Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
from @kevinerdmann.bsky.social kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/a-conversa... // a great piece from Kevin Erdmann. exclusive places are really boring, but we've so strangled the possibility of vibrant places that we compete to occupy the highest amenity mausoleums.
The problem of the last century of housing is that half the country is always below average, and we have frozen all of our neighborhoods in place in an attempt to get the lower half to live somewhere else. But the lower half still lives somewhere. So, now we have a lower half of the population, but not a lower half of housing stock that evolved to serve them.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
to be fair, an administration wants representatives who will reflect and advocate for its own values and priorities.
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The Price of Remission
Link Preview: The Price of Remission: When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Are they fucking with annual flu shots in the way they are fucking with annual COVID boosters?
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
On how the absence of a strong left cripples policymaking even (perhaps especially) on the liberal center. By @chrisdillow.bsky.social Placating the right yields terrible governance — practically, morally. Outcompeting the left requires delivering. stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
Why we need a strong left
Link Preview: Why we need a strong left: Anyone hoping that the marginalization of the Labour left would lead to rational, liberal policy has been badly disappointed by Starmer's recent remarks (pdf) on immigration echoing Enoch Powell and s...
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
meanwhile, these people are sitting on the tarmac in a airplane, right?
Screenshot of weather in Djibout, showing it currently to be 91℉
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
How much does US vaccine politics (e.g. imposing huge burdens on booster by the FDA) affect availability of vaccines outside the US? Will boosters be readily available elsewhere?
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
it’s hard to believe Elon Musk will become aloof to politics given how much risk he would be in from the criminal justice system under different politics.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
what if all of our phobias converted to phagias?
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Habeus Corpus is the story of a young zombie trying to make his way in a world full of hatred and discrimination.
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@interfluidity.com
text is now infinite what grows scarcer and scarcer is voice connected to a human soul.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
“The enduring strength of a state-dominated Chinese system that can pivot, change policy and redirect resources at will in service of long-term national strength is now undeniable, regardless of whether free-market advocates like it.” ~Kyle Chan www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...
Opinion | In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.
Link Preview: Opinion | In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.
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@interfluidity.com
thank god, cross fingers.
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“maybe if you tax poverty you get less of it.”
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
a "rogue employee" is one who gets caught doing what Elon has asked.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
maybe antivax influencers are the result of a conspiracy by big pharma to replace efficient one-or-two shot cures with expensive chronic treatments that yield perpetual recurring revenue.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
perhaps we should be grateful that the first job to be really perfectly and completely automated by AI is the fraudster.
