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Lisa

@footenotes.bsky.social

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Greetings from Central Minnesota Econ, politics and old movies (Mute #TCMParty if it's not your cuppa) (Banner photograph by Seth Caplan, Architectural Digest.)

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · Jul 25

"The so-called 'knock-on' effects of a crypto currency 'bank run' happening simultaneously with a massive equity correction were not understood until it was too late for any Central Bank to meaningfully intervene."

#EconSky

Jared Harris plays Valery Alekseyevich Legasov in the 2019 historical drama "Chernobyl." Legasov stands next to a presentation board with blue cards with white words arranged vertically. He points to the board with his right arm while explaining the nuclear disaster that occurred in 1986. A crowd of people sit behind him.

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 25m

The number of users / amount of revenue needed to make these investments even *minimally* pay off do. not. exist.

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 29m

Real "Tofu Take the Hindmost!" energy

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1h

Hard agree: Earnest is simply sublime and I never tire of it

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 2h

Hey Minnesota, your regular, autumnal reminder that you can track COVID in your wastewater here:

wastewater.uspatial.umn.edu/sars-cov-2/

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 2h

TO SURVIVE THIS SHITE, HAVE DECIDED IMMA DIRECT DESCENDANT OF BEATRIX POTTER AND CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON'S LOVECHILD

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 15h

I YAM POE-SESSED...

by the need for treats, right now hooman

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16h

The reason Altman is out saying he wants to build $10 trillion of data centers and Anthropic is leaking they’re going to be making $2bn (??) a month by end of 2026 is because they are desperate. These are the actions of companies that need more money, and need it quickly.

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 17h

Made Fried Cali Coronas with Greens tonight - tasty and different

mjskitchen.com/2021/06/frie...

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Days

Four bags of Rancho Gordo heirloom beans: Small, maroon Santa Maria Pinquitos, medium, russet Buckeye beans, and enormous, creamy colored Royal and California Corona beans.

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Days

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

My husband's reax when I was earning boatloads

a man in a plaid sweater is holding a bunch of money in front of a window .

Alt: Young man in a plaid sweater is fanning himself with a clutch of currency. His eyes are closed and he looks very happy.

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

Translation:
THERE WILL BE A SERIES OF HUMILIATING CLIMB-DOWNS, CULMINATING IN THE MOTHER-OF-ALL TACO'S BECAUSE CHINA HOLDS ALL THE RARE EARTH CARDS

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

BESSENT: THERE WILL BE A SERIES OF MEETINGS ON CHINA'S RESTRICTIONS THIS WEEK

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

Scared by memories of the Entemann's low fat Danish: hideously sweet to try to distract from the dry and flavorless cake

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

By the time Joe Biden left office, inflation was neither “high” nor “permanent,” but it was deeply unpopular to point this out, because it conflicted with The Narrative™️ that could not fail (it could only be failed).

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Dec 29

This got me curious, so data: The Fed's had a formal 2% target since 2012. The current 3-month moving average of deviation from 2% is 0.285.

The mean absolute value of the 2012-24 deviation is 1.19.

There have only been 24 of 155 (15.5%) months where we've ever been <closer> to target than now.

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out
Christian white supremacist patriarchy
with a whipped-cream topping of
Permission to be Your Worst Self
is irresistible

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

Hudson often satirized his previous roles

In #PillowTalk he jokes about #Giant

In #SendMeNoFlowers he mercilessly mocks #MagnificentObsession

#TCMParty

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

How could he call her from the same number?
He couldn't

But then we wouldn't have #PillowTalk

#TCMParty

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrated my 10 year cancerversary this summer
because I went in at the first HINT of cancer

Early detection saved my life

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 6d

Bring back the CANCER SWORD

FIGHT CANCER
⚔️
DELAY IS DANGEROUS
CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR OR HEALTH BUREAU

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

Hyper-verbal brain farts are bad

Sleep is good

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

AA was still a relatively new thing, making the "until AA comes for you" an edgy joke

#TCMParty #PillowTalk

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Liquid Jade @liquidjade.bsky.social · 1d

The DoD’s weekly payroll is roughly $3.7 billion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

Hope I have tissues handy when I stumble on it because

#TCMParty

a waterfall with the word bansly on the bottom left

Alt: A waterfall cascades down a cliff face

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

Agree

#Indiscreet kindly and warmly winks at the camera
#TCMParty

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, Tara

#TCMParty

In a scene from the movie "Vertigo," character Midge perches on a table before panoramic windows viewing the San Francisco skyline. Art supplies and sketches litter the apartment. She wears a white blouse and dark, knee-length skirt draped in a large off-white canvas.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

How often do you covet an interior?
Have friends or family ever mentioned your unrealistic apartment expectations?
Do you ever fail to do what was normally expected because you were coveting an interior?

InteriorsAnonymous is confidential and here to help

#TCMParty

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