Lived on & off in San Francisco, 1987-90, & while most were still shocked there about #Reagan, there's also been this 'making-it porn' all around the ๐งต speaks of regarding the socialization in the 1980s as a possible link to today's #GOP voters & #MAGA:
And although I was somewhat familiar with the lore, I must admit I've never listened to the original song. Here is it: #MuddyWaters #MusicSky
I just learn that the motif: ๐๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ, which traveled from Muddy Watters (1950) via my favorite rock orchestra's band name (1962) to #Dylan (1965), can be found already in ๐๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ฅ'๐ด 13th song (XIII: 137 ff.): #MusicSky #Homer #RollingStones | #BookSky #History
A happy Sunday everyone!
And while down #MemoryLane: Overall, we spent a very nice evening at ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ซ (www.ericarestaurant.no), where we tried whale carpaccio.
#Norway hunts certain whales (mainly minke whales) under strict annual quotas, which are redefined each year.
Here's my review: goo.gl/maps/2pL1FNE...
He entered them into his #ChatGPT w/ the prompt: 'Using these formulations, write 3 different postcards for Mom, Auntie & Grandma.'
I was honestly shocked when he then wrote the results word for word onto his postcards, wondering how I would feel, if I got such a card.
Happy Friday!
#AIslop
Here my own experience w/ #AIslop from the 'early days' when the term wasn't yet around: Met a young guy in #Alta / #Norge who's been up to #Nordkapp w/ his bicycle & bought some of the designated postcards you get there. We were pondering what he could write on them & I gave him some formulations.
Became aware of the popular talk abt #DysonSpheres in connection w/ the insane valuation proposals for the #SpaceX IPO & the equally insane #energy demand of the #AI industry. @acollierastro.bsky.social has a very entertaining video where she reads the #Dyson paper line by line w/ her audience:
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... a precursor, as it were, of Alan #Sokal, 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,' Social Text 46/47 (1996), 217-252, a joke targeting (French) #postmodernism?
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Is Freeman #Dyson, 'Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation,' Science 131 (1960), 1667 f. (the #DysonSphere paper), which was apparently a joke targeting the alien hunters,...
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Oh boy, why not just sit in your armchair & cut your toe nails? #PhilSky #PolSci #BookSky | #welfare #economics
Well, another one from Robert #Brandom: 'Tweety is a chicken' โ & with a broken wing at that! Who would have thought...?
It's my last try, too:
And, of course, they blew up big time in the #GFC! Washington Mutual, Inc. (WaMu), under CEO Kerry #Killinger (the name alone!), became one of the biggest bank failures in US history, according to Shiller, ibid., 36 (for further references he recommends Jennifer Taub, ๐๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ'๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ด, 2014).
Just learn (via ibid., 125) from Shiller, ๐๐ณ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐น๐ถ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ, 2016, 36 f., that the #fraud that are US ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ฌ were originally not-for-profit investment trusts, then turned to for-profit during the #Reagan yrs but were legally allowed to keep the 'mutual' in their names to deceive the public
We despise #AIslop in #academia, but there's lots of #slop in academic #publishing alreadyโeven w/o #AI.
So, when you write, always ask yourself: Do I have something to say that hasn't been said by everyone else? If you apply this 'test' to every single sentence, you'd save a lot of everyone's time
Nancy Fraser: Iโm inclined to side with those who hold that Habermas at first revivified critical theory but ultimately ended it:
Interesting: "The #IRGC is in effect not just blocking a straitโit is attempting to build an alternative payment rail under live fire. The $2m toll in #yuan is not a fee. It is potentially a proof of concept for a post-dollar energy settlement system, argue some." #Iran #IranWar #oil #oott
Just saw this (via @jwullweber.bsky.social, link to the paper in the reply; I haven't read it yet):
If you copy the #right, you'll get run over by the right.
Same for the German Social Democrats, #SPD, who increasingly lose voters to the #CDU, even to the #AfD, in recent state elections.
Wasn't around yesterday, but here's a good recap from @pkrugman.bsky.social of what happened in the index & oil futures markets around #Trump announcing 5-day extension to his threat of bombing #Iran #energy infrastructureโwhich would be a #WarCrime, of courseโ, if Strait of #Hormuz is not reopened:
Hm, shoulda waited a bit w/ the screenshot ;-). Way lower now. LOD so far: $SPX @ 6536.
Happy #Opex #Equinox (is that a thing...?)
Coming down to Oct/Nov levels. And it's quarterly #Opex...: $SPX $SPY #ES_F.
But the good news is: #Spring begins today, too! So, have a wonderful weekend everyone!
All while #Fed already exited Network of Central Banks & Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) & withdrew federal bank regulatory agencies from interagency Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management for Large Financial Institutions: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
Here's the #ECB: Projections more time-sensitive than #Fed #SEP ystdy, incorporating info up to 3/11, a later cut-off date than usual.
#Inflation has been revised up compared w/ the Dec. projections, esp. for 2026, because #energy prices will be higher owing to the #war against #Iran.
#IranWar
Holding rates at 3.50-3.75% (Miran only dissenter for a 25 bps cut).
Very redundant #FOMC statement which may leave the door open for a #Fed emergency meeting should the #US #Israel #war against #Iran spiral out of control? Essentially watching & waiting: #IranWar
Somewhat related:
Just ordered your book ๐ก๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด, Suhrkamp 2021, @jwullweber.bsky.social; recommended by @annpettifor.bsky.social, ๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ฐ, 2026, 97 f., who works with the English translation: ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ, StanfordUP 2024.โฃโฃ
So, congrats on both & a happy Sunday evening from here!
Here's an update about #Russia in the high North (use your browser's translate function ;-)
#Norge #Norway #Arctic
Here's a decent obituary Jรผrgen #Habermas (use your browser's translate function; you might not get all the allusions, but still... ;-):
