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BESPOKE: “On a 12-month average basis, .. Housing Starts have completely rolled over from their peak .. “.. Recessions have always followed a rollover in Housing Starts, and the only question is timing.” 🇺🇸

For perspective, the federal service has not increased much in absolute numbers since 2000 and is actually down from the mid-1970s. Share of the total workforce has actually decreased steadily. And, basically offset by contractors. So, it's really largely a privatized government already.

Interesting data in light of current events. More about welfare queen Elon Musk: www.profgalloway.com/elon-musk-we...

Demographics of the Federal workforce.

Tesla probably started a slow decline. Musk killing the brand and antagonizing primary market segment. It's even worse than bottom line numbers since about 25% of net income is appreciation of bitcoin. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/29/t...

Blue states should setup a Dept of Education when Musk close it down. The states need coordination on education and resources. Just recruit a good share of current staff. DC will be helpful to get office space. That will make it easy to resurrect it fully down the road.

#Tesla has turned radioactive for an important market segment. It’s now a nazi mobile. Some news outlets have picked up on it but many analysts clueless. Next few months will tell how much. Let it die. stocks.apple.com/AWyzbyOrbRWm...

I wonder how long until #EU and the Commonwealth countries realize that a major leverage in #trade negotiations is to take away 30% of the #tesla market.

American oil production is forecasted to plateau over the next 2 years. (That’s because producers don’t want to outpace demand, not because they need to be ‘unleashed’.)

Accessing DeepSeek on Venice AI from an iPhone returns uncensored info about Tiananmen. It’s not actually spitting it out but available when folding out “Thinking”. Same prompt on a regular browser gives the censored response.

fun fact: if you ask DeepSeek (R17b) about the Tiananmen Square Massacre too many times you will absolutely break it 🤔

I guess we will leave the World Organization for Animal Health next.

The post by Kelsey a bit silly. But the comments to his post are disturbing. Why this sympathy for the totalitarian Chinese regime? Many conversations on Bluesky on this subject turn to into false equivalencies.

US healthcare spending as part of GDP is 20.2%. Other major countries around 11-13 %. The US increase is not due a shrinking GDP, on the contrary - our GDP has grown more than the other countries.

128GB RAM make sense. Not sure about their own Linux version. I am sure it’s fine but another deviation for maintenance and integration.

the economic gap between africa and the rest of the world is growing if trends continue, africans will make up >80% of the world’s poor by 2030

This is insane, Groq is the #4 API on this list! 😮 OpenAI, Anthropic, and Azure are the top 3 LLM API providers on LangChain Groq is #4, and close behind Azure Google, Amazon, Mistral, and Hugging Face are the next 4. Ollama is for local development. Now add three more 747's worth of LPUs 😁

massive swing in gdp forecasts for china from 2015, 2019, to 2024 few expecting china’s economy to catch up with the united states’ anytime

Teen drug and alcohol use reached a record low this year. trib.al/9XgUFnY

Civilian #aviation is safe … except when #Russia screwup. Remember MH17 as well. It will continue unless there is a severe price for their incompetence.

The Russian cargo ship Ursa Major, that was alleged to be evacuating military personnel and materiel from Russian bases in Syria, sank in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain last night.

I don't think this would hold up under fair use - if a person had painted the image on the right, they would almost certainly survive a lawsuit. This is less air tight than training set recovery where a prompt can get ai to generate streams of copyrighted text.

Percentage of total electricity production from solar ourworldindata.org/grapher/shar...

Good conversation on AI with Yann LeCun. He makes Meta look better. Balanced and sensible views. open.spotify.com/episode/0lWL...

AI generated music getting better. Added my first udio song to my run playlist. www.udio.com/songs/xhWg9w...

More on health care spending. For instance, percentage of GDP.

Health care costs increasing a lot and insurance profits as well. International comparisons also very telling. Something to make part of a political agenda.

Starbucks stats cafely.com/blogs/resear...

Starbucks sales in China not keeping up with the local competition.

americans’ view of the country’s healthcare system: on a steep decline since covid

china’s population…one of the more important charts you’ll see.

China now accounts for 39% of global auto production, outpacing Europe, Japan, and the U.S. Combined. The automotive crown has shifted east—can the rest of the world catch up? 🚗🌍 #China #AutoIndustry #GlobalMarkets

good news: drug overdoses in the united states down around one sixth from last year

“right now, the question in front of #blacksky is a big one: what does a reimagining of collective power look like, and who gets to decide?” my latest for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/blacks...

Over the last 30 years, after-tax corporate profits have grown 8-fold, while personal incomes have grown by half as much — this unequal distribution of prosperity will only leave more and more Americans unhappy. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social chart

So let it be written So let it be done

U.S. share of electric and hybrid vehicle sales reached a record high in the third quarter www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

@rmnb.bsky.social It looks like Ovi joined Bluesky @ovi8.bsky.social

I think framing Bluesky vs Twitter as left vs right or fun vs horrifying misses the fact that newspapers are getting far more engagement and conversion on Bluesky than Twitter.

“On with Kara Swisher” has great interviews but her Pivot podcast with Scott Galloway is a perfect mix with tech, economics and politics. open.spotify.com/show/4MU3RFG...

NBC: Mississippi Free Press "Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter,” Pittman said. “Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited.” search.app?link=https%3...

Our allies are our export markets. Canada, EU and Mexico accounts for 57%. Add Japan and Korea and we're at 65%.

As much as I don’t like to delay and ignore a problem. We have 5 billion years. Let’s revisit in about a billion years.

Elon admits that any post on X with a link is throttled He advises you to upload content directly to X instead, where he can monetize it Musk is the richest person in the world and his view is everyone should work for him for free

BREAKING: House Speaker Mike Johnson announces that male Republicans neutered by Donald Trump may continue to use the men's bathrooms.