not quite yet, but soon: if you don’t know the author, there is no author.

the shirts, i was thinking. but we don’t have to choose!

call it the brown new deal. cf @jeffstein.bsky.social x.com/jstein_wapo/...

raise the SALT cap. don’t eliminate it.

This post fails to replicate.

"The public sector can stop private risk aversion from disciplining necessary investments if it tries… a more democratic…state-directed fin system wld channel investment…based on…risks *not investing* poses to ppl's material security." @advaitarun.bsky.social advaitarun.wordpress.com/2024/09/17/t...

my use-case is 99% thesaurus. it's not bad at that. it's helpful to be able to specify the sense you want, rather than just throwing out a related word.

[new draft post] Abundance is overcapacity drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/17/a...

"The Ohio Supreme Court Just Greenlit an Egregious “Fraud Upon the Voters" @mjsdc.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

Pagers aren't usually bombs. So was this a supply chain attack? Were small bomb embedded in the pagers Hezbollah purchased, at the manufacturer or en route to end customers?

Likewise!

It’s great to find you here! I left Twitter at about the same time. Mostly. (I still lurk some on Twitter and link my blog posts, but I do my best to avoid contributing.) It really has been a loss, though. I’m delighted to reconnect.

when you find takes about your writing, both left and right, all over the internet, it just means you’ve gone chiral.

“Alternatively, we could nationalize Musk’s holdings and run national security from the government, in conjunction with private business, but not handing them the keys.” @erikloomis.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/the-...

I’m seeing a fair amount of imposter spam. I’ve seen imposters of several prominent economics-ish accounts, all of which have handles modified to include “earn” or “earns”, a few of which have reached out with crypto-related DMs. Be careful out there!

A lesson of Uber is once they buy your vote, they can tax the bribe right back from you.

CA has such a parade of horribles from cynical ballot propositions, but then living now in a red state, ballot propositions and citizens' initiatives are our only hope for any form of governance other than continual crushing underfoot.

the cliché is that California is the poster child for a bad governance in blue states, even though New York exists.

#aspirational