the discourse is enriching.

thank god, cross fingers.

“maybe if you tax poverty you get less of it.”

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a "rogue employee" is one who gets caught doing what Elon has asked.

man, the 75,309th American President is gonna be a piece of work.

well, the technology is evolving quickly. we can hope.

#RuleOfLaw

maybe antivax influencers are the result of a conspiracy by big pharma to replace efficient one-or-two shot cures with expensive chronic treatments that yield perpetual recurring revenue.

perhaps we should be grateful that the first job to be really perfectly and completely automated by AI is the fraudster.

yes, but a mark with good taste.

just because someone put a book out about a last-year's issue doesn't mean it should become the heart of the news cycle and discourse today. the conversation that decides whether and what our democracy will be should not take its agenda from publicists trying to sell a new book.

exactly. a bit of bureaucratic annoyance, vs your friends and family getting extorted for $10K and risk of deportation if you don’t get a lawyer (expensively) involved fast.

(over on Mastodon, a MAGA-ist accuses this is what liberals have done on the right to bear arms. i don’t buy it, the degree of cost and hazard gun regulations impose for innocent use is minor compared to 10K bounties and expensive legal representation when the govt fails to recognize citizenship)

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i suppose we should have realized the (pre-Dobbs) Texas abortion bounty thing was a new pattern. where they cannot deny a right they dislike, they can render assertion or enforcement of that right difficult or dangerous in practice.

“Much as I might wish for a better party system, I’m operating with my values in the one that we have, not the one I wish we had. In a different system, I might think and feel differently. We all might. And that is precisely my point.” @leedrutman.bsky.social

(thanks!)

[new draft post] A conversation with Kevin Erdmann https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/05/14/a-conversation-with-kevin-erdmann/index.html

is the Fed’s business properly to regulate credit, with maximum employment, stable prices, moderate long term rates guidance about the goals of credit regulation, without asserting that credit regulation or the Fed can or should on their own deliver or be responsible for those goods?