“free speech means i am free to control the speech.”

we can’t even solve the alignment problem between massively insured humans and the rest of us. ht @chrislay.bsky.social

the really bold move is to attach a BYD logo.

On the cornering of Columbia and the fate of US academia in general, @rajivsethi.bsky.social rajivsethi.substack.com/p/tightening...

i guess when we see the defectors tomorrow, it’ll be interesting to see how well defection correlates with closeness to crypto.

this is what i’ve found. it’s not so good, i think. it doesn’t for example mention the language stripping Congress of tariff oversight. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...

can institutions go on strike?

can Senate Democrats change their leader at will?

calling Thomas Frank: What's Wrong With New York?

democrats fear everyone. republicans only fear primary voters, who are right-wind ideologues.

I'm fine with that. It's much tighter, stronger. But it should be very clear. This is what we want. It is more than reasonable. It is necessary.

@davitivan.bsky.social yeah. it does seem like a problem. Musk is not so popular. a very clear statement that "we totally want to fund the government, but Elon has behaved criminally with the trust granted him, he and DOGE must go" would sure be better than "just say no."

If Democratic Senators do the right thing, what's the ask? What's the alternative they throw into Republicans' court?

i look forward to what you have to add, on capital or assets. (i'm less enthused about your adding to my liabilities.)

oh… @steveroth.bsky.social is into assets too! y'all should hang. (i hang with him often, am always enriched by it.)

if you haven’t, read @steveroth.bsky.social’s essay on this. you two are on a similar wavelength i think! open.substack.com/pub/wealthec...

Since I’m playing the optimist today, I guess I’ll say that just as confederate/Jim Crow/fascism is part of our collective inheritance that emerges under impropitious times, so too are the norms that underlie an independent civil service, ready to emerge in more propitious times, better institutions

Yes. Absolutely. But if we do proportional representation in the house, districting matters less. (There are no doubt devils in the details of how we choose to do proportional representation to attend to, but the goal is legislative share closely matches vote share by party, among 4-8 major parties.