it’s working really well. and we feel so morally righteous playing into it.

a hard thing is that, in order to overcome divide-and-conquer by plutocrats, we will have to find solidarity with groups we think are profoundly wrong on some issues, whose positions and advocacy we think are outright immoral.

what is rule of law among people for whom words have no meaning?

(ideally you’d want recipients to feel some obligation to work the sponsoring job, but not so much obligation that if wages and conditions are below recipients’ market value they stay anyway. probably it’s not too far from this? change on Day 2 maybe it looks bad, but after 6 months life goes on?)

maybe Day 3 of 2025 will be better.

“In a time of acute loneliness, the proliferation of AI-generated content seems not unlike an act of pollution, compromising the integrity of the social ecosystem.” @lmsacasas.bsky.social theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-cat-in...

On the collapse of US NIIP. So much for “dark matter”. Yet more testament to the profound but often overlooked importance of pure revaluation in aggregate accounts. www.rabobank.com/knowledge/d0... cc @steveroth.bsky.social

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let's do it! the Nobel beckons!

I agree. It's just nothing absolves us from having to do our best to decide how to nudge, despite knowing we are incapable of predicting beyond a few direct consequences how things will work out. We have to act despite limited visibility into the consequences of our actions.

they will, but policy is about shaping how people cross those gradients. of course nothing is deterministic and social systems are things we live inside of and never truly understand. but that does not mean "random" or (much worse) "natural" is wise policy. we have to think and do as best we can.

bites hard now.

cool analogy! (TFP "measures" at least do have discernible directions of movement you can argue about and draw correlates with. i agree, very loose, often tendentious correlation hacking and causality handwaving! with vibes and cultural, it's all whatever the narrator says that it is.)

this feels to me like the Trump $2 bill, but for a certain kind of geek rather than for MAGA types. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

we can't know, but we sure can't conclude that the path to some forward-looking social democracy is to impose over political anger forms of immigration that put pressure on natives' salary and employment security because maybe somehow a new new deal results.

seems very parallel to what just happened on (i think) the other leg of your dual citizenship…

i think with proper industrial policy we could jumpstart a competitive North American EV industry, but i'm not sure electric personal automobiles is the smartest industry to make such a push for.

"In defiance of the neoliberal just so story, private companies did not respond to the government’s withdrawal of support by increasing their own R&D expenditure, they responded by cutting it." @williamcb.bsky.social williamcullernebown.substack.com/p/stepping-o... ht @karengregory.bsky.social

“What is the point of the Liberal party?” by @phillmv@hachyderm.io okayfail.com/garden/whats... // about Canada, but with parallels to what's happened to a lot of place's "mainstream" "center-left" parties.

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