Vought took the government hostage and fired 12% of the civilian workforce. Now Vought says if Congress holds out for a spending bill that limits on Vought's power, he's going to fire more people. He's gonna fire them anyway. Congress must stand up for its power to make the law.

gamer culture sucks, read a book or learn a musical instrument

At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.

6/ Borsook described “paranoid” anti-government rantings and a tech libertarian culture in which the “gestalt is of testosterone-poisoned guys with chips on their shoulders and too much time on their hands.” And soon, these guys would morph into multi-billionaires...

yeah, the whole point of the tech indistry is people who cant do interpretation trying to eliminate people who can

the juice is spilled, the mods have been alerted,

this owns

3,600 GW is...so much lol, pretty amazing.

Persistence of the “knowledge problem” causing Soviet failure is grating. Decades of quantitative analysis on soft budget constraints, poor incentives, and poor investment returns ignored in favor of obsolete ravings. Reading nothing may be preferable.

theres nothing important to learn from hayek

So @ryanlcooper.com went to Greenland. Not to scout it in accordance with U.S. manifest destiny; to check out one of the largest and best-run portfolios of state-owned companies in the world, including the territory's largest single employer. Ryan explains how it happened in this great report.

"thanks claude"

I'm quoted here on an issue I've been raising for years now: the dire economic implications of democratic decline. Business has been painfully slow to recognize the risks --- so it is really, really good to see business reporters covering the story.

Find it increasingly important to throw the ugliness into plain view, even as a joke lol

i am not shifting a professional focus to AI, but i think 'we should be able to democratically make decisions about our local economies' is a narrative with a lot of potential for resonating with people today. Being FOR something like public power & economic democracy becomes more attractive.

Steven Miran's chief attribute that earned him the appointment is a willingness to do or say anything in service of Trump. He's no different from any of the other Trump apparatchiks that serve in this administration. There's zero reason to give him the veneer of a serious and unbiased economist.

Conducting tasks while receiving e-mails and phone calls reduces a worker’s IQ by about ten points relative to working in uninterrupted quiet. That is equivalent to losing a night’s sleep, and twice as debilitating as using marijuana.

In a very Lib Dem way. They didn't even debate the anti trans motion, they instead immediately voted to move on to the next item of business.

That’s why CS are the most easily captured by this kind of scifi nonsense that spreads so easily on LW and SSC. They have no formal scientific OR mathematical training (at most they took automata theory) to encourage skepticism and they are easily flattered by visions of the world that center CS

Something I keep pointing out is that CS do not actually train in science. Go look at Berkeley, MIT, Stanford CS degree requirements. They never take lab classes, they never actually practice the scientific method as epistemology. They literally do not know how to think in a scientific way

Zuckerberg has secured a corrupt court order imposing a fine of $50k on Wynn-Williams every time she criticizes Metaa. It's a perfect demonstration of the techbros complete corruption and subversion of legal process to shield their dealings from public scrutiny. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Labour is in a mess. My advice to the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to restore the government as a transformative, democratic “big green state”, rather than a technocratic managerial one serving private wealth. In today’s Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

one thing that is really true is that the people in charge of the government live their lives with this level of uncertainty at all times because they lack object permanence and impulse control, theyre just trying to bring it to everybody so that nobody's shit is any more together than theirs

the administration doesnt have an economic policy beyond immigration enforcement

i thought the moderateses thing was being "data driven"

- jacques lacan, on the subject as merely an effect of the symbolic order

im a partisan in the science wars on the opposite side of this book

JUST IN: Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key inflation data report

""post-hermeneutical criticism" has got me honkin like a dang goose"

miran substack incoming

me personally, i wouldnt stop them from doing this

the main thing about social media these days is it is all godawful terrible and then it even gets worse from there !

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Miran literally works in the White House at the president's pleasure. This would be disqualifying to anyone who cares about Fed independence from political interference. The GOP majority in the Senate is evidently fine with ending Fed independence.

has anyone on here used the display name "Ivan Bsky" yet

@mazzucatom.bsky.social now the second prominent figure to call out this tech deal. We need job guarantees, shared IP, equity in new infrastructure & retreat clause. We are locking up a vital industry here -one of the few areas where Britain has the skills to compete:

i think the right wing is so concerned w falling birthrates because they know their culture sucks so bad that no one will ever get laid again

more than anything my response to all this is "did we lose a war"

this the kind of thing i mean when i say republican politicians are bad

useful piece. it seems a big part of soaring electricity prices is insufficient transmission investment www.construction-physics.com/p/whats-happ...

Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

this is a really good way of talking about economic policy and costs imo

In 2021, I warned that “family offices”—investment firms that manage the $ of tech titans & other billionaires—have more assets combined ($6TN) than all of private equity ($4TN). Unlike PE, the public has NO insight into where they put that money. Zero. www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/o...

they got larry in the newspaper saying drunk driving usually works out fine lmao

Trump aims to not just tear up clean tech, but also salt the soil. His crusade is having an impact, will do lasting damage - and is, in one sense, pathetic. @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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