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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

My housing policy in a sentence: Pursue greenfield development at very high densities, with the care and intelligence that desirable high density demands. See e.g. www.interfluidity.com/v2/8772.html

"the broader recognition of hysteresis and chronic demand shortfalls in the 2010s, and the aggressive response to the pandemic in this decade, are positive lessons that need to be preserved and defended and built upon." @jwmason@mastodon.social jwmason.org/slackwire/at...

a disadvantage of a two-party system is one wld like to be able to shun and shame people who vote for fascist political parties, but that forecloses any meaningful democratic choice to those who wld remain within the pale. it's better if those who opt out of democracy leave some for the rest of us.

suppose, hypothetically of course, that the owner of a key military supplier, upon whose products national security depends, is himself a grave security risk. is there nothing in American law that could force the security risk to divest?

so, i guess it’s settled then. seen in Daytona Beach, FL.

from “concerned so sharp an immigration wave might pose challenges to a community” to “they’re eating the cats” is the ultimate motte and bailey.

rewatched “The Warriors” forty years later. found myself nostalgic for a lost dystopia.

i feel like there’s tourism potential in Springfield OH now, like some enterprising immigrant should open a colorful joint walled with voodoo-themed murals offering “catburgers” made from 100% Grade A Beef Chuck, but with, you know, little ears and whiskers drawn on the buns.

i feel like there’s tourism potential in Springfield OH now, like some enterprising immigrant should open a colorful joint walled with voodoo-themed murals offering “catburgers” made from 100% Grade A Beef Chuck, but with, you know, little ears and whiskers drawn on the buns.

“It is often alleged that means-testing proponents…like the fact that the administrative burdens…exclude some poor people bc that saves money. But rarely do you ever see it laid out this explicitly” @mattbruenig.bsky.social on the UK “Winter Fuel Payment” www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2024/09/13/t...