xcancel.com/longevity_ed... youtu.be/485Em2JF34M

if one wanted to sum up what American governance has lost in a single word, “faithfulness” would not be a bad choice this by Mila Sohoni is wonderful, reads like aspirational science fiction but describes a very recent past. www.virginialawreview.org/wp-content/u... ht @nicholashandler.bsky.social

if trade deals can be unilateral, why not engagements? ht @bananapantz.bsky.social

kindness is sexy.

what if Donald Trump is dead and the guy in the White House is Jeffrey Epstein in disguise? just asking questions. do your own research.

SEO has been the art of manipulating search engines to influence human behavior. What name will we give to the practice of managing training data + agentic web search results to manipulate LLMs who may increasingly provide humans with information (or misinformation) that conditions their behavior?

the most basic fact of fiscal policy is it’s not how much you spend that matters most, but the quality of activity and distribution of goods, services, and safety that results from the spending.

is the filibuster dead all but in name then?

if at 11:11 we are supposed to make a wish, what must we do at 4:04? (too late — it's 4:05 now.)

"They failed to understand that there’s a big difference between accountability and revenge, and that Trump is only interested in the latter." @ddayen.bsky.social prospect.org/justice/2025...

oh jinx.

wait ‘til he gets them to stop removing the cocaine too. finally something literally Mt-Rushmore-worthy!

philosophical disturbances bleed from the epistemological to the ontological.

my new artificial wisdom platform exceeds human performance on all the benchmarks.

our competitive global markets.

“On our current trajectory, we might just get those jobs making tennis sneakers.” // an excellent piece on China, encouraging sane industrial policy in the US, by @davidautor.bsky.social and Gordon Hanson // (good luck with that under the current administration) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

we should refer to that tennis player Carlos as "Crocodile".

they should join up into a kind of “commission”.

there’s no scarcity of AC in Romania.