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.

since you brought up the subject… drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/09/v...

there's a certain irony to the people championing stablecoins simultaneously championing the people destabilizing their most prominent backing currency.

to be fair, private industry often can do better than government, while saboteurs control government and intentionally rip it to pieces. i'd not want to live in an overpriced, ratty, motel but i'll concede it's superior to my home once the arson has taken place.

Musk's management style creates pain in the short term, but in the long term the pain recedes with the calm surrender of collapse. X.com is down for me again, second outage today. Not a great sign for the American state.

pretty soon the only allies we’ll have left are israel and rhodesia.

the Venn diagram between what i take from the Jewish tradition and what ADL takes from it is just two circles, very very very far away from each other.

is Khalil alleged to have violated any laws?

when “deep research” surfs the web for you, does it do the CAPTCHAs?

people with idiotic politics demand we deport people for having idiotic politics.

the writers aren’t terribly subtle.

i came up on the bowdlerized version, i guess, and still am fond of the attitude of deference that widespread perhaps misunderstanding of the phrase suggests.