Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
10.03.2026 21:30
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Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
Super Mario taking on the US government on trade policy is the kind of story i'm here for.
aftermath.site/nintendo-tar...
Particularly baffling that the first result here is not a link to Amazon's own prime video service where you would assume they make the most money. Selling AI slop must be hella lucrative.
I thought Amazon's search was already broken but it has gotten so much worse. Search for "One battle after another" turns up pages and pages of AI slop "movie reviews" and in some cases completely different movies. The thing it will not give you? The actual movie as a blu-ray or VoD.
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
Öffentliche Güter wie Schulen und Krankenhäuser könnten helfen, die soziale Ungleichheit zu bekämpfen – wenn sie denn dort wären, wo arme Menschen leben. Unsere Datenanalyse zeigt: In Deutschland ist das Gegenteil der Fall.
Ein paar Denkanregungen fürs neue Jahr: IfW-Präsident Moritz @schularick.bsky.social blickt im FAS-Interview auf 2026. So viele neue Schulden und trotzdem so wenig Wirtschaftswachstum? "Irgendwann stoßen Sie an die Grenzen der Mathematik." Zum Schluss gibt's trotzdem einen Hauch von Optimismus.
New post!
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
the world is getting better
Again,
Christian Meier, Nahost-Korrespondent der @faznet.bsky.social. Bitte lesen.
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
"Kein Land freut sich mehr über Trump als China", sagte der MIT-Ökonom David Autor mir im Interview. Es gab aber durchaus auch Gründe für Optimismus in diesem Gespräch, zum Beispiel in Bezug auf die Jobverluste durch KI. Vielleicht kommt doch alles nicht so schlimm?
basically believe that this mostly depends on when you got Properly Online - before a certain cut-off your normal internet experience was high agency/high effort, but it eventually became low agency/low effort, and it's impossible to create a social media experience that caters to both groups
This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
Handelsökonomin Pinelopi Goldberg glaubt nicht, dass es für die Globalisierung noch einen Weg zurück gibt. Donald Trump hat einen Teufelskreis ausgelöst, an dessen Ende das Streben nach Autarkie steht.
Pretty wild: Americans are getting shorter. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
China zeigt in diesen Tagen dem Westen wie nie zuvor seine Abhängigkeit bei kritischen Rohstoffen. Das ist die eine Lesart der aktuellen geopolitischen Lage.
Es gibt aber noch eine andere: Vielleicht waren die vergangenen Wochen gerade der Anfang vom Ende des chinesischen Monopols.
I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
"a critic of contemporary democracy" would be someone who thinks it might be nice to have a few more referenda or who has weirdly strong opinions on FPTP vs. proportionate voting. Curtis Yarvin is a far-right nationalist who thinks some races are more suitable to slavery than others. wtf @ox.ac.uk
i was trying to remember the time i went to see Joel Mokyr speak in 2019 and found that they actually recorded the talk. i think it gives a good impression of what an inspiring speaker he is. The book he was referring to is coming out soon! podcasts.ox.ac.uk/china-and-we...
"There is some literature today that says (...) growth is bad. (...) You want one number to show you how much better life is today, look at infant mortality statistics."
"There's a reason we speak of technological progress but institutional change. There is no way that we can show [institutions] get better over time. (...) They will come down again and it seems there's some evidence to show that is what is happening today."
"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...
Mokyr's work could not have been done today in most economics departments, but the irony is that his work would not fit in history departments today, either. Methodologically he seems more 'history' than 'economics' to economists, but the content and reasoning are too 'economics' for most historians
That's like four economics awards in a row with a substantial economic-history component, right? That strikes me as a remarkable shift. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists...
One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history:
The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!
Wow
In her lunch with the FT the OnlyFans CEO says her company pays more tax than the entire British fishing industry. Quite a stat.
