Axel Nerdrum
@axelpax.bsky.social
Rent seeking economist. My views are (sadly) only my own.
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Demagogic president seizes money to pay standing army, arrogating to himself legislative power, while his cronies keep Congress out of session is honestly more or less exactly how the Founders thought this would end
October 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Demagogic president seizes money to pay standing army, arrogating to himself legislative power, while his cronies keep Congress out of session is honestly more or less exactly how the Founders thought this would end
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The Right really is in disarray because they cannot seem to figure out if they should push “Zohran Mamdani is going to bring Sharia Law” or “Zohran Mamdani treats his wife with too much equality” as a smear campaign, so they are doing both.
June 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The Right really is in disarray because they cannot seem to figure out if they should push “Zohran Mamdani is going to bring Sharia Law” or “Zohran Mamdani treats his wife with too much equality” as a smear campaign, so they are doing both.
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The singularity is awesome
June 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The singularity is awesome
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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you vs the authoritarian parade she told you not to worry about
June 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
you vs the authoritarian parade she told you not to worry about
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Please pardon my language, but what the fuck (at the headline, not the OP)?
Cyrus II, the founder of the Achaemenids (the first Persian Empire) gets *really good* press in Jewish scripture, because he allowed the exiles to return and rebuild the temple; they benefited from Achaemenid tolerance.
Cyrus II, the founder of the Achaemenids (the first Persian Empire) gets *really good* press in Jewish scripture, because he allowed the exiles to return and rebuild the temple; they benefited from Achaemenid tolerance.
Only in the Middle East are relatively comprehensible modern conflicts rooted in the balance of power of nation-states reduced to quasi-mystical "ancient hatreds."
June 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Please pardon my language, but what the fuck (at the headline, not the OP)?
Cyrus II, the founder of the Achaemenids (the first Persian Empire) gets *really good* press in Jewish scripture, because he allowed the exiles to return and rebuild the temple; they benefited from Achaemenid tolerance.
Cyrus II, the founder of the Achaemenids (the first Persian Empire) gets *really good* press in Jewish scripture, because he allowed the exiles to return and rebuild the temple; they benefited from Achaemenid tolerance.
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Fortunate Son! An anti-war song about rich kids dodging military service!
I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played.
CINEMATIC
CINEMATIC
June 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Fortunate Son! An anti-war song about rich kids dodging military service!
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The Netanyahu government is entirely focused on the tactically realistic goal of destroying Israel's adversaries yet has no coherent strategic vision for what happens next after the Israeli military has shattered entire states and societies
June 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The Netanyahu government is entirely focused on the tactically realistic goal of destroying Israel's adversaries yet has no coherent strategic vision for what happens next after the Israeli military has shattered entire states and societies
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Today in "Is Los Angeles Burning?":
No.
No.
June 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Today in "Is Los Angeles Burning?":
No.
No.
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Congress’s bill “would RAISE taxes for low-income Americans (Those making $30k or less). Every other income group would see LOWER taxes. The biggest savings would go to people in the $500k to $1 million income group.”
@byheatherlong.bsky.social
www.jct.gov/publications...
@byheatherlong.bsky.social
www.jct.gov/publications...
June 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Congress’s bill “would RAISE taxes for low-income Americans (Those making $30k or less). Every other income group would see LOWER taxes. The biggest savings would go to people in the $500k to $1 million income group.”
@byheatherlong.bsky.social
www.jct.gov/publications...
@byheatherlong.bsky.social
www.jct.gov/publications...
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Når NRK (etter visse målestokker) fungerer som _mer_ ufiltrert mikrofonstativ for den israelske regjeringens narrativ om hvor slemme og fæle Greta Thunberg & co er, enn hva Jerusalem Post gjør, bør det kanskje ringe en bjelle eller to.
www.nrk.no/norge/thunbe...
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
www.nrk.no/norge/thunbe...
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
June 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Når NRK (etter visse målestokker) fungerer som _mer_ ufiltrert mikrofonstativ for den israelske regjeringens narrativ om hvor slemme og fæle Greta Thunberg & co er, enn hva Jerusalem Post gjør, bør det kanskje ringe en bjelle eller to.
www.nrk.no/norge/thunbe...
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
www.nrk.no/norge/thunbe...
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
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Lol just heard the NPR story about the DOGE guy who lost his job when he said he was surprised at how hard it was to find inefficiencies in the federal govt because he came from Silicon Valley where companies always have lots of people sitting around doing nothing
June 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Lol just heard the NPR story about the DOGE guy who lost his job when he said he was surprised at how hard it was to find inefficiencies in the federal govt because he came from Silicon Valley where companies always have lots of people sitting around doing nothing
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Weed found at workplace that DOGE had occupied.
I will say it again: maybe the government should not be run by sociopaths who are high on drugs.
I will say it again: maybe the government should not be run by sociopaths who are high on drugs.
A photo shared with me earlier of uh, DOGE's legacy at USIP
June 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Weed found at workplace that DOGE had occupied.
I will say it again: maybe the government should not be run by sociopaths who are high on drugs.
I will say it again: maybe the government should not be run by sociopaths who are high on drugs.
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Denne er jo litt morsom.
Hvis du kunne gjort et økonomisk forsøk med 100.000 nordmenn, hva ville du gjort?
www.dn.no/politikk/dis...
Hvis du kunne gjort et økonomisk forsøk med 100.000 nordmenn, hva ville du gjort?
www.dn.no/politikk/dis...
Disse eksperimentene drømmer økonomene om (+)
Kan 100.000 nordmenn få borgerlønn? Jens Stoltenberg har åpnet døren for å eksperimentere med skatten. DN utvidet høringen.
www.dn.no
June 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Denne er jo litt morsom.
Hvis du kunne gjort et økonomisk forsøk med 100.000 nordmenn, hva ville du gjort?
www.dn.no/politikk/dis...
Hvis du kunne gjort et økonomisk forsøk med 100.000 nordmenn, hva ville du gjort?
www.dn.no/politikk/dis...
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In Norway we have a day called The Heavenly Bounce, which the centre-right party Left (don't ask) tries to make into a normal day and everybody tells them to shut the fuck up
May 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In Norway we have a day called The Heavenly Bounce, which the centre-right party Left (don't ask) tries to make into a normal day and everybody tells them to shut the fuck up
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Det Diesen og andre av Kremls propagandister elegant unngår å snakke om er hvordan Russland har forsøkt å kontrollere Ukraina siden seinest tidlig på 2000-tallet.
De har forsøkt mange strategier, krig var siste utvei da det viste seg at Ukraina ikke ville underkaste seg som satellittstat.
De har forsøkt mange strategier, krig var siste utvei da det viste seg at Ukraina ikke ville underkaste seg som satellittstat.
Ikke enig m AM i absolutt alt, men meget godt påpekt hvordan Diesens utsagn om at han og alle andre rasjonelle aktører innså at Natos politikk gjorde russiske represalier uunngåelig, står vi i skjærende kontrast til hans skriverier i januar 2022 da han latterliggjorde advarslene om russisk invasjon.
May 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Det Diesen og andre av Kremls propagandister elegant unngår å snakke om er hvordan Russland har forsøkt å kontrollere Ukraina siden seinest tidlig på 2000-tallet.
De har forsøkt mange strategier, krig var siste utvei da det viste seg at Ukraina ikke ville underkaste seg som satellittstat.
De har forsøkt mange strategier, krig var siste utvei da det viste seg at Ukraina ikke ville underkaste seg som satellittstat.
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"Democrats don’t want to, or are functionally unable to, directly face the existential crisis of Trumpism or accept that it is clearly a collection of financial crimes first and a political movement second." — @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social @garbageday.email
The United States of Mar-A-Lago
Read to the end for a good post about aliens
www.garbageday.email
May 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"Democrats don’t want to, or are functionally unable to, directly face the existential crisis of Trumpism or accept that it is clearly a collection of financial crimes first and a political movement second." — @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social @garbageday.email
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"It's like the fall of the roman empire!"
"You mean a 400 year gradual shift away from dense urbanization in about a quarter of the empire because of a combination of outward and inward pressures?"
"No"
"Oh so you mean the transfer of major political power to economic centers?"
"No"
"You mean a 400 year gradual shift away from dense urbanization in about a quarter of the empire because of a combination of outward and inward pressures?"
"No"
"Oh so you mean the transfer of major political power to economic centers?"
"No"
May 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"It's like the fall of the roman empire!"
"You mean a 400 year gradual shift away from dense urbanization in about a quarter of the empire because of a combination of outward and inward pressures?"
"No"
"Oh so you mean the transfer of major political power to economic centers?"
"No"
"You mean a 400 year gradual shift away from dense urbanization in about a quarter of the empire because of a combination of outward and inward pressures?"
"No"
"Oh so you mean the transfer of major political power to economic centers?"
"No"
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President Donald Trump’s pick to investigate waste, fraud and abuse at the Labor Department, Anthony D’Esposito, is a former Republican congressman who lost his New York seat after he was accused of putting his mistress and fiancée’s daughter on his payroll. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump oversight picks include scandal-hit ex-lawmaker, antiabortion lawyer
Several nominees have clearly partisan backgrounds, including two with controversial histories and two with ties to the agency they would be investigating.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
President Donald Trump’s pick to investigate waste, fraud and abuse at the Labor Department, Anthony D’Esposito, is a former Republican congressman who lost his New York seat after he was accused of putting his mistress and fiancée’s daughter on his payroll. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Even if Trump/Rubio rolls back the visa pauses (as they did for many of visa cancellations) they are creating a hostile environment where American higher education looks like a very unsafe bet for international students.
Other countries will benefit instead.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
Other countries will benefit instead.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
The Attack on International Students
New surveillance and punishment systems are a warning to us all
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Even if Trump/Rubio rolls back the visa pauses (as they did for many of visa cancellations) they are creating a hostile environment where American higher education looks like a very unsafe bet for international students.
Other countries will benefit instead.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
Other countries will benefit instead.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
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The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview.
Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All.
International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.
Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All.
International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.
Rubio Reportedly Pauses New International Student Visa Interviews
More than 1.1 million international students were enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year.
www.forbes.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview.
Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All.
International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.
Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All.
International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.
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Stat og kommune burde teste mye mer i Norge.
Vi burde gjøre langt flere forsøk, finne ut av om det funker eller ei, og bruke det til å styre samfunnet.
I dag er det et problem at vi skal være for sikre før vi iverksetter noe. Og vi har altfor lett å kritisere forsøk som går feil.
Vi burde gjøre langt flere forsøk, finne ut av om det funker eller ei, og bruke det til å styre samfunnet.
I dag er det et problem at vi skal være for sikre før vi iverksetter noe. Og vi har altfor lett å kritisere forsøk som går feil.
May 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Stat og kommune burde teste mye mer i Norge.
Vi burde gjøre langt flere forsøk, finne ut av om det funker eller ei, og bruke det til å styre samfunnet.
I dag er det et problem at vi skal være for sikre før vi iverksetter noe. Og vi har altfor lett å kritisere forsøk som går feil.
Vi burde gjøre langt flere forsøk, finne ut av om det funker eller ei, og bruke det til å styre samfunnet.
I dag er det et problem at vi skal være for sikre før vi iverksetter noe. Og vi har altfor lett å kritisere forsøk som går feil.
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"Today we're going to talk about liars. Specifically, the well-credentialed, well-compensated liars who spent years telling us that Trump and his movement would be 'better on balance' for free speech, free markets, and the free world...They were lying."
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-well-d...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-well-d...
The Well-Dressed Liars of the Moderate Right
How the Intellectual Enablers of Trumpism Betrayed Free Speech, Free Markets, and the Free World
www.notesfromthecircus.com
May 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"Today we're going to talk about liars. Specifically, the well-credentialed, well-compensated liars who spent years telling us that Trump and his movement would be 'better on balance' for free speech, free markets, and the free world...They were lying."
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-well-d...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-well-d...
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"Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner"
"Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for [Trump], including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary." via NYT 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
"Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for [Trump], including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary." via NYT 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner (Gift Article)
Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
www.nytimes.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner"
"Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for [Trump], including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary." via NYT 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
"Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for [Trump], including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary." via NYT 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
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Minst 42% av alle samfunnsforskere: Jeg er sjalu på naturvitenskapelige forskere som kan gjøre randomiserte kontrollerte forsøk som jeg ikke kan utføre fordi det krever for stor makt over enkeltmennesker.
Den i 35 år permitterte førstekonsulent i SSBs forskningsavdeling: www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Xj...
Den i 35 år permitterte førstekonsulent i SSBs forskningsavdeling: www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Xj...
May 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Minst 42% av alle samfunnsforskere: Jeg er sjalu på naturvitenskapelige forskere som kan gjøre randomiserte kontrollerte forsøk som jeg ikke kan utføre fordi det krever for stor makt over enkeltmennesker.
Den i 35 år permitterte førstekonsulent i SSBs forskningsavdeling: www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Xj...
Den i 35 år permitterte førstekonsulent i SSBs forskningsavdeling: www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Xj...