The loan was written on the assumption that the borrower could cover 300 bps of rate hikes. No doubt annoying for those impacted, but I really dislike the catastropising of every nuance of economic news. The household has probably had a 4 to 5% rise in household income in that time, just BTW

The NIH Director is basically saying that scientific journals are not to be trusted when it comes to public health. The Sec of HHS has said that “trusting the experts” is not a feature of a democracy. This is Orwellian.

Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.

Very interesting Bloomberg article on how distorted the global market for pharmaceuticals has become. It seems that drug prices were high in the US in part to keep them low in Europe. Perhaps it was inevitable that this system became unsustainable. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I think it's kind of depressing that the very top selling Real Time Strategy games of all time are still Age of Empires 2 (1999) and StarCraft (1998). Has there been no huge improvements in real time strategy in 26 years?

What’s the single most important thing a government can do about the housing crisis?

These jobs figures were driven by a strong increase in full-time employment, which means that more Australians are getting the hours they’re looking for.

NYC’s changing of the guard: Wall Street’s shrinking, but the nonprofit industrial complex is exploding—fueled by $20B+ in public funds and staffed by anti-capitalist revolutionaries. Nonprofits now make up 17% of NYC’s private workforce and added nearly all new jobs last year. These taxpayer-funded networks will get out the vote for Zohran — their salaries depend on it. The city that built capitalism is now run by those who want to dismantle it.

the asymmetry of acceptable violence also exist in speech. interesting that a direct call to action to violently “take care of” pro palestine protestors exercising their 1a by a senator is not seen as violent, as opposed to a meme schematic in the qrts as a response.