what are the welfare economics of “agentic commerce”? www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbas...

"Proportional Representation Could Reduce the Risk of Political Violence in the U.S." by @farbodnagra.bsky.social and @jrdresden.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/103876/propo... // winner-take-all / first-past-the-post electoralism is killing us, increasingly literally. via @perfctlyGoodInk on X

"State capacity and technical expertise are absolutely vital for any kind of leftist project" @ryanlcooper.com on Greenland as an example, if not model. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/09/23/r...

first politician in a while with the courage to forthrightly but without ceremony just apologize for something.

it’s a very weird move to take the fact that both US political parties are detested as evidence there’s a real opportunity to capture the space between them, a hypothetical middle. it seems more likely that something they have in common, something an average wouldn’t escape, is detestable.

after the rapture, much is possible.

This is excellent.

now do this in absolute dollar, rather than percentage terms, if you really wanna be scandalized.

instead of just "following", there should be two activities, "following" and "monitoring", yielding two distinct sets of public relationships. at a technical level, they should be identical. socially, they might be interpreted differently.

first time i ever saw a jimmy kimmel monologue i think. not bad.

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i'm an old man and i am cheered by things that recall my youth. i just want to hear Jay Powell say the words "irrational exuberance". you're basically saying it. the circumstances are similar. use the words.

:P

i think it was foretold on TikTok that today would be the rapture? anyway, it was foretold.

i say * the rapture did happen * we all made it * we are now on a better Earth II ...we'll see!

Not enthusiastic about "friend-saving" Argentina, is @mamomvpy.bsky.social marketmonetarist.com/2025/09/22/a... (me neither, but it means more from Lars, as he'd not disagree as much as I would on Milei's economic policy ideas. see also a prior piece on Milei marketmonetarist.com/2025/07/14/c...)

was Putin mean?

“supply effects are robust at the regional level but not at the neighborhood level.”

miss manners used to make the point that etiquette is in fact very important, that if we didn’t have rules of etiquette to lubricate and regulate everyday life, we’d have to use the law and state for that, and we’d not very much like the society that would yield.