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” @anandwrites.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

#evergreen

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.” // this is a very brilliant piece

we have drafts now. which is huge, not just for drafts, but for composing on a phone with multiple pastes. now we just need edit. please.

“LLMs are not just labor-replacing and productivity-expanding, but can, in some circumstances at least, enable the production of totally new things.” @mattbruenig.bsky.social mattbruenig.com/2026/02/10/t... ht @mitchsaid.bsky.social

how have we let this be our world? ht @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social

“not funding community groups to implement strategies designed by national NGOs, but funding community groups to design strategy, period. That requires funders to give up control. Most aren’t willing to do that. Which reveals what this is really about.” @lennecefer.bsky.social

come spring the ice will melt.

“Even a representative agent, forward-looking and fully aware of all the parameters surrounding them, can feel the vibecession.” @mtkonczal.bsky.social

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.” @frankfukuyama.bsky.social

"The removal of the Federal Reserve swap network would be the ultimate 'chainsaw' event, on a level that Musk’s DOGE never even came close to reaching." @steffenmurau.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru... via @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

when Bezos bought The Post, he wanted to be respected among the professional managerial class. his goals have changed. he no longer wants the respect of educational professionals. he want subservience. so he is destroying The Post to show his middle finger.

if you become a client, my advisory will help ensure you place bets only on the highest quality numbers of the roulette wheel.

the humans are always squabbling, and it might be kind of cute, but then they go ahead and start murdering one another.

you go looking for the third biggest city in Norway, you are on a Stavanger Hunt.

we only get to learn about an elite network with incredibly disproportionate and democratically unaccountable power because its members also happened to sexually abuse children. maybe we should have visibility into similar networks even if their members don’t do that.