If this many more men were showing up to church, we’d notice

I’d bet good money that most of the men answering yes to this aren’t religious and follow no religious doctrine in their daily lives

It’s just a vibes based answer to a survey question

The Extremes of Israeli Public Opinion Israeli voters are against a ceasefire with Iran, and think Netanyahu has not gone far enough.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Hungary is going to vote out fascism

Fucking great slogan

It's funny that millennials are most interested in watching AI-generated movies and TV shows -- moreso than Gen Alpha + Z -- probably because the latter don't watch long-form content at all 🤣

De-Orbanization is going to be a decade long project in Hungary if done right

Preview of what will also be needed here

Ben Thompson has so fully lost the plot that he cannot conceive of anyone having principles of any kind

Too much time glazing tech bros

Boot-strapped electrical equipment business doing $200mm+ in revenue started by 2 Texas A&M guys by watching YouTube videos to deal with a component shortage for their natural gas flaring Bitcoing mining operation

America man

There was an effort from some sober, well-meaning, left-leaning economists to 'debunk' the idea that consumption is increasingly being driven by the top 1-10% of households and the data isn't crystal clear, but if you have a first-principles model of today's economy, you know K-shaped is a fact

How China's online gaming industry is different -- regulatory protection for incumbents allows them to internalize efficiency gains

Had this thread 2 weeks after ChatGPT was released

I think the Logical Progression has held up pretty well

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Github

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

Occam's razor

Hotel breakfast where the fruit section has 3 watermelon trays, 3 mango trays, and one tray for all other fruit

Breakfast buffet market efficiency is increasing

I wonder if there is any self-reflection on the part of Tyler Cowen as to the cesspool that has become Marginal Revolution

These are the top 2 comments

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I still think it's notable that the US is currently running a fiscal deficit ~100-175bps above NGDP growth i.e. fiscal policy remains expansionary while the median DM is running ~100bps *below* NGDP growth

(the oil shock may change things for them fwiw)

RoW equity returns from Trump 2.0 election to pre-Iran war and to today have been ~2x US equity returns, mainly driven by a ~20% relative re-rating of ex-US equities vs. US equities

"Prominent, perhaps previously politically ambiguous, person accused of serious crimes suddenly goes hard, far-right" is a secular megatrend

bsky.app/profile/nosu...

If you like to crime, there is a cozy political home for you bsky.app/profile/nosu...

Vast majority of crypto-whining during Biden was simply "they won't let us defraud people legally"

bsky.app/profile/nosu...

All that glisters: Maga influencers promote gold but investors feel short-changed Marketing pitches tell retirees the precious metal is a safe harbour amid claims of misrepresentation and exorbitant fees

www.ft.com/content/de54...

Scams, grifts, crypto, financial fraud, crime are fully intertwined with the 'Conservative project' -- there is a clear selection effect at play here: if you enjoy criming and scamming, the GOP is the party for you -- kick back some funds in political support, rinse your audience, get pardoned later

Had a thread on this last year, but this article gives you numbers and explains why right-wing dominance of social media is structural: right-wing influencers see their audience as suckers and marks, which allows them to garner the marketing dollars from the highest GM companies like gold scammers

So OpenAI has unfunded commitments/implicit liabilities on delays and overages related to $ORCL's cloud capacity additions that it would need to fund with equity

What is OAI's implicit cost of capital vs. $ORCL's cost of debt?

www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

Apparently Altman is keeping OpenAI's CFO out of discussions that relate to financing and spending

Honestly, she may end up being grateful that she wasn't in the room eventually