after seeing a lot of videos, i’ve come to the conclusion that blonde chick from Battlestar Galactica was perhaps the most prescient take on AI.

for people who live there and love it, NYC in fact has a lot of market power. no matter how rich you are, there really isn’t anywhere else like it, particularly if you are an English speaker and your politics are antagonistic to European social democracy.

the resulting baby boom saves humanity from extinction!

it’s the only way to get away.

a democracy progresses less by factions winning fights than by forging agreements encompassing mixes of consensus and reciprocal compromise. i know that’s hard to imagine now that we’ve bifurcated into mirror image caricatures of ourselves.

maybe the reason for that spat with Trump is he was off his meds at the time.

suppose you cut medicaid, but create a “stabilization fund” to hold hospitals harmless, prevent rural hospitals from shuttering. all you’ve done is created income for hospitals without requiring—or even allowing—them to actually do the work of helping those who would have been medicaid recipients.

X should brand its stablecoin, all of its financial products, “Starship”.

sometimes policy mostly has intended consequences.

now it’s based to be cringe and cringe to be based.

i think there’s no such thing as thinking.

it will be a real escalation of the troll wars when Iran issues an evacuation warning for NYC.

people like to own homes too. price growth is itself a problem, even if oddly (for a finance guy) it gets reflected in multiples of rent rather than growing with rents.

a bit disheartening if the lesson is immigration puts a rocket under housing prices and even unusually high supply growth can’t put a dent in the effect. do you think that’s right? or could/should Canada be doing something different to accommodate immigration without sending housing to the moon?

roughly what we spend on the military, with likely lots of room to grow.

I'm impressed!