driving should be a vacation activity, like water-skiing.

how long were they deployed? kind of amazing no one took a commercial flight carrying their pager, then got randomly swabbed for explosives and like, wtf? (very lucky no one was on a commercial flight but still in radio range.)

not quite yet, but soon: if you don’t know the author, there is no author.

call it the brown new deal. cf @jeffstein.bsky.social x.com/jstein_wapo/...

raise the SALT cap. don’t eliminate it.

This post fails to replicate.

"The public sector can stop private risk aversion from disciplining necessary investments if it tries… a more democratic…state-directed fin system wld channel investment…based on…risks *not investing* poses to ppl's material security." @advaitarun.bsky.social advaitarun.wordpress.com/2024/09/17/t...

[new draft post] Abundance is overcapacity drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/17/a...

"The Ohio Supreme Court Just Greenlit an Egregious “Fraud Upon the Voters" @mjsdc.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

Pagers aren't usually bombs. So was this a supply chain attack? Were small bomb embedded in the pagers Hezbollah purchased, at the manufacturer or en route to end customers?

when you find takes about your writing, both left and right, all over the internet, it just means you’ve gone chiral.

“Alternatively, we could nationalize Musk’s holdings and run national security from the government, in conjunction with private business, but not handing them the keys.” @erikloomis.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/the-...

I’m seeing a fair amount of imposter spam. I’ve seen imposters of several prominent economics-ish accounts, all of which have handles modified to include “earn” or “earns”, a few of which have reached out with crypto-related DMs. Be careful out there!

A lesson of Uber is once they buy your vote, they can tax the bribe right back from you.

the cliché is that California is the poster child for a bad governance in blue states, even though New York exists.

My housing policy in a sentence: Pursue greenfield development at very high densities, with the care and intelligence that desirable high density demands. See e.g. www.interfluidity.com/v2/8772.html

"the broader recognition of hysteresis and chronic demand shortfalls in the 2010s, and the aggressive response to the pandemic in this decade, are positive lessons that need to be preserved and defended and built upon." @jwmason@mastodon.social jwmason.org/slackwire/at...

a disadvantage of a two-party system is one wld like to be able to shun and shame people who vote for fascist political parties, but that forecloses any meaningful democratic choice to those who wld remain within the pale. it's better if those who opt out of democracy leave some for the rest of us.

suppose, hypothetically of course, that the owner of a key military supplier, upon whose products national security depends, is himself a grave security risk. is there nothing in American law that could force the security risk to divest?

so, i guess it’s settled then. seen in Daytona Beach, FL.