we so often see the first person where there is no person.
"Two button meme", with one button labeled "Price Vector" the other "Market free from state interference", captioned "Hayekians in an age of surveillance pricing"
what distinguishes Elon Musk from his peers is an incapacity to keep his work — on projects they often share — discreet.
they advertised authentic Vietnamese, but it was faux pho.
i refer to their rabbit soup as “little bunny faux pho”.
[new draft post] When is the economy good or bad? https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/12/08/when-is-the-economy-good-or-bad/index.html
Donald Trump is very much like the typical working man, who also can’t be impeached and convicted by Congress.
“the sellers of addictive products that skirt regulations and ruin lives should be summarily executed.”
~social media ceos and investors
AI “alignment is not about imposing universal norms; it is about translation, pluralism, and respect for epistemic diversity. Machines must become fluent in multiple moral languages…to serve more than a single civilization’s idea of what it means to be human.” #PranatiModumudi https://pranmod01.github.io/posts/2025/11/anthro-ai/
ht @glenweyl
this fediverse is a nest of logoterrorists.
how many Americans are killed every year due to collisions involving foreign-produced automobiles? surely the President has the inherent authority to protect Americans and use the armed forces to blow up cargo ships full of these deadly machines. tariffs are for pinheads.
it gets hard to see the turf through the astroturf.
maybe drone assassinations really were a dangerous precedent.
ours is really the only society to take the Balzac witticism seriously. “Behind every great fortune there is a great crime.”
we wanted a lot of great fortunes, so we set about encouraging great crimes.
the future is an experiment. it always has been.
how do you watch people struggle not to drown for 41 minutes when you have resources to help you could dispatch with a word but instead order they be bombed?
look, if you are sure that god’s own truth is that you are perfection, then whatever makes you look bad is a hoax QED.
when i was a kid, i had a friend who used to get very self-righteously mad when his mom didn’t believe him. even when he was lying. it doesn’t matter, he’s her son, she should trust him.
i feel like he’d be a great advocate before this supreme court.
i think i place methodological individualism among the most destructive ideas in human history.
You’d think an editor would have saved this poor author embarrassment by pointing out that *the Roberts Court have been absolutely gutting the authority of the administrative state.* 1/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/opinion/trump-liberals-government.html
Text: At the same time, new conservative jurisprudence appears poised to enhance the power of the executive branch. A series of cases at the court suggest that the court's conservative majority is prepared to give the executive branch more deference. Progressives have railed against this jurisprudence, but if the long-term effect of these rulings is to give the administrative state more discretion to act with greater alacrity, then progressives, once elected, should be able to use it to much the same effect.
They’ve enacted a rotation of power, not just to the executive branch, but within the executive branch, from administrative agencies to the person of the President, their “unified executive” in whom “The executive Power shall be vested” 2/
To say progressives might repurpose this for their own ends (i) ignores the Court’s obvious double standard, it offered Biden no such deference; and (ii) defies the core of the progressive project, which was to build an administrative state somewhat insulated from presidential politics + whim. /fin
getting a lot of calls from “the digital activation department” lately.