
X Link 2026-02-04T01:59Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@carlo_5518 @ylyzybythyn It's funny to imagine how exactly they would even put ads in it. I mean I guess again everyone is thinking LLM is a browser-based chatbot. But the actual productive uses are API calls. Is the return from the call going to have an ad in it"
X Link 2026-02-04T21:53Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@JunesbeeTCG Of course there is"
X Link 2026-02-05T11:52Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@JunesbeeTCG So the idea here is that because this is so literally a technology that uses everyone's output as the input you'd have the best case for it. My point is just that if you can't do it for this then there really is no point in ever being a socialist. Marx was totally wrong"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:05Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@JunesbeeTCG On the other hand obviously this does happen around the world. Countries nationalize industries or capture industry profits all the time. Recently in Norway the government flipped the switch on the aquaculture industry and started socializing its excess profits"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:06Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@JStein_WaPo need to throw some youtube channels in there at the very least"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:12Z 186.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@steviewelles55 @ebarcuzzi @DKThomp I think it's very plausible. The open source models lag the frontier models ability by maybe a few months or a year. Quite possible that at some point this year you will be able to download and run for free a model as good or better than Opus 4.5"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:35Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@steviewelles55 @ebarcuzzi @DKThomp In a way this would be such a funny outcome all this capitalist money to push out the technological frontier huge productivity improvements and no way to profit"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:38Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@davidshor @RadishHarmers Anyways that was a fun period. The Wallenberg's financed a counter-campaign run by their business federation with the slogan "freedom or socialism" and the labor movement countered with "democracy or Wallenberg rule" (or similar)"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:57Z 186.9K followers, [---] engagements

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