hawkish fed did nothing to gold though.

so often “smart” just means “fraudulent”.

we hold them in contempt because they are contemptuous, not because they are contemptible. or maybe it’s just overdetermined.

2-squared / 4-squared / 5-squared

you might consider reading the piece.

Congress has created offices and agencies within the legislative branch, right? The Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, the erstwhile Office of Technology Assessment, etc If the Supreme Court overturns Humphrey's Executor, cld independent agencies migrate to the legislative branch?

“You cannot restrict unfreedom to a particular class of people. It will metastasize to consume the entire society.” @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o... ht @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

#evergreen

just called my Florida Congressional delegation to express my CECOT outrage. one human picked up (on behalf of Rep Luna), two voicemails (Sens Scott and Moody).

zeroes.ca/@hannu_ikone...

the right time to throw the ring of power into the volcano is when it is you who holds it. we forgot that, tried to wield it, now look who we’ve become.

in the kingdom of lies, honesty is treason.

“nobody can be trusted w/absolute power, least of all the demagogues who seek it. The one good thing Trump’s trade policies are achieving is to demonstrate this yet again. They are harbingers of chaos. The world’s challenge is to survive the folly. The US’s is to end it.” www.ft.com/content/a3e6...

hey, Jeff Bezos, Amazon Prime. instead of $40M for a documentary on Melania (really?), how about a fraction of that for a documentary on the life of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, his wife and the two children he is helping to raise?

(i agree that Berkeley and its housing politics are, well, wow. students as pollution…)

treating housing as primarily a private good is perhaps the apple in the (gated and quite pricey) garden of eden.

(i’d say there are colorable rights on multiple sides that are in conflict. and i mostly wouldn’t attach a civil rights frame to any side.)

I get that! I’m more torn about it than you are, and more optimistic about greenfield alternatives. I have to get to some work. If you haven’t had enough of me, you can get a write-up of basically what you’ve already heard here. Anyway, it was a pleasure. drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/13/y...

i very much agree! www.interfluidity.com/v2/8654.html

if you can persuade them your proposals will make them better off in the ways you describe, then they’ll agree, and we have nothing to argue about! the problem comes when they don’t agree, you say it will be good for their children, better for everyone, they say no, we don’t think so. then who wins?