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swamp-possum.bsky.social
Lives in a swamp. Trash collector. IR doc. Econ nerd.
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submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 69 days ago • 21 comments

Social Security in turmoil: — SSA website crashed four times in 10 days this month — Phone service a mess following Musk-led cuts — Agency no longer has a system to monitor customers’ experience due to DOGE — Major staff exodus www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 70 days ago • 35 comments

The state of rock music today: Grammy winners for Best rock album and best rock performance are the Stones and the Beatles respectively. #docswhorock

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

“Congress has no ability to really intervene and monitor what's happening because these aren't really accountable public officials. So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world.” www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

"Bad Medicine" by michaelpramirez.com

submitted 126 days ago • 7 comments

I know everyone's focused on NVDA today, but in the weekly housing market data we're also noticing potential that home prices turn negative soon. Here's this week's Altos / HousingWire market data thread ➡️ At $421k, the median price of the active listings is 0.7% below last year at this time.

submitted 127 days ago • 4 comments

".. Silicon Valley broligarchs focused far too much on making AI that topped the benchmark rankings in an ego-driven, my-model-is-bigger-than-yours-contest .. DeepSeek’s success should serve as a wake-up call .." @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 127 days ago • 25 comments

Gut wrenching blow of consumer sentiment in Jan due in part to fears of tariffs & inflation. Inflation expectations highest since May 2024; up to 3.3% in Jan vs 2.6% 1-yr out in Nov. People say buy ahead of price hikes. That is 🚩for Fed, as hoarding is self-filling… search.app/vnTaRV2TefbJ...

submitted 130 days ago • 7 comments

For the umpteenth time - history matters. Read Heather. “January 25, 2025, marks eighty years since the end of the Battle of the Bulge.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-24...

submitted 129 days ago • 53 comments

PE Radiology vs insurance company take 2: www.benwhite.com/radiology/ae...

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

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The term “stent” originated with Charles Thomas Stent, a 19th-century English dentist who developed a compound for dental impressions. While he never envisioned cardiovascular applications, his name became synonymous with supportive medical devices.” So simple, profound results om.co/2024/12/28/t...

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinating article. My worry is that AI will take away much of the creative and fulfilling aspects of our jobs. www.wsj.com/articles/wil...

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

'Spending a quarter trillion dollars in order to have something 1000 times more expensive than average humans is maybe not the way to go.' garymarcus.substack.com/p/o3-agi-the... by @garymarcus.bsky.social

submitted 164 days ago • 2 comments

Has AI development plateaued? www.wsj.com/articles/ope...

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

Things happening to my swamp #climate www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

Oh boy www.wsj.com/articles/sto...

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

I just discovered the best use case for AI in healthcare ->completing 40 hours of required CME in one day.

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