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I was so glad to see this
@volts.wtf
interview â I don't understand the obsession with the kludgy VPP workaround when variable pricing is sitting right there as a solution for lower average bills, more efficiency, etc
www.volts.wtf/p/the-case-f...
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The case for using prices rather than VPPs to coordinate distributed energy
Researcher Bruce Nordman explains how dynamic, real-time pricing can do the work of coordinating DERs.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-case-for-using-prices-rather
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Once more into the Spirit Airlines wars â itâs nobodyâs âfaultâ that the airline failed, but the failure shows that the portrayal of the industry as overconcentrated or of deregulation as a failure is wrong. Itâs just a tough business.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-real-l...
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The real lesson of Spiritâs bankruptcy
Plus pragmatism for conservatives, places I havenât been, and whatâs cooking in Ann Arbor
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-real-lesson-of-spirits-bankruptcy
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Delving into the classic discourse of the past, @JerusalemDemsas and I read Betty Friedanâs 1963 second wave classic âThe Feminine Mystiqueâ to discover a book that was prescient, influential, and in some ways unbelievably weird.
youtu.be/9W96-a-qjKg?...
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Boy moms and Nazi POWs: how "The Feminine Mystique" changed feminism
YouTube video by The Argument
https://youtu.be/9W96-a-qjKg?si=buabTa6LS_udtUBB
4 days ago
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The internet flattens everything, puts everything into competition with everything, and puts a premium on ideas that are fun and entertaining rather than boring and earnest.
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Political commentary should be boring
Old man yells at podcast clouds
https://www.slowboring.com/p/political-commentary-should-be-boring
4 days ago
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Seniors donât live on âfixed incomes,â this is a reference to a bygone world. It used to be: â Social Security had no inflation adjustment â Lots of private workers had COLAs in their contracts â More war bonds, less stock Today isnât like that!
www.slowboring.com/p/seniors-ar...
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Seniors arenât living on âfixed incomesâ
Itâs not 1967 anymore â the world has changed.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/seniors-arent-living-on-fixed-incomes
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A huge winner on both politics and substance â pay higher salaries to the most effective teachers.
www.slowboring.com/p/we-should-...
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We should pay more for the best teachers
A popular, compelling, correct idea
https://www.slowboring.com/p/we-should-pay-more-for-the-best-teachers
7 days ago
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Trump was always very explicitly an Iran hawk, vocally critical of Obama and Biden on this score.
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7 days ago
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7 days ago
Iâm really bored of this in-group signalling where you have to add a caveat about how we all agree Goody Proctor is an evil whore before we can suggest that burning her at the stake might not be a good idea
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Political science professors at public universities posting open disdain for conservatives on social media should help with this problem.
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Ken Martin won the DNC Chair job by promising to create big slush funds for the state party committees who controlled the vote, which turns out to be a terrible pitch to donors and now he can't raise money.
www.slowboring.com/p/ken-martin...
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Ken Martin is doing a terrible job
The D.N.C. needs a chair whoâs up to the task.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/ken-martin-is-doing-a-terrible-job
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Hereâs a crazy idea â what if the president or his successor tried to actually focus on what the voters want and put political capital into ideas that reduce inflation and interest rates.
www.slowboring.com/p/a-radical-...
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A radical idea for breaking the cycle of public anger
What if we actually focused on the cost of living?
https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-radical-idea-for-breaking-the-cycle
13 days ago
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Matt Darling
14 days ago
The idea that this was a period of "austerity" is..ill founded.
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Constructing more IMAX theaters will only super-charge gentrification, make ticket prices higher, and enrich greedy theater developers.
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14 days ago
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Very smart take on data center politics
jacobin.com/2026/04/ai-d...
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Democratic Governance of AI Is the Real Solution
The potential for catastrophic effects from the AI boom demands robust deliberation and real democratic governance. Localized initiatives like data center moratoria won't get us there.
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/ai-data-center-moratorium-democracy
14 days ago
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DOGE cuts show up ultimately as job losses in the cityâs poorest neighborhoods
www.slowboring.com/p/where-doge...
14 days ago
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Africa needs more electricity
16 days ago
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Emily Hamilton
17 days ago
Anti-trust is perhaps the area of public policy that could benefit the most from more Econ 101 thinking: âPersistent monopolization is extremely difficult in the absence of regulatory barriers to entry, which are the main thing to talk about if youâre fired-up about competition.â
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What to make of the generic ballot
Plus ties, Mamdani, the Obama legacy, and fundraisingâs diminishing returns
https://www.slowboring.com/p/what-to-make-of-the-generic-ballot
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Conservatives demanding affirmative action for right-wing professors is pretty hilarious, but at the same time itâs not like the rigor bar at universities for left-wing work is particularly high.
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17 days ago
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This won't work because persuadable swing voters are fake, if anything it will only demoralize her base.
19 days ago
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The idea that candidates for office should be pushed to release lots of detailed âplansâ reflects a kind of fake sophistication about policy that ignores how the legislative process actually works.
www.slowboring.com/p/candidates...
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Candidates shouldnât release lots of âplansâ
Not for A.I. and the labor market or health care or anything else
https://www.slowboring.com/p/candidates-shouldnt-release-lots
20 days ago
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An important contrarian take of mine â dogs arenât people, they donât need anti-discrimination legislation or public subsidies.
www.slowboring.com/p/dogs-arent...
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Dogs arenât people
One of my hottest takes
https://www.slowboring.com/p/dogs-arent-people
21 days ago
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Establishing open borders between EU countries without establishing a common EU immigration policy was a kind of odd choice.
21 days ago
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Stephen Jacob Smith
22 days ago
Maddening article from a business paper. Itâs a starry-eyed recitation of all of the waves of growth in Milan, starting with 19th century case di ringhiera and ending with the Memphis Group in the 1980s. Then complaints about how expensive itâs gotten since, and no reflection on that coincidence.
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The case for more statues
www.slowboring.com/p/america-ne...
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America needs more statues
Let's think less about who to tear down and more about what to build
https://www.slowboring.com/p/america-needs-more-statues
27 days ago
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I assume the Hungarian opposition beat Orban by being uncompromisingly progressive across the whole set of policy issues. Well done.
28 days ago
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Great topic for a paper â how do partisan elites' views of climate change differ. Except the way they constructed the survey, they only asked questions where the progressive view is the accurate view so you can't tell if Dem elites are better informed than GOP ones or just more progressive.
about 1 month ago
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M. Nolan Gray đ„
about 1 month ago
California YIMBY is proud to be sponsoring SB 2074 with
@matthaneysf.bsky.social
, a bill that will make it easier to build high-rise residential in the transit-rich downtowns of our state's largest cities. In this thread, a little context. đ§”
www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
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Iâd say Pete Magyar has maybe gone too far in moderating with this one, but Iâd still vote for him
about 1 month ago
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Historically, the economy does better under Democratic presidents than Republican ones. A major reason is that the GOPâs business-friendly outlook is undermined by its habit of launching wars that wreck global energy markets.
www.slowboring.com/p/republican...
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Republican war-mongering is their worst economic policy
A repeated pattern of failure
https://www.slowboring.com/p/republican-war-mongering-is-their
about 1 month ago
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Itâs legitimate and appropriate for women to want to advocate for decent treatment and equal rights without becoming edgy intersectional communists.
www.slowboring.com/p/in-defense...
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In defense of the "girlboss"
Feminism without anti-capitalism is good, actually
https://www.slowboring.com/p/in-defense-of-the-girlboss
about 1 month ago
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The much maligned âgirlbossâ is good, actually â feminism without anticapitalism is fine and correct.
www.slowboring.com/p/in-defense...
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In defense of the "girlboss"
Feminism without anti-capitalism is good, actually
https://www.slowboring.com/p/in-defense-of-the-girlboss
about 1 month ago
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Where I agree most with the left â health care, taking care of the poor, opposing stereotype-based governance.
www.slowboring.com/p/my-most-pr...
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My most progressive views
God, health, stereotyping, and caring about the poor
https://www.slowboring.com/p/my-most-progressive-views
about 1 month ago
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Brendan Nyhan
about 1 month ago
Yglesias + AI = many people on this site will reflexively dunk on the headline and not read the article. But he's right.
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Journalism is important. Large language models are a useful tool for improving journalistic productivity. They should be used more widely so we can get more journalism.
www.slowboring.com/p/journalist...
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Journalists should use A.I. more
Increasing productivity is good, actually
https://www.slowboring.com/p/journalists-should-use-ai-more
about 1 month ago
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Democrats love infighting about Israel and antitrust policy but this is the stuff that does the most to move the needle electorally
www.theargumentmag.com/p/can-a-libe...
about 1 month ago
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Mamdani has done a bunch of things to reassure skeptics, a process greatly aided by the fact that he literally can't implement his tax and spending plans.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-two-ho...
about 1 month ago
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New pod coming!!
youtu.be/BUVjaodXRc8?...
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Introducing The Argument Podcast
YouTube video by The Argument
https://youtu.be/BUVjaodXRc8?si=8LMdy3NWXGc29S1_
about 1 month ago
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âJust pick a straight white Christian manâ is really dumb â Ignores a majority of the available political talent â Ignores the central importance of what politicians actually say and do
www.slowboring.com/p/the-quest-...
about 1 month ago
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Against the anti-charity horseshoe
www.slowboring.com/p/the-real-p...
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The real problem with billionaires
Lavish consumption and huge inheritances are hard to justify in a world with so many pressing needs.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-real-problem-with-billionaires
about 1 month ago
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Thereâs this odd construct on the right where they talk as if educated young women are bombarded by marriage proposals they are turning down to go girlboss when I think we all know this isnât how things work.
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Yelling at ambitious young women wonât boost marriage
Itâs men, especially less educated ones, who would need to change.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/yelling-at-ambitious-young-women
about 1 month ago
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A psychopath kills for no reason â I kill for money.
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A â â â â â review of Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
âYouâre a psychopath.â âNo, no, a psychopath kills for no reason â I kill for money.â Action-comedy is the highest degree of difficulty genre and the action romcom is almost always a catastrophe. Thi...
https://boxd.it/dL9Tq9
about 1 month ago
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The progressive neoliberalâs dilemma
about 1 month ago
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Population is shrinking in many counties
about 1 month ago
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Liberal Party of Canada maybe the most ruthlessly pragmatic in the world.
about 1 month ago
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Townhouses are the cheapest type of construction to build. American cities contain many beloved historic townhouse neighborhoods. So why do new townhouse projects generally suck? Canât we do better?
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Make townhouses great again
Everyone loves traditional rowhouse neighborhoods â but new projects usually stink.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/make-townhouses-great-again
about 1 month ago
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Denmarkâs Daddy Quota Dilemma, and Other Interesting New Research
Rich People Donât Care (For Elderly Family Members, As Much); Why People Want (Or Donât Want) Kids; Why People âSometimes Regretâ Having Kids; Children of Divorce Have Fewer Children
https://open.substack.com/pub/stephaniehmurray/p/denmarks-daddy-quota-disaster-and?r=cfj8&utm_medium=ios
about 1 month ago
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The California kind cannot comprehend this
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about 2 months ago
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Genuinely think the invention of the â____ broâ format for generalizing about people has been a disaster for thinking and writing.
about 2 months ago
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Dense housing, no big yards, but thereâs nothing you can walk to ⊠why build neighborhoods like this?
about 2 months ago
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RJ Sheperd
about 2 months ago
Mayoral Candidate
@nithyaforthecity.bsky.social
making the case for Single Stair! cc
@holz-bau.bsky.social
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