one way to understand Trumpist foreign policy is they view the enterprise the same way tankies do, except they just play the other side.

from @ad-mastro.bsky.social thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/are-roomma... ht @adammongrain.bsky.social

if the United States comes to have a much smaller role in the world and a smaller economic footprint, how persistent do you think will be the role of English as a kind of international, um, lingua franca?

make mistakes. if you don’t get it wrong, no one will correct you, so you may never have an opportunity to get it right.

it’s worth stepping back every once in a while and marveling: so much winning. our new golden age.

sometimes social media is so mean you find yourself feeling bad for the most unsympathetic people.

from now on “piggy” is an honorific.

“That is, rational choice modeling is just a structured way to make up a guy… it seems reasonable to think of economic rationality as a compression scheme.” @akhilrao.bsky.social akhilrao.org/blog/2025/11...

if you accused the economic left of cynically latching onto Larry Summers’ Epstein correspondence, i think the response would be, well, fair cop.

Britain is an object lesson in how poorly arranged democracies can succumb to destructive positive feedback. The people who ensure a stagnant economy via Brexit enjoy political dividends blaming immigrants for the consequences of that very stagnation. (US democracy is arranged at least as poorly.)

with the disinflationary effects of an asset price collapse, you’d need stimulus and might be able to do $2K checks without inflation. ht @sharonk.bsky.social

i think at the time, neither she nor we quite understood the full extent of what insiders were inside of.

how dependent are AI valuations on a maximalist version of AI build-out and uptake which, in terms of scale, speed, and freedom from scrutiny, might be less plausible under a different administration?

evidence does not consist solely of data, and data does not automatically qualify as evidence.

and @tomslee.net wins the argument, in the only way these arguments can be won. he just let it go.

it’s amazing Sleepy Tom Slee managed to keep his eye open long enough to roll it. i guess that’s the power of my righteousness.

No one should listen to a meanie like you.

when the argument is taking place in quote tweets, it’s a bad sign for the quality of the conversation, whichever of the antagonists you may vibe with.

“I have long been amused by the 1991 Louisiana slogan when a corrupt politician was running against a Klansman, ‘vote for the crook; it's important’… Happily, the crook won.” characteristically great by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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