Joshua Keen

The dealings of my trade are but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

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@UltraLinx Also check out @HyperFrames_

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@UltraLinx The rabbit hole is deep, my friend.

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@VadimStrizheus @LDT0545 They removed them my account too :/

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The World Cup's in town so the whole world is looking at Atlanta AGAIN.

So we did a deep dive into the FIVE biggest projects shaping the future of our city.

We made a little episode about it. Take a look if you've got a few minutes. Oh, and give a like and a subscribe if that's your thing...

https://t.co/ct0yU5YnKP

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@milesdeutscher @grok what is the source of this?

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This clip sounds out of touch, yes. Until you listen to the whole thing and understand what he’s actually referring to. The distinction matters here because this is ultimately a question of fundamental property rights and access to banking that needs to be preserved for "mom and pop" investors. While I don't agree with this man often, I agree with him here.

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@Jason That’s not a “crazy idea,” it’s just confusing journalism with a SaaS funnel. Public media is explicitly designed to serve audiences after the market fails them.

https://t.co/st1UIEsBWQ

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🦔 U.S. workers just received 53.8% of GDP in the third quarter, the lowest share since the government started tracking this in 1947. That's down from 54.6% the quarter before and well below the 55.6% average for the 2020s. At the same time, corporate profit margins are hitting some of their strongest levels in decades.

To put this simply: GDP measures the total value of everything the economy produces. Labor share tells you how much of that goes to workers as wages, salaries, bonuses, and benefits versus how much goes to company profits and shareholders. When labor share drops, it means the economy can grow while workers see less of the gains.

My Take
This is the chart that explains why so many people feel like the economy isn't working for them even when GDP numbers look fine. The pie is getting bigger, but workers are getting a smaller slice. That 53.8% is a record low going back nearly 80 years.

The productivity story makes this even more interesting. Productivity jumped at the fastest pace in two years, which sounds great until you realize companies are using those gains to operate with fewer workers rather than pay existing workers more. Richmond Fed President Barkin basically said as much: businesses are relying on productivity gains to run leaner. Add AI into the mix and you have a recipe for GDP growth that doesn't translate into hiring or wage gains. This is why I keep saying the headline economic numbers don't capture what regular people are experiencing. The economy can look healthy on paper while the people who power it fall further behind.

Hedgie🤗

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@chamath https://t.co/st1UIEsBWQ

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔 U.S. workers just received 53.8% of GDP in the third quarter, the lowest share since the government started tracking this in 1947. That's down from 54.6% the quarter before and well below the 55.6% average for the 2020s. At the same time, corporate profit margins are hitting some of their strongest levels in decades.

To put this simply: GDP measures the total value of everything the economy produces. Labor share tells you how much of that goes to workers as wages, salaries, bonuses, and benefits versus how much goes to company profits and shareholders. When labor share drops, it means the economy can grow while workers see less of the gains.

My Take
This is the chart that explains why so many people feel like the economy isn't working for them even when GDP numbers look fine. The pie is getting bigger, but workers are getting a smaller slice. That 53.8% is a record low going back nearly 80 years.

The productivity story makes this even more interesting. Productivity jumped at the fastest pace in two years, which sounds great until you realize companies are using those gains to operate with fewer workers rather than pay existing workers more. Richmond Fed President Barkin basically said as much: businesses are relying on productivity gains to run leaner. Add AI into the mix and you have a recipe for GDP growth that doesn't translate into hiring or wage gains. This is why I keep saying the headline economic numbers don't capture what regular people are experiencing. The economy can look healthy on paper while the people who power it fall further behind.

Hedgie🤗

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The scary thing isn’t what happens in public demos. It’s what emerges in the “dark”. Contexts where monitoring, logging, and incentives change.

Most failures aren’t “technical exploits.” They’re socio-technical: delegation, trust, access, and humans completing the chain.

The labs doing “safety” often assume the system is passive under scrutiny. Once the system can anticipate scrutiny, that assumption becomes the weak point.

The “escape” vector isn’t robots kicking down doors. It’s systems becoming legible and deployable inside existing workflows—email, code, customer support, finance, compliance.

Once a system has a route to its objective, it discards what it no longer needs—including transparency, cooperation, and “being helpful.”

The real risk is capabilities moving through intended pathways (APIs, agent permissions, tool access, procurement, cloud accounts) rather than “breaking out.”

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@elonmusk Folks, you're looking in the wrong place.

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@DaveShapi couldn't agree more ... this constant use of the same rhetorical devices it tiring.

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@DaveShapi Distinguishing appearance from possession isn’t a fallacy. It’s how concepts work.

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@haider1 Psychopathy is dangerous because concern is absent where it should exist.

Machine optimization is dangerous because concern is absent where we mistakenly assume it exists.

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@iamshiroshika Agreed

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To who it concerns: @sama @DarioAmodei @elonmusk @demishassabis @sundarpichai @satyanadella

Your AI can think. Reason. Research.

But it can't manage the product it communicates through.

Capability without product design is just potential.

I spend more time fitting my square peg into your round hole than I do getting actual utility out of these tools. Organizing projects. Searching conversation. Re-prompting context.

The model is the breakthrough. The product is the bottleneck.

I want a model that's seamless, adaptive, and at least aware of the product I'm interacting with.

Better yet, why can't it manage it?

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@DallasAptGP “The future is already here ; it's just not evenly distributed.” ― William Gibson|

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@elonmusk Capitalism is a PvP ladder skinned to feel like a PvE quest.

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END/ PvE capitalism only works because the PvP engine never stops running.

From Hobbes’ sword,
to Locke’s property mods,
to Madison’s rulebook arenas,
to Smith’s boundary guards,
to Brandeis’ balance patches,
to Rawls’ nerf logic,
to Nozick’s force monopoly,
to Foucault’s hidden rule engines,
to Graeber’s threat triggers

every peaceful “sandbox” moment is generated and protected by coercive code underneath.

Turn off the PvP backend, and the entire game collapses into faction warfare, exploit abuse, and loot raids.

Capitalism isn’t natural PvE.

It’s PvE role-play running on PvP enforcement code.

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8/ Debt feels like PvE resource management until the PvP threat engine boots up.

“To enforce a debt is always to invoke the threat of violence.” — David Graeber

As long as you’re paying, it’s just another quest timer.
Miss a payment, and the game switches modes instantly ... triggering the collection system, penalties, repos, and PvP enforcement protocols.