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R enthusiast. History reader. Walker. Retired Director of Institutional Research, Yale University. www.johngoldin.com

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Jamison Foser's avatar Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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LEFT: Wall-to-wall coverage RIGHT: Paragraph 20 of one of the articles

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In 2025 will the NYT write a summary of how they allowed Donald Trump to glide to re-election?

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I asked chatGPT for an explanation and it did well: The irony lies in the fact that this sticker itself is violating the prohibition rule, but it is also allowed because it states the rule.

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John Dellaporta's avatar John Dellaporta @johndellaporta.bsky.social
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

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Adam Gurri's avatar Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
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The thing about taking statutory interpretation away from the agencies is that Congress actually has power over those agencies, but does not have power over the Court. It’s power grab in the guise of helping; it’s “helping” in a paternalistic, condescending, unchecked manner.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie's avatar Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
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Aaand here is the end result of my diligence

Today in Snyder v. United States, the Supreme Court basically said it’s not actually a bribe unless it’s from the Bribery region of France; otherwise it’s just sparkling pay-to-play

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/snyde...

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.

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Philip Bump's avatar Philip Bump @pbump.com
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Maybe among some.

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Tim Onion's avatar Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social
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It's gonna be fucking bad. Much worse than you think. Just get prepared.

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Chris Hayes's avatar Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Great question. The answer is yes because of the psychological effect on other traders. Once US comes in and say “we’re gonna sell into the market until the price drops” others abandon their long positions and the price goes down. And once that precedent is set it’s hard to go back.

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Chris Hayes's avatar Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Joe Biden pulled off perhaps the greatest oil trade of all time and in the process broke OPEC's grip and basically no one knows about it. We did a long segment on it last night and it's fascinating and worth your time.

www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch...

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David Kurtz's avatar David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social
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Don’t be confused by the 2-step shuffle Trump did of disclaiming his intent to commit a bad act that he says he has the right to commit. Committing or threatening to commit bad acts is the classic strongman move, but so is promising to forbear from committing a bad act.

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ex-Lethality Jane's avatar ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social
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On my second deployment an EOD guy (soldier whose job is to get rid of explosives, very skilled and dangerous work) died because he was standing in line at a dining facility on a major, relatively safe base, during a re-supply mission, and a mortar randomly fell on him. I think about that a lot.

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John Goldin's avatar John Goldin @johngoldin.bsky.social
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I liked the Osborne piece. every.to/the-crazy-on... I still have an Osborne. It wasn't really mine but I ended up with it. It hasn't been powered on in 30+ years. I wouldn't try to turn it on without a fire extinguisher at hand.

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R.L. Stollar's avatar R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social
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"Beyond his goal of eliminating the U.S. Department of Education, Trump has also stated that he will attempt to slash education funding, mandate prayer in public schools, and ban ideas that challenge right-wing dogma."

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John Goldin's avatar John Goldin @johngoldin.bsky.social
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In my day job in 1983-84 I had a lot of dealings with IBM and I did not see any sign of dancing. It was a frustrating organization to deal with.

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John Goldin's avatar John Goldin @johngoldin.bsky.social
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I was very excited when I saw it for sale in a Computerland store. It sold for $40 so my royalty was $4 per copy. It was basically obsolete when the IBM XT came out in 1983. In 1984 I used my IBM royalties to buy a Mac and also buy an Apple Lisa for software development, an expensive device.

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In the fall of 1981 I wrote a program on an Osborne to catalog floppy disks. I submitted my program an it was accepted. TI called it the Floppy Disk Librarian, but IBM said floppy disks were to be called diskettes. And so in fall of 1982 it was released as the Diskette Librarian.

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At the time IBM was worried that there wasn’t enough software available for the PC because it was not compatible with CP/M operating system for 8-bit processors t the time. They announced an external submission program to lure software developers. Here's the contents page:

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John Goldin's avatar John Goldin @johngoldin.bsky.social
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In 1981 I followed the news as best I could pre-internet. I devoured my copies of Byte and Creative Computing as soon as they arrived in the mail. It was fun to read this article layout all the history that I was only distantly aware of back at the time it all happened.

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John Goldin's avatar John Goldin @johngoldin.bsky.social
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I just did some googling to remind myself of the order of events. I keep seeing the quote “At the time, one analyst remarked: ‘IBM bringing out a personal computer would be like teaching an elephant to tap dance.’” I haven’t found the origin of that quote.

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I love this story by @garius.bsky.social about Don Estridge and the creation of the IBM PC. every.to/the-crazy-on... It's a fascinating story and well told. Back then I was a personal computer fan boy. I had bought a TRS-80 in 1979 and ordered an IBM PC shortly after it came out in 1981.

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The way in which the Park Cities — which sit right in the damn middle of the city of Dallas — get away with their own taxation, police force, schools, etc. used to be so maddening to me when living there. And everyone just considered it fine!

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for those unaware, andersen is a leading sars-cov-2 expert who has extensively studied (actual studies, not substacks) the origins of the virus

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This happened to me around 2012. Two deputies bust into my home & arrested me for missing court. I spent 3 days in lockup. Only I hadn’t missed court and the rationale I eventually got was that the paperwork must’ve been misfiled. It took 16 hours to process me out & I lost my job.

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“China’s role in middle America’s deindustrialization is now widely acknowledged. But the role that the U.S. corporate tax code plays in that deindustrialization is not. Allowing American corporations…to use tax-avoidance strategies…is unhealthy for the global economy” and bad for US

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“…most important effect of bilateral tariffs was to lengthen supply chains, not to shrink overall global trade or to reduce the United States’ fundamental reliance on Chinese-sourced critical inputs.” Seems important t.co/VazwEq4ioJ

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John Goldin's avatar John Goldin @johngoldin.bsky.social
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I got the book on Hoopla from my local library. The start does have the feel of a high minded disaster commission report.

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This is the best Trump verdict comment I’ve seen so far. It’s actually true.

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Today's arts & crafts - a scale model of the survivorship bias airplane

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Jonathan Bernstein's avatar Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social
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OK, I laughed at this one. It's pretty clear that hundreds of years of normal procedure are all a comprehensive plot against Trump.

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Way back in 2001 and 2002 I was struggling to understand what was happening in U S politics. It seemed crazy. And then I read the Texas Republican platform and learned the craziness had been there all along. So read this report on current Texas platform. www.texastribune.org/2024/05/25/t...

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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I think honestly a key to Trump's popularity. He inverted the theatrical aspect from one where the Meet The Press class were in on the joke and the conservative voters were the rubes, to one where the conservative chuds were in on the joke and the DC crowd were the rubes bsky.app/profile/rinc...

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The Anti-Liberal Left Has a Fascism Problem   Prominent leftwing intellectuals are allowing their singular, disdain-driven focus on (neo-) liberalism to completely distort their perspective on the Right.   New piece:

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Hildur Knútsdóttir's avatar Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social
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This article is so good and packs so many killer lines that are so insightful that I literally could not decide on which to copy and paste here so just go read the whole thing.

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