people who style themselves political realists have such unrealistic views about how swing voters behave. it's not the issues, or at least not the issues our two parties elevate as objects of political contestation. it's a sense of affiliation, or of shared resentments, or just personal respect.

eventually all prompts just generate an image of a crab.

why are they referred to as “scare quotes”? who is supposed to be scared?

“only in America!”

it feels like the new york times is looking for opinion writers who can, in the most indirect way possible, buttress a perspective that might be summarized, “selling out is not so bad.”

i feel like maybe it’s a little bit better to post one’s conspiracy theories ex ante than ex post so i’ll say i worry this would be a good occasion for a false-flag reichstag fire. hopefully this is as stupid as it sounds.

if you find a rip in your jeans, just put a tariff on it and it will be fine.

i don’t really sleep anymore, but it’s okay now that our diffusion models can do our dreaming for us.

so corrupt. he has a tremendous personal interest in the domestic vanity industry. arguably he is the largest domestic producer.

racism is really boring.

i'd be glad to get together with people to talk about it.

[new draft post] A pocketbook history of postwar US macro regimes https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/09/25/a-pocketbook-history-of-postwar-us-macro-regimes/index.html

do you feel like you are thriving? do you know or encounter people who are thriving?

what are the welfare economics of “agentic commerce”? www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbas...

"Proportional Representation Could Reduce the Risk of Political Violence in the U.S." by @farbodnagra.bsky.social and @jrdresden.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/103876/propo... // winner-take-all / first-past-the-post electoralism is killing us, increasingly literally. via @perfctlyGoodInk on X

"State capacity and technical expertise are absolutely vital for any kind of leftist project" @ryanlcooper.com on Greenland as an example, if not model. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/09/23/r...

first politician in a while with the courage to forthrightly but without ceremony just apologize for something.

it’s a very weird move to take the fact that both US political parties are detested as evidence there’s a real opportunity to capture the space between them, a hypothetical middle. it seems more likely that something they have in common, something an average wouldn’t escape, is detestable.

after the rapture, much is possible.

This is excellent.