Lynn Layman
@lynnlayman.bsky.social
Complexity ~ Economics ~ Philosophy
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Lynn Layman
@lynnlayman.bsky.social
· Nov 20
I'm delighted to be part of this promising new community on Bluesky.
Goodnight for now from Cape Town, also known as home.
Goodnight for now from Cape Town, also known as home.
So proud of the EQ we're demonstrating in the Oval Office. So happy that the delegation is telling it as it is, warts and all. Well done South Africa. Let's tackle the violence head on. God bless you and your delegation @cyrilramaphosabsky.bsky.social 🕊️🇿🇦
May 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
So proud of the EQ we're demonstrating in the Oval Office. So happy that the delegation is telling it as it is, warts and all. Well done South Africa. Let's tackle the violence head on. God bless you and your delegation @cyrilramaphosabsky.bsky.social 🕊️🇿🇦
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When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
February 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
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If you’ve ever moved into a new home, then you know how difficult it can be to steer bulky furniture through narrow hallways or around awkward corners. A new proof reveals the biggest shape that can slide down an L-shaped hallway. Richard Green reports: www.quantamagazine.org/the-largest-...
The Largest Sofa You Can Move Around a Corner | Quanta Magazine
A new proof reveals the answer to the decades-old “moving sofa” problem. It highlights how even the simplest optimization problems can have counterintuitive answers.
www.quantamagazine.org
February 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
If you’ve ever moved into a new home, then you know how difficult it can be to steer bulky furniture through narrow hallways or around awkward corners. A new proof reveals the biggest shape that can slide down an L-shaped hallway. Richard Green reports: www.quantamagazine.org/the-largest-...
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Important PSA
Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries
Google will probably close this loophole soon enough.
gizmodo.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Important PSA
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I put up a paid audio post on trade flows this morning, but a number of readers have asked that it be made free. So now it is paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trade-flow...
Trade Flows and Trade Balances
A primer for the confused
paulkrugman.substack.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I put up a paid audio post on trade flows this morning, but a number of readers have asked that it be made free. So now it is paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trade-flow...
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Here's my piece with @rooseveltinstitute.org colleague Emily Divito on how the Musk-Treasury payments scandal is worse than it appears.
When people lose trust in the money and payments systems, that's how panics, bank runs, and financial crises happen. 1/
news.bloomberglaw.com/tax-insights...
When people lose trust in the money and payments systems, that's how panics, bank runs, and financial crises happen. 1/
news.bloomberglaw.com/tax-insights...
Musk's Treasury Incursion Puts Entire Financial System at Risk
Former Treasury Department officials Graham Steele and Emily DiVito say Elon Musk’s role at Treasury poses an existential threat to the banking system, and that Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break t...
news.bloomberglaw.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Here's my piece with @rooseveltinstitute.org colleague Emily Divito on how the Musk-Treasury payments scandal is worse than it appears.
When people lose trust in the money and payments systems, that's how panics, bank runs, and financial crises happen. 1/
news.bloomberglaw.com/tax-insights...
When people lose trust in the money and payments systems, that's how panics, bank runs, and financial crises happen. 1/
news.bloomberglaw.com/tax-insights...
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In Finnish the word for aurora “revontulet” means “fox fire” because according to legend the origin of the Northern Lights are arctic foxes running so fast that their large, furry tails would brush up snowflakes into the sky - as in my #linocut #FolkloreSunday
minouette.etsy.com/listing/1632...
minouette.etsy.com/listing/1632...
January 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
In Finnish the word for aurora “revontulet” means “fox fire” because according to legend the origin of the Northern Lights are arctic foxes running so fast that their large, furry tails would brush up snowflakes into the sky - as in my #linocut #FolkloreSunday
minouette.etsy.com/listing/1632...
minouette.etsy.com/listing/1632...
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Note that this is an independent developer building this. But that's very cool. This is what an open network enables.
January 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Note that this is an independent developer building this. But that's very cool. This is what an open network enables.
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And this is already as good as it will ever get as once it models those "inventions" it gets worse in a loop of regression.
bsky.app/profile/timn...
bsky.app/profile/timn...
Remember this? A problem we didn't have in automated speech recognition tools until OpenAI decided they were going to do away with alignment (not the kind that so-called "AI safety" people do)? And they're giving us "artificial general intelligence" any day now right?
apnews.com/article/ai-a...
apnews.com/article/ai-a...
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.
apnews.com
January 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
And this is already as good as it will ever get as once it models those "inventions" it gets worse in a loop of regression.
bsky.app/profile/timn...
bsky.app/profile/timn...
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Remember this? A problem we didn't have in automated speech recognition tools until OpenAI decided they were going to do away with alignment (not the kind that so-called "AI safety" people do)? And they're giving us "artificial general intelligence" any day now right?
apnews.com/article/ai-a...
apnews.com/article/ai-a...
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.
apnews.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Remember this? A problem we didn't have in automated speech recognition tools until OpenAI decided they were going to do away with alignment (not the kind that so-called "AI safety" people do)? And they're giving us "artificial general intelligence" any day now right?
apnews.com/article/ai-a...
apnews.com/article/ai-a...
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1/2 This is a superb overview of the Fed and monetary policy from 1913 to the present day by James K. Galbraith.."The biting reality is that resource costs and global supply chains drive price increases. When inflation from these sources hits, some consequences are inevitable;
January 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
1/2 This is a superb overview of the Fed and monetary policy from 1913 to the present day by James K. Galbraith.."The biting reality is that resource costs and global supply chains drive price increases. When inflation from these sources hits, some consequences are inevitable;
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During Mozambique's civil war, up to 90 percent of large wildlife in what's now Gorongosa National Park was slaughtered. Today, the park has more wildlife than before the war--showing that healing of both human and nonhuman communities is possible.
www.biographic.com/prowling-for...
www.biographic.com/prowling-for...
Prowling for Pelicans - bioGraphic
In Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, wildlife is making a comeback.
www.biographic.com
January 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
During Mozambique's civil war, up to 90 percent of large wildlife in what's now Gorongosa National Park was slaughtered. Today, the park has more wildlife than before the war--showing that healing of both human and nonhuman communities is possible.
www.biographic.com/prowling-for...
www.biographic.com/prowling-for...
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Very cool to see the Financial Times name one of my pieces (You Can’t Make Friends With Rockstars) as one of the best pieces of the year (in their Further Reading section).
www.ft.com/content/7849...
www.wheresyoured.at/rockstars/
www.ft.com/content/7849...
www.wheresyoured.at/rockstars/
December 18, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Very cool to see the Financial Times name one of my pieces (You Can’t Make Friends With Rockstars) as one of the best pieces of the year (in their Further Reading section).
www.ft.com/content/7849...
www.wheresyoured.at/rockstars/
www.ft.com/content/7849...
www.wheresyoured.at/rockstars/
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I LOVE reading articles about Doggerland and this @hakaimagazine.com article is fascinating.
New research reveals that Doggerland—a sunken swath of Europe connecting Britain to the mainland—was more than a simple thoroughfare. It was home.
hakaimagazine.com/features/con...
New research reveals that Doggerland—a sunken swath of Europe connecting Britain to the mainland—was more than a simple thoroughfare. It was home.
hakaimagazine.com/features/con...
Conjuring the Lost Land Beneath the North Sea | Hakai Magazine
New research reveals that Doggerland—a sunken swath of Europe connecting Britain to the mainland—was more than a simple thoroughfare. It was home.
hakaimagazine.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:53 PM
I LOVE reading articles about Doggerland and this @hakaimagazine.com article is fascinating.
New research reveals that Doggerland—a sunken swath of Europe connecting Britain to the mainland—was more than a simple thoroughfare. It was home.
hakaimagazine.com/features/con...
New research reveals that Doggerland—a sunken swath of Europe connecting Britain to the mainland—was more than a simple thoroughfare. It was home.
hakaimagazine.com/features/con...
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Oh, and one more thing: wealthy regime supporters who imagine that they'll be calling the shots will soon discover that under crony capitalism their wealth is always contingent; it can disappear very quickly if they have a falling out with the people they helped gain power 9/
November 23, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Oh, and one more thing: wealthy regime supporters who imagine that they'll be calling the shots will soon discover that under crony capitalism their wealth is always contingent; it can disappear very quickly if they have a falling out with the people they helped gain power 9/
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Weaponized interdependence is happening…https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/44/1/42/12237/Weaponized-Interdependence-How-Global-Economic
My only addition/tweak to this great thread is that the US also has identified and weaponized “chokepoint” leverage, most notably in semiconductors. The Chinese and US tactics here are informed by one another, and China’s new tools have been put into published policies to prepare and deter.
China has learned from US sanctions playbook but added their own twist: using their manufacturing dominance to create "chokepoint" leverage. They don't need to control entire industries – just critical components. 9/
November 27, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Weaponized interdependence is happening…https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/44/1/42/12237/Weaponized-Interdependence-How-Global-Economic
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1. Donald Trump has said that he is going to impose 100% tariffs on BRICS countries that move away from the U.S. dollar. Where does this idea come from and where will it go? I have answers, based on @abenewman.bsky.social and my book on U.S. economic coercion, Underground Empire amzn.to/3PbIyqX
December 1, 2024 at 2:27 PM
1. Donald Trump has said that he is going to impose 100% tariffs on BRICS countries that move away from the U.S. dollar. Where does this idea come from and where will it go? I have answers, based on @abenewman.bsky.social and my book on U.S. economic coercion, Underground Empire amzn.to/3PbIyqX
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The new NYT piece on China's supply chain strategy reveals how Beijing is rewriting the rules of economic warfare. Trump's claim that "China pays for tariffs" fundamentally misunderstands modern economic power. Here's why: 1/
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/b...
China Has a New Playbook to Counter Trump: ‘Supply Chain Warfare’
A series of swipes at American companies show how China could take the initiative in a new trade war, using its economic dominance to exact pain.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:21 PM
The new NYT piece on China's supply chain strategy reveals how Beijing is rewriting the rules of economic warfare. Trump's claim that "China pays for tariffs" fundamentally misunderstands modern economic power. Here's why: 1/
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/b...
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"money has flowed to tech giants and others in their orbit... [and] raises an uncomfortable prospect: that this supposedly revolutionary technology might never deliver on its promise of broad economic transformation, but instead just concentrate more wealth" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
ChatGPT’s $8 Trillion Birthday Gift to Big Tech
Two years in, generative AI’s value to the world is still unclear. But these charts show that it’s been a bonanza for the largest tech firms.
www.bloomberg.com
November 29, 2024 at 1:00 PM
"money has flowed to tech giants and others in their orbit... [and] raises an uncomfortable prospect: that this supposedly revolutionary technology might never deliver on its promise of broad economic transformation, but instead just concentrate more wealth" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
“there is in fact a much deeper history between California and South Africa — from exporting gold mining engineers, to the establishment of technical universities, computer engineers who joined finance, to the histories of eugenics and racial capitalism.“
South Africa and Silicon Valley: From Gold Mines to Elon Musk
A Conversation with Dr Tim Karayiannides
open.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:25 AM
“there is in fact a much deeper history between California and South Africa — from exporting gold mining engineers, to the establishment of technical universities, computer engineers who joined finance, to the histories of eugenics and racial capitalism.“
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Yes, X is "bigger" than Bluesky. But only if what you are posting advances Musk's ideological agenda.
Other information is suppressed, no matter who you are.
Major breaking news from the NYT, with 55 MILLION FOLLOWERS, gets almost no engagement.
Other information is suppressed, no matter who you are.
Major breaking news from the NYT, with 55 MILLION FOLLOWERS, gets almost no engagement.
hard to exaggerate how nuts the engagement is on Bluesky compared to 𝕏. a vastly smaller user base (at least officially), but just look at these stats for one of the biggest newspapers on Earth. Musk has absolutely trashed the platform. folks, you are not locked in on 𝕏. not even a little.
November 24, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Yes, X is "bigger" than Bluesky. But only if what you are posting advances Musk's ideological agenda.
Other information is suppressed, no matter who you are.
Major breaking news from the NYT, with 55 MILLION FOLLOWERS, gets almost no engagement.
Other information is suppressed, no matter who you are.
Major breaking news from the NYT, with 55 MILLION FOLLOWERS, gets almost no engagement.
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When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it.
~Thomas Merton
~Thomas Merton
November 20, 2024 at 5:06 PM
When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it.
~Thomas Merton
~Thomas Merton