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As higher prices are burning a larger hole in consumers’ wallets,
it may seem counterintuitive that the Federal Reserve made borrowing costs even higher by raising rates on Wednesday.
But the reason stems from the fact that even though rates are higher than they were for much of the first two decades of the 2000s,
consumer spending, business investment and other measures of the health of the economy are all running hot.
And inflation, the rise in prices that can resu…

Why the Fed Might Raise Interest Rates When Borrowing Costs Are Surging
Elevated interest rates have raised the cost of mortgages and car loans without dampening consumer spending.

It’s 2026 and I’m implementing Safari-specific CSS fixes as if it was IE6 in 2000s.

@… "Can emojis be removed from Unicode? Or are they there forever once they are in?" - As of now, once they're in, they're in. The code point in Unicode is then reserved for this symbol. This can be a problem because emojis are kind of open-ended (other than alphabets and many other symbol lists). And it's possible that some emojis turn out to be rarely used. I could imagine that eventually some platforms just stop supporting a certain emoji - but it's really useful to have an international encoding standard which is fully supported by most technology (as anyone who has programmed or written online text in the early 2000s can attest). That's why getting a new emoji approved has become so hard - we're basically creating a kind of tech debt for a potentially long time.
Funny story - you could try creating a post now with a Unicode character from an "empty" code point in the emoji range, in the hope that it will get assigned in a later round. I've seen such a post on the old Twitter, which later was filled with all kinds of random emojis, when you look at it in a few years. #linguistics #emojis #WorldEmojiDay

Markets can stay wrong longer than you can stay liquid, so don't bet against them. But if you know the market is wrong, you don't have to bet with it either.
https://www.reuters.com/commentary/reuters-open-intere…

Q: What has been your favorite exhibition from your time at the Georgia Museum of Art?
A: Oh, boy. Yeah, that is a hard question. I don’t remember names, but one artist [DeWain Valentine] did these giant resin discs of different colors. There was a kind of a surrealist show that Giancarlo Fiorenza did in the early 2000s.
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A draft report from the US Treasury Department is set to warn about the risks of the AI market, likening some key aspects to the dotcom crash in the early 2000s (Eric Katz/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/economy/treasury-internal-report-warning-dangers-ai-bubble…

Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble
Publicly, the Trump administration is bullish about AI. Privately, some of its analysts are weighing AI against the dotcom bust.

At some point in the mid-2000s he reportedly spent several hours naked in the elevator of the Ritz hotel in London, growling at guests who tried to enter and telling them he was a lion.

Via Brian Merchant, from NOTUS.
“This draft report inside the Treasury Department is set to warn of the risks posed by the artificial intelligence market, likening key aspects of it to the dotcom bubble that upended the U.S. economy when it burst in the early 2000s.
Career Treasury analysts found that AI firms are more deeply entrenched in the U.S. economy than their dotcom predecessors and pose significant risk to the entire system …”

The mid 2000s are kicking back. 💿️
https://www.cybertrance.jp/disco/

Okay, I'll just say it. The problem with the "new" Butthole Surfers album is of course it isn't new, it's just an official release of the album that would become The Weird Revolution. Almost all of the songs are the same or similar. Fans have had After the Astronaut for years, since the early 2000s. 🙄 Just wish it was REALLY new material. What, Weird Revolution didn't have Junkie Jenny in Gaytown? I know. But it's all everywhere already.

A low-slung building in Garden Grove California is the home of the Women's Civic Club, a community group that's been around since 1921.
Once a month for nearly 20 years, it was also home to meetings for the California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR),
one of the influential voices in the anti-immigrant movement during the 1990s and 2000s,
and one whose legacy is still felt today.
The group originally started as Citizens for Action Now,
headed by…

The OC Community Center That Launched a National Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
A small community center became the unlikely launching pad for multiple extremist movements that profoundly changed American politics.

I always thought the Casey Anthony situation happened in the early 2000s, like I have distinct memories of Howard Stern Show clips from 2003 talking about it.

"the bubble will burst and then it will be all gone, just like the internet in the 2000s."

My latest article for Inquirer.net is now up and I take a look at map projections, and specifically at the Mercator projection popularly used by mapping services such as Google Maps. GIS professionals in particular might remember EPSG:900913 from the late 2000s. 🗺️
https://…

Why Africa looks smaller than it really is on Google Maps
The classic square Mercator map of the world as seen in Google Maps. Africa is not happy with how Google Maps portrays it. The popular Mercator map projection, used by Google Maps and many

When Keyana Sapp, 31, went shopping for a new backpack,
the brands he remembered as a kid were just not the same.
He researched the companies, from North Face to JanSport and Eastpak,
and soon realized they were all owned by the VF Corporation after a wave of acquisitions in the 2000s.
After a Reddit post he made about his discovery picked up traction, he started looking at other types of consumer goods
– cookware, shoes, tools, clothing.
“It seems like t…

Worse on Purpose
The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.

I haven't drawn in a while, and I'm really happy about how this one came out :D
This is my Furality Ultra outfit, but I really like how the design came out so I'm still using it on my VRC avatar since then lol
#DigitalArt

Pro Picks: The Bills will finally get to the Super Bowl with Josh Allen, and lose to the Eagles https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/pro-picks-the-bills-will-finally-get-to-the-super-bowl-with-josh-allen-and-los…

Yesterday I watched the documentary "20 Feet from Stardom". Released 2014 it tells the story of background singers from the 1960s up to the 2000s. Lots of really impressive voices and good music in the movie, highly recommended: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2396566/
Shoutout to German pub…

@… Well, in the 80s and 2000s, folks in the IM industry were quite reluctant to say the SEC didn't have authority, for fear of retribution. Also, the ICI historically has been reluctant to say the SEC doesn't have authority, for two reasons. First, it preferred to work with the SEC. Second, it often wanted the SEC to have broad authority, either to give …

Pro Picks: The Bills will finally get to the Super Bowl with Josh Allen, and lose to the Eagles https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/pro-picks-the-bills-will-finally-get-to-the-super-bowl-with-josh-allen-and-los…

Donald Trump has pardoned yet another person who has made significant donations to his past campaigns and to Republican Party causes,
casting more doubts upon the legitimacy of his use of the constitutionally unchecked power.
Adam Kidan, a key figure involved in the Jack Abramoff fraud and lobbying scandal,
served a prison sentence of around two and a half years in the mid-2000s.
A supporter of Republican causes, he has donated millions of dollars to GOP campaigns ov…

Trump Pardons Mega-Donor Days After They Contributed to GOP Candidate in Hotly Contested House District
Trump issued the pardon to Adam Kidan, a key player in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal that was exposed in the 2000s.

Why do I want this stupid fucking "Commodore" phone? I never had or wanted a flip phone, and I don't long for the 1990s or 2000s (I remember them: they sucked).
I think I know why:
I wanted to be rid of my fartphone in 2018, and bought a Nokia KaiOS device. It wasn't all that useful because it lacked WhatsApp and Signal, making it unappealing to write a podcast client for it if I still had to carry around a second device to, you know, communicate with people.

Those of the #TOTP posse who've stuck it out to the bitter end - I think you'll agree it was worth it.
No 2000s or even 1990s this week, and hasn't it been so much better.
See you next time, when I think we're back to the classic format. Never mind.
Have a great weekend.

The small, real, original web https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/the-small-real-original-web
Got my post on the small web done- it links to sites by @…

The small, real, original web
The ‘small’ web, the ‘slow’ web, or the ‘indie’ web – the non corporate, original style internet we knew and loved in the 90s and early 2000s (people just …

2000s: big game companies publish their old games for free download, because they aren't selling them anymore, and who would buy them anyway? Also, that's good marketing to sell new games.
2020s: big game companies are impotent to make new games that aren't crap. Instead, they keep selling old games, remasters of old games (both "enhancing" and "retro" remasters) and reboots of old games.
#games

Sinkholes more than 200 feet deep began appearing in the 2000s,
driven by drought and extensive groundwater extraction.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/nearly-700-massive-sinkholes-consume-tu…

#nowplaying #housemusic #vinyl #music
2000s House Music Mix - Classics 100% on Vinyl

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Four Tet:
🎵 Two Thousand and Seventeen
#FourTet
https://tommy2000.bandcamp.com/track/four-tet-two-thousand-and-seventeen-tommy-2000s-y2k-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZIaH69kaz55RM4Pjx6KXl

In the early 2000s, social life followed a clear weekly rhythm:
Modest weekday interaction built toward pronounced peaks on Friday and Saturday nights.
Since the mid-2010s, that rhythm has collapsed.
Friday night, once a central site of social activity, now looks like a typical weeknight.
Saturday remains elevated but less so than before.
Overall, time with friends has fallen by more than half.
The mix of social activities, however, has remained stabl…

In the early 2000s, more than half of the passenger vehicles on American roads were traditional cars like sedans. Their hoods were low to the ground
Today, S.U.V.s and pickup trucks dominate the roads. Many are bigger than ever, And far deadlier, a New York Times investigation found.
They are killing thousands of pedestrians who otherwise might have survived.

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

Just finished re-reading volume 1 of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Hitoshi Ashinano in English official translation, checked out from one of my local libraries. It's really cool to see lots of the excellent Japanese stuff that I read through fan translations mostly online in the 2000s and 2010s not only come out as an official translation, but make their way onto library shelves for random people to discover without having to be deep into Japanese culture fandom.
YKK is of course a pretty legendary manga, and even though I'd read it before, it had been a while and the manga is so much more feelings-based than plot-based that it was at least as enjoyable the second time through. Ashinano's sweeping curves that capture the wide open landscapes of Minato are beautiful, and her characters also capture a particular feeling of freedom and kindness that's lovely to immerse oneself in. It's the kind of world where you understand immediately that the gun is just a memento and doesn't represent any kind of violence, foreshadowed or otherwise. Calm down, Chekhov, have a coffee, and get with the extremely relaxing times.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Four Tet:
🎵 Two Thousand And Seventeen
#FourTet
https://tommy2000.bandcamp.com/track/four-tet-two-thousand-and-seventeen-tommy-2000s-y2k-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZIaH69kaz55RM4Pjx6KXl

For a few years in 2000s, Costco food courts in the US sold the biggest, butteriest, softest pretzels for $1.50. I haven't tasted pretzel that good before or since. 🥨
That pretzel with their $1 latte (12oz cup) was just heaven. 😋 🌌
#praise #nostalgia #Costco #pretzel

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Four Tet:
🎵 Two Thousand and Seventeen
#FourTet
https://tommy2000.bandcamp.com/track/four-tet-two-thousand-and-seventeen-tommy-2000s-y2k-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZIaH69kaz55RM4Pjx6KXl