#data economy

[mbrainspaz]

that feeling when your boss implements a new task logging system where it's gonna take longer to log most tasks than to do them, so you tell him that, but he says 'we need the data'.

I just crossed 60k for the first time in my life and what little work I get to do typically serves to improve life in a local community, so I guess my job is logging tasks now.

[nrgnews-it]

IA: L'Era dell'Elaborazione Real-Time Rivoluziona il Mercato Il mercato dell'intelligenza artificiale (IA) sta vivendo una trasformazione epocale, trainata dall'esplosione dell'elaborazione dati in tempo reale. Le aziende che sapranno sfruttare questa tendenza avranno un vantaggio competitivo significativo. Le piattaforme IA gestite e il calcolo neuromorfico, con le sue reti neurali spiking (SNN), sono le tecnologie chiave di questa rivoluzione, offrendo prestazioni senza precedenti in termini di velocità, efficienza energetica e capacità di adattamento. Il mercato globale è in crescita esponenziale, con stime che parlano di centinaia di miliardi di dollari e opportunità di investimento uniche, sia per investitori privati che attraverso fondi europei come Horizon Europe e l'EIC Accelerator". Si assiste ad una vera e propria corsa all'oro in cui i finanziamenti in seed e SeriesA sono all'ordine del giorno

[stakeholders-sgv]

Stuck on Big Tech vs. Big China, America Overlooks the Real Social Media Revolution Happening Elsewhere

— Why the U.S. is Falling Behind as the Fediverse & Open-Source Take Over Europe & Canada The Fediverse and open-source social media are gaining momentum worldwide, and especially in Europe and Canada — while the U.S. lags behind. What is this all about? Why are we so disconnected in the way we connect on the web? In America, traditional platforms like Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter),…

[clinchcoverenthusiast]

An interesting read, for sure.

[josephkravis]

Digital Clones and Deepfakes - Why We Need to Rethink Sharing Photos and Data Online

Digital Clones and Deepfakes - Why We Need to Rethink Sharing Photos and Data Online. And, In the age of instant gratification and digital omnipresence,

[phonesuitedirect]

In this blog post, we will explore today’s data-driven ecosystem and discuss some tips for designing successful strategies that increase comprehension of consumers’ needs while providing valuable insights into what works best for your industry. Read More...

[gamer2002]

[tanadrin]

I think this is pretty spot on; whenever I see discussion of the economy and economic perceptions, there's always people in the replies going "yeah, but eggs are $8 a dozen" or "why is every middle class family I know foodbanking." And then OP, or someone else, will post data showing egg prices are stable, or that wages have actually been rising faster than inflation, and the person who posted that may even admit that, ok, things are fine for them personally, but not for other people.

And it's always been true that politics is more about attitudes and aesthetics than it is about policy or facts on the ground; but it's rare that attitudes are so divorced from people's actual material circumstances. And while I think there are lots of things contributing to this disconnect, as matter of campaigning, I don't really know how you overcome it.

[thoughtportal]

What's happening to the federal treasury system

[gwydionmisha]

Atlanta Fed shock sounds 'Trumpcession' warning: McGeever

Trump is deliberately tanking the economy and then trying to cover it up with more firings and cooking the books. If no federal economic data is reliable then no one can trust it for things like investments, business decisions, government planning for economic downturn, etc.. This is yet another essential step in the Republican plan to ruin the economy for the benefit of Vladimir Putin and a hand full of Billionaires so rich they benefit if there is stagflation, or even worse deflation.

There is no non-sinister reason to do any of this.

Trump administration disbands two expert panels on economic data

Trump Advisers Want to Strip Public Spending From the GDP Tally. Why It Makes No Sense.

[seonghwacore]

be real honest. which member of your favorite group whose personality is actually similar to you? are they your bias or not?

[moon--meeks]

Oki hi I'm going to do my best to write down prices of gas per gallon I see from gas station signs when I drive past them in my specific area

Last time I filled up my vehicle was 1/13/25 (before the President change) an the price per gallon was 3.19

Today 1/25/25 (after the President change) gas price per gallon was 3.25

The price of gas so far has not decreased

I hope to update this every week to every other week for the course of the next for years

I encourage others to add there the prices in their area so hopefully we can get an accurate data of gas prices over the next four years

Update as of when I got gas on 2/4/25 the price per gallon was 3.39

[claire-starsword]

finally

i would have been so disappointed if i coded a sprite ripper only to not find a single unused sprite there

hi there bestie!

who the FUCK are you

[al-mayriti]

one thing about classicists, we never fucking learned dates

[josephkravis]

Digital Clones and Deepfakes - Why We Need to Rethink Sharing Photos and Data Online

Digital Clones and Deepfakes - Why We Need to Rethink Sharing Photos and Data Online. And, In the age of instant gratification and digital omnipresence,

[moontyger]

The government produces many of America’s most important economic indicators. And that data influences the media’s coverage of the economy, which likely colors voters’ views of the president.

These facts have long led partisans to fear presidential manipulation of economic data. Specifically, during Democratic presidencies, conservatives have often sought to dismiss positive economic trends by alleging data manipulation. Last August, Donald Trump accused the Biden administration of “manipulating jobs statistics” to make unemployment look artificially low before Election Day.

Such allegations have always been baseless. Presidents might have an incentive to tamper with economic data reported by the executive branch. But they have always been constrained from doing so by respect for the independence of data-gathering agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Economic Analysis, fear of scandal, and a desire to provide the private sector with clear and accurate information about economic conditions.

But Trump appears uniquely unencumbered by such constraints. His administration is openly contemptuous of agency independence, arguing that the president should boast unitary authority over all of the executive branch’s activities. It also evinces no concern for giving off the appearance of corruption (before taking office, the president established a memecoin that enables any interest group to directly burnish his net wealth). Trump’s constantly shifting tariff threats indicate an indifference to providing business owners with clarity about the economy’s future trajectory, while his entire history as a public figure suggests an indifference to the truth.

All this gives us some cause for fearing that Trump might tamper with government economic data, should it become politically inconvenient. And over the weekend, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested that he intends to do just that, by altering how the government calculates gross domestic product (GDP) — the total value of goods and services produced in the economy.

“You know that governments historically have messed with GDP,” Lutnick said during a Fox News interview Sunday. “They count government spending as part of GDP. So I’m going to separate those two and make it transparent.”

Lutnick’s remarks came days after Elon Musk argued that “A more accurate measure of GDP would exclude government spending” since “Otherwise, you can scale GDP artificially high by spending money on things that don’t make people’s lives better.”

In other words, Musk believes that the US government has been producing useless goods and services just to inflate GDP numbers.

This argument is substantively unsound. And it also appears politically motivated: Musk’s comments came in response to a new projection from the Atlanta Federal Reserve, which showed GDP on pace to decline during the first quarter of this year. Musk’s implication was that this projected decline is entirely attributable to his elimination of wasteful government activities that had been distorting growth statistics.

Stripping government spending from official GDP data would not be the most corrosive form of data manipulation. Such tampering would at least be transparent; the administration would not be producing fabricated economic statistics, but merely seeking to redefine an existing measure. But the administration’s desire to alter the content of GDP — seemingly, due to political concerns — makes the threat of more covert and destructive data manipulation more plausible.