Troy Mix
@mixedecon.bsky.social
Regional economic development and freight aficionado with a passion for university public service and a weakness for retrocomputing
"Rather than replace democracy with A.I., we must instead use A.I. to reinvigorate democracy, making it more responsive, more deliberative and more worthy of public trust."
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Opinion | This Is No Way to Rule a Country
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November 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM
"Rather than replace democracy with A.I., we must instead use A.I. to reinvigorate democracy, making it more responsive, more deliberative and more worthy of public trust."
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In related news, I found my misplaced laptop charger this evening.
"NFL quarterbacks over 40 are winning again — and no one saw it coming" www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...
"NFL quarterbacks over 40 are winning again — and no one saw it coming" www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...
NFL quarterbacks over 40 are winning again — and no one saw it coming
“They’re going to keep winning games. He’s exactly what they needed there.”
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October 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
In related news, I found my misplaced laptop charger this evening.
"NFL quarterbacks over 40 are winning again — and no one saw it coming" www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...
"NFL quarterbacks over 40 are winning again — and no one saw it coming" www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...
"Amazon executives believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots."
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Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots
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October 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
"Amazon executives believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots."
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"U.S. Economic Development Administration is discontinuing funding for the University Centers, Trade Adjustment Assistance to Firms, and STEM Talent Challenge programs"
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Among recent U.S. EDA cuts is the 45-year-old University Centers program | SSTI
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October 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"U.S. Economic Development Administration is discontinuing funding for the University Centers, Trade Adjustment Assistance to Firms, and STEM Talent Challenge programs"
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ssti.org/blog/among-r...
"amount of vacant warehouse space in the U.S. held steady around an 11-year high in the third quarter, but it didn’t expand for the first time in three years as demand rose and the amount of newly built space continued to fall"
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U.S. Warehouse Vacancies Steady as Demand Rises With Less New Space
The amount of vacant warehouse space in the U.S. held steady around an 11-year high in the third quarter, but it didn’t expand for the first time in three years as demand rose and the amount of newly ...
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October 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"amount of vacant warehouse space in the U.S. held steady around an 11-year high in the third quarter, but it didn’t expand for the first time in three years as demand rose and the amount of newly built space continued to fall"
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As an #UpstateNY native, I'm obligated to report all national news from Oswego:
"A late-night fire leveled a key part of a New York aluminum plant in hours. Its absence is going to disrupt business at Ford and other automakers for months to come."
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"A late-night fire leveled a key part of a New York aluminum plant in hours. Its absence is going to disrupt business at Ford and other automakers for months to come."
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Exclusive | A Devastating Fire at a Major Ford Supplier Will Disrupt Business for Months
The Novelis plant supplies about 40% of aluminum sheet used in the auto industry.
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October 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
As an #UpstateNY native, I'm obligated to report all national news from Oswego:
"A late-night fire leveled a key part of a New York aluminum plant in hours. Its absence is going to disrupt business at Ford and other automakers for months to come."
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
"A late-night fire leveled a key part of a New York aluminum plant in hours. Its absence is going to disrupt business at Ford and other automakers for months to come."
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
"metrics indicate that the broader labor market has not experienced a discernible disruption since ChatGPT’s release 33 months ago, undercutting fears that AI automation is currently eroding the demand for cognitive labor'
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Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs
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October 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"metrics indicate that the broader labor market has not experienced a discernible disruption since ChatGPT’s release 33 months ago, undercutting fears that AI automation is currently eroding the demand for cognitive labor'
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budgetlab.yale.edu/research/eva...
"the AI investment boom [is] reaching new record highs" substack.com/@josephpolit...
Joseph Politano (@josephpolitano)
Census financial data released today shows the AI investment boom reaching new record highs—information technology companies have increased their net holdings of property, plant, & equipment by more t...
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September 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"the AI investment boom [is] reaching new record highs" substack.com/@josephpolit...
"Via Transportation and Alphabet’s Waymo are partnering to bring robotaxis to public transit, starting with a suburb of Phoenix"
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Via, Waymo Team Up to Bring Robotaxis to Public Transit Systems
EXCLUSIVE: Via Transportation and Alphabet’s Waymo are partnering to bring robotaxis to public transit, starting with a suburb of Phoenix.
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September 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"Via Transportation and Alphabet’s Waymo are partnering to bring robotaxis to public transit, starting with a suburb of Phoenix"
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"South Korea's HD Hyundai Heavy Industries is in talks with multiple companies about buying a U.S. shipyard"
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September 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"South Korea's HD Hyundai Heavy Industries is in talks with multiple companies about buying a U.S. shipyard"
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"the administration would use money from a $550 billion investment fund established as part of trade negotiations with Japan to invest in the development of semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, critical minerals, energy, ships and quantum computing"
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Trump’s Team Explores Government-Backed Manufacturing Boost
Discussions center on how to use money from a $550 billion fund to spur the construction of factories and other infrastructure in the U.S.
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September 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"the administration would use money from a $550 billion investment fund established as part of trade negotiations with Japan to invest in the development of semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, critical minerals, energy, ships and quantum computing"
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"Waymo estimates that typical human drivers would have gotten into airbag-triggering crashes 159 times over 96 million miles in the cities where Waymo operates. Waymo, in contrast, got into only 34 airbag crashes"
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Very few of Waymo’s most serious crashes were Waymo’s fault
I looked at 45 major Waymo crashes—most were human error.
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September 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
"Waymo estimates that typical human drivers would have gotten into airbag-triggering crashes 159 times over 96 million miles in the cities where Waymo operates. Waymo, in contrast, got into only 34 airbag crashes"
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"Oil-field service companies plan to use smaller, modular equipment that is off-grid, at least initially...These units would be plugged directly onto data centers and use natural gas—typically sourced from a pipeline nearby—as fuel"
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Rushing to Meet AI’s Energy Needs: Oil-Field Servicers
The companies are shifting to supply power to data centers. They still risk their services going obsolete.
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September 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM
"Oil-field service companies plan to use smaller, modular equipment that is off-grid, at least initially...These units would be plugged directly onto data centers and use natural gas—typically sourced from a pipeline nearby—as fuel"
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"North American manufacturers stockpiled raw materials and components in August to get ahead of tariffs, pushing up a measure of supply chain pressure to its highest level in two-and-a-half years"
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U.S. Manufacturers Are Stockpiling Parts and Raw Materials
North American manufacturers stockpiled raw materials and components in August to get ahead of tariffs, pushing up a measure of supply chain pressure to its highest level in two-and-a-half years.
The ...
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September 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"North American manufacturers stockpiled raw materials and components in August to get ahead of tariffs, pushing up a measure of supply chain pressure to its highest level in two-and-a-half years"
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"The United Auto Workers union is asking Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to impose punitive tariffs on manufacturers of medium- and heavy-duty trucks as a means of compelling them to relocate production facilities to the United States." www.ttnews.com/articles/uaw...
UAW Presses Lutnick to Slap Tough Tariffs on Truck Imports - TT
Tariffs under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act are already in place for steel and aluminum and have compelled truck makers to increase their prices.
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September 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
"The United Auto Workers union is asking Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to impose punitive tariffs on manufacturers of medium- and heavy-duty trucks as a means of compelling them to relocate production facilities to the United States." www.ttnews.com/articles/uaw...
Presenting the economic development news of the week:
▶️ In Delaware, Claymont welcomes a new craft brewery, a new report by highlights Delaware’s life science and tech strengths, and the Costco/Whole Foods Market/Target trifecta shows up in plans for Sussex
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▶️ In Delaware, Claymont welcomes a new craft brewery, a new report by highlights Delaware’s life science and tech strengths, and the Costco/Whole Foods Market/Target trifecta shows up in plans for Sussex
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First State Economic Development News + Notes - Issue 175
Claymont welcomes a new craft brewery, a report by TEConomy Partners highlights Delaware’s life science and tech strengths, and the Costco, Whole Foods, and Target trifecta shows up in preliminary pla...
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September 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Presenting the economic development news of the week:
▶️ In Delaware, Claymont welcomes a new craft brewery, a new report by highlights Delaware’s life science and tech strengths, and the Costco/Whole Foods Market/Target trifecta shows up in plans for Sussex
open.substack.com/pub/firststa...
▶️ In Delaware, Claymont welcomes a new craft brewery, a new report by highlights Delaware’s life science and tech strengths, and the Costco/Whole Foods Market/Target trifecta shows up in plans for Sussex
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"News outlets are reporting that the former President Joe Biden has decided that Delaware will be the site of his presidential library" www.delawarebusinessnow.com/news/delawar...
Biden Presidential Library to be built in Delaware
News outlets are reporting that the former President Joe Biden has decided that Delaware will be the site of his presidential library.
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September 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"News outlets are reporting that the former President Joe Biden has decided that Delaware will be the site of his presidential library" www.delawarebusinessnow.com/news/delawar...
"Boston-based Davis Companies and Asbury, New Jersey-based J.G. Petrucci broke ground on the project in September 2024. The 710 American site is next to a Dots Foods redistribution center about eight miles from I-95."
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Joint venture wins lease for 181,074 square feet at new warehouse site in Bear
The Davis Companies and joint venture partner J.G. Petrucci Company, Inc. announced a ten-year lease agreement with AMS Fulfillment a third-party logistics provider, at its 28-acre joint-venture indus...
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September 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"Boston-based Davis Companies and Asbury, New Jersey-based J.G. Petrucci broke ground on the project in September 2024. The 710 American site is next to a Dots Foods redistribution center about eight miles from I-95."
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"A proposed 695,000-square-foot retail center on Route 24 near Rehoboth Beach includes Costco, Target and Whole Foods Market, according to project documents."
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Costco, Target, Whole Foods among stores in Route 24 project
A proposed 695,000-square-foot retail center on Route 24 near Rehoboth Beach includes Costco, Target and Whole Foods Market, according to project documents. Sketches provided to Sussex County Planning...
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September 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"A proposed 695,000-square-foot retail center on Route 24 near Rehoboth Beach includes Costco, Target and Whole Foods Market, according to project documents."
www.capegazette.com/article/cost...
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"Electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids were bright spots for most vehicle makers in August as consumers raced to take advantage of $7,500 federal tax credits that expire Sept. 30."
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Record EV Sales Drive Auto Market Ahead of Credit End
Automakers are holding prices steady despite tariffs shaving $12 billion and counting from their bottom lines.
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September 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
"Electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids were bright spots for most vehicle makers in August as consumers raced to take advantage of $7,500 federal tax credits that expire Sept. 30."
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"there are still fewer jobs available for tech workers, especially those who don’t specialize in artificial intelligence.
The number of unemployed IT workers fell to 118,000 in August from 140,000 in July"
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The number of unemployed IT workers fell to 118,000 in August from 140,000 in July"
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IT Unemployment Fell in August. But the Tech Jobs Market Is Still Shrinking.
Beyond the red-hot area of AI hiring, the job market for much of information-technology is still getting smaller, recent analysis shows.
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September 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"there are still fewer jobs available for tech workers, especially those who don’t specialize in artificial intelligence.
The number of unemployed IT workers fell to 118,000 in August from 140,000 in July"
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The number of unemployed IT workers fell to 118,000 in August from 140,000 in July"
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"the latest batch of quarterly earnings is getting a lift from managers who are squeezing out costs, boosting productivity and turning to new technologies"
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Behind This Season’s Bumper Earnings: Job Cuts, Price Hikes, Glum Workers
Consumer spending isn’t driving company profits as much as expense reduction and efficiency drives. That could be a problem.
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September 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"the latest batch of quarterly earnings is getting a lift from managers who are squeezing out costs, boosting productivity and turning to new technologies"
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I bet your area doesn't even have a mushroom parade to cancel
September 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I bet your area doesn't even have a mushroom parade to cancel
I had the chance to deliver my first economic forecast today. Here they are, my thoughts on the future...🚀
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Beyond Prediction: Preparing for Future Economies
We Need a New Approach to Thinking About the Future(s)
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September 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I had the chance to deliver my first economic forecast today. Here they are, my thoughts on the future...🚀
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"There are plans for a new hot-rolling mill at U.S. Steel's Mon Valley Works in Pennsylvania, the refurbishment of the No. 14 blast furnace at Gary Works in Indiana, and new electromagnetic steel sheet lines and other capacity expansions"
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Nippon Steel bets on $11 billion investment, tech transfer to lift U.S. Steel profit
Japan's Nippon Steel plans to increase profit at U.S. Steel through an $11 billion investment and the transfer of its operational techniques and advanced technologies to expand capacity and add more high-grade products, a senior executive said.
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August 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"There are plans for a new hot-rolling mill at U.S. Steel's Mon Valley Works in Pennsylvania, the refurbishment of the No. 14 blast furnace at Gary Works in Indiana, and new electromagnetic steel sheet lines and other capacity expansions"
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