A year ago on March 7 my dear friend Kristine died. This year on March 7 Kevin Drum died. I wasn’t friends with Kevin, we corresponded a bit, argued a lot, I read him pretty religiously. They are both Orange County people. I claim not to be superstitious (or solipsistic) but it’s spooky to me.
Thread on Kevin Drum.
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democracy dies in oligarchy. cf @parkermolloy.com www.readtpa.com/p/another-da... ht William Lindsey
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I've sent a note (via webform rather than postal mail, because time feels of the essence) to my Congressional delegation re the detention of Mahmoud Khalil. notes.interfluidity.com/PQ4yA2l3QmmU...
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I look forward to meeting you at one, someday.
what i think renders the productivity boost so ambiguous is the choice to take out at all rather than eat in. 1/
speaking from personal preferences, i eat in much less. post-COVID, i think of closely shared indoor public spaces like swimming in a sewer. but i get less value than when i merrily ate in public restaurants. it's a loss of total value even though an increase in measured productivity. 2/
(i desperately seek restaurants with outdoor seating. but why should they, if takeout is so much more efficient for them?) /fin
sometimes labor productivity is when you get customers to do more of the work. it's not clear if that's a net increase in prosperity, or just a transfer of burden. cf @goolsbee.bsky.social et al www.nber.org/papers/w33555 ht @mattgrossmann.bsky.social
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Even when you're already heartbroken, the world breaks your heart. jabberwocking.com/health-updat...
they said it was all about government surveillance. they were privacy warriors. then Musk came in and stole access to all of our data and they cheered.
are we all Keynesians in a foxhole this time, or are our leaders determined liquidationists?
yes. they've ruled that out by amplifying conspiracy theories about central-bank digital currencies.
granting him an apolitical stance, he'll try to when he sees risks to employment. the question is whether he'll be data-driven or forward-looking, and whether the change in investor risk evaluation can be overcome by plummeting rates.
i think "looming depression" might soon outweigh "trump take egg" even for antipolitical, low-information voters.
X.com down again. you should think of DOGE as the management style that brought us boeing but on steroids. Musk does in years what took decades at Boeing. (a bit ironically DOGE's is prosecuted by people who fancy themselves engineers but wreaking mayhem ultra vires.)
Is it also true that all the ones you've ever met couldn't?
impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.
can we read minds?
can ghosts read our minds?
i think we're madly agreeing, if you read a bit further than the first clause.