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Trump posted on social media an AI-generated cartoon of him beating Mark Carney with a hockey stick on the ice: @edels0n: What is your reaction? @MikePMoffatt: It's gone pretty viral. A lot of people are very upset about it. How significant is it? And what is Canada's? Reaction. Canadians are trying to take the position that we just shouldn't take the bait, right? Ironically, when those things happen, there is kind of a rally around the flag and Carney himself gets more popular.

$1.25 trillion. That's how much money the US government now spends on interest payments every year: "Equivalent to roughly a fifth of total government revenue. It's also more money than we spend on national defense. In other words, one of the largest expenses on your tax bill is interest, the bills we must pay to finance our enormous debt. How did we get here? Our leaders have decided they don't care."

Daily AI users scored 28 points below those who never use AI, meaning that if you're using AI every day, you are about a year and a half behind your peers who are not using AI... @edels0n: "To me, this is really an indictment of AI in schools. This has also become kind of an intense political topic. Here in New York City, Zoran Mamdani has opted to ban AI in schools, presumably for this reason. What are we to make of AI and its impacts on learning for children?" @jburnmurdoch: "I think the evide

Is AGI actually here? @GaryMarcus: "If this were really AGI, well, let's put an asterisk around that. What do you mean by AGI? We'll come back to that in a second. Then, yeah, I guess you would expect wages to drop to zero.

Germany's notorious far-right party, the AfD, just won a major regional election, and many are calling it a turning point: "It was the AFD's best ever result, and more Germans support the party today than ever before. But how did we get here? Well, many Germans are rightfully upset about things in their country, especially when it comes to the economy. The economy has seen almost no growth over the past decade.."

I don't care what that unemployment rate says. It's not good right now: @keds_economist: "The length of unemployment, not just how many people are unemployed, but how long they've been unemployed and the share that have been looking for six months or more. Both of those numbers are way too high to call the labor market good. And they've been going in the wrong direction for a while. It's for people who are unemployed, it's taken a long time to find a job..."

.@tylercowen on how AI is disrupting career paths: "It's how disoriented people feel. The notion that you cannot say to your kid or grandkid, here's what you should do for a living, here's how you prepare for it, here's a more or less guaranteed path to success if you're smart and you work hard. People like those assurances. I don't think they exist in the same way they used to. There could be someone else equipped with AI or an AI-equipped firm that could out-compete you."

.@tylercowen on AIs biggest winners and losers: "I think the biggest losers will be parts of the upper, upper middle class, as I call them. Now, I love the upper, upper middle class. It's the professionals who do intellectual work, and those people are not going to starve. They may have much lower status. They may earn much less. Their lives might be worse. I think big winners will be teenagers, very small companies, people who master AI..."

@profgalloway on the college drop-off experience: "Our life gets smaller, so theirs can get bigger. You're a tide pool of emotions because everything just sort of hits you all at once. And there was all these things you were going to do that you didn't get a chance to do. You know, I thought, oh, I got to take my son to Alaska. I want to buy a car and restore with him. And I want to take him to Latin America...."

Around the world, bond markets are having their worst stretch in years: "Japan's 10-year yield hit 3% for the first time in three decades. Germany's is at its highest since 2011. France's is at its highest since 2008. British 30-year borrowing costs are back at levels last seen in the 1990s. And the U.S. 30-year yield recently hit its highest level since before the financial crisis. Prediction markets is now a 77% chance of a rate hike this year..."

@profgalloway on why the U.S. will bomb Iran. This clips is from todays episode 'Why Big Tech Is Losing to Boring Stocks' out now.