i guess i’m going to say this doesn’t qualify as what i meant by “in person”. i mean you are there on a bus, like i am behind a screen when i’ve seen various videos of them. there’s no question they were a widespread elite and the media fad. 1/
but actually giving one, in real time before live people, strikes me as restricted to a certain category of elite events? i don’t know, as i say, i’ve never experienced it. /fin
someone gets up on the bus and tells you its route is aboriginal or something?
i have never experienced a land acknowledgment in person. have you?
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it’s like “american beauty” meets “being there”.
santa claus rally? y / n
u lock-in, they lock u-in.
the self-storage industry is a microcosm of what’s wrong with America. ok, ratcheting rates on stuck customers, auctioning their shit if they don’t pay, is icky. we’re not commenting on whether it’s ethical. but it’s legal, it’s profitable, we’re best off if it becomes widespread standard practice.
(thanks!)
merch idea! a corkboard map of the US by Congressional district. yeah, there’ll be some weird shapes. anyway, drop a little flag for each solicitation until you have all 435!
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in 2016, conventional wisdom was markets don’t like it when Trump is doing well. in 2025, it’s markets don’t like it when Trump is in trouble. (whatever they are doing, don’t expect them to be on the side of some greater good. that’s just not true of contemporary financial markets.)
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it’s worth crediting Joe Biden — yes, that one, the senile one with dementia — how he didn’t succumb to this dynamic when it was clearly Republicans’ plan during a debt-limit crisis.
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i’m down with it, but 25 isn’t the only 86. i’m not picky.
i guess the economistic rejoinder would be you have, because every month you forego the higher rents you could be earning if you moved in with your mom.
your shooters just haven’t inspired voters to elevate them to elected office.
i’d push back on @kevinerdmann.bsky.social’s background presumption that people who think the economy is rigged tend to believe it’s zero-sum. a lot of social democrats think the economy is presently rigged, but gigantic positive-sum free lunches are within reach via intelligent public action.
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(a challenge is that “positive sum” and “pareto improvement” are not the same thing, and there are a lot of veto points to public action where those who think they might be losers from positive-sum interventions can intervene.)
“Now, rents in the most affordable neighborhoods in every city have to rise until a household doesn’t form.” @kevinerdmann.bsky.social // having included an agglomeration-effect driven thought experiment in my latest that predicts opposite empirics i’m chastened, but this is very much worth a read
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“What is the psychological profile of the mass shooter? A mass shooter is violent, tech-poisoned, aberrant, lonely, immature—and often racist or sexist. Does that not describe the leadership of the Republican Party and the MAGA movement overall?” @thorbenson.bsky.social
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is it midnight of the elite yet?
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was there anything in the emails about pizza?