i am asking urgently for an emergency stay on the emergency stay of the emergency stay.

ha.

In February of 2023 I got annoyed that substacks were clogging my inbox, so I resubscribed to them under a different address, which then autofiles to its own folder. In practice, I now look at this folder infrequently. In three-ish years, the unread count in that folder has grown to 18,557.

Scarcity and want are finally fully defeated as artificial intelligence technologies automate the greater fool.

why do people think our prestige institutions don't get them, are out of touch with their concerns?

I think we shld all kumbaya that the taxi medallion system was shitty regulation inspired by bad neoliberal enthusiasms. Let's use property rights to regulate, rather than annoying but potentially fairer bureaucratic procedure. Why not let that property become a speculative asset? What cld go wrong?

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really putting the true threats to America’s national security on notice here. i’m not quite sure what the notice says, though.

the robots’ Keynesian Beauty Contest.

Maybe perhaps the problem with our democracies (@chrisdillow.bsky.social writes about Britain, but analogous pieces could be written about the US) isn’t the demos, is not the awfulness of our electorates but the choices and incompetences of the people entrusted to shape and manage our institutions.

i feel like we should pull Marjorie Taylor Greene into a warm embrace despite everything.

am i the only one to wonder whether Lindsay Graham wasn’t conjured from the imagination of Anne Rice?

the overfamiliar elite networked social scene of the Epstein e-mail dump is not mostly about the girls and sex. similar scenes very much continue. one perspective is great, it was only the abuse that was bad. another perspective is the abuse was emblematic of the corruption of this kind of scene.

“unlimited toilet paper” is a good name for infinite-scroll social media.

the antitrump coalition used to fancy itself institutionalist, but revelations of the vile personal behavior of the people who captain once favored institutions, and the willingness of those institutions to deform themselves to curry favor with the new order is undermining that i think.

This post is a death threat.

the Epstein Files are just a subset of the Google Files.

there is no hypocrisy under supremacy. a double standard is, from a supremicist perspective, simply correct.