[new draft post] A pocketbook history of postwar US macro regimes https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/09/25/a-pocketbook-history-of-postwar-us-macro-regimes/index.html
what are the welfare economics of “agentic commerce”? https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-and-cloudflare-will-launch-x402-foundation
first time i ever saw a jimmy kimmel monologue i think. not bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=c1tjh_ZO_tY
Not enthusiastic about "friend-saving" Argentina, is #LarsChristensen https://marketmonetarist.com/2025/09/22/argentina-first-making-bail-outs-great-again/
(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 https://marketmonetarist.com/2025/07/14/classical-liberals-lets-be-honest-about-milei/)
i say
* the rapture did happen
* we all made it
* we are now on a better Earth II
...we'll see!
@hotelzululima i mean, you wouldn’t want your butler to be *drab*, wouldya?
one way to understand the LLM boom is that we have finally, actually, invented Ask Jeeves.
basically the world’s policeman is now a mob guy.
oh.
Screenshot of notification from Apple News, Los Angeles Times, “Predator drones shift from border patrol to protest surveillance”
representative democracy can be good democracy, but it has to be participatory representative democracy.
representation on autopilot becomes corruption however noble the intentions of the representatives.
i thought i’d made a mistake but i was mistaken.
entirely orthogonal to the question of whether it's right or wrong, AGI-ism behaves precisely as a millenarian cult. much can be dispensed with or tolerated, because ultimately all that matters is what we know will come.
Back in the day, in arguments about somehow unshackling ourselves from the oppressive, miserable, anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA, there was a lot of pessimism that the skein of global trade treaties internationalizing those provisions had effectively locked them in, US domestic politics would face a battle so uphill it’d be a cliff. 1/
At least in many respects, that entire treatyworld now seems a dead letter. Does that mean we should be more hopeful we might get at least this one nightmare off our backs? /fin
it seems like everybody is indexing now. tons of different organizations look like google in my logs. are others seeing this? is everyone training their own LLMs, despite claims about scale meaning it’s useless to run an also-ran?
i confess that sometimes late at night, like now, i wish i were not so woke.
they are achieving ever greater shares of the ecosystems they’re destroying.
under its newly ascendant "unitary executive theory", i suggest we refer to it as the Supreme Court Royale Of The United Monarchy".
(sorry.)
the left-right spectrum is a dumb way to orient your thinking about contemporary electoral politics. the people for whom it matters are already placed and not persuadable. swing voters swing and vote based on other things.
“moderating” in this sense doesn’t broaden the tent. you have to do something else.