Paul Blumenthal
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@PaulBlu
Senior Reporter @HuffPost. Read me: https://t.co/yv6RHqPZYX… Email me: [email protected].
Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.
Trump on Rob Reiner's death:
New essay: Something strange—and possibly worrying—is happening to the job market for college grads: unemployment for recent grads is rising, while law school applications are surging. Maybe it's a sign of Trumpy chaos. Maybe it's a sign of something more structural. So, here's question I'm mildly obsessed with: What economic indicator should we watch closely to know if AI is starting to really change the whole macroeconomy? "When you think from first principles about what generative AI can do, and what jobs it can replace, it’s the kind of things that young college grads have done” in white-collar firms, @ProfDavidDeming told me. “They read and synthesize information and data. They produce reports and presentations.” I agree. I'm not catastrophic about the risk of total disemployment by machines. But I do think Gen-AI is amazing at the precise skillset of paralegals and young i-bankers, consultants, researchers, and coders. So I've been wondering when we'll see recent grad unemployment peel away from the rest of the economy. Well, that's precisely what's happening now. The unemployment rate for recent grads is worse now relative to the overall economy than any time in the last four decades, at least. Is this slam-dunk evidence of AI disruption? As I say in the piece: nope. But it's ... something to watch.
People underestimate how important it is that Trump very openly announces ahead of time all the deranged, destructive, or illegal things he's going to do—that way, when you support and vote for him, you're actually giving him permission to do them
To make it clear: Because of the tariff regime in place, American consumers are going to have to buy the Nintendo Switch 2 at a $100 markup to allow importers to recoup the additional taxation that Trump is charging the American consumer/importers
"The use of prisoners for propaganda purposes is as old as war itself. But there are a few recent examples you may recall. ISIS made extensive use of videos and pictures of imprisonment and execution. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese alternated their approach." Now. We do it. thebulwark.com/p/this-is-the-…
