[new draft post] Hard information, soft information, groupthink, corruption https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/01/24/hard-information-soft-information-groupthink-corruption/index.html

“What sort of libertarian is so angry about enforced mask-wearing, but so relaxed about other, greater, infringements of liberty? …What [putative right-wing libertarians] are doing is not asserting liberty so much as denying the existence of collective action problems.”

@michaelpettis.bsky.social hasn’t the US also chronically kept wage growth lower than productivity? but the result has hardly been balance of payments surpluses. to what do you attribute that? nonwage compensation costs? “capital” inflows financing excess consumption?

in my dream, once you ran AI software on a microchip it didn’t matter what you ran afterwards. the microchip had become sentient.

a bit more seriously, though yes it’d take some work to get the apparent quality high, make sure the citations are real, etc, would this be so different than the role of a think tank?

a great thing about LLMs, if there’s not already a literature that supports your position, there can be one pretty quickly!

in business and in France, ROI is king.

if the muzzling of US public health agencies is making you anxious, try a cool glass of raw milk to calm your nerves. (nb: please don't!)

if you know anything about Einstein… I know the dead can't file defamation suits, but i feel an exception should be made. x.com/ElonClipsX/s...

"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks."

when you are pandering to people they can see you are pandering to them. who you are, what you stand for, will not seem powerful, valuable, aspirational, “real” to them. because it is not to you. live and profess your values like they matter to you and they might start to matter to someone else.

declare the (always right-wing) “vibe shift” and think about how we are going to accommodate ourselves to it might not, in fact, be the best way to do politics. re @mattyglesias.bsky.social www.slowboring.com/p/the-vibes-...

the collaborationist Washington Post

“we’re replacing your oncologist with someone fully aligned with the Trump movement.”

i’m not flipping you off. it’s an etruscan salute.

what happens to doctoral students on student visas whose work is funded by these grants?

we are going to have to do better than all the king’s horses and all the king’s men.

so glad they’ve moved on from all the fine folks who are ripping us off and bankrupting us to the true scourge: DEI

they are moving so fast to destroy things. a dictator on day one. a wrecking ball on day three.