Interesting #macroeconomics view: “Consequently, predicted TFP (aka productivity) gains over the next 10 years are even more modest and are predicted to be less than 0.55%.…even when #AI improves the productivity of low-skill workers in certain tasks (without creating new tasks for…
Do you think shapeshifters are hot? Do you like #NorseMythology? Fertility deities Freyr and Freyja seduce local troublemaker Loki to a shapeshifting threesome! What's hotter, Freyja's girl-cock or Loki's boy-pussy?
The immigrants caring for the nation's elderly are losing their jobs (Emily Peck/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/18/trump-immigration-nursing-homes
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p19#a250618p19
Über den Artikel in DIE ZEIT von Pausch: Strategie der #AfD: Nirgendwo wird interessanter über Politik gestritten als in der AfD. In: Die Zeit, 18. 6.2025.
https://www.zeit.de/2025/26/strat…
N.Y. Lawmakers Target Prison Reform and A.I. in Frantic End of Session https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/nyregion/new-york-legislature-ai-prison-reform.html
Source: OpenAI is changing ChatGPT Enterprise's pricing structure to include a credits system, moving from a fixed price, to give companies more leeway (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…
board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
There was a news item a few weeks ago about a Norwegian library book that had been returned after many decades.
For some reason the writer felt the need to point out that the book wasn't worth much money because it had obviously been handled (read) by a lot of people.
So a book acquires value by not being read. I find that quite sad. At least stamp collectors want their stamps to have been posted (I would say stamped there are already too many stamps in the sentence).
I…