Steve Randy Waldman
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i have always wondered.
Steve Randy Waldman
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i woke up today and found i was unable to verify my identity.
Steve Randy Waldman
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“Conservatives complain endlessly that ‘unelected bureaucrats’ have escaped the control of their democratically-elected masters and are implementing an agenda at odds with the wishes of the American people. Would this were so as far as NASA is concerned.” @frankfukuyama.bsky.social
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
when my kid wants to impersonate me persuasively, senile will definitely be the way to go. not sure it works for you.
Steve Randy Waldman
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"The removal of the Federal Reserve swap network would be the ultimate 'chainsaw' event, on a level that Musk’s DOGE never even came close to reaching." @steffenmurau.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru... via @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
Trump's Dollar | Steffen Murau
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
no wonder they were so sad.
Steve Randy Waldman
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when Bezos bought The Post, he wanted to be respected among the professional managerial class. his goals have changed. he no longer wants the respect of educational professionals. he want subservience. so he is destroying The Post to show his middle finger.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
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Steve Randy Waldman
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veblen good. after all you must be a billionaire if you are still subscribed, who else would put up with them?
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i think you are maybe a bit too pessimistic! housing isn’t fungible, every house is different, but different houses are often pretty good substitutes for one another, limiting (though not eliminating) homeowner market power. 1/
Steve Randy Waldman
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there might be some demand induced by new building as e.g. it becomes more affordable for the wealthy to buy second homes and enjoy the option value of vacant housing rather than housing services directly. 2/
Steve Randy Waldman
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but demand for services delivered via actual occupancy are limited by time itself, and households can’t divide less than one, and policy can favor occupancy and target household size. 3/
Steve Randy Waldman
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all this is to say that despite the far-from-commodity, market-power-riddled nature of housing that you very aptly (and humorously) describe, it may in fact be possible to make useful progress! /fin
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
thinking of housing shortage in terms if raw numbers of homes is just stupid, because homes aren’t fungible. scatter 40 million new homes across the tundra of Alaska and you’ll do nothing to address housing miseries. build a neighborhood 50,000 people are excited to live in and you’ll do a lot more.
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Steve Randy Waldman
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Steve Randy Waldman
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it should be a rubik’s cube. whee!
Steve Randy Waldman
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the humans are always squabbling, and it might be kind of cute, but then they go ahead and start murdering one another.
Steve Randy Waldman
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i will, but it can be Oslo process.
Steve Randy Waldman
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appropriate.
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you go looking for the third biggest city in Norway, you are on a Stavanger Hunt.
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we only get to learn about an elite network with incredibly disproportionate and democratically unaccountable power because its members also happened to sexually abuse children. maybe we should have visibility into similar networks even if their members don’t do that.
Steve Randy Waldman
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"The irony here is that their impunity to consequence has its own consequence: the dismantling of the system that protects and empowers them." ~Charles Hugh Smith charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2026/02/powe...
Steve Randy Waldman
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until very recently, individual newspapers were much closer to pamphleteers—limited reach, lots of alternatives—than contemporary internet platforms are. straightforward 1st-amendment speech claims were more defensible, even though as you say, journalistic norms and tort risk did regulate them. 1/
Steve Randy Waldman
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(craigslistation and resulting consolidation have altered this. The New York Times was "the paper of record" then, but never bestrode the industry in the way it does now. i'd not favor therefore lifting its free speech rights! but consolidation renders the traditional arguments harder calls.) /fin
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mirror, mirror on the wall… ht @jedgarnaut.bsky.social
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