Peter Gratton

@petergratton.bsky.social

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Peter Gratton, PhD, is an editor at Investopedia, book author, and professor of philosophy. He covers political theory, technology, finance, and political economy. Views are definitely my own.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate how you tried to break up the discourse about the absolute travesty of the moment with...another absolute travesty ;)

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe you can look forward to their coming piece, "When I Was Dick Durbin." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

When I Was John Fetterman

I was one of the senator’s most dedicated consultants—until I saw a side of him that made me sick.

www.thenation.com

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d

Looks great! (Too bad for to be in NYC this week, but not next.) But I thought we learned today that this is now the way to promote things?

Local Power for Making NYC More Equal in the font/coloring of NYC Mayor-Elect Mamdani's election posters.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d

This is a short but powerful horror movie.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d

Leaving aside the bit of "welp AI says this so it must be true," which is not a claim we take to be true when there are programming errors of all sorts, let alone a billion a things a day that come out of generative AI systems.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d

And oddly, she seems not to be arguing for conceptual change, but discovery of atoms, etc. Which is indeed an odd thing to claim about consciousness, which is not some X out there awaiting scientific discovery (and is a very modern notion).

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d

This is *not* asking questions: "A.I. is no less a form of intelligence than digital photography is a form of photography." Also her area is phil of mind—no pubs in AI she highlights on her faculty page, nor any on intelligence, which is not the same thing at all in its conceptual history.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d

The fees are significantly lower in Europe. Couldn’t that service be cheaper? (Not something I’m expert on—genuine question.)

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d

Data from the NAR last week revealed the median age of a *first-time* home buyer is now 40 (up from under 30 several decades ago). So, yeah, imagine being locked into 7% until 90.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d

Even when they were bad tools, maybe I don't need this drill bit for tile more than a few times—a lot of things I buy there I don't need to be high end. But god, yes, I don't need to spend $50 on a set of clamps.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d

Really dislike the wider uptake of the Vegas bathroom aesthetic. He really seems to have gotten a bulk deal on that wall decor.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d

A remarkably good essay. I love the pose that's not a pose, that the writer is not savvy about how a certain part of journalistic discourse works, only to end up showing either he isn't or the ruses involved are pretty obvious and should stop. (The part about white-paper production is spot on.)

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d

“I don’t want to get what you have…what’s that blotchiness under your eye?”

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah getting older means noting when, in fact, we’ve seen this before and when we haven’t. The former is most helpful with tech dudes; the latter with politics.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

Unreal to be walking through that fall foliage like you’re taking on Alien.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, he's relentless and so good at demonstrating how to dig into a beat to produce important stories—I hope he has an untidy sock drawer or something for mere mortals to crow about.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

If I have the math right, this still isn't as much as Meta blew through on its virtual worlds. And they literally moved mountains for this.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for the rundown—other than LaGuardia, I was quite spotty on the early 20th century. It's an entertaining read, it's helped by NY mayors never being dull (ok, Bloomberg, despite his billions, is).

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah the trend this year has been inventing terms like “job hugging” etc to describe “really worried about my job.”

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

That kind of humility just isn’t welcome in the pitch factory.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

Pairs well with this report from Reuters: www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show

Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

www.reuters.com

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 3d

thank you Anthony Scaramucci for this extremely relatable analogy about people buying bitcoin on margin

“The margin is a spear coming out of the steering wheel of your sports car, and you’re in the south of France on an icy road in the mountain terrain by Monaco,” said SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci in an interview. “And when you need to hit the brake, that’s when the leverage hurts you the most.”

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

Like clockwork.

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d

Deference is good since it avoids having to getting into tricky divisions between legitimacy and (traditional) authority.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 3d

got to write about the Chicago Architectural Biennial, and how its vision of chicago as a global, diverse city contrasts with the Trump admin's ongoing assault on immigrants. observer.com/2025/11/art-...

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Daxton R. Stewart, Peter Gratton , and 3 more Elizabeth Saunders, Daxton R. Stewart, Peter Gratton, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Virginia Sapiro

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 3d

The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists.

They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.

apnews.com/article/trum...

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s the original Reuters : www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Reposted by Peter Gratton

nomtash.bsky.social @nomtash.bsky.social · 4d

Kaiser Rollse

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, David Lazer, Scott L. Greer , and 10 more Dorothy Bishop, David Lazer, Scott L. Greer, Paolo Crosetto, Caroline T. Schroeder, Jacob T. Levy, Olivier Morin, Jens Rydgren, Zen Faulkes, Juanjo Medina, Peter Gratton, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Nathanael Larigaldie @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social · 5d

Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”

In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Laurent Dubois, Daniel Kuehn, Peter Gratton , and 1 more Laurent Dubois, Daniel Kuehn, Peter Gratton, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 6d

You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!

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