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newqueuelure.bsky.social
Jason Smith
@newqueuelure.bsky.social
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physicist messing around with economic theory and science fiction; he/him; ALX; was @infotranecon on twitter; email is this profile's username @ gmail

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econ: https://information-equilibrium.ghost.io/
sci fi: https://innerhorizon.substack.com
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newqueuelure.bsky.social
noise floor hypothesis continues to hold up
using data from FRED, a graph of weekly seasonally adjusted initial claims in blue from 2000 to the present on a log scale along with a flat red line at approximately 150,000 claims that most of the data falls below from 2018 to 2025 except for the pandemic spike from 2020-2022
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
diagram with baby yoda (grogu) labeled as "larva", a right arrow, a mogwai (gizmo) labeled as "juvenile" with two arrows; the rightward arrow shows yoda with the label "sterile phase"; the downward arrow goes to a picture gremlin pupa and a right arrow; that final right arrow points to a gremlin with the label "reproductive phase"
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
the chloroplast is the capitalist factory of the plant cell
a picture of a sunny blue sky framed by green leaves harnessing a few low entropy high energy photons and releasing many low energy high entropy photons
November 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
it's all ohio meme with the text with one astronaut saying "wait, it's gay to be christian" and the other says "always has ... wait what TF did you just say?"
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
I can’t say for sure without more specificity but the first thing that came to mind were stacked D-branes in “the bulk” in string theory which can represent different kinds of particle/field interactions in our 4D space.
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
Locutus of Pom
Merle Pomeranian on a purple sheet with snout on paws and the red glint of light reflecting in a blue eye in a photograph.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
pretty sure "satoshi nakamoto" invented the world's first organized crime index
log plot of bitcoin value divided by cpi; prior to 2018 is labeled as "initial start up period"; after 2018 it is labeled as "organized crime index"
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
was curious to see what this looked like on a log plot alongside some benchmarks; TSLA market cap has been roughly tracking equilibrium NGDP growth in the 2020s; the low path is ~ typical stock market equilibrium growth or ~3x NGDP; the high path is ~20x NGDP
TSLA market cap in trillions and the 2028 targets forming the basis for elon musk's pay package; a fan of lines show different exponential rates of growth around the last data point in 2025; the fan of targets range from 3x NGDP growth to 20x NGDP growth
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
tl cleanse; freshly groomed hobi with a little scarf
A merle Pomeranian in a dog car seat with a gray orange and white snowflake scarf
November 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
i just think its interesting
two different demand curves from the previous animation (unconstrained consumers Y in yellow, price constrained consumers G in green) along with two different marginal cost (MC) curves (dashed gray); depending on the MC curve Q_G < Q_Y or Q_Y < Q_G
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
are we allowed to post animations yet?
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
Wikipedia out there dropping truth
Screenshot of Wikipedia article on the median; the relevant text reads: If the marginal medians for all coordinate systems coincide, then their common location may be termed the "median in all directions".[41] This concept is relevant to voting theory on account of the median voter theorem. When it exists, the median in all directions coincides with the geometric median (at least for discrete distributions). “When it exists” is highlighted
November 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
things were just like that back then
old British painting of a cow that is far, far too rectangular
November 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
Acqua Alta
Merle Pomeranian looking back at the camera at the end of a leash standing next to a fire hydrant on a brick sidewalk at the edge of the Potomac flooding the end of King St in Alexandria.
October 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
"days without" meme still from the simpsons with lenny replacing 11,987 days (arbitrarily chosen as 1 jan 1993 because i'm not exactly sure but pretty sure it was high school) with 0 and the text reading "days without hearing 'the gipper'"
October 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
Sunburst telecaster with black pick guard in an open case on a bed on a tatami mat
October 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
Update
Paprikas csirke with a side of gnocchini (substituted for the nokedli in the original video) garnished with green onion
October 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
early 2000s anti-computer piracy ad that originally read "you wouldn't steal a car" replaced with the text "you wouldn't share a login"
October 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
the couple that lives there now
Parker Posey and Michael Hitchcock as Meg Swan and Hamilton Swan, respectively in a still from Best in Show (2000) with the caption "We met at Starbucks. Not at the same Starbucks, but we saw each other at different Starbucks across the street from each other."
October 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
An “I voted” sticker with the seal of the city of Alexandria VA being held above a brick sidewalk with a few fallen autumn leaves
October 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
Only beating Nixon’s approval at this point. People don’t like him. He sucks.
Screenshot from Gallup that reads: “Trump is the only post-WWII president elected for a non-consecutive second term. A comparison of his current quarterly average with the 19th quarters of other presidents elected for a second term finds that only Nixon (31.8%) had a worse rating than Trump.”
October 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
"days without" meme from the simpsons with lenny replacing 77,134 days with 0; there have been 77,134 days since the White House was burned down by British troops in 1814
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
"i am once again asking" meme of bernie sanders with the added text "for the US to abrogate the Treaty of Paris (1783)"
October 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
seems to be undoing even the Obama-era mini-boom
dynamic information equilibrium model of wage growth (green with a lighter green error band) from 2011 projected out to 2028 along with data from the atlanta fed wage growth tracker (blue); two prior equilibria are shown (a lower one from 2010-2014, and higher one from 2015-2019) as gray dashed lines; current data is forecast to approach the lower equilibrium (monte carlo of 100 light gray lines)
October 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
newqueuelure.bsky.social
another way to represent the "solow paradox for the industrial revolution" in my post
300 years or so of share price data in the UK showing a "stair step" picture with one rise ~20 years roughly over 1840-1860 and one rise ~20 years roughly over 1970-1990; the industrial revolution is labeled as a flat portion of the curve from 1760-1820; the Solow paradox (the lack of information technology having an effect on productivity) is labeled as the latest flattening portion of the data since 1980
October 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM