Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.
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@interfluidity.com
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it’s @talsmith.bsky.social’s article, i’m only linking it!
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
my son: “i feel like apostrophes can sometimes be really possessive.”
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
if one stipulates Hanlon’s Razor does not apply, then my guess would be trying to proletarianize the professional managerial class.
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it’s okay. he used signal.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Text: More broadly, it is frankly maddening that it took a military crisis to get Germany (and others) to shake off austerity brain. An entire generation of Europeans saw their career prospects diminished or ruined entirely; Greece and Spain endured a catastrophe on par with the Great Depression. But it should be emphasized that austerity also left Europe militarily weak. Without the austerity poison, its infrastructure would be in better shape, its economy would be maybe 20 percent larger, and it would be able to afford rearmament much more easily.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
what if the fates are actually A/B testers?
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
yeah. we do have lots of musical better angels. (and i don’t want to condemn Kurt Cobain for this. it’s on those of us still here.)
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
“i feel stupid. and contagious. here we are now. entertain us.” perhaps our music was prescient.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i love the smell of liberation in the morning.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Hello fellow Gen-X-ers. It is us they have murdered. Older boomers are probably too late for the cures this deep in the pipeline. Millennials and Gen-Z-ers might get lucky, might see the pipeline rebuilt in time for their cancers. But the cures that might have saved us? Say b’bye!
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I think it’d have been worth mentioning and considering another distinction between private centralized and public decentralized ledgers, that on the latter all transactions, albeit between unidentified pseudonymous parties, are literally broadcast to the world and law enforcement. 1/
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@interfluidity.com
Analogous transactions are completely invisible absent specific investigation and costly legal processes when made using traditional centralized ledgers. 2/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
That does make visibility on cash-out a more powerful tool in the decentralized case than it would be in the centralized case, because identified bad transactions can be traced link-by-link to identified cashing out parties. 3/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Of course, lifting sanctions on Tornado Cash contract addresses and the many peer and successor system that will result if they are tolerated undermines this distinction. 4/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
But during the pre-Trump equilibrium, in which “privacy stablecoins” were crushed but public stablecoins were tolerated, there was a colorable argument for the distinct regulatory regimes. /fin
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@interfluidity.com
There are illegal things candidates want to do because it yields them electoral advantage. Like vote buying. If you say it’s undemocratic to enforce the law if the people would want to vote for the candidate, you’re encouraging candidates to go all-in on illegal tactics to buy or win votes.
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every accusation is a confession, as they say.
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@interfluidity.com
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@interfluidity.com
further, gerrymandering of legislatures conditions votes for governors. the question “who can get things done?” is tilted in the direction of the party that will hold the legislature, which gerrymandering largely determines.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
If you live in Wisconsin, Florida District 1, or Florida District 6, you are some of the most powerful people on the planet today. If you haven't voted already, please go now.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
you cut Federal research because you just want to be able to say shit and have that be the official truth without pointy-heads in the “deep state” telling you or anybody else you are wrong.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
[new draft post] If we weren't idiots, Balance of Payments edition https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/04/01/if-we-werent-idiots-balance-of-payments-edition/index.html