Steve Randy Waldman
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i wonder what business is done via X.com DMs these days.
Steve Randy Waldman
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bet Zuck is pissed it wasn't whatsapp.
Steve Randy Waldman
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why did we abandon the superior tech?
Steve Randy Waldman
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how were war plans even made before emojis?
Steve Randy Waldman
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i kind of wish Jeffrey Goldberg hadn’t reported out the story, so maybe we’d receive advance notice when the little green men are supposed to appear in Greenland.
Steve Randy Waldman
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“The Substack Dilemma: How Creators Are Inadvertently Fueling America's Failure” @davetroy.com america2.news/the-substack... ht @loudpoet.com
The Substack Dilemma: How Creators Are Inadvertently Fueling America's Failure
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Steve Randy Waldman
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the abstract looks great! i look forward to reading it. ignoring externalities of resilience (or insurance, or option value) along with “metacapacity” (know-how, tacit knowledge, agglomeration effects) has left us making pretty catastrophic errors on perfectly orthodox grounds.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
(except the orthodox prefer not to see externalities, even if they must concede that hypothetically they might exist!)
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Excellent, from @mattbruenig.bsky.social, on “Abundance”. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/t... ht @ryanlcooper.com
Text: Many of the anxieties that stoke opposition to the kinds of construction projects and rapid technological innovations favored by the authors are downstream of economic inegalitarianism. People block housing construction because they fear living next to the people that our economic system provides so little income to. They block nearby transportation and energy infrastructure because they don’t want to tumble down the economic ladder by impairing the value of their personal real estate assets. They resist productivity-enhancing technology because they fear job loss and permanent income loss. The preservation or deepening of economic inegalitarianism could easily turn the authors’ utopian vision of 2050 into a dystopian nightmare. Attending to distribution is a must.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
the difference between a domestic terrorist and a domestic freedom fighter is a presidential pardon.
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(i think you’re right.)
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in retrospect it’s now obvious that the Whisky War was a plot by the American deep state to divide its enemies.
Steve Randy Waldman
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seems like a reasonable collaboration, where when inferior courts and Congress agree they can check the Supreme Court, but when the Supreme Court and Congress agree, inferior courts ultimately must abide.
Steve Randy Waldman
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You are a lawyer, and I am not! But, with respect to the same Trump v US, i hope inferior judges would refuse to follow that (false, beyond the pale) precedent and so force the Supreme Court to do its own dirty work or else come to its senses. Do you think this kind of pushback shld be impeachable?
Steve Randy Waldman
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i'm grateful Justice Roberts rebuked Trump for his ridiculous call to impeach Judge Boasberg, but I can't endorse as a universal rule that "impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision”. i think Justice Roberts' decision in Trump vs US merits impeachment.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
awful, wholly unjustifiable decisions by lower court judges — decisions contrary to the text, history, and practice of the law — perhaps do not demand so severe a remedy, since appellate courts can correct them.
Steve Randy Waldman
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but impeachment is one of the few deterrents that might dissuade Supreme Court justices from constitutionalizing the anti-constitutional (thanks @jamellebouie.net). impeachment if anything is a remedy too hard to exercise, rather than too dangerous to judicial independence.
Steve Randy Waldman
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more cynically one might posit that he's counting on the opposite, so he'd never have to make good. (i don't know that i mean to attribute that much cynicism to him. he's a person i find hard to maintain a settled opinion of.)
Steve Randy Waldman
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whenever we talked about patent reform, ”moderate” center right technoöptomists would accuse us of a holocaust for the cures reducing a financial incentive might foreclose (with no evidence financial rewards are a binding constraint). i wonder, are they crying holocaust now?
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Steve Randy Waldman
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great question. though we live in astonishing times that it is plausible that they don’t.
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it wouldn’t take a military operation. it would take this government asking for them back. a combination of adverse court and public outrage might provoke that. it already provoked Trump to disclaim his own role in the affair.
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gutless shrugged.
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Can we rescue the people we misimprisoned in El Salvador?