it’s alive! how our superannuated Congress continues to function. ht @mmasnick.bsky.social

explosives to delight us rather than to exterminate us. i suppose that it is a good start. happy new year.

turning “the right” and “the left” into tribes into which you sort people, rather than just a really simplified, pretty weak, way of classifying ideas and positions, is just another way minoritarian interests divide and conquer.

i guess that makes him Kekimus Minoris.

remember Donald Trump?

one thing this piece is very good about is explaining how the system under which firms like Boeing were built is very different from the system under which firms like Boeing have been dismantled, even though both systems get called “capitalism”.

i’m not interested in organizing people into caricatures like “the left”, but Gaza. lots of people of goodwill who really would have appreciates Biden’s economic work had a hard time saying nice things because Gaza. here’s me: drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/10/a...

[new draft post] Segmentation fault drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/12/31/s...

wiby: a kind of search engine for the old-school web wiby.me

wiby: a kind of search engine for the old-school web wiby.me

the enemy of your frenemy is what now?

boxing without regulation is just beating. what is commerce without regulation?

just because you disagree with someone and their poast doesn't mean they are the person you want to spend a lot of fighting with and taking down. you have better targets than that. and the person whose post you dislike is with you against those better targets.

there isn't anything in this world that is free to read. reading taxes readers' time and attention. it's a miracle they sometimes let themselves be taxed in money on top of that.

Freddie DeBoer says nice things about my sister's book. freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/2024-in-re...

am i crippling my child's future life chances by discouraging narcissism and mendacity?

"I was just following market forces" is the new "I was just following orders"

assuming we are right (i'm pretty sure we are right!) that Dittman is Musk, i don't know what to do with an epistemological environment in which one of the world's most powerful men and most prominent speakers does this.

the game was not fair but still you’ve been checkmated.