i worry, since they would lose any election in a wave, and they face significant criminal and business risks from a transfer of power, that they won’t see as their best bet manufacturing crises that they can argue foreclose the possibility of immediate term democratic transition.
i might dispute the branding of these ideas as YIMBY or “abundance”, but there’s a lot of policy wisdom in this by @resnikoff https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/lessons-from-yimbyism/ 1/
@resnikoff it’s never “deregulation”. there was regulation before the reform. there will be regulation after. it’s the character, not the “quantity”, of regulation that determines its virtue or vice. 2/
@resnikoff there is no such thing, and certainly no such desirable thing, as deregulation. there can fruitfully be reregulation. /fin
raising money is not a legitimate function of political leaders.
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The main good that determines whether you think the economy is good or bad is slack. How much headroom is there between what you are going to buy and what you can afford to spend? 1/
You can lose slack because your real purchasing power declines, or because your needs expand. “Needs” are largely a function of structural facts and social norms. 2/
If you model spending only as discretionary choice, treat anything beyond the most basic food and shelter as expendable, as gravy, something optional or superfluous, you will never make sense of what human beings actually experience, and the ructions of behavior that result. /fin
“If there is an inalienable right to life, it should follow that I have an obligation to take reasonable steps to minimize disease that could harm or kill my peers.” @zeblarson https://www.liberalcurrents.com/propaganda-rather-than-pandemic-policies-caused-the-war-on-public-health/
// this is general, a thing any serious liberalism must grapple with. the dual of any meaningful right is a burdensome obligation.
contemporary capitalism is the stench of desperation perfumed with chirpy pitches.
“National identities such as ‘French’ and ‘Italian’ were things that had to be invented, and they were often imposed through military or state power.” @resnikoff https://publiccomment.blog/p/the-great-retcon
social media is paradoxically both exhausting and insomnia-inducing at the same time.
social media is paradoxically both exhausting and insomnia-inducing at the same time.
I just made some shit up. Its authenticity has been confirmed.
if demons can be emergent from social affairs, perhaps angels can too.
This was weird, though now I get it.
scala> 1 << 32
val res3: Int = 1
scala> (1 << 24) << 8
val res4: Int = 0
“That people move from representing the presidency to representing banks is so normal that we forget the costs: the private job done with the savvy to outfox one’s former public-sector colleagues, the public job done gently to keep open doors.” #AnandGiridharadas https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/opinion/meaning-epstein-emails.html
“There is no equivalent concept for ‘you are foreclosing the entire future option space of human civilization by accelerating past the point where exploration is possible.’ The externality has no name because the framework for naming it doesn’t exist in economics or policy.” @elbowspeak
// i can’t help but think about the automobile and the built environment that supports and depends upon it. https://mastodon.social/@elbowspeak/116071945170678690
suppose there were an elixir you could drink and become a giant, but if you did it would be inevitable you would, wittingly or not, step on some people like ants. would it be ethical to drink it?
“buildings are a bit like intellectual property, which also lasts longer than the economic horizon of the businesses that produce it. The economic argument for rent regulation is a bit like the argument for limiting patents and copyrights to a finite period.” @jwmason https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/after-the-rent-freeze/
// this is a very brilliant piece
come spring the ice will melt.
i woke up today and found i was unable to verify my identity.
“Conservatives complain endlessly that ‘unelected bureaucrats’ have escaped the control of their democratically-elected masters and are implementing an agenda at odds with the wishes of the American people. Would this were so as far as NASA is concerned.” #FrancisFukuyama https://open.substack.com/pub/persuasion1/p/why-it-took-so-long-to-return-to