Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
my kid.
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Happy New Year!
Steve Randy Waldman
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Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the pill. Try Soma!
Steve Randy Waldman
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it literally says so at the bottom, but i can't believe i am just now realizing that John Perry Barlow's "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" was written… at Davos. my whole youth is a lie. (thanks to Jill Lapore's excellent "These Truths" for the tidbit bookshop.org/p/books/thes...)
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
go Finland go!
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iconoclasts, independent thinkers, self-made men every one of them.
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the best way to have more housing is to have more (mixed-use, dense, walkable, transit-served) neighborhoods.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
more evidence the product here is “democratizing” the experience of sycophancy heretofore restricted to the very rich. the very rich are surrounded by cynically self-dealing sycophants. soon you can be too!
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Steve Randy Waldman
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the best feeling is when you hit an "unsubscribe" link and it 404s.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
we need to tax the middle class much more to finance universal social benefits (though much of that will just replace expenditures like private insurance premiums), without provoking inflation. 1/
Steve Randy Waldman
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we need to tax the very wealthy because wealth that confers political influence or leads to lifestyles detached from our political community, who have no use or interest in our commonweal, is dangerous and should not exist. 2/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
with respect to neither of these purposes is the formal accounting debt or deficit very useful or informative. 3/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
it is simultaneously true that we need to tax a whole lot more and conventional fiscal math is a red herring. /fin
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Image of “Re-Animator” movie poster, man holding a syringe loaded with fluorescent green fluid.
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Steve Randy Waldman
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unconditional love conditioned as a practical matter on continuing and continual interaction is potentially the most powerful force in politics.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
dear all of you. i don’t like it when any of you die. please take that under advisement. thank you.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
billionaires are the sad victims of an inadequate tax code, which has allowed them to become surrounded by an isolating bubble of sycophants, severed from participation in community and ordinary fellowship. we owe potential victims of this condition prevention, and those already suffering remedy.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
the volk exists only in relation to the wagon.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
countertransference will be quite the new frontier.
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@interfluidity.com
it's rather a delicious irony that the tradwife sector will be dominated by AI synthetics.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
no one wields the word “okay” like @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com.
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sycophancy as a service.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
[new draft post] Constant real wages can hide a lot of pain https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/12/28/constant-real-wages-can-hide-a-lot-of-pain/index.html