Brian Austin

Brian Austin

@austinbrian.bsky.social

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The conspiracy theories when Dems win some R+20 districts are going to be something to behold

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social

Generic Ballot Polling: 🔵Democrats: 53% 🔴Republicans: 38% YouGov / Sept 28, 2026

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Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

imaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

Super cool that we have allowed venture capitalists to run a giant predatory pricing scheme on human cognition.

Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com

‘The economics of AI are dubious, to put it mildly. Losses cannot spiral upwards indefinitely. As token prices rise to cover costs, demand is likely to contract. The hyperscalers will then be forced ​to backtrack on their grandiose investment plans.’ www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

Whose legs these are, I think know His trunk is not still here though He will not see me stopping here To watch the sands whip by the stone The works are lovely, the grandest And from the pedestal the sand is The only friend of Ozymandis The only friend of Ozymandis

Ariel Edwards-Levy@aedwardslevy.bsky.social

i never saw two trunkless legs i never hope to see 'em but i can tell you, anyhow, i'd rather see than be 'em

I don’t understand why government employees are not striking during the shutdown.

Barry Ritholtz@ritholtz.bsky.social

Good news (I guess)? The Bureau of Labor Statistics is calling back some employees to produce the Consumer Price Index for September. That data is needed to calculate the annual cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security beneficiaries. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

It’s pretty wild that we have this entire class of things that requires completely useless compute and produces tokens, and another class of thing that uses tokens and needs compute for specific purposes and we don’t seem to have matched these two ideas up

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com

"The bill sets the stage for an entire class of speculative assets that have precisely zero underlying cash flows to be integrated into the financial system. All for the purposes of satisfying an industry whose main contribution to most Americans has been scamming them."