Steve Randy Waldman
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impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat. impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat. impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.

Steve Randy Waldman
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"You Can’t Put Too Much Water into a Nuclear Reactor"

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this is a lie. we know the names of people who have died. Wah K’Ler Paw. Pe Kha Lau. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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it's remarkable the term gaslighting was invented prior to this administration. cf @ddayen.bsky.social on Schroedinger's CFPB. prospect.org/economy/2025...

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CFPB to Employees: When We Said Stop Work, We Didn’t Mean Stop Work!

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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

in policy, you can never get it just right. you should try to get close, but perhaps more importantly, you have to choose in which direction it will be less costly to err, then condition your choices so they will err — hopefully not too much but inevitably — in that direction. 1/

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going for symmetrical optimality is foolish hubris. /fin

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yeah, man. Europe is so scary. from ourworldindata.org/grapher/homi...

Map of homicide rates by country 2023, showing nearly all of Europe with lower rates than the US. Map of homicide rates by country 2023, showing nearly all of Europe with lower rates than the US.
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wasn’t this the traditional definition of chutzpah, when you massacre half your legal team then ask for lenience from the court because you’re short-staffed? ht @histoftech.bsky.social

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maybe we could have a strategic sportsbets reserve too.

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drain the swamp. screenshot from thread beginning xcancel.com/ustreasury/s...

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this Republican Congress wants simply to disappear, to be absolved of all responsibility for anything. the founders thought Congress would be jealous of its privileges. this Congress is desperate to escape the blame that might come from even the slightest exercise of them.

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[new draft post] Meeting Starter https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/02/meeting-starter/index.html

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this is fucking nuts, and fucking shameful. www.kpbs.org/news/border-... ht @rossgrady.dood.net.ap.brid.gy

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so any progress in, you know, the US Congress, the branch that controls the money, on funding a US Crypto Reserve? (genuinely asking! it certainly wouldn't surprise me if this craven caucus included it in a budget in deference to dear leader.)

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do you ever wonder what the kompromat is on Rubio?

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waiting for the Trump Administration to 💡: "hey, what if we replaced the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with a strategic reserve of petroleum *stocks* (we could buy up in advance!)"

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10 Observations About Tokyo by Quico Toro www.persuasion.community/p/10-observa... ht @steveroth.bsky.social

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hear me out: #eggcoin

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@interfluidity.com

a thing i find odd about people into (bad, ugly) Mearsheimer-ish "offensive realism", great-power spheres of influence, etc is the presumption that Russia is or would be a great power in such a world, rather than a vassal either of China or Europe, or site of conflict for resources between them.

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so obviously a pump. who got to say, and who got to know, which cryptocurrencies Trump would name? i’m sure he named Cardano because Trump is just really into a Haskell foundation and claims of provably correct proof-of-stake. will it end in meaningful purchase, or just the usual dump? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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It’s not inflation. Trump has upgraded eggs into the category of luxury goods. Enjoy! More upgrades to come!