“…stop framing our approach to China in terms of why it can’t last, what must go wrong, or when the contradictions will finally catch up with it. The system has worked. It has delivered. Waiting for its collapse is not a strategy; it’s a coping mechanism.” jiwankshetry.substack.com/p/must-read-...

it’s all down to the chicken tax. 🐔

“Practically every elite institution selects for people like this now.” @ryanlcooper.com

“Stop asking whether Weiss is good at journalism. She is good at the job she’s actually doing: performing submission to power and recruiting others to the ritual. In today’s media oligopoly, that job pays.”

sometimes defiance of parsimony is an act of charity. i agree it is almost certainly unwarranted charity.

“If I die and can look back and think ‘yeah, I more or less enjoyed a lot of that and helped more people than I hurt’ then I’ll consider my life a success no matter the scale or the stage.” @ianwelsh.bsky.social www.ianwelsh.net/what-constit...

(thanks!)

“the financial system should be designed to put small firms in an environment where they can build credit histories and demonstrate their ability to handle debt – and where they don’t need to rely on collateral to get started.” @csissoko.bsky.social syntheticassets.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/i...

you can never find scissors. not when you need them. never. so you end up buying another pair. until you move. then they all appear, come out of the woodwork, hundreds of them, snapping at you.

what would Andy Rooney say?

ha! very well put.

shite, shit is only four letters.

“There is no point in criticizing something if some law of nature means that it must be so. But there is, despite claims otherwise, no law of nature which says we have to be bastards to each other or to the species we share this world with.” @ianwelsh.bsky.social www.ianwelsh.net/we-dont-have...

tbf that seems consistent with a national defense mission.

love it when a university i attended 20 years ago writes to let me know they've been hacked and they've leaked my social.

from @karlbode.com www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/t...

careful with that sense of humor of yours!

#AlternativeMath

we’ve been gaslighted into believing that gaslighting is a thing.