free-floating nostalgia can be painful.

far from anti-elitest, MAGA is a conspiracy to make even the most predatory elements of the erstwhile elite look good by comparison.

they take every warning as an instruction manual.

i think you’re wrong, because racism wouldn’t be sufficient to give even its “beneficiaries” the sense of status, respect, and stability they crave. the trick is to persuade them racism would do that, but never quite provide enough official racism to test and discredit the lie.

never actually throw your scapegoat off the cliff. you will find all of a sudden you have no one but yourself left to blame.

“the crisis of expertise is less about doubting expert knowledge than about rejecting the social hierarchy that ‘trust the experts’ implies.”

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Puppet shows! Puppeteer General should be a cabinet position!

i unironically think the job of the future might be politician. we'd have a better world if we had a lot more of them, if every thousand, rather than every almost 800,000 of us, had a paid professional representative enfranchised in our political system. see e.g. www.interfluidity.com/v2/9069.html

Your call is very important to us.

Huh! IRS Direct File is implemented in part in #Scala, both JVM and JS.

“when you’re in this kind of situation it’s hard not to become preoccupied obsessing over how stupid you’ve been.” #relatable i think i want it on my tombstone from a great piece by Moe Tkacik. revenue-based repayment in theory makes some sense for small business loans, but price is everything.

everything they pretended to complain about on principle they were really only jealous of. this is their diversity statements.

i had no idea there was a credible challenge in the courts until last night they announced its success. and i’m a pretty obsessive news reader.

they seem inconsistent, with mutually exclusive reasoning. but i guess not!

will it be the Supreme Court that ignores Humphrey’s, or the Supreme Court that exempts the Fed?

(I don’t have a strong view one way or another on the question of whether holding eg US Treasuries gives a player meaningful power over the US. The Fed, after all, can buy what the other guy sells, has the power to do yield curve control if it wants. But what are the knock-on effects of that?)