Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
has no one taken TBTF as a ticker?
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
the P/E signals pretty exciting growth expectations.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
No one should be remotely surprised, but this conversation between @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and @hurricanexyz.bsky.social is remarkably deep and wide-ranging. Exceptional. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
they have learned the key to power is named Brazen.
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pretty soon if it isn’t in-person theater, it’ll just seem cheap and tawdry. ht @brandonfriedman.bsky.social
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
you ask a gen-alpha-er what they want to be when they grow up and they say “i want to be canceled when i grow up so i can be famous and make a lot of money and run the government.”
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
"The old world is dying, and its creators are pretty quiet about it." ~Atrios www.eschatonblog.com/2025/10/the-...
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
somebody’s going to make an algorithmic ai-generated porn app that examines users’ scrolls and pauses like tik-tok and modifies what it generates accordingly. some strange shit gonna evolve in that ecosystem.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i can’t speak for other people, but when *i* listen to you, i do not consume you.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
“K— wrote dismissively a decade ago…endogenous growth theory ‘has all vanished from the economics landscape’. If this had been true it wld be unlikely that the sociological + political pressures in the economics discipline wld have produced another endogenous growth Nobel.” endogenous nobel theory?
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
much more dangerous than being straw manned by other people, it is so easy to fall into a practice of straw manning oneself: getting cornered into defending a simplification or caricature of ones own views.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
mastodon too!
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
but you always have to doublecheck in some fashion. its tone remains so certain as it confabulates. the risk is learning but learning things that are subtly off, leaving the self subtly off.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
(i use these tools a lot now, often for programming information and examples, which has the benefit that when the machine has made up API or offered a bad example, it visibly fails. but absent that, i might be fooled.)
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
careful, it’s a big ocean to swim in, can offer a great deal, but one must seek out continual touch points to keep one close to the shore.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
“Let me repeat that—social media silos are fighting against web links, the foundation of the open web. They do so to ‘encourage’ content and discussions on their own platforms, noble goals a stakeholder wld say, except that now these platforms are filled with politics, rage, and AI slop.” @alexn.org
Outsourced Voices, Outsourced Minds
Link Preview: Outsourced Voices, Outsourced Minds: We are not machines, or automatons. We were fooled, but we can fight back. Don’t let algorithms control your thoughts and actions.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
you probably know better than i do!
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
to a degree. but the haunted house isn’t really a novelty like the internet, but a society where politics, inherently large and inscrutable, lacks mediating institutions made of people with direct interpersonal connections. 1/
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unions, local ethnic and party “machines”, fraternal organizations, churches, these are the exorcists of the house in question. 2/
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only one really remains, churches, and love ‘em or hate ‘em, the intensively churched in America behave consistently rather than thermostatically. i think their trust is badly misplaced, but that is their prerogative. true powerlessness is when you’ve nothing and no one to trust. /fin
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@interfluidity.com
the public is not supposed to be naked, ill informed, rationally ignorant, and most of all without meaningful civil society institutions to whom to delegate their trust. 1/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
we put people in a shrieky haunted house where nothing anyone says makes sense, and then condemn them when they say not that to either this shriek or that. 2/
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@interfluidity.com
if we want democracy to work, we’ll need foster the institutions under which a public can approximate rational constituencies. but we’ve killed those, because the “we” in this story for the most part adamantly does not want democracy to work. /fin
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
(yes. the echo was intended.)