Hal Singer
@HalSinger
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MD @ EconOne | Prof @EconUofU | ED @ UtahProject | NYTimes: "one expert for the plaintiffs" | Prospect:"preeminent watchdog of The Economist's most wrong takes"
Washington, D.C.
Joined December 2011
Outrage about an elected official who punches up on behalf of the many, i.e., his constituents, instead of engaging in the usual punching down that the Post expects and loves
Zohran Mamdani drops the mask, the Editorial Board writes. “Witness the mayor-elect’s change of character since his Tuesday election victory.”
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To move past gov by corruption, we need to restore accountability. We need to crackdown on corporate and elite wrongdoers. I made the case in @theintercept
The president’s corruption is audaciously out in the open, but decades of letting the wealthy play by their own rules enabled him.
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A bakery near me is offering "pay what you can" to *everyone* while SNAP is unavailable. On a recent day, most customers I observed payed MORE than the list price.
A day late to this story, but I'm now just absorbing that the Trump administration warned groceries NOT to offer price discounts to SNAP recipients to offset the forgone government benefit. This is some depraved sh*t. I guess price discrimination by airlines to extract surcharges
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What's this? A mention of The Sling in new case against egg producers. Congrats, @musharbash_b!
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A day late to this story, but I'm now just absorbing that the Trump administration warned groceries NOT to offer price discounts to SNAP recipients to offset the forgone government benefit. This is some depraved sh*t. I guess price discrimination by airlines to extract surcharges
oregonlive.com
The honor system is in place at three Oregon stores, now offering discounts to all who need it.
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If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we have drifted from democracy‘s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. An antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world. My latest https://t.co/FjSCcNI6WY
theguardian.com
Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians
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I have been working on this on the side as a hobby project. It is a Pixel Art "Resident Evil" type game taking place inside and around a pharma corporation (MediTech Pharma). The story is quite grim and the farther you go the darker it gets, even grotesque. It is about the
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@TheEconomist And it's not just The Economist. The New York Times had a piece on Nov. 7 citing "experts" saying AI won't harm labor, where the first expert is also a founder of an AI startup.
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@TheEconomist This is standard fare. Cite two academic studies, potentially peer-reviewed, and then point to a contradictory study by a think tank. But who funds the think tank? Did anyone bother to ask?
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@TheEconomist Oh lordy, if they just stopped carrying the water for the AI industry--and potential funders of the magazine--I could let this go. but it's every damn week, including this week.
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got @TheEconomist so good yesterday i can't possibly go back to that well again ... oh wait another call for moderation in this week's leaders. Hug a billionaire, y'all!
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At this rate, the total number of prompts put into ChatGPT this *YEAR* will still be less than the total number of searches on Google *TODAY*. And today is a Saturday. I had a really interesting conversation with the head of growth for a Fortune 500 company this week. She said,
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Meta is now running pro-data center ads featuring small towns. The ads tout job creation, but a data center may only create 50 long-term jobs. Residents near Meta data centers have complained about nonstop noise, pollution, wells running dry and rapidly rising electric bills.
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Here’s the original story ICYMI.
I know I was already mean to @TheEconomist this weekend, but this claim that AI data centers put [checks notes] downward pressure on electricity rates needs a little brushback pitch. Two problems with their model: 1. They compare the actual rise in rates to the predicted rise
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So @jasonfurman is the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard. Any thoughts? Can you pull strings to prevent what looks like Aetna engaging in unethical economic violence here?
4 days out from my life-changing surgery, @Aetna has denied the appeal for my brain surgery. to be clear, when i signed up to aetna months ago, the coordinator had confirmed they would cover this surgery. then, a week ago, they said the surgery was too experimental/elective and
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@HalSinger @TheEconomist In case that wasn't enough - here is one of many other stories showing that yes, data center demands have been driving up electricity bills:
washingtonpost.com
Across much of the eastern U.S., electricity bills have jumped. The reason? Data centers required for AI and other tech wonders are driving up electricity demand.
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Really seems like way too many people brushing off the electricity issue missed this. https://t.co/tDhmh8hWOM
Hey remember that @TheEconomist story from last week suggesting that there was no correlation between AI data centers and electricity bills? You know, the one that strangely compared rates at the state level (rather than at local levels), and plotted data centers against
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My wife and I never imagined our conservative family would end in a federal prosecution for trying to produce a TV series that brings light to the Government corruption in Hawaii... We’re one of thousands of forgotten Americans left out of the clemency conversation.
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Why the U.S. pardon system rewards fame over fairness — and how President Trump has a chance to fix it.
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the wealthiest people in this country are hijacking our economy & destroying the climate for something that fundamentally doesn't produce value and the rest of us are footing the bill even though we never had a say to begin with
Hey remember that @TheEconomist story from last week suggesting that there was no correlation between AI data centers and electricity bills? You know, the one that strangely compared rates at the state level (rather than at local levels), and plotted data centers against
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Instead of being insulting, you could critique the arguments. No one has thus far, apart from "I don't agree." You could start with our peer-reviewed papers first. Our works are based upon a body of literature, including stuff from the Nobel Laureates. Critique that, too.
@lawprofblawg Still shilling your confused welfare papers, I see. Good luck with that.
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Hey guys, turns out the psychotic criminals who infested the labor movement, allied with bosses, and drove out the socialists, communists, and honest trade unionists (with government help) don't like socialism and communism
COSA NOSTRA of my era - 60’s, 70’s, 80’s…. Would NOT be happy with Mamdani as Mayor! Cosa Nostra is not Marxist or socialist. We would have not allowed him to be elected. Agree? Disagree? Weigh in!!
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