Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i agree! www.interfluidity.com/v2/5117.html
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
futures but boy does it hurt that twice absurd is still absurd.
Steve Randy Waldman
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your last home is one you never live in.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
colononauts. where no man has gone before. www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...
All the President’s ‘Butt Snorkelers’
Link Preview: All the President’s ‘Butt Snorkelers’: An emperor president surrounded by a sycophantic cabinet is a dangerous thing.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
when you put the benefit in number of people terms, sure, it seems like very few, very little. but if you put it in dollar terms, willingness to pay, surplus, it might be pretty gigantic!
Steve Randy Waldman
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
sometimes i think AI should stand for “automated imagination”.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
just nuking the archives of this one is a huge loss. economistsview.typepad.com
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Steve Randy Waldman
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I'm on things much more handmade. My early blog provider went under (a small indie, he was great about helping us migrate). Since then (15+ years I think) I've been first on a self-hosted wordpress, now mostly on generated static sites.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
This is awful.
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"he has small fingers and a nanobanana." is that the proper usage? it's hard to keep up with the lingo.
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"The marketplace in ideas is broken; peddlars of crap do not exit as they would in a well-functioning market." @chrisdillow.bsky.social
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Steve Randy Waldman
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people who style themselves liberals on Twitter mock Bluesky as a kind of left-liberal ghetto of irrelevancies. we style them as people whose brains are cooked into thinking you can have 50% fascism as a kind of moderation. 1/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
objectively, yeah, we’re polarized. but which of us, in our mutual smugness, is harmful? /fin
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i got my start in Aldus PageMaker too! there is a learning curve, but it isn’t terrible, and Affinity’s documentation is pretty good.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
don’t use Adobe Acrobat as your PDF viewer! on a Mac i use Preview, but there are lots of apps that can read PDFs. Affinity offers replacements for Photoshop and Indesign, not a PDF viewer. (Sometimes there are weird PDFs that can only be read by Adobe’s software, alas. But these are rare.)
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i canceled my longstanding adobe subscription today. as usual they offered sane pricing only during the process, but i'm comfortable enough with the affinity suite now i just said "sayonara". a bit bittersweet.
Steve Randy Waldman
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more than (mostly) excellent! just (mostly) on polling, since i’m highlighting the UBI comment (with which I very much agree, a point that needed to be made in that kerfuffle).
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
from @resnikoff.bsky.social, excellent, (mostly) on the great polling kerfuffle. publiccomment.blog/p/some-sligh...
Text: All of which is to say you can't actually do an RCT of universal basic income. You can run an RCT of unconditional cash transfers, but that's not exactly the same thing. UBI is by definition universal: instituting something like a real UBI program anywhere in the United States would transform the entire local economy.
Steve Randy Waldman
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There’s lots we do regret about the innovations, though. Uber has lots of market power and medallion owners killed themselves, bad outcomes both. I don’t laud Travis for his boldness. 1/
Steve Randy Waldman
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Elon has killed a bunch of people with “full self driving” to build what is now a crappy, also-ran EV company. (Waymo, on the other hand, has plainly not, especially relative to any human-driver baseline.) 2/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
“De” is never the answer to regulation. It’s not even a coherent idea, everything is regulated, “deregulation” is just passing the baton to a different layer of the onion. There is no getting around the question not of do or don’t, nor of too much or too little, but *how*, what do you propose? /fin
Steve Randy Waldman
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i largely agree drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/02/25/a...