i don’t know. the problems of railroads and the problems of tech are pretty similar. network effects and high capital mean Econ 101 style competition is insufficient, and states need to more affirmatively structure competitive industries.
if we have to argue whether a firm has a monopoly or not, the industry is too consolidated.
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good question! there’d be trial and error. recency would be a discriminator — older accounts are more likely authentic. accounts that only retweet. i might want to generate samples of nonretweet posts, to judge whether they seem meaningful for LLM extrapolation. some hashtags + phrases in profiles.
continuing on the fake accounts theme… i’ve been in early-social-media followback-nearly-anyone mode. i suspect i’ll want to recurate my follows, in a somewhat automated way. i presume the technical openness of bluesky renders that possible, but i’ve much to learn pointers gratefully appreciated!
the last few days i’ve seen sudden, relentless follower growth. which is wonderful, if each follower represents the account of a human. the relentlessness, though, and some regularities in profiles (“a blue dot in a red [noun]”) make me wonder whether automated influence brigades have joined us.
the way interest rate policy works is to impose a tax on the nonrich paid to the rich. nonrich spend their marginal dollar bidding up the price of goods+services. the rich bank their marginal dollar, so such a tax can be disinflationary, if new money to the rich (Federal interest) doesn’t overwhelm
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good point.
why is the cast of characters so small, that we have to recycle this particular villain? it’s hard not to gotta-hand-it-to-them a bit on “US elites”, given how the same disappointments and mediocrities reinvent themselves in one another’s company where “new blood” or “merit” might otherwise appear.
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(it’s even worse when you read the story. Dershowitz. Barr. a “dream team” of (in)famous hacks.)
a blog is kind of an old-person word for like a generic substack, right?
@nickchk.bsky.social i’ll try to take a look!
with money, like any other thing, the dose is the poison.
her public performance of womanhood demands our chivalry.
on deportation, on tariffs, all the world is holding its breath, “does he really mean the extremity of what he proposes? or is the point to pocket some victory and negotiate back to moderation?” it wouldn’t be effective tool for negotiation if you could tell it was a bluff. you can’t.
i like to think of myself as an unsynced hero.
i feel like i’ve been made President.
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now that you mention it, i have some more!
who do we have to tariff to stop the flow of ketamine?
people who have learned nothing are now going to run everything.