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power and wisdom don't correlate among individuals. if anything the connection is inverse. wisdom is always hard, but to be consistent it has to be institutional. we need to build powerful institutions in a world made of politically equal humans.

we could rename Mars “Elba”.

holding prices constant and only letting income vary, i think homothetic works.

thanks. yes. i saw that too, but it didn’t seem so clear. i’d like an explanation from the author.

you may need to, um, secure the southern border.

I didn't notice this the first time through. There's discussion in the comments, but no adequate explanation yet, so I've taken my post down for now. Reproduced here for posterity / potential revival. cc @loganb.bsky.social

it's a protection racket, offering inadequate protection.

my son, when accused of mischief: "I am innocent of all the crimes that I've committed."

people are mean to Elon Musk, but he has the same care for all of us as he has for his own children.

why does tech hate science? www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

the best kind!

@steveroth.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKBM...

dmv.community/@akuchling/1...

“masculine energy”

but Trump wrote an EO saying that only He (via his AG), not independent agencies, can interpret statutes, so future litigation will pit the Supreme Court in review of an agency, but against a "coequal" President, in interpreting laws passed by Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

we’re getting hard lessons in why bureaucracy supplanted personalist rule.

last time around ratings agencies were corrupted by greed. now they are corrupted by fear.