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My sister’s new novel, “Help Wanted” — which should be out in a couple weeks! — is reviewed in The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/help-wanted-book-review-adelle-waldman/677176/
@taoeffect@mstdn.io and that guy who went to Comet was just an op?
i don't know whether the articles i read years ago linked that mail, but they did describe obscure pizza-related references from the Podesta mails as the source of the speculations. there's nothing in that mail that is a surprise to readers of the dread MSM.
@taoeffect@mstdn.io no. Pizzagate does not refer to that e-mail per se. Pizzagate refers to a set of beliefs that may have been in some measure related to that e-mail, and those beliefs are false.
@taoeffect@mstdn.io this looks like it may in its obscurity have been a source of pizza-themed speculations. perhaps some of those speculations included said claim about Comet pizza, to the point a well-intended believer raided the place looking for a nonexistent basement. the term PizzaGate obviously refers to much beyond this peculiar e-mail, though I don't doubt the e-mail is part of its origin story.
@taoeffect@mstdn.io what I mean by it is the claim that a pedophilia ring was being run from the basement of Comet pizza in DC. i’m guessing there’s some other meaning you have in mind?
@dpp Yes. Given the state of the broader economy, it feels like an open exercise in tacit coordination to break the bargaining power of tech workers. “Silicon Valley” CEOs and VCs are interpersonally cliquish and extraordinarily faddish. Every fad is “The Future”. Certainly, they hope, weaker labor is.
Another reason to go hard on antitrust:
Too big to fail is also too big to jail, kryptonite to rule of law and the legitimacy of the state.
I mean Pizzagate isn't real, but it's hard to blame people for getting confused when all that #MoeTkacik details here is real.
On Boeing, with a sidelight of Epstein, the subject of a prior conspiracy to let off easy.
https://prospect.org/justice/2024-02-09-boeing-max-doj-epstein-deal/
juxtapose the phrase “ripe old age” with an image of the Grim Reaper and the idiom comes to seem pretty gruesome.
i still can’t get over that the James Webb Space Telescope works and is functioning and is actually something human beings did.
it's hard to live with the ex-post opportunity costs of your mistakes, but it's impossible to live without nearly infinite ex-post opportunity costs of mistakes.
it's not really what you miss that's hard to live with. it's what you almost didn't miss.
"in just the past five years, US semiconductor monopolists have paid out $239b to shareholders in buybacks and dividends, enough to fund the CHIPS Act five times over." @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/07/farewell-mr-chips/#we-used-to-make-things
the terrible height of age, the terrible weight of memory.
@dpp maybe! florida gets away with stuffing taxes onto hotels and other services disproportionately favored by tourists. (helping save its residents an income tax.) i wouldn't bet on whether it would survive either way.
"every time I go to Maine I find myself thinking that they should charge a higher sales tax in the summer than during the off-season. Maine residents would be able to save money by timing durable goods purchases for the low season, while visitors would make a larger contribution to the state budget."
Clever, #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/tourism-is-good-actually
watching the superbowl with folks gonna be like, you with team op, or counter-op?
This is devastating journalism by @radleybalko, a reminder how the videos and documentaries that let you "see with your own eyes!" what the editor wants you to see are often incomplete truths woven into lies. https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retconning-of-george-floyd
ht #AlanJacobs
"There’s a latent tension at the heart of the Bidenonomics agenda between industrial policy and competition policy." #LukeGoldstein on an American Economic Liberties Project report on how to get semiconductor policy right https://prospect.org/economy/2024-02-06-will-biden-get-chip-markets-right/