Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
This is awful.
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
"he has small fingers and a nanobanana." is that the proper usage? it's hard to keep up with the lingo.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
"The marketplace in ideas is broken; peddlars of crap do not exit as they would in a well-functioning market." @chrisdillow.bsky.social
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Steve Randy Waldman
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people who style themselves liberals on Twitter mock Bluesky as a kind of left-liberal ghetto of irrelevancies. we style them as people whose brains are cooked into thinking you can have 50% fascism as a kind of moderation. 1/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
objectively, yeah, we’re polarized. but which of us, in our mutual smugness, is harmful? /fin
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i got my start in Aldus PageMaker too! there is a learning curve, but it isn’t terrible, and Affinity’s documentation is pretty good.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
don’t use Adobe Acrobat as your PDF viewer! on a Mac i use Preview, but there are lots of apps that can read PDFs. Affinity offers replacements for Photoshop and Indesign, not a PDF viewer. (Sometimes there are weird PDFs that can only be read by Adobe’s software, alas. But these are rare.)
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i canceled my longstanding adobe subscription today. as usual they offered sane pricing only during the process, but i'm comfortable enough with the affinity suite now i just said "sayonara". a bit bittersweet.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
more than (mostly) excellent! just (mostly) on polling, since i’m highlighting the UBI comment (with which I very much agree, a point that needed to be made in that kerfuffle).
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
from @resnikoff.bsky.social, excellent, (mostly) on the great polling kerfuffle. publiccomment.blog/p/some-sligh...
Text: All of which is to say you can't actually do an RCT of universal basic income. You can run an RCT of unconditional cash transfers, but that's not exactly the same thing. UBI is by definition universal: instituting something like a real UBI program anywhere in the United States would transform the entire local economy.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
There’s lots we do regret about the innovations, though. Uber has lots of market power and medallion owners killed themselves, bad outcomes both. I don’t laud Travis for his boldness. 1/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Elon has killed a bunch of people with “full self driving” to build what is now a crappy, also-ran EV company. (Waymo, on the other hand, has plainly not, especially relative to any human-driver baseline.) 2/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
“De” is never the answer to regulation. It’s not even a coherent idea, everything is regulated, “deregulation” is just passing the baton to a different layer of the onion. There is no getting around the question not of do or don’t, nor of too much or too little, but *how*, what do you propose? /fin
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i largely agree drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/02/25/a...
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i’m ambivalent about the prospect of SpaceX really solving a really important problem in the way that i might be if Mengele announced an important medical breakthrough. would you not acknowledge it? refuse to use it if it would save lives? but still.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
“hyperrealistic” is an oxymoron.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
q: what do sentences and investigations (that can lead to sentences!) have in common? a: subject and predicate
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
was New Coke the original woke?
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
when will The State be reified as a chatbot you can talk to?
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
(thanks!)
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
“The problem is, though, that chasing customers isn't always consistent with telling the truth.” @chrisdillow.bsky.social
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
World War I never ended. The Civil War never ended. The sacking of Rome never ended.