# laugh (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 7 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover laugh. Page: Feed: --- ## [Going Deeply into the Weeds & Standing Up a New Local LLM: THURSDAY MAMLMS](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/going-deeply-into-the-weeds-and-standing) _2026-08-21 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ The LLM Bake-Off Under My Dining-Room Side Table: the launch of openweight alibaba/qwen3.8:27b, and testing four local LLMs on one maxxedoutm5maxmacbookpro... ## [CROSSPOST: BRET DEVEREAUX: At the Autocratic Court of the Chaos-Monkey Trump, & Near the Rubicon River](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/crosspost-bret-devereaux-at-the-autocratic) _2026-08-20 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ King-Archbishop Lord Protector of Republicans, but with Pompey’s dysfunction, the optimates’ talent for turning allies into enemies; not Caesar’s discipline, ambition, speed, or goons... ## [WAIT!! WHAT?!?!: “Mr Albouy Reaches His Conclusion by Omitting Half the Data from the Original Sample”: ANOTHER CHART OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/wait-what-mr-albouy-reaches-his-conclusion) _2026-08-20 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ THAT IS SIMPLY WRONG!!!! ## [Here in Academia, “AI” Has Arrived for Software Coding, for Summarization & Search, for Writing Prose, & for Assessment: CHART OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/here-in-academia-ai-has-arrived-for) _2026-08-20 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ Text got cheap. judgment didn’t. How I hope to teach in 2027: AI has arrived for coding, search, prose, & assessment — three opportunities, and one problemtunity... ## [CROSSPOST: JOE FRANCIS: Running Out of Patience with Economics](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/crosspost-joe-francis-running-out) _2026-08-20 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ Joe’s subheadline: “A Strange Case of Inverted Area Weights”; but I mostly want to praise Joe Francis for spending so much of his time on post-publication peer review... ## [Bubble Watching: This Is What Happens in the Type of Period Called “Distress”: CHART OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/bubble-watching-this-is-what-happens) _2026-08-20 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ According to Kindleberger, things like the Situational Awareness colllapse of Leopold Aschenbrenner happen near the peak of a bubble; they are a sign of the shape of demand... ## [More Signs of a Bubble Peak: BREAKING NEWS WATCH OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/more-signs-of-a-bubble-peak-breaking) _2026-08-19 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ OpenAI, the company that had been selling vibes, looks like it is starting to husband its cash in the face of the Anthropic challenge: two peer coding agents and yet a 5.5x revenue growth-rate gap... ## [THINK LAUGH CRY](https://research.santiagocapital.com/p/think-laugh-cry-a3e) _2026-08-19 · Santiago Capital · Santiago Capital_ Words cost nothing to speak and everything to receive...the quiet asymmetry of language that shapes us for decades without the speaker ever knowing. ## [HOISTED FROM PAUL KRUGMAN’S ARCHIVES: PAUL KRUGMAN (2012): Looking Back With Shrillness](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/hoisted-from-paul-krugmans-archives) _2026-08-19 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ “Shrill” was always the correct setting: Krugman, 2012, on the implications of seeing what normies dare not; when accuracy gets you called uncouth, the problem is the etiquette, not the accuracy... ## [Can We Sell Equity Financing of the DataCenter Build-Out at a Debt Price?: FINANCIAL OVEREXUBERANCE OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/can-we-sell-equity-financing-of-the) _2026-08-19 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ Jensen Huang keeps two books: last year’s says old chips are worthless and obsolete, while this year’s says that old chips are high-quality ten-year bonds; & Elisabeth Lopatto says: “WAIT A MINUTE!!!” ## [AI Summaries & Audio Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8QUkxoCecUib) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to concise audio briefings for the latest stories. ## [The Global Bond Selloff since 2020: CHART OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/the-global-bond-selloff-since-2020) _2026-08-18 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ Four percentage points of yield rise in six years: the long bond’s profound slow-motion repricing, and warning... ## [Does Everyone Go to Heaven in the End?](https://merrycatholic.substack.com/p/does-everyone-go-to-heaven-in-the) _2026-08-18 · Bill Dunn · The Merry Catholic_ 'THE MERRY CATHOLIC' -- How can the 'God of love' send people to Hell? ## [Somebody had to call out Trump's creepy aide, Natalie](https://www.laura-bassett.com/p/somebody-had-call-out-trumps-creepy) _2026-08-18 · Laura Bassett · Nightcap_ Props to Senator Jon Ossoff for finally blurting out what the media has been thinking for years about Trump and his "human printer" ## [What Rand Paul Actually Saw Inside Fort Knox](https://research.santiagocapital.com/p/what-rand-paul-actually-saw-inside) _2026-08-17 · Santiago Capital · Santiago Capital_ A senator walked into Fort Knox and walked out satisfied. What the annual audit actually checks is a numbered piece of paper, and that is the whole story. ## [(VERY PARTIAL-)CROSSPOST: GARY MARCUS: Is Anthropic Making Money? How Much Money?](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/very-partial-crosspost-gary-marcus) _2026-08-16 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ Nobody ought to get superrich selling LLM-services: Anthropic’s IPO & the "airline scenario"; the problem is that back in The Day I was the same bear on Google & FaceBook, & I was very wrong... ## [Again, More of a Refining Crunch than a Crude Oil-Supply Crunch: CHART OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/again-more-of-a-refining-crunch-than) _2026-08-16 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ Lose 7.5 million barrels a day of refining capacity along with crude-oil supply and the shortage shows up more in the refined-product prices than in the crude-oil price... ## [Macro Pilgrim's Ledger | Aug 16, 2026](https://research.santiagocapital.com/p/macro-pilgrims-ledger-aug-16-2026) _2026-08-16 · Santiago Capital · Santiago Capital_ Global markets wrestled with cooling inflation and a faltering consumer as crude surged 5%, bonds sold off, and the S&P 500 quietly notched a third straight ... ## [Stalling for Time -- And a Word Count](https://merrycatholic.substack.com/p/stalling-for-time-and-a-word-count) _2026-08-16 · Bill Dunn · The Merry Catholic_ 'FROM THE ARCHIVES' -- This column was first published in 2008. ## [The Fed Chair Who Whispers: Kevin Warsh’s “Lean Messaging” Is Anything But: LAUGH OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/the-fed-chair-who-whispers-kevin) _2026-08-16 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ Forward guidance, but outsourced to anonymous sources "familiar with the thinking of..." & "close to..." the new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. It is funny. One has to laugh. & also cry... ## [Our Beautiful, Disturbed Weeds: Ruderals](https://thegardenmixerpodcast.substack.com/p/our-beautiful-disturbed-weeds-ruderals) _2026-08-14 · The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack_ One More Sip Notes, Links, & Laughs ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VpNr1kURs2pO) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [CROSSPOST: PATRICK WYMAN: The Human Sacrifices of the Shang Dynasty](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/crosspost-patrick-wyman-the-human) _2026-08-13 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ 13,000 names we’ll never know: the sacrificed victims of China’s first dynasty... China’s first literate state didn’t just practice human sacrifice. It industrialized it—and wrote down the numbers... ## [READING: The Duc de Saint-Simon on the Battle of Blenheim](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/reading-the-duc-de-saint-simon-on) _2026-08-13 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ 322 years ago today, in 1704, a combined Austrian, Dutch, British, Hanoverian, Hessian, Danish, and Prussian army under the joint command of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Eugen Franz... ## [CROSSPOST: SCOTT AARONSON (2013): Against John Searle's Analogy of an Apparently Chinese-Understanding Room](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/crosspost-scott-aaronson-2013-against) _2026-08-13 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ Scott Aaronson’s complexity rebuttal to Searle's "machines can mimic but cannot understand"; Searle's intuition pump hides the scale of the computations... ## [Y'all Street](https://research.santiagocapital.com/p/yall-street) _2026-08-13 · Santiago Capital · Santiago Capital_ Wall Street's oldest insult has become a forecast. If the financial capital ever leaves New York, it does not sail to Shanghai. It goes to Texas. ## [This Guy Is a Barrel of Laughs](https://merrycatholic.substack.com/p/this-guy-is-a-barrel-of-laughs) _2026-08-13 · Bill Dunn · The Merry Catholic_ 'A MATTER OF LAUGH OR DEATH' -- When the conversation drags, he can grind it to a halt! ## [Nate Silver & Eli McKown Dawson: FLIPR: WEBSITE OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/nate-silver-and-eli-mckown-dawson) _2026-08-12 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ Nate & Eli's subheadline: "Silver Bulletin's prediction for every Senate, House, and gubernatorial election in 2026"; 99.9% wishful thinking-free, which is true of nobody else in that line of work... ## [The Family of Man: CHART OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/the-family-of-man-chart-of-the-day) _2026-08-12 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ The Zhang-Moorjani-&-al. map of archaic DNA; the knotty question of when, exactly, we became us; & how we appear to be an evolutionary long-shot... ## [2026-08-12 0.1% 1-Month 3.4% 12-Month Inflation CPI Release: CHART OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/2026-08-12-01-1-month-34-12-month) _2026-08-12 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ The Consumer Price Index came in in line with expectations: the calm number and the silent Chair: what July’s CPI release says, and what Kevin Warsh won’t say... ## [OpenAI's Zero-Day Leviathan Breaches Hugging Face's Black-ICE Security Wall: How I Think You Should Think About the Latest "AI Goes Rogue" Story](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/openais-zero-day-leviathan-breaches) _2026-08-12 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ No Malice In It, No Mind In It Either: What Really Happened When Zero-Day Leviathan Showed Up at the Hugging Face Cyberparty... ## [EQUITIES IN DALLAS](https://research.santiagocapital.com/p/equities-in-dallas) _2026-08-12 · Santiago Capital · Santiago Capital_ From Wall Street to Y'all Street ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zVk2fkK5sqeo) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [CROSSPOST: MICHAEL SELLERS: Trump Thinks Iran Is Ready to Deal. Iran Thinks Trump is. Who's Right?](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/crosspost-michael-sellers-trump-thinks) _2026-08-11 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ You Cannot Surrender to a Clown Darth Vader Who Cannot Keep from Altering the Deal: Iran, Trump, & the Strait-of-Hormuz State of Affairs... ## [The Grave of Karl Polanyi: PICTURE OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/the-grave-of-karl-polanyi-picture) _2026-08-11 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ On analyzing market, bureaucracy, democracy, ideology, ethnicity, and all the other fictions and systems we East African Plains Apes have imagined into reality to assist us in coordinating our lives. ## [Does God Communicate Subtly or Spectacularly?](https://merrycatholic.substack.com/p/does-god-communicate-subtly-or-spectacularly) _2026-08-11 · Bill Dunn · The Merry Catholic_ 'THE MERRY CATHOLIC' -- '...then after the fire, a still small voice' (1 Kings 19). ## [Trump's Lackies Say He Is Powerless to Increase Affordability Because of Things Biden & Powell Did Five Years Ago: CHARTS OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/trumps-lackies-say-he-is-powerless) _2026-08-10 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ Yes, that is the message that Trump lackey Kevin Hassett—and why did he get to have a career after his monstrously cynical and behemothly stupid and wrong "Dow 36000"?—is trying to insinuate on TV... ## [Late Summer for the Internal Combustion-Engine Vehicle Sector: CHART OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/late-summer-for-the-internal-combustion) _2026-08-10 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ But late summer, not yet autumn: internal-combustion engine production is only dying slowly, and its predominance in the global vehicle fleet is dying slower still... ## [The Circular Bailout](https://research.santiagocapital.com/p/the-circular-bailout) _2026-08-10 · Santiago Capital · Santiago Capital_ Washington bought yen to protect the Treasury market, and protected the Treasury market to protect everyone. The rescue was never about Japan. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210373094/fb9ceeea40acd215cbe52dc6015406b3.mp3) ## [No, the left is not at war with itself.](https://www.laura-bassett.com/p/no-the-left-is-not-at-war-with-itself) _2026-08-09 · Laura Bassett · Nightcap_ The headlines about Democratic "infighting" are designed to sow division and blunt the left's momentum ahead of the midterms. ## [Macro Pilgrim's Ledger | August, 9 2026](https://research.santiagocapital.com/p/macro-pilgrims-ledger-august-9-2026) _2026-08-09 · Santiago Capital · Santiago Capital_ A stalled jobs market sent stocks to records, gold to $4,400, and the Fed's rate plans into retreat across a paradox-driven week on Wall Street ## [Prof. Grammar Guy Be Helping You Out](https://merrycatholic.substack.com/p/prof-grammar-guy-be-helping-you-out) _2026-08-09 · Bill Dunn · The Merry Catholic_ 'FROM THE ARCHIVES' -- This column was first published in 2008. ## [(PARTIAL-)CROSSPOST: PETER CONTI-BROWN: Trump Continues His War Against Fed Independence](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/partial-crosspost-peter-conti-brown) _2026-08-08 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ Piece behind Peter's pay wall; his subheadline: "After a brief reprieve, Trump is back with his pretextual war against Lisa Cook, which is in fact a war against the Federal Reserve"... ## [Drought & Heat Strategies with Carol Reese](https://thegardenmixerpodcast.substack.com/p/drought-and-heat-strategies-with) _2026-08-07 · The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack_ Ep. 47 Notes, Links, & Laughs ## [PODCAST: Hexapodia XIII: Cory Doctorow: Mandated Interoperability: We Can't Make It Work, or Can We?: HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/podcast-hexapodia-xiii-cory-doctorow) _2026-08-06 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ From 2021-05-04: That week with special guest Cory Doctorow; Noah Smith & Brad DeLong's 30:00 \< \[Length of Weekly Podcast\] \< 60:00; the key insight: interoperability was a lucky historical accident... ## [CROSSPOST: SEAN ILLING: You Can't Have Homer, Nietzsche & Jesus](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/crosspost-sean-illing-you-cant-have) _2026-08-06 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ Sean's subheadline: "Thoughts on 'The Odyssey' and the incoherence of the cultural Right"; is the Christian Essence the Golden Rule, or is it the Theomakhy of the Eskhaton?... ## [Hey, It's Hop-a-long CRASH-idy!](https://merrycatholic.substack.com/p/hey-its-hop-a-long-crash-idy) _2026-08-06 · Bill Dunn · The Merry Catholic_ 'A MATTER OF LAUGH OR DEATH' -- "D'oh! Stupid Gravity!" -H. Simpson ## [CROSSPOST: DAN FROOMKIN: The Reflecting Pool Story Is About Trump's Grip on Reality, But the Press Corps Won’t Go There](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/crosspost-dan-froomkin-the-reflecting) _2026-08-05 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ Dan's subheadline: "Journalists are treating his ‘vandalism’ claim as if it were a normal, disputable argument. But it’s completely delusional"; Dan has been worth reading since the WaPoWHWatch... ## [Think, Laugh, Cry #50](https://research.santiagocapital.com/p/think-laugh-cry-50) _2026-08-05 · Santiago Capital · Santiago Capital_ How a medieval monk's chronicle of a Viking massacre reveals what soap, combs, and bath day taught historians about evidence, memory, and myth. ## [Exploring Truly Useful Use Cases for "AI"?: QUESTION OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/exploring-truly-useful-use-cases) _2026-08-05 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ Can I get it to teach me things I do not already know?; or, experimenting with "attention" on Bosworth Field on August 22, 1485... ## [Which Is More Likely: a Loving God or a Cruel God?](https://merrycatholic.substack.com/p/which-is-more-likely-a-loving-god) _2026-08-04 · Bill Dunn · The Merry Catholic_ 'THE MERRY CATHOLIC' -- Is God mean and vindictive? ## ["Any Sufficiently Advanced Technological Problem Is Indistinguishable from a Curse": LAUGH OF THE DAY](https://braddelong.substack.com/p/any-sufficiently-advanced-technological) _2026-08-03 · Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog_ Clarke’s Third Law has a dark twin: the corollary Arthur C. Clarke declined to write... ## [Salt Caverns](https://research.santiagocapital.com/p/salt-caverns) _2026-08-03 · Santiago Capital · Santiago Capital_ The Strategic Petroleum Reserve just hit a 43-year low. Is this a scandal or is this a design doing what Congress built it to do in 1975? [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209645699/e3ed302c1d45625770f501d00fee2221.mp3)