(if we’re going to evaluate this hypothesis, perhaps we’ll want to control for latitude.)

it is more expensive and incomes are lower, but in Romania at least, that hasn’t prevented AC from becoming very common. (summers are hot here, especially in the capital Bucharest, which suffers from a kind of urban heat island oven effect.)

there’s no scarcity of AC in Romania.

doesn’t sound hopeful.

all constructs are invalid, but some constructs are not so invalid as to render them entirely useless. (riffing on George Box, all models are wrong…)

“creativity” may be more susceptible to automation than taste.

which is easier if you coopt the least vile of them rather than if you openly detest and shame them all together.

the sistah souljah moment of throwing bill clinton under the bus would be quite the poetic irony.

“voters” are not a meaningful or helpful locus of accountability. it may feel righteous to blame the people who voted for catastrophe, but there’s no mechanism that translates blamers’ self righteousness into virtuous future outcomes.

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The humans still have noses.

the really fun social media platforms will soon implement rage verification.

🤔

sounds like science fiction. maybe after the singularity, we will be able to access your “books” and “libraries”.

acts of the devil?

not sure i’d feel safe in one of these with my surname.

“we don’t need specific numbers to understand that this kind of tragedy is only to be expected after politicians have spent decades denigrating government and degrading its effectiveness.” @pkrugman.bsky.social

what doesn’t kill you makes you bitter.