@enmodo That's the point people who share my electoral politics typically make. I think it's wrong. I think this is in fact a pretty rough economy for most people, and that affluent professional-class liberals are letting their own good fortune and a very selective reading of "data" and "evidence" write discontent off just as "foxwashing".

People whose electoral politics is the same as mine seem very excited to share Figure 7, but they seem less often to share Figure 5.

Both from the same source, the Fed's Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2023 - May 2024 https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2024-economic-well-being-of-us-households-in-2023-overall-financial-well-being.htm

#economics #finance

"Unless the government steps in to build when new home sales demand gets soft, we will not add homes to the builders’ demand algorithm. Builders have learned to tightly control inventory… We won’t see the construction boom that people want because the builders are here to make money; they’re not here to fix the low inventory issues of the existing home sales market, which is their main rival for demand." #LoganMohtashami https://www.housingwire.com/articles/why-we-cant-build-our-way-out-of-this-hot-housing-market/

#economics #finance

@scott the shards can be sharp.

@darwinwoodka perfection! so exciting.

sometimes the arc of history… just breaks.

katrina was a warning that we mistook for a fluke.

@LouisIngenthron i still look forward to getting (cheap) coffee sometime.

there's not a lot of money in not being evil.

@highvizghilliesuit and audioapps that show visualizations of waveforms will become taboo.

Overall, the United States __________ to COVID between March 2020 and July 2021.

CONFIRMED: The falsehood is true.

@wakame @ke7yxz if not yet, it's hard to imagine that isn't the plan. what use could the information be without something like an LLM, or at least some fairly sophisticated traditional search engine, to sort through all of that noise?

@georgetakei Merge the court https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7964.html

[new draft post] Even the losers https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/04/even-the-losers/index.html

@ke7yxz surely microsoft's legendary attention to quality and security would prevent that.

@LesterB99 jiggling is a subject about which i'll strive to respect your confidences.

even if you never use a microsoft product, people you interact with whom you trust, who may intend to respect your confidences, will unwittingly be running recall.

there was a while when it seemed like microsoft had mellowed into a kind of middle-aged not-so-evilness.

ha!

rust never sleeps, i guess.

xitter, where i still do lurk some, seems to have dropped the option to block, at least in the contextual menu where i used to find it.

(i was never going to block this user, the tweet is an arbitrary example.)