it remains absolutely funny to me that the one thing that unites MAGA and Blue Labour is "we are too high up on the value chain and we need to go back"
Over 50% of the UK goes to uni. 50% of our economy doesn’t require this, and we are misallocating high value human capital, this is the problem that you for some reason, are pretending not to grasp.
December 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
it remains absolutely funny to me that the one thing that unites MAGA and Blue Labour is "we are too high up on the value chain and we need to go back"
Correct, because at our current point on the value chain a large number of workers need a level of education that makes them susceptible to the Woke Mind Virus
One thing that remains fascinating to me is how much radical Trumpism wants to move down the value chain, instead of upwards to more value-add + complex production and research. Instead, RFK kills the NIH and NSF.
September 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Correct, because at our current point on the value chain a large number of workers need a level of education that makes them susceptible to the Woke Mind Virus
My brother in Christ, reindustrialization is based on international capital flows, not dumbass ideas to move down the value chain by turning colleges into vocational schools. You do realize that modern industry is almost always *high* skilled automation?
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
No reindustrialising? Our academic institutions are a part of the problem, overproducing elites and funnelling them into bullshit unproductive jobs. Half the universities need to close or become vocational colleges. You didn't even mention productivity.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
Well, for one, the UK has a highly competitive higher education sector that is closely tied to innovation, and yet the past set of governments don't value academic institutions as value producers.
The other part is leaving the EU has basically damaged the British ability to trade goods...
The other part is leaving the EU has basically damaged the British ability to trade goods...
December 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My brother in Christ, reindustrialization is based on international capital flows, not dumbass ideas to move down the value chain by turning colleges into vocational schools. You do realize that modern industry is almost always *high* skilled automation?
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
"On the one hand, LLM's are destroying the planet forcing every value chain through increasingly exclusionary centralized oligarchs powered by removing the ability to share art & avoid being sucked into the exploit-a-thon; but on the other, corporations save costs scheduling tweets." - Internet User
April 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"On the one hand, LLM's are destroying the planet forcing every value chain through increasingly exclusionary centralized oligarchs powered by removing the ability to share art & avoid being sucked into the exploit-a-thon; but on the other, corporations save costs scheduling tweets." - Internet User
“I never thought the tariffs would come for MY supply chain” sobs founder who voted for the Tariffs Party
April 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
“I never thought the tariffs would come for MY supply chain” sobs founder who voted for the Tariffs Party
we are on the verge of embarking on a real import substitution project to move one of the richest countries on earth down the value chain to the type of industries developing country technocrats tend to describe as “necessary” growing pains
February 1, 2025 at 4:38 AM
we are on the verge of embarking on a real import substitution project to move one of the richest countries on earth down the value chain to the type of industries developing country technocrats tend to describe as “necessary” growing pains
Value X Chain Open Event wn.nr/v23bADB
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Bel Group (I.e. babybel cheeses) thinks AI can do its food R&D. Ain’t gonna eat that anymore.
www.dairyreporter.com/Article/2024...
www.dairyreporter.com/Article/2024...
Bel Group leans on AI to accelerate innovation, tighten value chain efficiencies
The French cheese company will leverage artificial intelligence to come up with unique recipes while achieving end-to-end efficiency gains across its global value chain.
www.dairyreporter.com
July 8, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Bel Group (I.e. babybel cheeses) thinks AI can do its food R&D. Ain’t gonna eat that anymore.
www.dairyreporter.com/Article/2024...
www.dairyreporter.com/Article/2024...
Just wild that the New York Times will spend 6000 words on a dozen catholic converts smoking cloves in Peter Thiel's Chelsea loft but concrete reporting on the strategy of 150000 workers striking the top of the gd value chain is left to tiny movement outlets
September 15, 2023 at 3:58 PM
Just wild that the New York Times will spend 6000 words on a dozen catholic converts smoking cloves in Peter Thiel's Chelsea loft but concrete reporting on the strategy of 150000 workers striking the top of the gd value chain is left to tiny movement outlets
on the bright side of all this, the US leaping down the value chain to low level industry might open up comparative advantage slots for financial services, engineering, and other high value added professions in the global south. much to consider!
April 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
on the bright side of all this, the US leaping down the value chain to low level industry might open up comparative advantage slots for financial services, engineering, and other high value added professions in the global south. much to consider!
the greatest magic writer ever strikes again and again and again and again
www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2025/11/one-...
www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2025/11/one-...
One Battle Damage After Another
Writing from a cold and sanitized chain hotel, Rob ponders the effect that wear (or lack thereof) has on the value of our items.
www.hipstersofthecoast.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
the greatest magic writer ever strikes again and again and again and again
www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2025/11/one-...
www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2025/11/one-...
Twitter taught us all that “low engagement” content had no value and would be buried. Bluesky is different. The best stuff on the site is where people make sicko mode posts about their hobby restoring ‘70s-era gecko chairs found exclusively in a local New Mexico chain bowling alley.
So these people crying that bluesky is an echo chamber talk about nothing except politics? They have no hobbies? They don’t watch sports? They just do nothing of value with their lives at all? Weirdos.
November 22, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Twitter taught us all that “low engagement” content had no value and would be buried. Bluesky is different. The best stuff on the site is where people make sicko mode posts about their hobby restoring ‘70s-era gecko chairs found exclusively in a local New Mexico chain bowling alley.
So deindustralization is better understood as basically the evaporation of the Fordist compact of jobs for non-college labour: America still produces a lot of (high-value) goods at home, what ended up getting transferred overseas were goods lower on the value chain.
I’m a little confused, how does this square with the deindustrialization of the 70s onwards?
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
So deindustralization is better understood as basically the evaporation of the Fordist compact of jobs for non-college labour: America still produces a lot of (high-value) goods at home, what ended up getting transferred overseas were goods lower on the value chain.
New Commission must remain focused on building up hydrogen value chain
New Commission must remain focused on building up hydrogen value chain
There is no net zero scenario which does not include clean and sustainable hydrogen for hard to abate sectors, transport, and energy storage. Therefore
The post New Commission must remain focused on building up hydrogen value chain appeared first on…
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December 16, 2024 at 5:06 AM
New Commission must remain focused on building up hydrogen value chain
Weirdly bullish on Canadian economy, just need to force our way up the value chain
April 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Weirdly bullish on Canadian economy, just need to force our way up the value chain
you know things are K-shaped when young folks are cutting back on relatively cheap eats like Chipotle… www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/c...
Chipotle stock plunges 13% as chain lowers sales forecast, says younger diners are cutting back
Shares of Chipotle have tumbled 33% this year, dragging its market value down to roughly $54 billion.
www.cnbc.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
you know things are K-shaped when young folks are cutting back on relatively cheap eats like Chipotle… www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/c...
"America has a long history of celebrating immigrant food without valuing immigrants themselves. The value of any person should not be reliant on producing things the dominant class deems delicious enough to embrace." www.eater.com/24359357/und...
For Undocumented Restaurant Workers, Everything Is in Question
President Trump’s threats against undocumented immigrants put America’s entire food chain at risk.
www.eater.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"America has a long history of celebrating immigrant food without valuing immigrants themselves. The value of any person should not be reliant on producing things the dominant class deems delicious enough to embrace." www.eater.com/24359357/und...
New in ChromeDevTools: Debug complex CSS values more easily! 🎉
The Elements > Styles tab now shows a tooltip on hover with:
1. A step-by-step evaluation of complex CSS calculations to trace values back to their origin!
2. The full definition chain of CSS variables!
The Elements > Styles tab now shows a tooltip on hover with:
1. A step-by-step evaluation of complex CSS calculations to trace values back to their origin!
2. The full definition chain of CSS variables!
July 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
New in ChromeDevTools: Debug complex CSS values more easily! 🎉
The Elements > Styles tab now shows a tooltip on hover with:
1. A step-by-step evaluation of complex CSS calculations to trace values back to their origin!
2. The full definition chain of CSS variables!
The Elements > Styles tab now shows a tooltip on hover with:
1. A step-by-step evaluation of complex CSS calculations to trace values back to their origin!
2. The full definition chain of CSS variables!
Aura farming is a pretty terrible use of capital. You’re better off trading for aura or focusing on stuff that’s further downstream in the value chain, like aura manufacturing
November 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Aura farming is a pretty terrible use of capital. You’re better off trading for aura or focusing on stuff that’s further downstream in the value chain, like aura manufacturing
H2 import not competitive. Whole thread worth reading, on green steel. (Spain is competitive in all value chain setups.)
October 30, 2023 at 12:58 PM
H2 import not competitive. Whole thread worth reading, on green steel. (Spain is competitive in all value chain setups.)
Read @pkrugman.bsky.social on the ludicrous idea to move the US *down* the global value chain:
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Making Sweatshops Great Again
Does Trump want us to manufacture sneakers, not semiconductors?
open.substack.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Read @pkrugman.bsky.social on the ludicrous idea to move the US *down* the global value chain:
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
We are back to the start on prompting. Reasoners break the value of chain-of-thought as a prompting technique and lower the value of giving AI a persona
No new approaches to prompting reasoners have been tested in any sort of rigorous way (though folks share their best practices, they may not work)
No new approaches to prompting reasoners have been tested in any sort of rigorous way (though folks share their best practices, they may not work)
February 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
We are back to the start on prompting. Reasoners break the value of chain-of-thought as a prompting technique and lower the value of giving AI a persona
No new approaches to prompting reasoners have been tested in any sort of rigorous way (though folks share their best practices, they may not work)
No new approaches to prompting reasoners have been tested in any sort of rigorous way (though folks share their best practices, they may not work)
Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
A major link in Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain has just snapped. South Korean battery material supplier L&F Co. announced today that the value of its massive supply deal with Tesla has been slashed by over 99%, signaling a catastrophic drop in demand for the automaker’s in-house battery cells.
This is arguably the strongest evidence yet that Tesla’s 4680 program, and the vehicle that relies on it, the Cybertruck, is in serious trouble.
more…
electrek.co
December 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
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While Russia relies on imports for up to 98% of its annual 7,000–7,500 tonne hop usage, supply chain challenges and sanctions have caused shortages,
Not sizeable in value but unimaginably sizeable in propaganda value.
3/3
Not sizeable in value but unimaginably sizeable in propaganda value.
3/3
April 7, 2026 at 8:16 AM
While Russia relies on imports for up to 98% of its annual 7,000–7,500 tonne hop usage, supply chain challenges and sanctions have caused shortages,
Not sizeable in value but unimaginably sizeable in propaganda value.
3/3
Not sizeable in value but unimaginably sizeable in propaganda value.
3/3