Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

eventually all prompts just generate an image of a crab.

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

why are they referred to as “scare quotes”? who is supposed to be scared?

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

“only in America!”

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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

it feels like the new york times is looking for opinion writers who can, in the most indirect way possible, buttress a perspective that might be summarized, “selling out is not so bad.”

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

i feel like maybe it’s a little bit better to post one’s conspiracy theories ex ante than ex post so i’ll say i worry this would be a good occasion for a false-flag reichstag fire. hopefully this is as stupid as it sounds.

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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

if you find a rip in your jeans, just put a tariff on it and it will be fine.

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

i don’t really sleep anymore, but it’s okay now that our diffusion models can do our dreaming for us.

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

so corrupt. he has a tremendous personal interest in the domestic vanity industry. arguably he is the largest domestic producer.

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@interfluidity.com

racism is really boring.

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

i'd be glad to get together with people to talk about it.

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@interfluidity.com

[new draft post] A pocketbook history of postwar US macro regimes https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/09/25/a-pocketbook-history-of-postwar-us-macro-regimes/index.html

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

do you feel like you are thriving? do you know or encounter people who are thriving?

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@interfluidity.com

what are the welfare economics of “agentic commerce”? www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbas...

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Coinbase and Cloudflare Will Launch the x402 Foundation: Building the Future of Agentic Commerce

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@interfluidity.com

"Proportional Representation Could Reduce the Risk of Political Violence in the U.S." by @farbodnagra.bsky.social and @jrdresden.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/103876/propo... // winner-take-all / first-past-the-post electoralism is killing us, increasingly literally. via @perfctlyGoodInk on X

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Proportional Representation Could Reduce the Risk of Political Violence in the U.S.: There is no single cause of political violence in democracies. But one critical source is often overlooked: electoral system design.

Proportional Representation Could Reduce the Risk of Political Violence in the U.S.

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@interfluidity.com

"State capacity and technical expertise are absolutely vital for any kind of leftist project" @ryanlcooper.com on Greenland as an example, if not model. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/09/23/r...

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Red Greenland: The small island nation has one of the largest and most successful portfolios of state-owned companies in the world. What?

Red Greenland

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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

first politician in a while with the courage to forthrightly but without ceremony just apologize for something.

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it’s a very weird move to take the fact that both US political parties are detested as evidence there’s a real opportunity to capture the space between them, a hypothetical middle. it seems more likely that something they have in common, something an average wouldn’t escape, is detestable.

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

after the rapture, much is possible.

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@interfluidity.com

This is excellent.

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@interfluidity.com

now do this in absolute dollar, rather than percentage terms, if you really wanna be scandalized.

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