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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 · 28m

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 · 31m

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

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 31m

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 11h

Hudson often satirized his previous roles

In #PillowTalk he jokes about #Giant

In #SendMeNoFlowers he mercilessly mocks #MagnificentObsession

#TCMParty

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 11h

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 · 5d

Bring back the CANCER SWORD

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

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 11h

Hyper-verbal brain farts are bad

Sleep is good

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 18h

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

Agree

#Indiscreet kindly and warmly winks at the camera
#TCMParty

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 18h

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 · 12h

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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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 15h

IF NOT FER ME, WHY MADES OF WARM CHEEZ?

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 16h

Dear Leader sure has been talking about God a lot lately...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 22h

a woman with long blonde hair is smiling with her eyes closed .

Alt: Alicia Silverstone playing Cher in the movie "Clueless" scrunches one eye shut while smiling/grimacing as though sceptically considering something

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 22h

"...believe in bettah... re-makes"

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 22h

So young here I'd swear he was Trevor Howard

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 23h

Shades of refusing COVID lock-downs, school closures, and mask mandates

It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them.

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 1d

Sweden is running a national experiment in AI, offering free access to AI tools at a population level in the hope of boosting its economy and tech literacy. @stokel.bsky.social reports from Stockholm on how the country's bold bid to democratize AI is unfolding.

What Happens When You Give Millions of People Free Access to AI? | TechPolicy.Press

Initiatives in Sweden and UAE to provide population-level access to AI tools could be just the beginning of a new AI revolution, reports Chris Stokel-Walker.

www.techpolicy.press

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 1d

On a lighter note before taking a break from here...

The Death of Stalin is one of my all time favourite films, but I always find this behind-the-scenes still hilarious because there's just something about a pose that looks like "Marshall Zhukov takes a selfie with the lads" that's inherently funny

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

Agree on all; real property is gonna look like a sweet place to have invested savings
(Have read analyses guesstimating AI bubble may take well into 2026, perhaps even 2027, to pop)

Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

You ARE rewarding illogical behavior

Get your chips off the table, regardless

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