dean
@bigdeaner.bsky.social
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Real wages went down under Biden from 2019. Stancil was wrong and still is wrong
tldr: stancil has been engaged in the war over the "vibecession" of biden's term for years now. stancil was pointing out some chart showing that overall wages adjusted for inflation and GDP were up since 2019. silver jumped in and pointed out those numbers were down since biden took office
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Real wages went down under Biden from 2019. Stancil was wrong and still is wrong
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
DAWG
Justin Fields on dealing with comments from Jets owner Woody Johnson:
"That’s outside noise at the end of the day. I get that he’s the owner of the team, but that’s outside noise."
"That’s outside noise at the end of the day. I get that he’s the owner of the team, but that’s outside noise."
October 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
DAWG
Well deserved "I told you so" from INET. Everyone argued about a vibecession when the answer was right there
www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Well deserved "I told you so" from INET. Everyone argued about a vibecession when the answer was right there
www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
You only tweet about abolishing ice, which pales in comparison to my strategy, making a poster saying abolish ice.
every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"
October 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
You only tweet about abolishing ice, which pales in comparison to my strategy, making a poster saying abolish ice.
Until pritzker orders the state police to stop working with ICE is comments in the news mean little
At the Chicago area ICE detention center in Broadview this morning.
These aren't detention vans—they're vehicles full of Illinois State Police. Local cops are staging for a morning of protest.
Supposedly, demonstrators will be banned from 25th St today. Fence on Beach came down a few days ago.
These aren't detention vans—they're vehicles full of Illinois State Police. Local cops are staging for a morning of protest.
Supposedly, demonstrators will be banned from 25th St today. Fence on Beach came down a few days ago.
October 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Until pritzker orders the state police to stop working with ICE is comments in the news mean little
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you have to call off the state police that is roughing up protesters if you are serious.
Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects
October 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
you have to call off the state police that is roughing up protesters if you are serious.
It's kinda crazy to watch Chicago have a budget crisis while also funneling a billion dollars a year into TIF funds
BREAKING: Mayor Brandon Johnson called Thursday for more than $617 million in new taxes on the wealthiest Chicagoans and largest firms in order to blunt cuts imposed by the Trump administration while avoiding drastic cuts in city services and thousands of layoffs. @wttw.bsky.social
Mayor Brandon Johnson Calls for $617M in New Taxes to Close Budget Gap, Avoid Layoffs
“The line to draw here is that we either are going to protect working people in Chicago from Trump’s cuts, or we are going to open up the floodgates and allow these individuals to be hurt and harmed f...
news.wttw.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It's kinda crazy to watch Chicago have a budget crisis while also funneling a billion dollars a year into TIF funds
"I have a bunch of civil rights materials framed on my walls" is giving "I have over 300 confirmed kills" energy
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"I have a bunch of civil rights materials framed on my walls" is giving "I have over 300 confirmed kills" energy
I love this centrist lib tendency to tweet like "people disagree with me because they are pathetically small minded sick little dogs" and then you say "shut up bitch" to them and they go "omg I feel insane why are people being aggro towards me?????"
October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I love this centrist lib tendency to tweet like "people disagree with me because they are pathetically small minded sick little dogs" and then you say "shut up bitch" to them and they go "omg I feel insane why are people being aggro towards me?????"
It's funny to start an argument by using size to show importance, then hours later in a reply to a reply to himself admit that size is actually not really a determinant factor when looking at the significance of protests.
The enduring impact of these protests has a lot more to do with the specific demands of protesters, how they were depicted in media and popular memory, and whether or not institutions took them seriously, than their raw size. But certainly in any history of American protest, No Kings looms large.
October 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It's funny to start an argument by using size to show importance, then hours later in a reply to a reply to himself admit that size is actually not really a determinant factor when looking at the significance of protests.
My erotica enabled agentic AI partner and I saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe. Can we buy you a drink?
October 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
My erotica enabled agentic AI partner and I saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe. Can we buy you a drink?
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Solid statistical evidence that the left can win by doing the two things Bluesky liberals hate the most: focusing on the economy and attacking Democrats
jacobin.com/2025/10/econ...
jacobin.com/2025/10/econ...
Report: Economic Populism Has Broad Appeal in the Rust Belt
An exhaustive new survey from the Center for Working-Class Politics and its partners finds that strong economic populism resonates across Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — and that indepen...
jacobin.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Solid statistical evidence that the left can win by doing the two things Bluesky liberals hate the most: focusing on the economy and attacking Democrats
jacobin.com/2025/10/econ...
jacobin.com/2025/10/econ...
Almost like people are engaging with their total grocery expenses rather than individual items and trying to refute them by taking it so literal is an obvious bad faith response
last night I was talking to a community organizer from Mississippi and he was like “who even remembers what milk cost last month! I forget by the time I reach the checkout! It’s two dollars or something!” and he’s got a better grasp on how people engage with prices than the entire political class
October 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Almost like people are engaging with their total grocery expenses rather than individual items and trying to refute them by taking it so literal is an obvious bad faith response
Ending the programs didn't change the economy, it changed how people experience the economy. Without the added funds, they saw their true position in the "economy" and it was bad. This guy is beyond stupid
The surge in poverty was caused by the end of the COVID welfare programs. You are essentially arguing that we shouldn’t have had those programs, because when they expired, it made the economy bad. It’s dishonest and you know it
Will, a surge in poverty contradicts the narrative that economic conditions were great. Telling people everything is fine when it isn’t is political poison. Not that you’ve figured that out yet
September 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Ending the programs didn't change the economy, it changed how people experience the economy. Without the added funds, they saw their true position in the "economy" and it was bad. This guy is beyond stupid
It's crazy that every day this guy looks at evidence of how fucking wrong he was and goes "vindicated yet again!"
Lindsay, the entire reason far-right control of TikTok is bad is because I WAS RIGHT ABOUT IT CONTROLLING YOUR BRAIN. If you’ll recall, that used to be a controversial position! I got ratioed like crazy in like 2022 for saying the youths were getting their politics from the meme dance app
Congrats to Biden, the rest of the Democrats who supported the TikTok ban last year, and this guy specifically—they got what they wanted.
Draconian censorship was necessary because the kids were pro-Palestine and struggling in Biden’s economy. And now—an even more concentrated media environment.
Draconian censorship was necessary because the kids were pro-Palestine and struggling in Biden’s economy. And now—an even more concentrated media environment.
September 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It's crazy that every day this guy looks at evidence of how fucking wrong he was and goes "vindicated yet again!"
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HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
September 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
Kimmel should go on Rogan
September 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Kimmel should go on Rogan
Imagine having such hubris lmao
My argument is that people's political behavior is controlled by the thoughts in their heads and the thoughts in their heads mostly arrive through social mechanisms rather than direct observation of real, "material" factors
September 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Imagine having such hubris lmao
This is completely divorced from reality. Low wage workers saw some gains mostly from the fact that tons of low wage workers dropped out of the workforce during COVID. You can look at charts and see practically all the gains happen in April or March 2021. This is revisionist Bs from vibecession ppl
Don't make me tap the sign. Biden passed legislation that resulted in the biggest material wage improvement for working class people in decades Biden did what the left claims is their top goal and he never got credit for it
August 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This is completely divorced from reality. Low wage workers saw some gains mostly from the fact that tons of low wage workers dropped out of the workforce during COVID. You can look at charts and see practically all the gains happen in April or March 2021. This is revisionist Bs from vibecession ppl
Remember when Mike Duncan stomped that dumb take out lol
A while back a lot of people on here got very angry at me for saying the French Revolution was not really caused by material conditions, but I think the best evidence continues to show it was a political crisis caused by the spread of information and ideas - in both respects like our current crisis
Understanding the effects of the internet is really helped by familiarity with knowing a bit about 18th century France.
(New technology for disseminating information. Great hopes for the enlightenment of all! Descent into conspiracy theories and publications about Marie Antoinette's lovers. Etc.)
(New technology for disseminating information. Great hopes for the enlightenment of all! Descent into conspiracy theories and publications about Marie Antoinette's lovers. Etc.)
August 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Remember when Mike Duncan stomped that dumb take out lol
The sporting world just got exponentially weaker
The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women's sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case.
Penn to ban trans athletes, ending Thomas case
The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women's sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case.
spr.ly
July 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The sporting world just got exponentially weaker
July 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
(with maybe housing exception) doing Olympic heavy lifting type work here lol
In absolute terms, there’s not a single income decile that’s worse off today than they were a generation ago (with maybe housing exception).
What you’re mostly seeing is mostly downwardly mobile folks mad about it.
What you’re mostly seeing is mostly downwardly mobile folks mad about it.
on some level I’m just exhausted of living in quite literally the wealthiest society ever to exist, where consumption increases at a breakneck rate year after year across the income spectrum, and hearing about how no one can afford anything. really??? it feels like abandoning our commitment to truth
July 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
(with maybe housing exception) doing Olympic heavy lifting type work here lol