if we could trade him shooting someone on Fifth Avenue for the things he actually has done and let others do, we'd have to take that trade. (Get on the Trump trolley.)
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can't imagine why the period from 2019 to 2022 might have left people who had hoped to buy a home a bit bitter. (and then, of course, there is the effect of rising interest rates on mortgage costs, ht @steveroth.bsky.social)
A graph of all-transaction-home-prices-for-the-US divided median-household-income-in-the-US, showing a sharp rise from 2019 to 2022.
AM radio, 2026.
A radio app on a dashboard touchscreen, set to AM 930 KHz.
yes, a mark against it.
is there anything like audible — two books a month for a fixed price — that’s regular ebooks rather than audiobooks (and not owned by amazon)?
which disappeared first, local journalism or the local itself?
hard power only works as a backstop to soft power.
[new draft post] The fiduciary class https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2026/05/13/the-fiduciary-class/index.html
The foundation of contemporary economics is denial of this: “As Recht (2023) bluntly says, ‘you can’t optimize a trade-off.’ There is no consensus over how to optimize over multiple independent objectives in even moderately complex situations.” by @himself.bsky.social @cshalizi.bsky.social
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i’d feel so sorry for the plutocrats if it weren’t for their externalities.
still waiting for the announcement of MAMA — Make America Mate Again.
I'd rather the dysphemism "I failed" than the euphemism "I passed"!
i feel like you are using dysphemism as a euphemism here.
someday we’ll have a monument to the new solarpunk plenty and there will be a great gold statue of donald trump just like there is a giant visage of andrew jackson on the twenty dollar federal reserve note.
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Word of the day: Dysphemism — the substitution of a disagreeable, offensive, or disparaging expression for an agreeable or inoffensive one www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/d... via @alonlevy.bsky.social
the arc of history bends toward the heart death of the universe.
Why have sentiment indicators broken from past stable relationships to other macroeconomic variable? ✅ Great Q! A genuine puzzle! Why is the public mistaken, ungrateful even, when in fact the economy has been objectively good? ❌ Bullshit. There’s no such thing as an “objectively good” economy.
the kid always complains that he has no free time even though he spends hours video gaming. it’s what he wants to do with his free time, but it’s an activity that doesn’t psychologically register as free time to him. he often describes it as “grinding”.
just to be edgy, some airline ought to start selling “epstein class” tickets.